the audience

18/11/2011 it has taken place at Hamspted Heath, film and input by RIchard Harrison

ontology - deals with questions concerning what entities exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be grouped, related within a hierarchy,and subdivided according to similarities and differences.

Audience - a group of people who participate in shows or encounter works of art, theatre, music (listeners) or academics in any medium. Audience members participate in different ways in different kinds of art; some events invite overt audience participation and others allowing only clapping and criticism and reception.

This project will focus on the idea of Audience. A concert is described as a live performances before the audience that is, according to the world famous Wikipedia, defined as a group of people.
Interesting it is. Why only specified to people?
The nature offers us such enormous amount of accessibility into thoughts and philosophy, and gives us the primitively aesthetic sounds and views. Physically the nature itself is a full of art.
Humans are endlessly the audience of the nature. When we are in the woods, we suddenly hear own voices and face ourselves that usually are hidden in our loads of incessant living moments. We also encounter the most sophisticated and complicated sound and vision in the forest.
The sound lives in silence. The silence lives in sounds. It is the nature.
We hear more in silence and we hear less in sound. That is how nature connects with and plays songs for our minds.

I began the idea to create a series of concerts for the woods, or better to say all livings in the woods. It became rather fascinating idea to realise and see the correspondence of the occurrence. The proposal was discussed over and some musicians were invited to play with me around my isolated house in summer 2011 in Japan. It included a cello player, a guitarist, or an electronic artist.
The idea was developed as to organise series of workshops with local pupils. We may get in the woodland, find natural instruments and play improvisation. We may take all our electronic instruments and play an anthology of sounds within landscapes, against the natural wind. We also could initiate the existing score to play with musicians and singers. We may work with Japanese instruments to bring to the woods and learn the echo floating against trees.

Importantly the audience here is the nature. We invite no humans. We play for the nature.
What we allow the nature to do as audience is utterly open.
It is not a way of intruding the spirits of wildlife. It is intended to be the way to communicate with the audience. When the lives there accept us, they will join in the session.
I am obsessed with the idea of omnipresence and of simultaneous lives. Life is such a myth that no one can predict what will happen next. The paths are divided every moment like forks, that one subconsciously chooses which way to walk onwards. This holds the same way as of a live performance, an improvisation.

I see a metaphor in here. Offering to the nature.
I wish to reconnect with the spirits of trees by music. In ancient times, humans resonated music IN the nature, and WITH the nature.
This work was planned to be created in Japanese woodland, where is now contaminated radioactively. The beautifully secluded land in solitude, happily cultivated in summer and fruitfully harvested in autumn is now under cautious surveillance.
This project wants to be reborn in the land of the untouched, without unnecessary elements of abuse. I believe the simple and pure communication that music offers will achieve the performance unforgettable.

We have traditionally musical experience entwined with the nature.

Indian traditional music - ragas are prescribed for the particular time of a day or a season. When performed at the suggested time, the raga has its maximum effect. Some are ascribed the magical power to bring rain and performed during the monsoon.

Japanese traditional music - Nagauta - Aikino Irokusa (the coloured grasses of autumn) `the section in the recording includes a description of the garden of the mansion in autumn and there is a lengthy instrumental interlude that is supposed to evoke the sounds of insects in the garden.`