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What is Canto in Flow?

8 Saxophones and a Yogini will guide you into a mesmerizing flow where music, breath and movement become one. Surrender to the waves of Canto Ostinato, an intriguing, ever changing yet repetitive piece of music composed by Simeon Ten Holt. Enjoy the playful interaction between movement and sound, tension and release, continuity and flow. Let the music guide you into a meditative state of mind and be hypnotized by the rhythm of a continuous yoga flow of breathe and movement. Dive into an adventure that invites the mind to become still and nourishes the soul. Let the music move you on an emotional level and enjoy a wonderful journey through inner space.

The music: about Canto Ostinato

Canto Ostinato predominantly pertains to the concept of time; taking your time, pastime, making time. In western musical tradition, most compositions unfold into a traditional story with archetypal elements. This is not the case in Canto Ostinato: this composition explicitly comprises 106 individual sections, all of which may be repeated ad lib. This induces a sort of alienation, causing the entranced listener to forget the harmony to which the current repetition is posterior. This hypnotic effect is used frequently in minimal music, and has resulted in a time travel through a landscape of gradually changing musical elements, but which occasionally recur at later times.

The movements: about the Yoga Flow

An additional layer to your experience will be the invitation to move and to embody the sounds of Canto Ostinato on a deep, intuitive level.
Daphne Koken will guide you through a fluid yoga sequence that allows the mind to relax and the body to fully embrace the waves of Canto Ostinato. Through repetition and a steady build up of the movements, you will find a rhythm, a flow that brings you into a meditative state of mind, where movements seem to unfold naturally, without effort.

Note: Canto in Flow is suitable for all levels, no yoga experience is required.

The project: about the initiative

This unique project was born out of a dream of Lisa Wyss, both saxophonist and yogini, to bring her two passions together in one experience.
With this project she hopes to invite yogi’s to fall in love with classical music and to invite lovers of classical music to fall in love with yoga. Both music and yoga have the ability to bring peace of mind and to connect us with the rhythm of live.
How wonderful to combine both in a multi-dimensional experience!

What attracts people to Canto Ostinato?

It has been called immersive, tranquillizing, melancholic, vivaciously, romantic and minimalistic. The charm is in the clarity of sounds, best comparable to piano music of Chopin. The special time signature with repetitive groups of five beats (not exactly repetitive; subtle changes may be induced according the performer's preference) has an almost mesmerizing effect on the listener. Like "going out and coming home", music is a play of tension and relief that fades because of the elongated repetition of these groups. Using the varying repetition and the difference in orchestration, a listener's journey through Canto varies each performance.