He is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist with a particularly affinity for the flute, although he is equally at home on the tenor sax (as well as the soprano, which he plays less often, and the synthesizer, which he plies like a mad acid-rock keyboardist - see the synthesizer workout "Equipoise"). "Musicism" is a term he coined for the interaction of dance, poetry, music, and presumably other art forms: poetess Jessica Ingram is featured on four of the eleven tracks here, reading Dr. Hester's poetry.