Overtone

I have been asked several times, what the project “Overtone” is all about, that is listed without a link in my Work In Progress section.

“Overtone” is a project about a guitarrist/ a band. It is as much about dreams, as it is about “the market” that commercializes these dreams. It is very much about … today. It deals with the question of how success and failure can be defined within the smaller frame of an individual person as within the larger picture of today’s westener society. And with this I think it touches a theme that most of us are to a certain level familiar with. I certainly am.

The idea for “Overtone” sprang at me while I was in Texas last September working on “Pink Lobo”. In between shooting sessions I did some pictures of Tony with his new old Gibson guitar, more as a favor, really, but through this favor and the observation of what music and the act of playing can do to a person, I have started to observe this scene that I have never been too much into, since my day to day world resides in silence rather than in music.

With “Overtone” a door to a new room has opened up some inches for me. A room so big that I decided to postpone the intensive shooting for this project into next year, feeling that I have to do so much more research before starting, so I can get this right.