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In the Garden of Sounds
2023

Rosendale Theatre Collective Rosendale, NY

with

Sarah Rose Hogan

Clinical Psychotherapist

and

Jim Metzner

Producer and Host, Pulse of the Planet

moderated by

Dr. Alan Newman

Rosendale Theatre

In the Garden of Sounds— Overcoming disabilities through sound and music

Following a videoed interview with the film's star, Wolfgang Fasser, in which he talks about the children shown in the film and his own life, Ms. Hogan focuses on the challenges of working with severely disabled children, and Mr. Metzner comments on Fasser's use of sounds and his ability to record natural sounds despite being blind.

Rosendale Theatre Collective Rosendale, NY

Film Synopsis

A portrait of the musician, therapist and sound researcher Wolfgang Fasser, who lost his sight as a teenager.

Wolfgang Fasser works as a music therapist in Tuscany with severely disabled children. In haunting and poetic images, the film tells the unusual story of a person who uses his own life experience as a blind person to help his young patients to open up to the world and to exhaust their individual possibilities. In the Garden of Sounds (Nel Giardino Dei Suoni) is a voyage of discovery into the frontiers of communication, a quiet and touching film about the "audible world" that we sighted people are usually not aware of or hardly aware of.

About the Speaker

Sarah Rose Hogan is a licensed clinical psychotherapist who has been working with families since 2008. She holds a Masters of Social Work from SUNY Albany, and licenses and certifications in trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy, rational emotive behavioral therapy, and functional family therapy. In 2018, she founded Giving Tree Counseling in Kingston.

Jim Metzner, producer and host of the Pulse of the Planet radio series and podcast. Metzner has spent nearly five decades recording sounds around the world—most recently in New Zealand on a Fullbright grant—and has produced Pulse of the Planet since 1989. Last year, his entire collection of more than 20,000 recordings and programs was acquired by the Library of Congress.

Dr. Alan Newman is the moderator of the discussion and SoS head at the Rosendale Theatre. He holds a PhD in inorganic chemistry from the University of Pennsylvania and has conducted research, worked as a science journalist and editor, and participated in several National Science Foundation-funded science education grants.