Project Description
This work is based on a transdisciplinary collaboration/encounter/experiment between visual artist Jyoti Naoki Eri, philosopher-poet Debashish Banerji, musical composition by Jonathan Kay, and music performance by Jonathan and Andrew Kay. The project is comprised of 20 acrylic paintings on the theme of vessel and lotus. The poetry was composed inspired by the series of paintings and published as a book in 2020. In 2021, a graphic musical score composed based on an encounter poetry-art assemblage, and the music was improvised based on this score.

5 assemblages:
This album download features 5 formations of the art-elements present in this experiment:

1. Video Release: Full assemblage of all elements (artworks + poetry + musical improvisation based on graphic score/diagram)
2. Audio Track 1: Anima - (poetry + music) same elements as the video release but without the artworks
3. Audio Track 2: Alternative Version of Anima (poetry + music) with poetry and improvised music without graphic score
4. Book PDF: Poetry + Artworks
5. Graphic Score PDF: the score in which the musical improvisations are based on in the main version

please also visit Monsoon-Music YouTube Channel where the full Video Release is also available (artworks + poetry + music):
youtu.be/hrE4rfuHJBw


Notes by Debashish Banerji
On Anima
"The "vessel" is a seeking for unity, containment. Yet it always has an outside. It has been shaped and can be misshaped or unshaped. It also replicates its shape through time and human civilizations. It is the body, container of infinity or the unlimited finite. It can break if unready to hold infinity and can only be readied by the Mother's hands. Every human potter approximates it. Every vessel is a shard of an unfinished vessel. The vessel is a womb of infinity and a tomb of infinity. It is empty and full. It is visible and invisible. It is and it is not."

On Art-Event
An Art-Event draws attention to the ongoing processes of creation. The object that confronts one has arisen from processes of introspection, incubation, interactions, relations, negotiations and responses between faculties, skills, media, individuals and cultures. These heterogenous processes live in it and engage the viewer/listener in an encounter that makes them participants in its open-ended mutually transformative transindividuation.