Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Artists are the gatekeepers of truth.”
Singers Harry Belafonte and Paul Robeson
We’re RISING starts small, with live music concerts, introduced by A.I. films, all curated to showcase diverse, outstanding talent and human A.I. film directors, hosted in places of worship, and other diverse venues celebrating soul and spirit, drawing attendance, not only from the mailing lists of those venues but also from other non-profit orgs approved by those venues to invite their membership, and from performing artists who invite, so the concerts support membership drives of all collaborators.
1. Celebrate the Arts – rich, diverse cultures, great art talent, community uplift.
2. Support the Arts – Contributor Income for host venues, performing artists, non-profits, production.
1. Live Music Events (recorded) hosted in places of worship and other venues with soul and spirit preceded by inspiring hybrid human A.I. short films like the one below.
2. Online Recordings from the live events, later to include an Online Gallery of ARQ [Art Raising Questions].
Members of non-profit orgs invited to concerts invite others, who invite others, grow the membership of co-inviting orgs, each with itw own unique org code to keep track of Contributor Income to each collaborator (bottom-up alternative to UBI, which is top down). We’ll value your thoughts: gail dot world at pm dot me
As Kelly Boesch, creator of the powerful A.I. film below celebrating courage, using the generative A.I. tools Midjourney, VEO 3 and Suno, wrote, “The song called ‘For The Brave’ is a tribute to all of the brave people standing up to injustice, using their voices and protecting their neighbors. There are many of you standing strong and standing together. It’s so powerful. Thank you.”
What We Forgot
Composer, Singer Lorenzo Toppano; Director, Librettist Zann Gill
Wow, a Cow!
Composer Joe DeCicco; Director, Librettist Zann Gill
The songs above were composed for the forthcoming hybrid, human-A.I. film, Yello World. Its six minute Experimental Film precursor, Hello World, starring Sha Sha Higby as the Minotaur, with Italian composer-word music artist Joe DeCicco, German composer Jim (Sky) Schuyler, and Australian-Italian singer-songwriter Lorenzo Toppano won fifteen awards, including a Luis Bunuel Award for Original Music and L’Age d’Or Award. The short, excerpted from a full length opera libretto by Zann Gill (Free University of Brussels), exemplifies ARQ [Arts Raising Questions]. Arts and sciences must together bushwack a path into a better future, as Nobel laureate (physics) Saul Perlmutter argued in the book Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense (2024). Only by harnessing many viewpoints for critical thinking can we navigate through chaos.