SILAS TOBALL

I've always dreamt of creating worlds. Growing up in a small village in Germany I was largely insulated from pop culture, which gave me the gift of unbridled imagination. I dared to think new worlds could be mine... When the Commodore Amiga arrived in the 80's it was a perfect sandbox for world-creating with images in 32 colors and 8 bit four-channel sound. Game and interface design gigs soon followed, as did a freelance career as one of the first web designers in Germany... In 2005 I rediscovered the music of Gustav Mahler who had been a presence in my childhood home. Fascinated by those multi-layered emotional worlds in classical compositions I dove deeper, with inspirations from Alexander Scriabin to Richard Strauss. After attending a symphony concert in Prague that left me both haunted and inspired, I was compelled to ask myself the question: what, for me, is the highest form of artistic expression? My life changed in a single moment when my soul answered clearly "the symphony."