The Archetype Sessions are a spatial, sonic exploration of our subconscious, a non-linear journey between instinct and culture.
Spiritual symbols and archetypes are human creations, but what came before them? What are the abstract origins of dreams, emotions and personalities.
Yukari and Rutger combine free improvisation and non-hierarchical sound objects (speakers scattered across the space) to play with abstraction, ambiguity, mysticism, paradoxality, uncanniness and ultimately: (cognitive) dissonance.
The video below shows Exorcism, a different (and louder) work by Yukari and me, but it should give you an impression…
Jungian inspiration – At a fundamental level, beneath all our complex differences, we carry very similar motivations and fears. By acknowledging we are flawed, 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…
Greek inspiration – The ancient Greek word ‘archetype’ roughly translates to ‘original pattern’: an elementary particle of behaviour, nature and the cosmos. In Jungian psychology, archetypes (in the form of characters, dreams, figures, gods, etc.) are symbols on a map of our psyche.
Yukari Uekawa (website)
Interdisciplinary performance artist Yukari Uekawa (JP/NL) developed an artistic vision based on contemporary saxophone studies, Indonesian gamelan, free improvisation, 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 specialised 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, textures, 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 Art University (NL).