Prayers (For a Troubled Nation)

Through text and images, this film serves as a meditation on the word "We" in the Preamble to the United States Constitution: "We the People.” What does it mean to be an American? Who is included; who is excluded? Ion Concert Media founder Scott Winters created this film as a response to the violence in Charlottesville, VA in August 2017. Set to the music of Jack Stamp, and based on the poem The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus, it explores the perpetual identity struggle faced by a nation of immigrants.

This synchronized film for concert performance is driven by Ion Concert Media's proprietary Muséik technology. With Muséik, a user controls the pacing of the film to match the pacing of the music, making concert visuals behave like an instrument in your ensemble. The software is easy-to-use and intuitive, and can be used by musicians from middle school to the professional level to achieve a perfect media sync with just 20 minutes of practice. For pricing and licensing information, go to the product's page on www.ionconcertmedia.com.