My good friend and I ended up going to this car rally that had god knows how many awesome cars including lots of classics go around Indiana in support of the state's health workers. It was a small road trip that took about 3-4 hours and 2 rolls of film that I shot at the parking lot before the rally started and out of the passenger window. It was a great sight seeing so many people come togethe...

Joker's Game is a mini-doc / music video, directed by Johnny Vong,  focuses on the cult of personality and the clash between fame and faith.Video Director: Johnny Vong.Video Concept: Johnny Vong / The Spiral Theory.Original Song Written By The Spiral Theory / Vik Kapur.https://youtu.be/s53fvEtN4-4

I'd like to share my debut track, Mediation, taken from my forthcoming album, Relevant Matters,  due out early 2021.Mediation is the process of resolving disputes between two parties, without passing judgement on either's position.  It encourages both parties to talk, listen and focus on what they need, not what they want.It feels like focussing on what we need, rather than what we want, is the...

Ravel was a French composer whose Basque-Spanish heritage infused his music. His Pièce en forme de Habanera was originally a vocalise – a song for singer with no words. His colourful, impressionistic French harmonies create a heat haze around the melody. Sultry and beautiful, this is a daydream from the Basque country.Anthony Friend, clarinetJoseph Havlat, pianoPhoto by William Marsey

Hello! I'm submitting an original instrumental song. I blend elements of classical, pop, and hip-hop, to a genre where people might call it Baroque Pop or Classical Hip-Hop.Here is my Spotify link:https://open.spotify.com/track/57qeSxPNQDUAmkIsWSEi6b?si=86G03NLqQVq-_-89gN1dCwIt is called New Spirit, and it's meant to be uplifting, triumphant, and brillant. Hope you enjoy it.Best,Colleen 

Dust is a choral work about  the Woolsey Fire that struck Los Angeles and my hometown, Thousand Oaks, back in 2017. In just a few days it burnt down 96,949 acres of land, 1,643 structures, killed three people, and caused more than 295,000 people to evacuate their homes. I was commissioned to write this piece for the Areté Vocal Ensemble in 2018 and displayed the destruction of the Fire as well ...

‘A word after a word after a word is power.’- Margaret Atwood. For many readers, The Handmaid’s Tale (2010) and Margaret Atwood’s creation of Gilead remains a dystopian society they still think about. It terrifies, when one thinks about the world globally, how close we are to having such a society on a smaller scale.I would say one of the only things preventing its birth is our awareness of our...

A word after a word after a word is power.’- Margaret Atwood. For many readers, The Handmaid’s Tale (2010) and Margaret Atwood’s creation of Gilead remains a dystopian society they still think about. It terrifies, when one thinks about the world globally, how close we are to having such a society on a smaller scale.I would say one of the only things preventing its birth is our awareness of ou...

Preface To ArahI was torn about what to write for a long long while. I knew that my creativity had passed for my last written piece and I didn’t want to strain myself to re-write or alter it, especially because I quite like it. But it was on February 1st I found that spark I needed to write again. Evan Rachel Wood, One of Marlyin Manson’s ex girlfriends, named  him as her horrific and monstrous...

The city skyline across the sea flared as if the water was ablaze. We looked, not that we knew it was a city, for we had never seen such frivolity glow and serenade the night air like so. Our air was filled with smog and would never be clean, not even the sharpest of bleaches would relive it from its state. along with our hands it was dry also and made our lungs wheeze with the need of moisture.