CINEMATIC SONIC JOURNEY
THROUGH LIGHT AND SHADOW
Chiaroscuro (from the Italian chiaro — “light” — and scuro — “dark”) is an immersive, interdisciplinary experience exploring contrast not only in art, but within the human soul.
Told in three movements, this cinematic electronic symphony traces the arc of loss, stillness, and rebirth — a mythic journey from darkness to light.
Incorporating light, movement, sound, and spatial design, the work invites the listener to move through shadow, not away from it — embracing the duality of grief and joy, silence and sound, death and renewal.
From The Prayer of Achilles to Fos: The Light, Chiaroscuro unfolds as a living narrative
— part ritual, part soundscape, part inner mirror.
Experience Chiaroscuro
l. The Prayer of Achilles
ll. Silence
lll. Fos: The Light
Three-Part Cinematic Electronic Symphony
"A journey of elemental emotion, transformation,
and return."
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RECIPIENT OF GLOBAL MUSIC AWARD 2022
FIRST MOVEMENT
THE PRAYER OF ACHILLES
“Breaking into silence where no one could follow”
Drawing from Greek mythology, this movement plunges into the sorrow of a soul on the edge of mortality — Achilles’ final prayer before death. Mournful waves, storm winds, and the voice of the sea give shape to lamentation, rage, and surrender. This is the descent — the fall into darkness.
SECOND MOVEMENT
SILENCE
“Returning to the core in the silence.”
This movement marks the threshold — the liminal space between death and rebirth. Here, the self dissolves, time disappears, and only the pulse of existence remains. It is the beginning and the end. The spiral and the still point.
In this vast quiet, the soul meets something greater than itself —
a presence beyond name.
THIRD MOVEMENT
FOS, THE LIGHT
“Returning to life, meeting the first light”
The final movement emerges from stillness — radiant, alive, and childlike.
Fos (Greek for “light”) is the sound of awakening:
a body reborn, a soul remembering joy.
The waters shimmer with memory.
The Muses sing.
Apollo rises in rhythm and pulse.
This is the return — not to the past, but to a world remade in light.
[CREDITS]
Joy Lee : Director/Project Leader/Composition/ Voice/ Electronics
Leonardo Foletto : modular synth performance/ sound processing
Taylor Benson : piano
Madeline Miller : dance
Kedaar Kumar : interactive visuals with 2 screens
Neil Leonard [ Professor, Director of Berklee Interdisciplinary Art institute ] : Sax/Electronics
Chiaroscuro Interdisciplinary Live Showcase Gallery
Music
*Chiaroscuro [ from Italian chiaro, “light,” and scuro, “dark”]: technique employed in the visual arts
to represent light and shadow as they define three-dimensional objects.
Composed/ Produced/ Mixed /Mastered by Joy de Rose
Art Work by Joy de Rose
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