MUSIC
PRACTICES & EXPERIMENTS
THE GONG
Exploring the nature of sound, we discovered a “fundamental tone” — a frequency that once lay at the heart of music as a direct dialogue with the planet, and served as a tuning reference for healing and prayer.
We installed twelve flat bells, each tuned to this tone, around the Earth along the 30th parallel north — in some of the most significant historical centers of human civilization, including the Giza pyramids, Jerusalem, Delhi, Lhasa, the sacred mountains of China, and others. Twice a year — on the solstices — they ring simultaneously, encircling the Earth in this shared sound.
DOLPHIN JAZZ
If there is something universal that can connect the language of dolphins with that of humans, it is music — a way of transmitting feelings directly, from one being to another. When musicians on our expedition vessels play for whales, the ship is soon surrounded — they listen, respond, and take part. What follows is the most astonishing interspecies jam session one can imagine.
SANCTUARY
Together with our musician friends, we also organize musical events on land — in ports, town squares, cathedrals, and museums.
The musical project “Sanctuary” is a symbol of this belief: that a conscious being is truly intelligent only when it takes responsibility for protecting any place it inhabits.
Regular participants in this traveling project include David Rothenberg (saxophone), Arkady Shilkloper (French horn), Bernard Abeille (double bass), Alizbar (multi-instrumentalist), David Swarup (hang drum), Yukimi Yamamoto (vocals), and other remarkable musicians.
RECONSTRUCTION
Harmonic sound — music — is also a way to reconstruct events of the past and a key to many unexplained phenomena.
With fellow musicians, we’ve experimented with recreating the melodies of ancient cultures, seeking contact with other life forms, identifying musical codes of the Earth’s surface, and exploring meaning-based spaces such as the Labyrinth.
WHALE SONGS
In whales and dolphins, unlike in humans, the brain areas responsible for processing sound and visual information are not separated. They quite literally see sound and hear image.
To get closer to understanding their language, we work with programmers who have developed a special interface for visualizing sound.
Through it, we record and “watch” the songs of dolphins and whales — the most virtuosic performers on Earth.
CONCERTS
“Night in the Cathedral”,
“Duet for a Whale and a Piano”,
musical dialogues with whales aboard large catamarans
COMPOSING
For many years, from time to time, we’ve composed songs — sometimes to our own words, sometimes to the poetry of others — and performed them among friends, as part of a group called White Hole.
For many years, from time to time, we’ve composed songs — sometimes to our own words, sometimes to the poetry of others — and performed them among friends, as part of a group called White Hole.
CREATIONS
PRODUCTION
BORNETA
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Laberinto
Poema
Ponme a tu lado
Sufi tango
Borneta
Vals en las ramas
Sephardic tango
Milonga
THE PROMIS
OF ATLANTIS
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Seize the Day
To New Shores
The Coin Dropped
Starlit Night
Princess' Guard of Honour
Message for Buddha
Heat
Master's Work
Tango Box
Skippers' Dance
Following Dolphins
The Solitude of Noah
Waves
Daddy's Songs (Erev shel shoshanim)
A Refined Creature
Clown in the Square
Promenade des Atlantes
The Flame of Flamel
Cis Atl Evi
SANCTUARY
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GATEWAY- Alexander Samodum & Alizbar
RENCONTRE - Bernard Abeille
DUO FOR ONE - Arkady Shilkloper
MY PILOT, WHALE - Elephant Hands
THE KILLER - David Rothenberg
MOODS, BOTTOM - Davide Swarup
FOLLOWING DOLPHINS - Nicole Gratovsky
JOURNEY - Paul Broussau
OCEAN- Arkady Shilkloper
CONFESSION - Alexander Zhikharev
OFF THE ROAD - EXIT Project
CONVERSERNOS - Alex Forain
TANGOLOGIA
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NO-TANGO
MILONGA
WALTZ
TANGO NUEVO
CUMPARSITA
LITANIA
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A Movie Is Being Filmed
Together
Poplars
A Boat by the House
Birds
Christmas in Bethlehem
Waltz
Heavenly Color
Litany
King David
Little Man
Snowing
Lady
Two Kings
In the Town
PENCHANT FOR CHANGE
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Story 1 (Anton Batagov)
Kyrie (UEC)
Presente para Moscu (Arkady Shilkloper)
Summertime (Anjey Gnatiuk)
Milonga For Daddy
Panna (Tania Kors)
Monologue of Leo (Leonard)
Nevecherniaya (Alexandra Svetlovskaya)
Delirium of a House (Salvador Moustache)
PALETTE
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2345
8754
8760
4574
8833
1658
5476
9643
0863
9687
MONOGRAPH
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Chante Ta Nostalgie
The Snow Is Falling
For you and for me
Mountain Shelter
Sonnet
The Girl Was Singing
Litanie pour un retour
Harlem Nocturne
Summer Have Passed
Masters
Bindweed Over the Water
Grain
Don’t Explain
Pardon
Chanson pour l’Auvergnat
Well, That’s All
GIGANTOMANIA
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The Sea
Captains' Dance
Sirena
At the Beginning Was the Word
Cyclades
Odysseus
Argonauts
St. Elmo’s Fire
Invisible
Fish King
Luna
On the Shore