DISFARMER PROJECT
Music inspired by photography is not unheard of. Film scores, for one, rely heavily on visuals to tell a musical narrative, as the story in turn relies on the music. Jazz guitarist Bill Frisell has taken the idea to another level with a new album Disfarmer, inspired by the lifetime photographic corpus of Mike Disfarmer.
Disfarmer seems an unusual name — and that's because the man made it up. Born Michael Meyer to immigrant German parents in 1884, he changed his name to indicate a rift with both his kin and his agrarian surroundings — believing Meyer to be German for "farmer." This alone might set him apart as singularly unusual, but his vocation as a small town portraitist in Heber Springs, Ark. estranged him still further from his farming contemporaries.
All text respectfully stolen from NPR.org
Spend some time with the album (left) and this. Also there is a beautiful slideshow in the references. A great project!
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Something I just learned recently about the Disfarmer photographs: Ralph Gibson was asked to publish them, but he turned it down... Interesting how connected everything is.
Full circle! Why'd he turn it down?