Staniewski believes that sound and musicality are the fundamental
principles needed within life. He believes that we as a generation and
European nation have lost our sense of sound within our soul and have
'became to be more and more deaf'. This is meant in a direct sense; in
that we literally cannot hear as there is a 'direct, indispensible
relation between what you see and what you hear', and we have come to rely
too much on what we see. Additionally, he is also referring to our inner
lives stating that we do not hear the same harmonies, sounds and
polyphonies as 'ancient people' heard, with our ancestors being able to
hear the microtones within sound which are fundamental for music and
antiquity. He says that the problem he faces as a practitioner is in
'developing visual perception while audio perception is reduced' as he
believes the two are strongly linked together with 'equality between time
and space'.
Furthermore, Staniewski worked on developing harmonies as a technique
using the physical body to encourage the inner harmonies out of one's
soul. He used movement when rehearsing with his performers such as,
jumping and moving from side to side in order to direct the pitch level
and tone of the sound being produced. Thus, this encouraged the performer
to follow the physicality with their voice to produce the desired harmony.
Staniewski wanted to extract the sound from the inner body thus, training
his performers to listen to their inner bodies in order to reach the sound
they required. He developed this technique using the flute and playing a
sound on the flute that the performer would have to imitate exactly,
moreover, re-creating a sound with their body that was created by an
instrument. This required intense focus and concentration into oneself in
order to express such a sound and thus, the performer had to listen deeply
from within. Additionally, Staniewski used movement to encourage his
performers to listen to their inner sounds of their body with physicality
leading to musicality.
Furthermore, this is apparent in the work we have been studying as we
always begin by working or developing something physically before adding
sound thus, the sound is developed from our inner body as an impulse
reaction to our physical movement. In addition we have always been
encouraged to use sound and voice throughout our classes as well as
movement filling the space with life and sound creatively and naturally as
a way of energising the space and each other thus, listening to one
another and developing our audio perception.
Furthermore, Staniewski is working to create a 'way of inventing
sound...bringing them back to our practise and our memory' as he believes
we have lost the art of hearing which is connected with the 'invisible
organ', being the soul. In addition, he believes that our creativity and
imagination depends on the depth of our souls which become more open
through our 'channels of absorbing sounds'.
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