Note to Bishop Sigrist-Transfiguration Fellowship show April 2024

Our presentation (in Spectral Arts) is centered in performance art of the poems, each show is unique in that we spontaneously interpret the poetry each time we play.

-T. Byron K

https://sites.google.com/view/tbyronkelly/home

Support Your Local Art Gallery

Please support your local art gallery and thank you to XYZ Art Gallery, Gray Gallery, Pilot School Gallery & Gallery 6 here in the New River Valley of VA for so many music events for our band and personal art exhibits since 1993/2013

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@graygalleryva @gallery6va https://sites.google.com/view/pilotschoolgallery/home

Spectral Arts & The Creative Process

My creative process with Spectral Arts involves listening to what is being played, spoken, or sung by the group. Then, while listening to the musical accompaniment options that come alive in my head, determining what to play or "channel" within the mix. This usually becomes a bass line that helps the music take off, land, or groove around the melody. 

- Soupbone

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Spectral Arts & The Creative Process

 I remember one early session Doug Eagle V. (our drummer) and I had in his family house back in 1994, we were still searching for a sound and had not started to work with Eric L. yet on what would become The Spiritworld and later Spectral Arts. I began to sing my poems in a way that emulated popular and angst driven vocalists at the time from bands like Nine Inch Nails and Nirvana and Doug said simply “man, don’t sing like that”, it was clear, direct and what I needed to hear at the time and most likely saved me from decades of trying to create music that was not really who I was for the sake of it being more popular. I never forgot that one afternoon in the practice space and I never returned to trying to sing like I had ripped my heart out and was watching it beat in my own hands. We needed to find out what worked for our own artistic sensibilities and not base our music on what people expected it should be at the time.

-T. Byron K.

9/29/2022

Spectral Arts & The Creative Process

My process playing in a band is pretty simple. Usually it starts with a member starting to play something. Listening to the others is very important. I usually don't have a certain beat on the drums in mind when we start jamming. I flow off the other musicians. I feel like I play better when I think less about it. It feels very zen.

-Cory T.

http://mothlightva.weebly.com

Alcyone 2007-2020

Spectral Arts 

@spectralartsva

Alcyone 2007-2020

Available now @

https://studioappal.bandcamp.com/album/alcyone

From Bishop Seraphim Sigrist

Before our chat today we had a brief (20 minute) presentation from the studio of Spectral Arts. T Byron Kelly read poetry including Blake's Tyger. My screen shot was not wonderful so I allowed myself this fantasia which I somehow like and hope Byron may, reading with guitar...

here from his amazon book site is his self portrait

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/.../41pzdHGMX5L...

The chat which went for an hour and more following engaged the work of Spectral Arts.

https://www.studioappalachia.com/spectral-arts-band.html

Based in Blacksburg Virginia this is a multifaceted working over the years in the arts music, painting , poetry, which draws on the Appalachian Mountain region and its rich heritage of lives well and deeply lived and of art and yet which is little considered in these terms and when thought of ,seen too often instead in stereotyples as a land of hillbillys and rednecks(a pejorative term now for ignorant hicks but Byron observes originally from the bandanas worn by mine workers fighting for their rights in the early 20th century) As a Christian artist Byron (and the Arts) have also avoided stereotypes in their material... and the whole work in its conception and aspiration and developing achievement seems to me rich and deep indeed , we are honored by their collaboration.

In what distant deeps or skies.

Burnt the fire of thine eyes?

On what wings dare he aspire?

What the hand, dare seize the fire?

well God as first maker of course ,of lamb and of tyger, but we too can be makers beyond expectation in the mystery of art...and thanks to Spectral Arts for showing a way...

-Bishop Seraphim Sigrist, Transfiguration Fellowship

May 2021