French film maker Audiard once created a music video for rock band Noir Désir featuring deaf & mute actors interpreting a song for a deaf audience. A videographer by trade, songwriter Scott Zuniga could be described as Audiard in reverse. With his compositions, he creates short films for a blind audience.
Zuniga invokes honest childhood in his compositions–filled with the joy of discovery but never forgetting the dark foreignness also inherent in exploration. A boy scout raised in a foster home for teenage girls is no stranger to feeling strange. What sounds like a metaphor or a joke is an actual biographical detail from Zuniga’s life. But his music takes pleasure in blurring the line between metaphor and autobiography.