Yukari and Rutger distill a ritualistic soundscape from elements of avant-jazz, ambient, and various spiritual traditions. The Archetypes Sessions are spatial, improvisation-focused, performances that emerge around the  audience and performers – using saxophone, suling flute, electronics and eight intuitively placed speakers. 

Uncanny, ambiguous and paradoxical atmospheres morph throughout the space, surrounding the listeners and confronting them with symbols of the primitive mind, our collective subconscious – in which harmony and dissonance were still powerfully entangled.

The video below shows Exorcism, a different (and louder) work by Yukari and me, but it should give you an impression…

The ancient Greek word ‘archetype’ roughly translates to ‘original pattern’: elementary particles of behaviour, nature and the cosmos. In Jungian psychology, archetypes (in the form of characters, dreams, figures, gods, etc.)  are symbols on the map of our psyche.

At a fundamental level, beneath all our complex differences, we carry very similar motivations and fears. By acknowledging we are flawed and incomplete, we open ourselves for the exploration of all the universal forces that make us human. 

But, according to Jungian psychology, the only way to acknowledge our blind spots is to actively confront the shadow of our psyche – which inevitably follows whether we want it or not.

Yukari Uekawa (website)

Interdisciplinary performance artist Yukari Uekawa (JP/NL) developed an artistic vision based on contemporary saxophone studies, Indonesian gamelan, free improv, Butoh dance and Japanese traditional dance. 

Yukari studied saxophone at the Elisabeth University of Music in Hiroshima (JP), CNR de Lyon (FR) and Conservatorium van Amsterdam (NL).

She further specialized in contemporary music at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent (BE).

Rutger Muller

Rutger Muller (NL) is an electroacoustic composer focused on the spectrum of mysticism, the sonic landscape on the edge between meditative and dissonant sound.

By zooming in on the timbral microcosms of music (materials, forms), he creates sound spaces influenced by avant-garde classical music, free jazz, ambient, dub, noise, techno and traditions like Japanese Noh.

Rutger gained an MA in Music Technology at the HKU (NL). 

Bookings: rutger@rutgermuller.nl or ​+316 50 82 45 71​, thank you!