The images, which evoke swarming paramecia or swirling cosmic dust, project a joyous, concentrated energy — Saret's habit of using the word "ensoulment" in his titles feels earned.
An ambient drone album powered by 40,000 bees, this record transcended its roots as an art project to become something joyous and revelatory.
In some ways, their activities mirror Theaster Gates's efforts to regenerate a corner of South Chicago, just as his recent project in Bristol was a joyous social intervention.
It's been a very joyous and full-of-love kind of project.
Adjaye is forty-six, young for a profession that favors age and experience, and he projects a youthful and frequently joyous self-confidence.
For one thing, it fails to account for the joyous and powerful images Ms. Winehouse and Ms. Joplin projected; for the raucous brio of Ms. Joplin's high-hippie floozy style; for Ms. Winehouse's own wholehearted embodiment of a look that lent her the air of a slatternly rocker from Camden Town, a tough immigrant neighborhood in north London.
Over his decade-plus as a working musician, Stevens has tackled a range of impressively big-ticket projects, including a series of album-length odes to states in the Union, a giddy, joyous dance-rock record called "The Age of Adz" and multimedia art projects.
The over-all effect is like what a politically minded class of fourth graders might do for a term project if they had access to a lot of electronic toys: joyous, spring-heeled, impatient, unafraid to speak out.
Just after MSNBC put a winning check mark next to Clinton's picture, projecting her victory in Ohio, a young female volunteer did a joyous dance with friends.
He also made a conscious decision to write instrumentation in a style more similar to Guthrie's than other tribute projects, such as The Klezmatics' klezmer-based Woody Guthrie's Happy Joyous Hanukkah and Wonder Wheel.
