David Fiuczynski is an innovative and prolific jazz guitarist, with two bands and numerous albums to his credit. In August of 2006, Fiuczynski headlined at the annual EnlightenNext Frontiers of Jazz music festival. Appearing with his quintet, the Screaming Headless Torsos, Fiuczynski fully lived up to his reputation as a jazz musician who "doesn't want to play just jazz," but prefers to create an exotic hybrid brand of jazz, heavy metal, accented with hip-hop, and inflected with the tonal and rhythmic structures of Asian and Eastern European music. The result is a richly endowed and often futuristic form of composition, improvisation, and ensemble playing.

In this interview WIE's editor in chief Andrew Cohen—himself a jazz drummer with his own band, Unfulfilled Desires—sits down with Fiuczynski to talk about the essential nature of the creative process and the future of music in our information saturated world. The two musicians speak about their personal experience and formal training, their musical heroes, and the explicit and implicit spiritual motivation behind their work. Intercut with footage of his live performance, this Unbound video shows Fiuczynski to be an engaging and thoughtful musician, always striving to find the undiscovered potential within himself and in his music.

Video clips of the Torsos playing at the EnlightenNext Center are used with permission and feature the songs "Word to Herb" and "Blue in Green."

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