Terra Artella Nova (2003)

Searching through old drives, I found this piece, done in 2003.
Images were derived from photos of the earth seen from orbit, and the music was composed (after the images were done) by Thierry Van Roy, with magnificent voice improvisation by Said "El Asfour" Mohammed Najib (also a remarkable ney player).
I presented this piece to an audience that could understand the lyrics only once, during a lecture in Beirut, Lebanon (2008), and the response was very warm.
The title of the music, "Shouf Wou Skout," means something like "shut-up and look," which is very fitting considering all my work is connected to/stems from pre-verbal perception, along the lines of "Seeing Without Knowing" ("What do I see before knowing what it is that I am looking at?").
I would make those images differently today, but I guess one could say the same thing about any piece one looks at 9 years after it was done.