Video: Where in the modern world you can feel the unity with nature: Musical Gardens of the World
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
We live in politically, socially and financially unstable and difficult times, so we easily succumb to stress, reacting sharply to news and events around us. And it is not surprising that, being completely absorbed in modern problems, it is so difficult to find peace of mind and balance among all this turmoil. But fortunately, there are creative individuals working on projects that can help restore our spiritual balance.
For example, ultra-modern sound engineer Evala and pioneer of international sound art Akio Suzuki are currently working on an experimental project called Soundscape Image Generation, which revolves around nature and sounds, and this despite the fact that the Musical Garden just recently opened their hugs in Japan.
Evala (See by Your Ears) is a musician and sound engineer known for his experimental electronic music and spatial compositions in which sound behaves dynamically, as if it were a living being. He was born in 1976 and lives in Tokyo, and three years ago he launched See by Your Ears, which uses stereo systems as a new tool for creating audiovisual experiences. He then designed a sound installation designed for individual experience in a dark anechoic room, capable of delivering an incredible audiovisual sensation of “seeing with your ears” and an audiovisual vessel where visitors travel through space and time using sound from 576 speakers built with Sony technology. Sonic Surf VR.
Akio Suzuki was born in 1941 in Pyongyang. In 1963, a Staircase Throwing Event was organized at Nagoya Station, which literally consisted of throwing a bucket of objects down the stairs at the Nagoya Station. The goal was to find new sounds among everyday things. And then he began to develop research into natural sounds, turning listening into his artistic practice. In 1988, he performed his play Space in the Sun, which involved cleaning his ears for twenty-four hours in nature on the meridian line that runs through Amino, Kyoto.
Coinciding with the Setouchi Triennal and the 2019 Okayama Art Summit, Soundcape Image Generation (September 27 to November 24) will be located at Nakazu Banshou-en, a traditional Japanese garden with over 330 years of history in Marugama City, Kagawa Prefecture. This daimyo-style garden, built in 1688 by Kyogoku Takatoyo, includes 1,500 wakamatsu pine trees and a pond with eight islands resembling the "eight species" of Lake Biwa in Omi, the ancestral home of the Kyogoku family.
With the name "Banshou-en", which refers to all of nature, or rather the entire universe, the garden is also associated with the Marugame Art Museum, built in the style of a tea ceremony gazebo with a flat building, and the Kaifutei Restaurant, overlooking the garden. Using the latest technology in sound art and software to generate sounds from computers, Evala designed a new garden work in his Anechoic Sphere series, which has been housed in the oldest tea house in Japan since the Edo period. The sounds that Evala recorded from all over the park and the sea of Setuchi Island fill the small tea room and gradually transform, and take the listener to a new dimension. The musician has also placed speakers throughout the park as a sound installation that creates a mysterious world of sound.
But "Otodate" by Akio Suzuki will be shown at several locations in the Nakazu Banshou-en gardens. This hands-on piece forces viewers to follow earprints, reminiscent of footprints painted on the ground throughout the park, which, as they stand, allow listeners to hear different sounds. Standing on the Otodat and enjoying the garden, visitors can hone their sight and hearing, thus creating their own landscape.
The most intriguing thing about these projects is not only that they will help visitors to spiritually get in touch with nature, offering them an environment where they can meditate surrounded by enveloping soundscapes, but also the news that some of these installations can inspire further projects about nature. and sound.
And the sound system developed by Evala for this project, for example, can be used for future nature parks and public facilities, so it can serve as a pioneering example of how to use cultural heritage sites to merge the environment with contemporary art for society.
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