Yoko Ikeda (池田陽子) (Viola), Ayako Kanda (神田綾子) (Voice), Yu Kimura (木村由) (Dance)

Water has captured people's imagination for centuries. That is because water cannot be avoided or forgotten. Water is the basis of biological life as we know it. But in philosophy and art, which often follow different paths in the same direction, water has a special meaning due to its unusual form of existence. Always flowing from top to bottom and filling different kinds of objects, cavities and crevices, water takes the shape of its container without having a form of its own. How to answer the question: What is the shape of water? When it is in a cup, it has the shape of a cup, when it flows fast, it has the shape of a stream or river, when it spreads slowly, it takes the shape of a marsh, when it fills a mountain valley, it has the shape of a lake, when it surrounds the whole earth, it has the shape of an ocean. Wherever water goes, wherever and whenever, it adapts to the place and the situation. It is a paradigm of spontaneity and adaptability. It goes everywhere and takes any shape. It is always active, digging every rock, creating colonies of organisms, penetrating every sand, transforming every substance it encounters.

Praise of the Formless - Live Improvisation of "Soundscape of Water"