concrete

Installation
The Voice of Inconstant Savage
Commissioned for the Engawa – Japanese Contemporary Art Season programme organized by Calouste Gulbenkian Museum's Modern Art Center, The Voice of Inconstant Savage is an immersive installation that superimposes a prayer inspired by the story of a 16th-century Portuguese missionary, a chant from a Kakure-Kirishitan (hidden Christians) prayer – a religion rooted in Nagasaki Prefecture –, a chant from the Karawara spirits of the Awá indigenous people – who live in the Amazon rainforest – and a chorus of Western Gregorian chant. Morinaga questions the position of the aesthetics of inconstancy in relation to the discourse of the “savage” that modern society confronts.

Field recordings
Sombat Simla: Master Of Bamboo Mouth Organ
Simla is known in Thailand as one of the greatest living players of the khene, the ancient bamboo mouth organ particularly associated with Laos but found throughout East and Southeast Asia. His virtuosic and endlessly inventive renditions of traditional and popular songs have earned him the title ‘the god of khene’, and he is known for his innovative techniques and ability to mimic other instruments and non-musical sound, including, as a writer for the Bangkok Post describes, ‘the sound of a train journey, complete with traffic crossings and the call of barbecue chicken vendors’.

Outland ethnologies
Lonely Lodger by Li Jianhong [CHINA]
Li Jianhongは、中国大陸の即興音楽や実験音楽のシーン最初期より活動してきた音楽家です。同時に、キュレーターとしても実験音楽のイベントやフェスティバルを数多く手がけてきました。本作の『Lonely Lodger』では、環境音と即興演奏による音の融合を目指した「Environmental Improvisation」という録音/演奏手法に基づいて、自身が雲南省の麗江に滞在してレコーディングした音素材を使い制作したものです。

Field recordings
He Xiu Dong(Dongba Shaman) [Lijiang, China]
世界で最も少数民族が多いと言われている雲南省(中国)は麗江に居住するナシ族の宗教聖職者ことドンバ(Dongba)、ホー・シュー・ドン(He Xiu Dong)による経典の詠唱と儀礼を数回にわたって現地録音した作品です。ドンバはナシ族特有の象形文字による経典を詠唱し、儀式を通じて精霊と対話する特異な存在です。森永は、現地での聞きこみ調査を行いながらトンバのホー・シュー・ドンと出会い、屋外・室内・自宅の3回にわたりレコーディングを行いました。