Strange noises in the woods are usually reason to be fearful, but the opposite reaction will take place Thursday night in the Jerusalem Forest when the Jerusalem Season of Culture’s production of Rustling unfolds.
Developed by Itay Mautner, who serves as the artistic director of the Jerusalem Season of Culture, Rustling aims to intertwine music and nature against a beautiful pastoral backdrop using a concept whereby the audience chooses what they want to experience while roaming between different performances – or as Mautner calls it, “listening with both ears and eyes.”
Some 50 artists from Greece, Germany, the Netherlands, the US, Australia, France and Belgium as well as local artists will provide the music for an expected audience of 500 at the free event.
“The production is using both elements from nature such as sound and lighting and mixing it in with manmade elements including LED lighting and different types of music including electronic music,” explained Amir Bolzman, the Hague-based artistic director of Rustling.
Bolzman said the sets by Edwin van der Heide and Jan-Peter E. R. Sonntag would utilize parabolic loudspeakers, which he described as a audience-participatory experience.