VCAMbient: “Trilogy” by Assistant Professor of Music Mei-ling Lee & Jefferson Goolsby

Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Noon

VCAM Lounge

"Trilogy" features three videos, The Lighted Windows, The Ocean Thief, and The Beautiful Feather, each approximately 11 minutes long. Each video tells the story of individuals finding their voices. The protagonists each experience trauma and face challenging, difficult situations. Yet, they persist in pursuing their vision, refusing to be weighed down or deterred. They continue moving forward, even as their perspectives shift due to their lived experiences.

Composer / Sound Designer: Mei-ling Lee

Story & Video: Jefferson Goolsby

Voice Talents:

         The Ocean Thief: Jayling Goolsby / Jefferson Goolsby

         The Lighted Windows: Jayshing Goolsby / Jefferson Goolsby

         The Beautiful Feather: Jayling Goolsby / Jefferson Goolsby

The Lighted Windows

Unhappy at home, a young girl escapes to walk her street at night and wonder about the different possible lives being lived behind the lighted windows. The Lighted Windows is about longing, imagining, and examining one’s lot in life. 

The Ocean Thief

The Ocean Thief tells the story of a young girl whose beach-written story is stolen by the ocean, and her struggle to get it back. Filmed in Oregon (U.S.A.), the story explores the plight of the artist’s voice in a sea of voices, using metaphor to examine creativity, ancestry, mortality, and time.

The Beautiful Feather

A young girl tells fantastical stories of experiences and adventures that may or may not be true, to the frustration of her village. Touching on themes of independence and personal voice, The Beautiful Feather weaves sonic motifs into a message about the power of one’s own story.

Now in its fourth year, VCAMbient is an opportunity for students, staff, faculty, and guests to fill the cavernous space of VCAM with their favorite sounds–at a volume that permits the ongoing business of teaching, learning, and working in the building. Make a Spotify playlist, or better yet, bring an instrument, start playing/streaming, and see what happens. You can have a theme, or the theme can simply be "stuff I like."

Contact HCAH & VCAM Associate Director James Weissinger to sign up for your VCAMbient set!  jweissin [at] haverford.edu