Visual songs

A visual song is one original song inspired by a single work of art, released with a complete film made for that song, scene by scene. We read the painting for the story it never told, write the lyrics from that story, and build every scene of the film around the song. A visual song is a single piece, not a playlist and not a Living Loop.

Our visual songs start with a single work of art. We stay with it until it gives up a story it never told, then write an original song from that story and make a complete film for the song, scene by scene. Monariza begins with Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. The Horse Opened Its Mouth begins with Picasso's Guernica. The Clock Won't Forget begins with Dalí's The Persistence of Memory. They are old works, heard for the first time.

Where to begin

Monariza (Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa)
The Horse Opened Its Mouth (Picasso's Guernica)
The Clock Won't Forget (Dalí's The Persistence of Memory)
The Room Grew Wings (Remedios Varo's Creation of the Birds)
It Leans When I Turn (Dunn's Lady Lilith)
Princess YF (inspired by Dalí)

Every visual song

4 min
It Leans When I Turn
Dunn's "Lady Lilith"
It Leans When I Turn follows the pull of memory through reflected light.
5 min
The Room Grew Wings (Nightflight)
Sealed in a Tower Until the Room Flew
The Room Grew Wings: Nightflight makes imagination a patient change in the conditions of enclosure.
5 min
The Clock Won't Forget
Dalí's Melting Clocks
The Clock Won't Forget gives devotion the impossible task of tending clocks that cannot return to ordinary time.
5 min
Princess YF
The Crown Was Never Hers to Keep
Princess YF imagines a keeper whose radiance is formed from gifts she cannot claim as possessions.
6 min
Monariza
Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa"
Monariza transforms an iconic smile into a question about being recognised.
4 min
The Long Way Home
Rembrandt's "Prodigal Son"
The Long Way Home reads return through the spiritual distance between possession and belonging.
4 min
One Bite
Von Stuck's "The Sin"
One Bite gives the painted serpent a voice that makes looking feel like participation.
4 min
Where You Stood
Gwen John's Empty Room
Where You Stood turns a quiet partner's support into the light beneath a room.
36 min
The Address I Still Remember
Elara’s Palace
The Address I Still Remember separates love for a place from the obligation to remain within it.
5 min
You Left No Reason
Munch's "Separation"
You Left No Reason stays with the person who has been denied a final account of what happened.
5 min
Let It Come Apart
Dalí's Disintegrating Clocks
Let It Come Apart distinguishes losing a structure from losing everything of value.
6 min
Monariza: Out of the Frame
Da Vinci's Mona Lisa
Monariza: Out of the Frame turns looking into an encounter between two vulnerable presences.
5 min
Nothing Touched the Ground
Dalí's "Sleep"
Nothing Touched the Ground makes dependence visible through an impossible sleeping body.
5 min
The Morning Let Me In
Bonnard's "The Open Window"
The Morning Let Me In makes recovery visible through a house's ordinary invitations.
4 min
The Window Stayed Lit (Widescreen Remaster)
Someone Waited Up, Never Said So
The Window Stayed Lit, widescreen edition, returns to devotion that has no visible recipient.
4 min
Everyone But Me
Manet's "A Bar at the Folies-Bergere"
Everyone But Me turns emotional exhaustion into an image of light spent on other people.
4 min
Something That Isn't Me
Dalí's "Metamorphosis of Narcissus"
Something That Isn't Me imagines release from a world that returns only one's own face.
4 min
The Room Grew Wings (Daybreak)
Sealed in a Tower Until the Room Flew
The Room Grew Wings: Daybreak gives a solitary maker's escape a rising emotional horizon.
5 min
I Know Your Name
Draper's "Ulysses and the Sirens"
I Know Your Name imagines temptation as recognition of a self buried under obligation.
6 min
The Water Remembers
Moreau's "Hesiod and the Muse"
The Water Remembers places the viewer inside a love that must remain an act of remembering.
4 min
Night Windows
Edward Hopper, 1928
Night Windows examines the shelter and the limit of loving strangers from a distance.
5 min
Nothing Happened Today
A Kind Day, Still Unfamiliar
Nothing Happened Today finds drama in a day that refuses to become a disaster.
4 min
Glad Is a Strange Word
Matisse's "Harmony in Red"
Glad Is a Strange Word explores the unease of discovering that an old hurt no longer arrives on command.
4 min
Madame X
Sargent's "Portrait of Madame X"
Madame X gives a woman's wish for visibility the shape of an ascent.
5 min
Pink Dress in the Green (4K Remaster)
Fragonard's "The Swing"
Pink Dress in the Green, remastered, returns to pleasure and the network of looks surrounding it.
5 min
The Horse Opened Its Mouth (Remastered)
The Animal Screams What People Can't
The Horse Opened Its Mouth, remastered, returns to an animal voice carrying human pain.
5 min
Not That One
Ensor's "Self-Portrait with Masks"
Not That One asks what freedom becomes when it depends on remaining unknown.
3 min
Green Hour
Degas' "L'Absinthe"
Green Hour places modern connection beside an older image of being alone together.
4 min
The Window Stayed Lit
Hammershøi's Grey Rooms
The Window Stayed Lit gives faithful waiting a room without a visible inhabitant.
4 min
No Tomorrow in the Room
Barbier's "Lady with Panther"
No Tomorrow in the Room makes an ordinary day expansive by removing the instruments of anticipation.
5 min
The Horse Opened Its Mouth
Picasso's "Guernica"
The Horse Opened Its Mouth gives an animal cry the burden of human suffering.
6 min
Tunnel of Gold
Klimt's "The Kiss (Lovers)"
Tunnel of Gold transforms necessary urban infrastructure into a place of emotional radiance.
3 min
Every Seat But One
Caillebotte
Every Seat But One asks what achievement means when it arrives without the person it was meant to include.
4 min
The Prettiest Lie
Toulouse-Lautrec's "At the Moulin Rouge"
The Prettiest Lie places a performer's radiance beside the self the audience cannot reach.
5 min
Pink Dress in the Green
Fragonard's "The Swing"
Pink Dress in the Green follows the swing's playful objects into a world of modern looking.
5 min
The Road Remembered Me
Munch's "Summer Night. The Voice"
The Road Remembered Me locates belonging in a route rather than the power to reopen a door.
4 min
I Clapped
Hals' "Banquet of the Officers"
I Clapped allows happiness for a friend and envy of that friend to remain painfully simultaneous.
4 min
Nothing In Mind
Bonnard's Dining Room
Nothing In Mind follows care beyond the point where memory can name its object.
54 min
The Museum of Feeling Drive
Night Drive Music
The Museum of Feeling Drive brings different art-inspired songs into a shared emotional passage.
6 min
The Face He Could Afford
Van Gogh's Self-Portrait
The Face He Could Afford gives self-portraiture the dignity of making with what remains available.
5 min
The Scream Passing Through Me
Edvard Munch, 1893
The Scream Passing Through Me lets landscape carry an emotion usually confined to an iconic expression.