Ray Powers
The earth has been my greatest teacher. Its grace and beauty offering wonderment and solace is often contrasted with the destruction humankind has unleashed upon it. Observing the cycles, seasons and symbiosis of all manner of life, both large and infinitesimal, has inspired and informed my art and music composition.
In 1971 I went on a field trip to a landfill in Los Angeles. I was 12 years old. Soon after I helped start the environmental club in my school. It was the same year I was taught to meditate sitting in the forest during summer camp. Nature and natural cycles, stillness and the insights that come from it are the sources I draw upon.
Technology has played a part as a collaborator to bring forward the visions I have with the chosen mediums I use. Beginning in the early 1980’s with cutting edge electronic music tools to present day where artificial intelligence helps me define, create and realize what I see and want to convey. As a composer I write notes, symbols, on a page and musicians, read and interpret what I have written. I am the director and the instigator. As a visual artist a different type of collaboration has emerged. One where man and machine are crafting the narrative and outcome together. Artificial intelligence, though still at its beginning stages, becomes a partner that helps focus, distill and realize the vision, intent and message. Those renderings I take into Photoshop to alter, edit, enhance and digitally paint until I've expressed what I'm wanting to say. Human emotion and technical prowess merge into powerful statements of our human condition, challenges and imagination.
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