＊Hear & Draw was born from a personal experience. For a period of my life, I stepped away from classical music. During that time, while teaching at a music academy, I took part in a seminar on improvisation. It was a revelation. Until then, I had expressed music through interpretation — engaging with scores and giving form to music written by great composers. Improvisation was different. I was creating sounds from within myself, and through this process, I became deeply aware of how different inner sensations — auditory, visual, psychological and physical — could interact and shape one another. I discovered a clear sense of colour in what I heard, and began to feel how sound could evoke bodily responses, which in turn influenced the sounds I created and the way I expressed them. Hearing → sensing → moving → creating → expressing. For the first time, I experienced this process so clearly. And, unexpectedly, the tension I had often felt while performing disappeared. In its place was a profound sense of stillness. I became curious about these subtle, almost imperceptible sensations — how sound could become image, and how an inner experience could become expression. I wanted to find a simple way for others to experience something of this process. I began with the most direct connection: Sound + Image. And from this exploration, Hear & Draw was born.