Dates: Sundays 21st Mar - 18th Apr.  Times tbc

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Five Haiku is a series of short audio-only soundwalks which you're invited to join at dawn. Each Haiku episode last approximately 20 minutes and will involve listeners getting out of their homes for a short walk and listening, guided and accompanied by shakuhachi player Laonikos. You are invited to take a soundwalk in their neighbourhood at dawn while listening to a livestream of shakuhachi music, ending with a recitation of a haiku by Basho, selected for that particular morning.

These sessions will be like a bell which “rings” once a week for five weeks, and tethers us to the change of the seasons and the lengthening of the day in springtime. Shakuhachi music is not defined by consistency of pitch and rhythm, but by blending the musical and the non-musical, inviting the sounds of the breath and imperfections in the construction of the instrument into its aesthetic. By letting those sounds in, we open up possibilities for listening to the world around us in different ways, and embracing that which we cannot control but can only witness.

Each session will start at dawn and will be available to re-listen. These sessions will be audio-only and you can tune in online, download the mp3, or phone in and walk with your phones and earphones. Laonikos will be performing the shakuhachi and streaming the sessions while taking a walk of his own in the nearby nature. You can join one, or all of the sessions freely.