Ogai – You cannot escape from nature in Oujay. This means that the Flot Claire Chis, director of music for the Oujai Music Festival for this year, which is often called the power of nature, is suitable.
Chase It is the proud prime you have ever noticed. And the most expressive. She holds her head high, whether she plays Picolo or flute 6 feet, as if her instrument was a magic stick used to stimulate her voice at the top of the deeper records.
Activity is more than analogy. Chis is also an activist in the music of joy and leadership Pauline Olivos Do you do it greatly.
For OJAI, Chase has collected composers concerned in searching for a kind of environmental bond capable of evoking the pleasure of nature, and in this process, save our mind. Over the course of four days of concerts in BowL Rustic Libbey, they gave many game names.
“The Holy Luttoff”, “Horse Sings from the Cloud”, “How Forests Think”, “Fishermen in the Spirit” and “A grain of sand on her face, on the skin of a washed image”, are some of them.
The most proud moment of the festival (30 minutes to be a minute) was the first show on the western coast of Soussa Ebara, “Sky Islands”. This was the last work on the shining Sunday morning program, which Chis described as “multi -soul” and “multiple species”. The sun found its way through the trees, as the composer and the rhythm of Leornzo stood in front of the theater and began with a festive bombing of the bamboo columns.
The “Sky Islands” raises the upper Filipino magic forests, where sounds shine in a weak atmosphere that gives Gongs new glories, where animals are capable of ascending the great aspect, as the mind is ready to enlighten. IBarra wrote its result Talking Gong Trio (which includes Chis and Piano PEH) along with the added rhythm and sequential rhythm, here The Jack Quartet.
To surprise the scratch from the Music Foundation, which has yet given little attention to Ebara, “Sky Islands” won the PulitZer Award for 2025 Music. Ipara, an American -based American -based American -based American, is known as the rhythm in experimental jazz and new music with strong interest in environmental sound and original music.
Stop scratching the head in Oujay. In the three works conducted by IBARRA in the program, an audio vision was proven. It is a wonderful simulation from the hearing nature world – animal sounds, from a river, from the trees in the wind, from the rocks that fall on the side of the hill. Stir the souls with the barely heard from the drum brushes that were waved in the air. It connects with underground as the ringing master. Stop smells anything there for the smell. It is often funny.
Nevertheless, though, they are simply entrances, whether rhythmic utensils are published in “Kolubri” or writing for other musicians in “Sunbird” in the early fog morning in Ajai Meadows. Her malicious intelligence appeared in Hayden in the premiere of “Nest Box”, which is her duo and Wu Wei on Shang, a Chinese mouth member.
Stephen Chic (pumpkin), from the left, Wu Wei (Shang) and Soussi Ebara (rhythm), is “from her loaded by Bayu” in Libby at the 2025 Music Festival.
(Timothy Tej Festival / Ougay)
The “Sky Islands” was the measurement through the audience’s response, it is a clear preferred for more than three dozens of new or new works. It is a complex piece that appears to be exploding on a well -performed journey led by Chis to the unknown. But at each turn, the music is surprised with a tune that looks familiar so that it does not do it suddenly.
IBARRA leaves an improvisation room as a means of performance artists to respond to what they face. For example, Chis and Eibra may begin to dialogue as a nervous sheet card with the outbreak of flute in Staccato with open -minded responses that will soon turn into extensive expressions of wonders. In the end, the musicians pick up rhythm machines and leave the stage in a slow process of dancing, as if he was walking in the unknown.
Chis combined other composers from all over. It has gathered the wonderful musicians from Los Angeles (especially Wild Up) and New York. Music was all our time except for three small pieces of early music, but even updated. There was a long leniency and beautiful works, in a flash but indicating a full and beautiful life, such as the insect.
It is not necessary to transfer the spirit of the OJAI festival through the laundry list of composers, business or value. At its best, this event is a musical, unparalleled wilderness, no other caliber festival. The audience goes on a picnic in the forest, with the nature call to discover.
In every corner it encounters a different musical sound. Hawaii shook the composer and violations player Lailahua Lanzelotti. Cuban composer Tania Leon added exciting modernity dolls. The Icelandic composer Anna Thorfladuder led long periods of the empty scene. The Brazilian composer Marcos broke the legendary pan in a theatrical wasteful of nine parts sometimes for the chase.
New Zealand Annie Lukwood offered a 90 -minute trip under the homes that the loudspeakers seized in the oceanic sound. On the contrary, Australian Lisa Lim revealed, in a useful raw spray, the least accepted possibilities of what the forests might think (from us?).
After that, there was, in the end to Ogai, the elephant in its simplicity room, the iconic California composer, Terry Riley. “In C” is one Piece oji piece previously programmed. like Riley He is now close to his ninety birthday (June 24), Chis has unveiled three parts of an epic cycle of unknown pieces that Riley has worked on since moving to the mountains of Japan five years ago.
“Pulsed cranes”, in the order of two piano and guitars, resembles dews. The “The Holy Luttoff”, which was realized by Samuel Clay Permareh for the flute and the ritual quadruple, opens with Chis to all its five psalms, one played directly, and the other are already registered. The effect is to be immersed in a fertile wash of flute ropes. Then Riley reduces the amazing quadruple quadruple with a melody -like tune.
In the “Pulsefield” pieces of 1, 2 and 3, Riley returns to the normative roots of “C” after half a century. Here repeated rhythms are overlooked by a large group that includes all artists in the festival in the euphoria.
If this is, it is one of the best OJAI festivals and its best in recent years, it is not intended to explain but discovery, please do so. The festival was slowly developing an outdoor amplification system, which captures an excellent sound on the currents of Libbey Bowl concerts. They continue to archive at the OJAI festival YouTube page.
Next year, Esa-Pekka Salonen will return for the first time in a quarter of a century.
