A note on why "Between Silence and Light" is being introduced to cultural venues across Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong this year.
For most of 2024 and 2025 the programme moved through Switzerland, Austria, Lithuania and adjacent European cultural venues — concert halls, embassies, foundations and curated series. The places where a song can land in silence.
In May 2026 the same direction is being opened toward Asia. Not as a commercial tour, but as a conversation with cultural institutions that already host European literary acoustic acts — Goethe-Institut, Korea Foundation, the Esplanade in Singapore, the National Arts Council, Clockenflap in Hong Kong, refined hospitality residences in Tokyo and Kyoto.
The programme remains the same: seated acoustic interpretations of Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, Peter Gabriel and Sting alongside original work. The format remains the same: duo, 75–90 minutes, designed for attentive audiences and rooms that value the silence between songs as much as the songs themselves.
What changes is the cultural context — and that is exactly the point. A literary acoustic concert exists in the relation between the song and the room. Asia's cultural rooms have their own listening tradition, and that tradition is the reason for this direction.
The first conversations are now being opened with venues, foundations and cultural attachés. Quiet, written, one institution at a time.
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