One of my biggest inspirations outside of music is visual art. I find it fascinating as a practitioner, fan, and collector.
Art stimulates emotions and given that I'm also a musician, I express my emotions through that discipline as well.
A lot of my music compositions start out as visual art, which is a blend of my love of geometry mixed with growing up in L.A. as a graffiti artist.
You'll often find sacred geometry and alchemical symbolism in my work with a rough unrefined inner-city edge.
The combination of color and form has been the blueprint for more than half of my modular synth compositions.
Other times, I'll get ideas for paintings when I'm listening to a piece repeatedly during mixdown sessions.
I really enjoy putting this element together in my motion graphics work because it gives me more creative options to interpret the music with motion, gravity, 3d space, lighting and audio reactive animation gives me limitless possibilities of expression.
One of the challenges with being a multi-faceted artist is not fitting into one catagory and as much as that works aginst me as far as finding an audence and outlets for my work. I have to remain honest and continue to create without compromise. I'm not willing to put my work in a box and sell it like a mass produced product.
I'm an artist, I make art... if you love it... yay!, if you hate it... yay!
I'm just another ripple in this cosmic ocean, my vibes are felt recignized or not.
Shiro Fujioka
