My latest personal creative project is a short series of sacred musical settings.
The series explores the prayer through plainchant, cantus firmus, and polyphony, accompanied by sacred imagery.
This series includes three videos. Full Cor Mundum playlist on YouTube: link.
This is a personal creative experiment rather than an official DCMission project.
My latest personal creative project continues exploring Plato’s Apology through song and images:
Plato’s Apology in Song — Part IV
This final segment follows Socrates after the verdict as he reflects on wrongdoing, what death may be, the possibility of meeting the great figures of the past, his hopes for his sons, and his final farewell to the city.
As with Parts I–III, this is a personal creative experiment rather than an official DCMission project. It is not meant as a substitute for reading Plato, but as a musical and visual companion for anyone interested in the dialogue.
My latest personal creative project continues exploring Plato's Apology through song and images:
Plato's Apology in Song — Part III
This segment follows Socrates’ refusal to abandon his philosophical mission, his call to care for the soul above wealth and reputation, and his willingness to face death rather than do what is wrong in Plato’s Apology.
As with Parts I and II, this is a personal creative experiment rather than an official DCMission project. It is not meant as a substitute for reading Plato, but as a musical and visual companion for anyone interested in the dialogue.
My latest personal creative project continues exploring Plato's Apology through song and images:
Plato's Apology in Song — Part II
This installment follows Socrates’ account of the Delphic oracle and his attempt to understand what it could mean that no one was wiser than he.
As with Part I, this is a personal creative experiment rather than an official DCMission project. It is not meant as a substitute for reading Plato, but as a musical and visual companion for anyone interested in the dialogue.
My latest personal creative project explores the opening of Plato's Apology through song and images:
Plato's Apology in Song — Part I
It is an illustrated song based on the opening of Socrates' defense in Plato's Apology.
This is a personal creative experiment rather than an official DCMission project. It is not meant as a substitute for reading Plato, but as a musical and visual companion for anyone interested in the dialogue.
For my latest personal creative project, I’ve adapted a scene from Boethius into song and images:
Boethius in Song — Lady Philosophy Enters
It is an illustrated song based on the opening of Boethius’ The Consolation of Philosophy.
This is a personal creative experiment rather than an official DCMission project. It is not meant as a substitute for reading Boethius, but as a kind of musical and visual memory-palace for anyone interested in the text.
I recently finished the next installment in my personal AI-assisted Plato songbook project:
The Ring and the City — Songs from Plato’s Republic, Book II
It’s a folk / café-jazz songbook based on Book II of Plato’s Republic, following Glaucon and Adeimantus as they sharpen the question of justice: is justice worth loving for its own sake, even apart from reputation, reward, or comfort?
The songs move through the Ring of Gyges, the challenge of the perfectly unjust man, and the first sketch of the city in speech.
This is a personal creative experiment rather than an official DCMission project. It is not meant as a substitute for reading Plato, but as a kind of musical memory-palace or set of chapter markers for anyone interested in the text.
Down to the Harbor — Songs from Plato’s Republic, Book I
It’s a folk-jazz songbook based on Book I of Plato’s Republic, following the dialogue from Socrates going down to the Piraeus through the unresolved question of justice.
AI-assisted digital image made with ChatGPT image generation. Concept, prompt, and creative direction by Patrick La Fratta. Inspired by Caravaggist tenebrism.
Patrick here — I recently finished a personal AI-assisted music project that may be of interest to DCMission readers:
Sacred Night Radio — The Scholastic Sessions
It’s a G-Funk / soul-rap EP inspired by Catholic theologians, mystics, and philosophers.
This is a personal creative experiment rather than an official DCMission project, but I thought I’d share it here for anyone interested.
AI-assisted digital image generated with ChatGPT. Concept, prompting, selection, and creative direction by Patrick La Fratta.
Beneath the Threshold (2026).
AI-assisted digital image. Concept, prompt development, selection, and creative direction by Patrick La Fratta.
