Consider... that an element you hear
once will return in some form…
When I encountered Sebastião
Salgado’s photo exposition “Migrations”, its
theme resonated and impelled me to respond with my means of expression:
music.
It tapped into underlying currents of my forcibly
displaced immigrant family: uprooting, survival, and transformation, on
one side, ambiguity, double identity, and the power of untold stories
on the other. It illuminated aspects of my identity as a jazz player
and the ways in which manifests through Brazilian music.
It also struck me that on a linguistic level, the
creative or associative use of citations prompts the migrations of
meaning through the narrative structure: a trait that I recognized as
essential not only to jazz, but to the very fabric of our times.
As I continued exploring this dynamic notion, I
began to formulate a project made of simultaneously occurring elements:
compositions, improvisations, and commentaries on returning citations.
