Created by Vancouver-born writer and composer Noah Drew, Tiny Music is an original "sound design musical" loosely adapted from Shalom Aleichem's short story The Fiddle. The show follows Ezra, an autistic man with an auditory-processing disorder that heightens his experience of the sounds around him. Songs, scenes and mesmerizing soundscapes, performed by four actors and six musicians, bring Ezra's world to life as he navigates his way through family dynamics, unconventional passions, and an always-shifting, ever-present, strange and beautiful sonic landscape.
Tiny Music is about individuality, responsibility, and what it means to make good choices when what (or who) you love hurts people in your life. It's about truly listening to others, to the world around us, and to ourselves. Most of all, it's about the inevitability, the human need, and the inexplicable holiness of music.
Recently founded by Noah Drew and Jamie Nesbitt, Jump Current creates stories and performances, focusing on ways that innovative design and technology can illuminate live human-to-human connection.
Playing at the Chutzpah Festival February 25 and 26, 2014.