Believe It Anyway!

Believe it Anyway consists of five silent vignettes, each depicting a different story of the Old Testament of the Christian Bible: the creation narrative, the flood narrative, the story of Abraham and Isaac, the fall of Jericho, and the book of Job. It is set in a chiastic form, reflecting the concentric nature of Hebrew writing and the epic cycle of life and death (to life again). Creation, destruction, wrestling, destruction, creation form the structure for the videos and the music as a five-piece whole. Also, the ensembles reflect this chiastic nature: 11 musicians, 6 musicians, 2 musicians, 6 musicians, 11 musicians (with 2 players at the end that mark a coda attributing to the importance of the middle of the chiasmus).