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of hearing to the visual, to which the audience members can respond as a collective or individually. The audience can interpret this experience as they individually or collectively feel. There is no right or wrong in the interpretations. Every interpretation and experience will be sole and subjective to the participants ... performers and observers alike."

Surprisingly, Ordonez admits, "This is my first experience in this field. It is an amazingly blessed opportunity that I treasure and hope to share with many artists."

She reflects, "Music is a universal language that breaks all barriers and that everyone can love and understand. Just as the mode of the rational mind is words, the modes of the emotions are not verbal." She extrapolates, "The visual arts create stories and present images. Cinema and music are art forms, and all art utilizes expressions of emotions. Actors and musicians are artists of an emotional display because their expressiveness is what evokes a response in their audience. The synchrony between visual art stimulus and improvised music indicates how much feelings and emotions interact. It is reflected and also reflects the depth of the engagement of musicians, so the moods will eventually mesh. You need to have compatible timing to coordinate your movements. Improvisers can bring others under the sway of their own. In this project every musician is a leader and the mark of a powerful leader or performer is being able to move audiences in this way."

"Overall," she assesses, "I realized that rhythmic structure through visual images provides necessary timing cues to aid in expression and intelligibility. Images and music can be used as motivational tools to elicit eye contact, cause/effect skills, and peer interaction. For musicians, the access to a repertoire of media resources significantly enhances the abilities to communicate. Expressiveness and receptive language are approached by imbedding the desired response into music as a way of providing a syncopation and breaking in the unexpected!"

Ana-Isabel Ordonez's expertise to put together "Shades of Jazz on Noir" is partly due to her experience as the co-founder and Music Director of Ruby Flower Records. "Ruby Flower Records was founded in 2005." She contemplates, "Ever since I met bassist Joe Fonda and trumpeter Herb Robertson, I wanted to be more involved directly with the art form instead of just being a listener and fan. My passion and love of it was too strong for only that, so I asked

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