As the Wayfinder activities formed insights and these insights were layered into our emerging score, we felt a call to go deeper, to sense what people were crying out for, inspired by and moved to, and to articulate how this all carries forwards.
In October 2020, we invited six artist-composers, strangers to each other, from different continents and time zones, to amplify and give further shape to the Wayfinder symphony. The artist-composers were crucial to answering our central question, “What is the shape of social innovation in urgent times?”
“Art is the language that everybody understands, no matter where they come from. You have to allow for the development of this new lingua franca.”
Watch “Wayfinding” [short film]
‘Wayfinding’ is a response to the sounds of chaos offered by participants of movement No. 1 —Tuning during Covid-19 and reflects the journey of sense-making as we find our way through this chaos.
Experience Jazz for Wayfinding [performance lecture series]
The series of ‘performance lectures’ responds to the ‘call’ of themes people were talking about in the Wayfinder global stories.
These responses show the power of stories, shared in community, as a prompt for reflection on past, present and future opportunities to learn. In reading the global stories, I was called back to the core lessons of music and dance that help me to ‘wayfind’ forward.
Listen to LUX SONORE (Trans. The Sound Emitting Light) Toward the Accordance, for bass clarinet
and organismic analogue synthesizer Lyra [Instrumental Piece]
& read Robert’s poems —
1. Listen
2. “RESPONSE with Re” / “REimagine”
My works can stimulate calmness-hunting and way-of-life-finding.
Listen to the Song of Nature: Meditations to Re-Connect and Co-Create [music & meditations]
Are we listening? In this world of constant changes, where do we turn to find inspiration and hope? When our inner voice of awareness is subdued from stress and overwhelm, what resources can help us wayfind?
Wherever you are, may these meditations help you tune out the noise, and tune-in to the endless wisdom of nature. From this place of grounded connection, find your way through the chaos with renewed creative ideas and resources.
Listen to Lament for the Lost & Take Flight [Songs]
Launching February 18th.
Listen to the Folktale of 2020 [story & painting]
What does paying attention look like as a creative action? And how can I make this performative?
The journey to my response to the first movement began with hands, a tree and an energy wave.
