So many things happened during my 4 weeks visit. Yes, you’re reading it well: I stayed longer as at the end of the third week I was hit by a TIA, spend a night in the hospital and wasn’t allowed to fly for a few extra days. I’m fine now so don’t worry! And besides that, I met so many beautiful people, visited beautiful places and had unbelievable experiences. So for those who like to see more, here it is!
During the 3-week clay workshop, a lot of video footage was shot. I can’t share it all, of course, that’s why I made a compilation of the different disciplines that passed during this 3 weeks.
A short compilation of the Bamboo ocarina development I did together with Wasanth
During my stay at SVARAM, the Irula mountain tribe came down from the mountains for a few days. every two years they visit SVARAM to get help with repairing a building their instruments. I spend quite some time with them and one evening I visited their camping ground to share an evening meal. We ended up having a two-hour conversation about the sounds of nature and they invited me to come to visit them for a few days in the mountains. As I will go back to Auroville in February I happily excepted their invitation! Next days we explored each other’s instruments and they gave me one of their self build hobos to practice on it for when I will visit them! I felt really grateful for having the opportunity to meet these beautiful people…
Svaram has a beautiful Soundgarden! Here’s a new video they recently made that shows most of the outdoor instruments they have there…
During the first week in Auroville, I gave a presentation about my work.
During a day trip with the Svaramteam Miko Sloper and I did a jam in the open. Even the monkeys liked it a lot!
Devali is a kind of Indian Christmas. Aurilio took me to a show of children performing in the theater.
during our visit to Viluppuram, Tamil Nadu, India, Anuska sang in one of the 1000-year-old grain silo’s, jamming on the sound of tuning fork overtones on the coconut players.
