ARTIST: Peter Gabriel

CREATOR: Michael Rhoades

SONG: Road to Joy (Bright-Side Mix) FROM i/o

Video info:

In line with the title, the creation of the video for ‘Road to Joy’ was truly a joyful experience and much was learned and expressed in the process.

The video is not intended to create a narrative interpretation of the music. Instead, it is meant to intricately interact, on equal perceptual terms and in counterpoint, with the music. As such, the dance of the visual objects might aptly be thought of as a set of musical instruments meant to extend the depth and breadth of the music. Often for artists the line between expressive mediums blurs into a singular perspective.

Song info:

Road to Joy is a track taken from Peter Gabriel's album i/o, released on 1 December 2023. This is the Bright-Side Mix, by Mark 'Spike' Stent.

Words and music by Peter Gabriel. Produced by Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno

Published by Real World Music Ltd. / Sony Music Publishing.

‘I'm working on a project which is partly a story focused around the brain and how we perceive things and this song connects to that. It deals with near-death experience and locked-in syndrome situations where people are unable to communicate or to move. It's an amazingly frustrating condition. There have been some great books and films about this subject, but at this point in our story the people looking after our hero manage to find a way to wake him up. So, it’s a lyric about coming back into your senses, back to life, back into the world.’ - pg