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Featured Artists -
Visual Artists
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Written by Don Slepian
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Harmony Channel Interview 
Please tell us a little about your background in music, art, and computer graphics. How has your experience over the past 30 years lead you to synthesize these abilities into your artform?
 Charlie: All of my life I had strong journey type visions, a big daydreamer from the get go. When I became a teen in the seventies and other outside factors were introduced this gift only became stronger. Being a big Pink Floyd fan I would go on deep distant journeys in my mind for hours on end. I had always thought how cool it would be to take others along with me or at least be able to show them what I was seeing. Before the MTV days I had abstract music visual journeys that I just presumed everyone had and expected that to be the way music videos would be produced. Only until the early eighties when I got my first video camcorder did I realize that this form of production was going to take a lot more then video editing. I went to Radio Shack and bought one of the first 16-bit color computers and started teaching myself basic programming. From then on I was hooked on a life-long quest to refine the art of setting motion graphics to music.
I went to Radio Shack and bought one of the first 16-bit color computers and started teaching myself basic programming. From then on I was hooked on a life-long quest to refine the art of setting motion graphics to music. 
If I knew at that time just how costly and time consuming it was going to be perhaps I would have chosen another mission. Being the hard-headed never-give-up personality I crammed every piece of technical information into my head. Waking up many mornings on the floor beside my computer after countless hours of work I taught myself what I needed to know to produce my visions.
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