A foreign visitor provides enchanting music at Syracuse's Everson Museum of Art. The museum played host to shakuhachi grand master Seldin Friday. Our photojournalist Ben Augustine was there to capture the sights and sounds.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- "The shakuhachi is different than most instruments westerners have heard. Unless you've been to a Japanese restaurant or Japanese movies and you hear this low-breathy sound in the background. In that it really doesn't necessarily always strive to be a pretty bell-like flute sound like the western flute. It's a sometimes raw, just natural sound of wind through bamboo," said Ronnie Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin, a shakuhachi grand master.

In Japan they say you want your students to stand on your shoulders and jump forward. I like to further the art with my students taking it further than I do," Nyogetsu Reishin Seldin said.