“For All My Walking” – Sound Diaries from Kyoto
(1 October 2013) They listened to the sounds of Japan: Musicians Ulrike Haage and Eric Schaefer were scholarship holders at the Kamogawa artists’ residence from September until December 2012. They travelled through Kyoto and to places that the Japanese poets Matsuo Basho and Taneda Santōka describe from their travels. Haage and Schaefer composed their encounter with Japan in their sound diary For all My Walking. The radio play will be broadcast by SWR2 on Tuesday, 1 October at 11:03 PM. Later it will be streamed on demand on SWR2.de/hoerspiel for one week and can be heard anytime on the Mediathek.
Masami Sato, Ulrike Haage and Eric Schaefer (Photo: Monika Maier/SWR)
Haage and Schaefer recorded the sounds they heard in Japan with a microphone. They transformed what they saw into sound. In recollection of their diaries and haiku poems, they use a blend of music and words to tell of their journey. “Sounds and music are, in my opinion, bringers of peace, but also a memory of human culture. I would like to contribute to preserving these, passing them on and thus stimulating a sensitization for what surrounds us daily and marks our identity,” Haage said.
The Goethe-Institut offers artists from Germany the opportunity to live and work in Japan in its Villa Kamogawa as part of a three-month scholarship. You can find more information about the Villa Kamogawa here.
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