Black Moon Trio is honored to facilitate a series of music composition workshops for outpatient Veterans from the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center and other local Veteran organizations. In collaboration with world-renowned visual artists, poets, and community organizations, the musicians of Black Moon Trio explores music composition using graphic notation - a way of expressing musical ideas using shapes, colors, and images rather than traditional Western systems that take many years of study to understand.

No experience in music is required for participants as they are guided through the basics of music visit by visit. Topics include melody, harmony, leitmotif, rhythm, ostinato, mood, character, timbre, and orchestration, among many others. 

The culmination of each series showcases in the creation of 10-20 original pieces of music all created by the Veterans participants, performed by Black Moon Trio, and put into a pop-up exhibition in gallery space at Brushwood Center in Riverwoods, Illinois.