Yoichi Kamimura Concert on 22 July: part of the ‘Music and the Non-Human’ series 1

Yoichi Kamimura will share soundscapes he has recorded while travelling around the world. In a meditative and immersive performance, he will combine environmental sounds from the ice floes of the Sea of Okhotsk in Shiretoko, Hokkaido, and from overseas: the glacial regions of Iceland, the traces of ancient glaciers in Finland, and Therme Vals, a Peter Zuntor-designed hot-spring architecture.

Series Concept.
This year's concert series 'Music and the Non-Human' is part of a three-year research project that draws on Japanese philosophy and aesthetics rooted in premodern, non-Western ontology to interpret the relationship between human and non-human sounds from a new perspective.
The composers explore their relationship with nature and spiritual elements, drawing inspiration from pre-modern philosophy and nō theatre. Inspiration from nature, field recordings and contemporary music with traditional instruments intersect to define meaningful ways of creating, listening to, sharing (and discussing) music in unstable times.