16/04/2026
I’ve received so much support to make this possible.
Because I moved around a lot as a child, I didn’t have many close or lasting friendships growing up.
When I went to the park, I often played alone in the sandbox.
I would quietly watch the other children building sand mountains together.
When I moved to the mountains in Mie at the age of 11, I was so excited to see people building houses together.
They weren’t grand, but small and humble, yet warm—always places where people gathered.
They had a porch where people could sit, drink tea, and watch the trees and flowers. Just sitting and watching…
I’ve always wanted to create a place like that.
This coming Saturday, cellist Ge Bartman will join me, and we will perform a tea ceremony together.
In the official Sencha tea ceremony at temples, monks first chant mantras. We chose Bach because his music has a certain structure, and his melodies are deeply contemplative.
Music has the power to move people deeply, and memories formed through such emotional experiences are often etched strongly into the human brain. Tea ceremonies, on the other hand, tend to lead people into a state where they forget the passage of time, as if time itself dissolves into nothingness.
This study aims to consider what kind of effect emerges when these two phenomena—acting on different sensory and perceptual dimensions—are experienced simultaneously in the same space, and how their interaction may influence human perception and consciousness.
18 April 15:00-16:15 at Naardermeer Tea Hut in Meentwerf, Hilversumse Meent
