The Three Surrenders
Soundtracks for Photographs Volume One
 Album Design: Ronn Spencer
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Creating an aural landscape to accompany your visual art is a daunting task. Stu Jenks first attempted it when he used other composers' music as the sonic platform for his 2002 photographic installation at Tucson's Museum of Contemporary Art. As successful as that exhibition was, ultimately, it left Jenks unsatisfied. A musician himself, he realized that only self-penned compositions could precisely convey the mood and attitude of his photographs. Shortly after the MOCA show, Stu began a series of musical experiments that attempted to mirror and echo his photographic work. Some of those compositions are now available on his debut CD, "Three Surrenders (Soundtracks for Photographs, Volume One)." Like his visual work, Stu's music explores the natural landscape, ephemera, illusion, and the vagaries of time and space. The compositions have the same shimmering, evanescent qualities of his best photographs. And unlike most projects of this kind, Jenks' music justifiably exists in its own right, independently of his pictures. If you enjoy the dreamlike other-worldliness of a Jenks picture, you'll find yourself transported to that very same place as you listen to "Three Surrenders." It's ambient music at its best. Ronn Spencer "There is an ancient Sufi axiom that states: Music does not awaken anything in the human heart that was not already there. Stu Jenks' The Three Surrenders is a catalyst, a vehicle for awakening the shifting currents of the heart. From the bittersweet edge of its title track, to the deep wellsprings of luminous awe-filled devotion that spill forth from "Along the Tigris," the listener of The Three Surrenders will be ushered on a richly woven sound journey that will, in the end, melt the armor of the heart and cause a surrender to that which is most holy about our condition."
Frank MacEowen For more information, e-mail Stu at music@stujenks.com |
