“WE KNOW YOU’VE GOT SOUL” - OUT NOW EVERYWHERE
March 20th 2020 - Music Release by Henri Scars Struck
Today marks the 4th year anniversary of my Dad’s passing, Isaac André Struck Those who know me, know that I don’t believe in coincidences.
Three years ago, I was commissioned by Muriel Quancard and The Dallas Symphony’s SOLUNA International Music & Arts Festival to write music for an installation for the Crow Museum of Asian Art in Dallas.
This work, entitled, “WE KNOW YOU’VE GOT SOUL” was inspired by my father and the Sacred Scriptures. It was about the journey of the Soul (Nechama in Hebrew) in a multi-room music and sonic experience that took you from this life and its gravity on Earth, and beyond until the Soul finds Eternal Rest. With its success and the positive feedback we received, I thought last year that I would release the full composition into an album of songs, much like the installation with each title representing a room in the museum with its own music and sounds - from “Before This Life”, “This Life”, “The Passing”, ”Judgements” (bad and good) and the Olam Aba (Eternal Rest).
At the end of last December, I released this album discreetly on all platforms without telling anyone. I'm not quite sure why. Today, because of this anniversary, and because of the uncertain times which we live in now, I've decided to let you all know about it.
The simple things that we’ve taken for granted are being wiped out by something that measures 0.125 micron. Now, we are reflecting on our relationships with each other, the common good, the planet, and G.od, if you're a believer.
This album doesn’t have verses and choruses, and some of the tracks are pretty long. This music could be a way to help you to relax and to breathe. It might also be a good companion to meditation as we reflect upon our purpose and actions in this life and the hereafter, asking ourselves, “what would we change today if we knew that an afterlife exists?”…….what would our priorities be, what are our fears, the importance of money and recognition, how we spend our time, would we be kinder and more patient, would the tone in our voice change, and so on.
The music installation in the different rooms of the Crow Museum was also a way to realize these “abstract” concepts of the Soul in a physical way.
In the Jewish way of life, a day starts at night when the sun goes down (darkness) and then comes light in the morning. This is why we always believe that light comes after darkness, in this order.
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Apple Music Link: We Know You've Got Soul
Video Clip to be released soon….
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Henri composed original music for Deepak Chopra's podcast "Daily Breath" which won the 2020 Webby Awards in the Health and Wellness Categories. Already 16 Millions downloads.
Henri Scars Struck’s newest work, a meditative soundscape titled We Know You’ve Got Soul, debuts at the Crow Collection of Asian Art May 16 to June 4, 2017 inspired by the museum’s current exhibition Landscape Relativities: The Collaborative Works
of Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney and the museum’s architecture. We Know You’ve Got Soul confronts traditional and contemporary art practice and Eastern and Western sensibilities.
This project is co-commissioned by the Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family SOLUNA International Music and Arts Festival and the Crow Collection of Asian Art.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Inspired by the Sacred Scriptures and the many myths and legends about the journey of the Soul, music composer Henri Scars Struck creates for SOLUNA and the Crow Collection of Asian Art, a multi-room sonic experience that takes you from this life and its gravity on Earth and beyond, till the Soul finds Eternal Rest.
The Soul begins its odyssey from Gallery I [Landscape Relativities: The Collaborative Works of Arnold Chang and Michael Cherney, an exhibition of exquisite paintings and photography of landscapes and mountainous terrain] to the passage of death in Gallery II Jade Room and Arbor Walk [within the exhibitions Sculpting Nature: Jade from the Collection and Visualizing Afterlife, Paradise, and Earthly Spheres in Chinese Art], where good and evil.
deeds confront each other during the period of mourning, judgement and penitence before being released to Gallery III, [featuring the exhibition Divine Pathways: South and Southeast Asian Art] where cushions are provided for personal reflection, and where the Soul finds peace in Eternity.
For some, this installation could be a way to meditate upon their purpose and actions in this life and the hereafter, asking themselves “what would we change today if we knew that an afterlife exists?”
At the very least, Struck will trigger your memories via a succession of music and sounds, some of which might make you smile in contemplation, and will a ord you the time to breathe for a few minutes or for several hours.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: Inspired by Isaac André Struck, my father, Oon Soo Khoo & Siew Lan Khoo.
Special thanks to Grace Palmer, Thierry Dreyfus, Muriel Quancard, Gillian Friedman, Jacqueline Chao, Danny Skinner.
Map of Henri Scars Struck's Installation "We Know You've Got Soul" - Crow Collection of Asian Art Museum for the Soluna Music Festival