"Music is, to me, proof of the existence of God."
- Kurt Vonnegut
This collection is what came out of my first rendezvous with photography. It is meant to serve as an illustration of human interaction with the musical dimension. It's a depiction of the aural interface between the real and the imaginary—that sonorous uncharted territory where humanity finds itself and loses itself in synchronicity.
This work is the product of months spent spelunking in the sonic inner sancta of dancers and musicians practicing a multitude of diverse traditions, genres, and free-form explorations of musical esoterica, including interpretive stilt dancers, African rhythm and movement ensembles, street performers, jazz musicians, traditional Japanese Taiko drummers and fan dancers, belly dance troupes, folk-fusion singers, and their witnesses.
I have aspired to act as an intrepid troubadour, tiptoeing through the emotional circuitry of strangers' and friends' most personal musical moments, composing pictorial poetry of their innermost intimate contacts with the muse. I have hitched a ride on the musical magic carpet into the enigma of interaction between spirit and euphony, seeking the fleeting moment when the psyche speaks its solemn secrets, the instant when the soul stirs beneath the veil of the ordinary, when the flood tides of reverie break the dams of the mundane. This is what I found.
"Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul."
- Plato
- Kurt Vonnegut
This collection is what came out of my first rendezvous with photography. It is meant to serve as an illustration of human interaction with the musical dimension. It's a depiction of the aural interface between the real and the imaginary—that sonorous uncharted territory where humanity finds itself and loses itself in synchronicity.
This work is the product of months spent spelunking in the sonic inner sancta of dancers and musicians practicing a multitude of diverse traditions, genres, and free-form explorations of musical esoterica, including interpretive stilt dancers, African rhythm and movement ensembles, street performers, jazz musicians, traditional Japanese Taiko drummers and fan dancers, belly dance troupes, folk-fusion singers, and their witnesses.
I have aspired to act as an intrepid troubadour, tiptoeing through the emotional circuitry of strangers' and friends' most personal musical moments, composing pictorial poetry of their innermost intimate contacts with the muse. I have hitched a ride on the musical magic carpet into the enigma of interaction between spirit and euphony, seeking the fleeting moment when the psyche speaks its solemn secrets, the instant when the soul stirs beneath the veil of the ordinary, when the flood tides of reverie break the dams of the mundane. This is what I found.
"Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul."
- Plato