Using their band motto of Call and Response, for this event O YAMA O will talk about their unspoken, or accidental, rituals.
The duo will reflect on their different approaches to life and how they work through these contradictions, as well as with other people, space, objects and things that are in the process of becoming music. They will try to have a conversation. They love each other without understanding fully why. Always there is a distance. Ears wide open, eyes closed. Hearts beating fast and slow.
They can sense each other’s bodies without touching yet try to travel far from the space they share together. Why are they drawn together? The indescribable, the unknown, the invisible force is upon us. They will demonstrate how they value this crush created by multiple unknown energies. They will try to be simple and truthful, to be in the moment. They may come across as ‘rough’, but by rubbing each other's shoulders/space they believe we can all make something interesting.
Rie's objects sometimes imply the history of human civilisation, and Keiko's voice could be something that has yet to be born in this world. They will speak about their individual practices and about O YAMA O's practice and about the distances between these things. They will discuss their interests in Japanese subcultures, myths, traditional music, folklore and modern art which all loosely inform the band's psyche. O YAMA O will present a live performance to demonstrate some of the above, to be a followed by a Q&A session.
