Michael Moses
Visual Art · Photography · Video · Book Design · Soundtracks
These days my work moves across visual art, photography, video, and book and publication design, alongside interactive digital projects that carry rhythm and story to new audiences. It's the same instinct that has always driven me: using whatever medium serves the moment to explore how sound, image, and movement illuminate the mysteries of our shared world.
That instinct has deep roots. Decades of work in world-rhythm percussion, composition, and performance — including projects addressing Tibetan and Native American cultural survival, environmental balance, and the resilience of the human spirit — shaped how I think about sound as a language that reaches beyond words, capable of healing, educating, and connecting across generations. That foundation continues to inspire my work.
Lately that's meant building an interactive digital workbook on the roots and language of world rhythm, developing photography and book-design projects under MADmuse Studios, and utilizing rhythm and the drum as a therapeutic tool. Different mediums, same aim: work that helps people recognize our shared humanity and move through the world with a little more openness and compassionate creativity.
Selected Recognition — Early Performance Work
A few notes from years of touring and recording with the ensemble Rivers of Time.
“An incredible and marvelous performance. Rivers of Time created a magical space that transported the audience to an otherworldly beauty.”
Merideth Porte — WLRN Public TV Producer
“The true rhythm of the saints… a melting pot of world instruments played with fervor and conviction.”
Charles Passy — Palm Beach Post
“Rivers of Time's performance work is extraordinary. A sense of originality and authenticity not found in any other group. A mature and sophisticated ensemble.”
Barbara Carlisle — Chair, Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Virginia Tech
“Rivers of Time, in a unique way, helps to make Planet Earth a better place to live.”
David Darling — ECM recording artist