ABOUT: SILENCE

Marco Antonio Santos’ debut album.

Music, visual arts, poetry, dance - and Silence.

About: Silence, recorded in 2022, is a conceptual visual album that comprises diverse forms of art and media—visual arts (video, painting, and digital drawing), dance, poetry, and music. The album’s 11 tracks feature a jazz guitar trio—guitar, upright bass, and drums—joined on four tracks by a woodwind quartet and on five by a string quartet. Tracks are supplemented by video combining improvisational dance, musicians in the studio, and visual art, as well as poetry. Taken together, the elements express varied meanings of silence—introspection, grief, oppression, the absence of sound.

“There is certainly a paradox about composing music to portray different aspects of silence,” says Santos. In the forced solitude of the COVID pandemic, when live musical performances all but ceased, and amid times of social upheaval and racial violence, the composer looked within to explore varied meanings of silence in this multi-media work. As a break in the artist’s self-silence, About: Silence is a full-throated embrace of artistic expression across multiple dimensions.

Videos

Photos

Poems

by Marco Antonio Santos

Music

Certainly a paradox about composing music to portray different aspects of silence

Silence is also a shared effort

This album is being supported in many ways by different artists, family, and friends.
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