uka-uka: a sound when you are constantly a little bit wrong
\nuwaa: a sound when you cannot express a feeling in words
\nboro-boro: a sound when everything around you is fading away*<\/p>\n
*onomatopoeias from Polly Barton\u2019s book Fifty Sounds<\/em><\/p>\n Sayonakidori (Japanese for \u201cnightingale\u201d) is a landscape of onomatopoeias, revealing how Japanese onomatopoeias (sound equivalents of objects or phenomena) allow sounds to be expressed through words.<\/strong><\/p>\n During her visits to Japan, composer and director Agn\u0117 Matulevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117<\/strong> visited Nij\u014d Castle to explore the architecture of this unique building and its floors, which produce sounds resembling birdsong. The \u201cnightingale floors\u201d are often discussed as a myth \u2013 they may have been a security system designed to protect against intruders, or simply an unintentional architectural mistake. The artist is interested in the fact that this myth has nevertheless been recorded and retold by someone. This duality opens up particularly broad and intriguing contexts and themes for the creation of the performance.<\/p>\n Walking across the \u201cnightingale floors\u201d inspired the artist to create a work for a building, playing it as a musical instrument and exploring what is invisible but can only be heard, and vice versa. This is a work combining music and dance, in which the performers themselves create the soundscape using their bodies and voices.<\/p>\n The themes of the music performance arise from observing Japanese culture from a distance and interpreting it through European eyes: security, fear of the other, fragments of the culture of ghosts, and explorations of the phenomenon of the uncanny. The sound technology of the nightingale corridor, used for protection, inspires themes of attack, defence and privacy. Here, security is both an inner state and a fear of an insecure world.<\/p>\n CREATIVE TEAM<\/strong><\/p>\n Performers:<\/strong> Tomoo Nagai (Japan), Clara Giambino (France), Greta Grinevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, Ugn\u0117 Kavaliauskait\u0117, Justina Mykolaityt\u0117, Alvyd\u0117 Pikturnait\u0117, Laurynas Jurgelis, Gediminas Rimeika, Agn\u0117 Matulevi\u010di\u016bt\u0117<\/strong><\/p>\n PRODUCER<\/strong><\/p>\n MMLAB Theatre<\/p>\n PROJECT PARTNERS<\/strong><\/p>\n Trak\u0173 Vok\u0117 Manor Estate, Polish Institute in Vilnius, Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Japan, MiSHO Residency (Fujino, Japan), V\u0161\u012e \u201cKrantas\u201d, Lithuanian Composers\u2019 Union, EU Delegation to Japan, Embassy of Japan in Lithuania, \u201cVAGA\u201d bookstore chain, InlanDimensions<\/p>\n The project is funded by:<\/strong> Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius City Municipality, EU Japan Fest<\/p>\n\n
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