During the course of one week, the musician Guy Sherf worked with a group of artists and performers who answered his calling. This performance is the outcome of that workshop.
Gai Sherf is a musician and independent artist. Graduate of the School of Visual Theater and various independent music studies. Gai creates sound installations which combine sculptural, musical objects and recorded sounds. He writes and produces music and sound for stage acts, theater, dance, video, and performance. He merges traditional and contemporary music practices, using electronic and acoustic instruments. Gai has been teaching at the School of Visual Theater since 2010.
“There is a tribe called ‘Himba’, where women summon impregnation with a song they compose for the child, calling him to come to the world. They teach the song to the people around them, and upon the child’s birth, it accompanies him throughout his life. If he becomes ill or seeks help, or if he conducts a violent action, those closest to him gather to sing his song to him, calling him to return to himself.
I am interested in the calling as a frequency, in the frequencies existing and calling for the consciousness to be colored by them. Sounds are a gorge through which we call other consciousnesses to resonate with us.
Within a musical encounter, especially that which is based on improvisation, we move between our own calling, and responding to the callings of others. I am interested in observing and becoming aware of this state, while playing music – and in general. Sometimes, in this process, something new is created, an unpredictable frequency is unearthed, calling us to the realm of obliviousness, beyond the patterns of language and thought. How does one circumvent the mind? How does one deceive consciousness? In what ways do sounds intertwine? How do callings intertwine? Are sound and intention different from each other? Is a tuned sound a sound that is filled with intent?”
Photo: Amit Mann