Synopsis
An abstract, effects-driven music video turns Medeski Martin & Wood's groove into a shifting visual experiment. Rather than following a conventional narrative, it moves through surreal imagery, digital transformations, and performance-based fragments that echo the track's blend of jazz, funk, hip-hop, and electronic textures. The musicians appear as part of an unstable, dreamlike world in which forms emerge, distort, and disappear. The result is less a story than a kinetic audiovisual interpretation of the title: music made visible, yet always elusive.
Factoids & Trivia
- The video was developed with the involvement of Industrial Light & Magic, the visual-effects company founded by George Lucas. Contemporary trade coverage described the project as being made by a group of MMW fans and effects artists connected with ILM.
- The video was promoted as an innovative effects project rather than a conventional band performance clip, matching the album's experimental mixture of funk, jazz, hip-hop rhythms, turntables, and atmospheric studio treatments.
- The song comes from the album *Uninvisible*, released by Blue Note Records on April 9, 2002. The album was recorded during 2001 at Shacklyn Studios in Brooklyn, the Magic Shop in New York, and the Barn at Bearsville Studios.
- The video received festival exposure beyond music television. It was listed as an official selection of the 2003 Los Angeles IFP Film Festival.
- United Airlines included the video in its in-flight entertainment during May and June 2002, giving the project an unusual distribution outlet for an avant-jazz release.
- The video was later included on the deluxe-edition DVD of *Note Bleu: The Best of the Blue Note Years 1998-2005*, released in 2006.