Collaboration transcends individual talents, enabling artists to meld their unique perspectives and skills into a harmonious whole. As musicians who embrace collaboration in our process, we fuse diverse musical voices, genres, and techniques, breathing life into compositions that reflect a tapestry of human experiences. This cooperative process generates innovative sounds, deepens understanding, cultivates empathy, and fosters a sense of community among creators. Harnessing the power of shared creativity creates something greater than the sum of its parts, forging connections that resonate across boundaries.

Community holds a pivotal role in our music making, serving as both the foundation and amplifier of any expression. We want the individuals who attend a Missing Piece event to listen to and engage with one another, celebrate our lived experience, and forge a collective experience that transcends differences and unites us. Within musical communities, aspiring artists find mentorship, seasoned creators find inspiration, and audiences find solace and joy. These interconnected networks foster a sense of belonging, encouraging dialogue, cultural exchange, and the examination or practice of traditions. With music, all communities can become vibrant spaces where stories are told, emotions are conveyed, and a shared human experience resonates, enriching lives and creating lasting bonds.

Music invites us to consider relationships - between pitches, events in time, our relationships with other people, between ourselves and our instruments, and within our environmental soundscapes. Sound has the power to confuse, obfuscate, and propagandize, but also to illuminate, heal, and connect. Humans have been communicating with their environment through sound for tens of thousands of years, this is the history of music. We invite listeners to consider the sounds human beings produce and their intentions and outcomes. We draw inspiration from the beauty of natural materials, stories of creation, and interactions between organic bodies.

Musical justice is about who you as a musician choose to listen to, emulate, and embody. We want to examine who has access to musical expression and why and amplify the voices of disenfranchised and historically marginalized musicians. Our teaching, organizing, and musical work centers around these questions. We are always listening for the answers.