Humans have been connected to the world through sound since long before the invention of language. As we evolved, so too did the possibilities of music. Yet today, for many of us, music has come to mean something defined by melody and rhythm — by form. But perhaps, in its truest sense, music is something more fundamental, a pure resonance.
If listening to sound is an act of perceiving the outer world and sensing ourselves within it, then music may have developed as a medium through which we recognize the movement of our emotions. Immersing oneself in the work of Ben Vida, one begins to realize just how narrowly we have come to define what music is.
Because sound has no fixed form, it continually changes shape within us. And music, freed from meaning, touches something deep within our senses. Vida’s exploration opens new futures for music while guiding us back toward its most primal experience — gently loosening the contours we have unconsciously drawn around it.