Happy Birthday to Man Ray
Saturday Matinee Music Video
“I do not photograph nature. I photograph my visions.”—Man Ray
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAN RAY + SATURDAY MATINEE MUSIC VIDEO “It’s In Your Hands / Variations on Satie / Scenes from Entre’acte” (Alternate Cut)
— Our hands have power. We can perform great feats like build a house, write a symphony, whack a ball into the outfield, or find a cure for a disease. It's in my hands but God directs me.
This is also a song about the love, resources, and skills that God empowers me with. I do not have to be afraid to take risks with these skills and abilities, and I am thankful that God gave them to me in the first place—that is my edge.
Musically this song is a rock-tango adaptation of Erik Satie’s “Gnosseinnes #1.”
I mingled Satie’s melodicism with influences from glam rock, Nuevo Tango, and Astor Piazzolla. Felipe Torres called the song “elegant” and told me to make it the last track on the my album I LIKE THE STREET.
Man Ray appears in this video (that’s his giant eye early in the video). Born in Philadelphia, he spent most of his life in Paris as an informal contributor to the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. He considered himself to be a painter, but history regards him as one of the 20th Century’s pioneering photographers, from art to fashion to portraits. He also championed photograms (photographs made without cameras), which he called "rayographs" in reference to himself. HB MR and thank you for the visions you gave to the world
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"All this happened to me because of music."--Erik Satie…The playing instructions for Satie’s “Gnosseinnes #1” are "open your head" and "perform with astonishment."
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