Worlds Within

For Rewire 2023’s Sensory Sensitive Concert,
Smucker has developed the performance
Worlds Within, a concert performance that
evokes and invites discovery of sound within
ourselves. Through this concert — suitable for
stimulus-sensitive audiences — she invites
the audience into sound worlds and
resonances that reside within us by creating
an environment conducive to listening,
accompanied by resonances that invite deep
listening and reflection. The concert takes the
setting inspiration from a prehistoric cave,
and travels through six tableaus composed
for solo violin using octave lower strings,
mutes, low-rosined bows, and handmade
ceramic resonators. The hope of the work is
to celebrate what is usually unheard or
unnoticed—illuminating resonances with our
ancient selves.