Based on a haiku poem by Katsushika Hokusai with the same name, this music piece- game engages with the themes of creativity and writing as well as nature and life. The piece starts with 8 cards facing down and the audience takes turns to turn over cards. If two cards have the same picture, then they stay open, otherwise cards turn face down again. Every opened card is also matched with a music fragment. When a card is revealed, but its pair not, the fragment is played only once by the instrumentalists or the prerecorded media and the cards get hidden again. When a pair of cards get revealed, the music fragment gets repeated by the instrumentalists and the prerecorded media for a couple of times. As more cards get revealed, more fragments keep on looping and the audience must pay more attention in order to identify the patterns and match them. When all cards are revealed they get hidden again for a new round. Some old and some new cards-fragments are added or moved in different positions. The piece ends when the audience stops revealing cards or when the revealed cards don’t get hidden for a new round.
Sophia Bardoutsou: Concept, Composition, Mezzo soprano
Hanna Ailane: Soprano
Eirini Zogali: oud
Photo credits: Siem Salaboem