Use the right hand menu to jump to different movements or scroll through to experience the journey as it emerged — flowing with insight, poetry, music, art, dialogue, learning and sonic action.
Tuning in together
All over the world, people gathered virtually and in-person. They shared and listened to music that inspired them; they met on their own terms, in their own languages; they discussed which social innovations they were seeing — and what moved and concerned them.
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.
Social innovation happening now
A “mosaic” of stories, entangled in time and space, helping us to understand our relationship to history, others and ourselves.
Experience “Performance Lectures” [video 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.
Key strokes
Powerful words and their frequencies from around the world — the lyrics of tuning.
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.
Part I [Poem]
Where is the harmony and dissonance around the world? The world as we know it is changing. Experience the sense of interconnectedness we felt during the Tuning movement..
[POEM]
Listen to The Song of Nature: Meditations to Re-Connect and Co-Create [music & meditations]
Are we listening? 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 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.
Bosco Ng (Hong Kong) and Sanon Sanon Wangsrangboon (Thailand)
Community-led Innovation: Resilient Citizen’s Action
Diane Roussin (Canada) & David Robinson (UK)
Change moves at the speed of trust: The value and loss of relationships in today’s global society
Jayne Engle (Canada) & Javier Guillot (Colombia)
How do you shape different possible futures for cities?
Miquel de Paladella (Spain)
Geraldine Cahill (Canada)
Why Scaling Matters?
Amalia Zepou (Greece) & Hamdan Abdul Majeed (Malaysia)
How to support community innovation through bridging across sectors
Ada Wong (Hong Kong) & Asli Alemdaroğlu (Turkey)
Kiri Bird (Canada) and Francis Petersen (South Africa)
Stephen Huddart (Canada) & Anil Gupta (India)
Jessie Seo (South Korea) & Yanki Lee, Ire Tsui (Hong Kong)
Gabriella Gomez-Mont (Mexico) & Shahira Ahmed Bazari (Malaysia)
Wayfinding Around the world
The world SIX Wayfinder was truly global. This image captures the flows of connection between the many people from the many countries who linked virtually through the Wayfinder.
Our destination changed in 2020 from a physical location to a magic space of sense, sound, ideas, experience, feeling and memory.
Voices of the Artist-Composers
In movement No. 3, we played towards the crescendo of No. 4 — Magic. The devised Symphony gained further dimension and depth, textured with the emerging compositions of the Artist-Composers.
Learn about Artist-Composers’ process and experience with Onions Talk, hosted by Artist-Composer Fié Neo. Together, they share their respective wayfinding journeys through the chaos we live in right now, in the hope that they can offer some comfort through their art and music.
“Onions. We help you discover your many layers. You peel, you cry but you wake up with fresh eyes. This is a podcast about hope and change making.”
The Final Symphony
‘Sounding Together’
A sonic gift, the shape of social innovation in urgent times.
Introduction
This 25-minute piece ‘Sounding Together’ from chaos to catharsis, was created by six Artist-Composers in response to the stories, pain, hope, and actions from around the world, collected during SIX Wayfinder 2020. Their collaboration spanned four months across time-zones, only ever meeting over Zoom, using a collage of iphone recordings and makeshift studio set ups during lockdown, from Singapore, Poland, Greece, UK and Canada. The piece is a collective inquiry into the question: "What is the shape of social innovation in urgent times and what sounds can help us reimagine our way forward together?"
“Our work is an offer of solace and solidarity in sound. The form of a Symphony (sim = together and phono = sound) means to sound together. Therefore, this piece is a demonstration of democratic collaboration and self-organised cooperation. A metaphorical journey from individualism to collectivism.”
Listen
We desire for this sonic horizon of hope to leave you nourished, with new perspectives and awareness for how we transition, heal and rebuild with resilience for where, and what next. We recommend good headphones and a comfortable, inspiring place to sit, lay down, and close your eyes.
Recommendations for listening
Download the song (use the download arrow in the top right of the audio widget below) and click the repeat button on your music player before listening.
This is a circular piece that can be listened to in one cycle (25 minutes) or for full immersion, listen to twice completing the cycle for 1 hour including time to reflect.
We would love you to share what comes up for you, receiving your reflections on our miro board. This is in the hope that we can retrieve more gold from this feed-back loop as we input your reflections back into the next phase of our collective Wayfinding journey, as a living artform organism.
We invite you to relisten, perhaps as a part of your routine or create a use for it in your community, returning to movements or sections that most empower you.
Learn the words, sing along, sound together!
“Our hope is for this sonic horizon of hope to leave you nourished, with new perspectives and awareness for how we transition, heal and rebuild with resilience for where and what next.. ”
Credits
Kandice Holmes — Artistic Director, arrangement and co-producer; sonic actions, field recordings, gong, bells, flute, voice in ‘RE’ poem and harmonic choir concept.
Eily Aurora — Co-producer, Celtic harp, Chinese (Guzheng) harp, the voice of ‘Listen’, voice in ‘RE’ poem and harmonic choir, field recordings, sonic actions
Robert Nizinski — Co-producer, writer of ‘Listen’ and ‘RE’ poems, clarinet and gongs and harmonic choir composer.
Voices in ‘RE’ poem — Orode Faka , Fié Neo , Corina Kwami and harmonic choir voice.
Philippe Nash — Mixing and mastering engineer, harmonic choir arrangement.
Amalia Zepou — “Art as a Bridge” quote.
Sonic Actions: Artist Composers
Laughter: So Jung Rim and Leo Howell
Breathing: friends in the UK, USA and Nijohua, Mexico.
