Hearthchord International Music Festival

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_{"Some music is when the mathematically ordered stars are playing inside the human being"}

_{Philip Stoll}

_{Challenging, heart lightning, trying, feeling joy in those tones. Those fine tones that reach deep insight, you trigger something unexpected, bring you alive. Showing yourself, being open for movement and change, forming a structure and re-forming it. The joy of listening to the other’s story, where everyone finds his own experience because of the life story we carry with us in the present. Bringing those pasts together in a present sharing of tones. Agreements are made to understand a language together and give everyone the freedom to create, staying aware, that in the freedom we understand.}

_{Christianne Sinoo}

_{Loudest Silence}

_{Shape shifting shadows in shades of all color.
Blind blessings blowing on wind of all force.
The loudest silence lingers in waves of all tones,
As mischievous mists mask the music of notes.
Melancholic melodies mingle with sun lapped clouds.
A heartbeats haste hears whole in all knowing,
And freedom, never forgotten, when in fates full glow.

Seldom slept through seeded wisdom,
Turns kings to peasants in the light of its tone,
And peasant to priest at thumbed chords resonance.
Raging rivers turned loose to redemption,
As sounds sing, light, white, bright on conversing veins.

The beat, beat, beat of passing feet.
The sleeping dead of night’s deceit.
Harvesting freedom in their retreat.
And soon, the note-less tones return, within minutes, blessing the blind and shifting the shadows in the loudest lingering silence, that is.
Eternal music.}

_{Silas Beardslee}

_{Music is for me a movement}

_{Moving my limbs}

_{Moving my heart}

_{If I listen carefully}

_{I hear music coming towards me}

_{I welcome this invitation and answer}

_{Opening all locked doors}

_{And I let the music flow through me, from me...}

_{In this meeting the World and I are one}

_{And I fly}

_{My hands filled with light}

_{My heart filled with love}

_{Can we fly together?}

_{Yes, let us stretch out our wings and fly}

_{Towards the horizon}

_{Dancing the dance of creation}

_{Trusting the never-ending stream}

_{Of inhale and exhale}

_{Life and death and life again}

_{Together we can reach places}

_{You and I have never been before}

_{We have the possibility to reach the place}

_{Where our rhythm unites with the breathing of the World}

_{Where our harmony sounds with the harmony of the Spheres}

_{And our melody...}

_{Inga Muriboe}

_{music allows us to travel, it opens our hearts and minds. in playing music together we create something more than the sum of its parts, a dynamic, a flow that can take us to new spaces or hearing a piece of music can take us back to a space we were before. resonance of earth things like stone and trees, emanating from deep, deep within, gentle, growing. rhythm brings me back the beat anchors down rippling out I can place my feet on the beat. repeat the simplest line over again it never gets old it never grows cold, a psalm singing angelic fond infants of the world stand between sky and sea and earth hovering breaking free is that so? music is the language of us all, music is to listen.}

_{Ben Schlesier}

_{Ripping through the seldom silence}

_{Tearing open the distance}

_{Soundbirds on the breeze}

_{Fly their songlines}

_{An arrow towards tomorrow}

_{And it matters not}

_{That their beauty is simple}

_{Their complex hearts guide}

_{Sculpt the future}

_{The skyline orchestra}

_{Singing the sun}

_{Past grandeur lounges certain}

_{On its crumbling pedestal}

_{Delicate human choir}

_{Sometimes a glance will suffice}

_{That second melody lifts the day}

_{On its fragile wings}

_{And maybe once again}

_{We can play as dissonant strangers}

_{That harmony we have already forgotten}

_{Guy Collins}

_Thoughts_{The common conception of a music festival is one of performer and audience. There is a fixed program of concerts. All the details have been ironed out to the point where even the back-up plan has a back-up plan; where every organiser is certain of their function and the performers are certain of an audience. The combination of the words ‘music’ and ‘festival’ are often connected with many pre-conceptions and images that float to the surface of the mind. This phenomena is not limited to these two words. More often than not, images and concepts are connected to words out of previous experience. This is ‘natural’. The question we now ask is: How can we tap our collaborative, creative intellect and together re-imagine the words ‘music festival’? Can we meet on fresh earth? The experiences that bind us to what we think we know, inhibit our active intuition of the spaces between the tones.}

_{In order to realise this imagination, a malleable foundation has to be laid. As organisers, we can provide you, the musician, with the stage, the practical and technical support, the open invitation to participate, to share your own unique, individual, professional, amateur or campfire musicianship. As organisers, we can provide you, the audience, with an opportunity to witness, support and participate with the musicians in search of the lost chord. Sardine or shark, face painter or the next Rembrandt, the sidewalk or the shoe, Bob Dylan’s voice or talent, this open stage hosts all.}

_{We see the Goetheanum transformed; a venue in which all spaces can be enlivened by music. We imagine a metamorphoses, a stage without borders. We envision stages within a stage, that no matter what stage you’re at, have the strength to support your offering. Improvisation, concerts, learning, work, community, conversation, art, experience. There will be the opportunity to hear and appreciate highly skilled musicians in concert, as well as the opportunity to play familiar and unknown instruments.}

_{An instrument can be a broomstick, a spade, a grand piano, a blues harp, a stairwell, spoons, a church organ, a clay jug or a voice. Music can be a mountain stream, a running horse, a conversation between strangers, a train whistle in the desert night or a falling leaf whisked by the breeze. Music can be anything we imagine. All objects are potential instruments. Subtle rhythms exist everywhere. Nature itself is a song.}

_{If you are a musician or know a musician who may be interested in this endeavour, please get hold of us so that we can accommodate you in HeartChord. If you have ever, even once, listened to music, please contemplate participating. In order for us to achieve this vision, we need your assistance. We can provide a context. You can help by spreading the word and bringing all those who wish to actively participate in this exploration. HeartChord is pushing the boundaries and expanding the borders in this territory and anything that can be imagined is a possibility, if the inspiration to create it is individually present.}

_{more thoughts...}_{we are rapidly approaching a time of making more concrete decisions about the HeartChord Music Festival held from 9-11 April 2010. Your participation would be greatly appreciated. Until now, we have attempted to share an imagination of an event that could be participated. Some of you have shared a vision of your participation.}

_{Intentions. HeartChord is intended as an interactive event in which all are participants. We plan to use all possible spaces in the Goetheanum and surrounds to create a soundscape. We are planning to}_{work with}_{people who work with physical space to create a landscape for sound and create a foundation for}_{collaboration}_{with artists such as photographers, painters, craftsmen and beyond...}

_{Capabilities. We have at our disposal, the Geotheanum and surrounding grounds and buildings. We can offer technical support for both acoustic and amplified spaces. We can offer spaces in which meetings can happen.}

_{Social. The social implications of such a festival are huge. Are we here to perform for an audience? Who is the audience? What is a festival? Are you both audience and performer? We see many spontaneous moments that are interspersed with planned performance. We envision improvised meetings. Are there real social principles reflected in both composed and improvised music?}

_{Economic. It is important to recognise that all YouthSection events have relied on the good will of contributors. For HeartChord, we ask that this be extended into your thinking around economy. Would you be here as a participant even if you never picked up an instrument or opened your mouth? This carries weight, because while we recognise the present situation of the artist as businessman, we are interested in what the modern artist/human being as independent creative activisionaries could look like. What systems do we need to be moving towards to liberate the artist/human being to create art/engage with society and not primarily to sustain present paradigms? How active is your wish to engage with the space that is HeartChord? We want to invite that activity and a conscious engagement with future potential.}