SOUNDSCAPE IN MUSIC AND MUSIC IN SOUNDSCAPE

The acoustics of nature gave people many musical ideas, and people enriched musical features and performance skills with the ability of a person to imitate the surrounding sound effects. Imitating and studing the audio 
nature, man learned to create instruments, and over time, based on instrumental modifications and many different, 
artificially created rules, he developed a variety of sounds (including electronic music) and principles of the different type of the composition techniques. With this approach, music moved away from its real environment and, 
as a result of the formation of aesthetic norms by a human, was separated from the general sound of the universe. 
The true echo of this problem is a question and suggestion of the famous 20th century Italian composer Ferruccio 
Busoni: "How can music return to its primitive, natural essence? …Let us free it from architectonic, acoustic, and 
aesthetic dogmas;"[3]
Since 2023 a group of research-composers from the Vano Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire - Maka 
Virsaladze, Alexander Chokhonelidze, Joni Asitashvili under the leadership of Eka Chabashvili - inspired by the 
above-mentioned question, are trying to answer F.Busoni through the artistic research “Specifics of composing and 
performing eco-music works created for 'Sound Oasis'”. This project is carried out within the framework of the 
fundamental research “Implementation of Ecomusicology Research Methodology for the Study of the Georgian 
Music Ecosystem” [FR-22-8174] conducted by them, which is funded by Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia (SRNSFG). Consultant of the project is American musicologist Aaron S. Allen, who is the 
author of various books about ecomusicology. 
In the music of the 20th and 21st centuries, there is a growing interest in environmental sounds. Many composers of this period incorporate recorded environmental sounds into their music or imitate sounds of neture using
the different effects of the instruments. The main goal of the Georgian researchers is to create a modern compositional method to compose an eco-music piece, where an artificial source of music (recording, instrument) interacts 
with live ambient sound, which is incorporated into the texture of the piece. They are studing the eco-system of 
the urban and suburban soundscape in Georgia and are looking for the ways to restore the principles of the approach 
of the peoples of ancient culture to music, when sound of the environment was introduced into the music. Mentioned composers studied the soundscape of one of the Sound Oasis and found compositional methods to include 
its acoustical features and anvironmental sounds in the texture of the piece composed specifically for the selected 
Sound Oasis. We present to you compositional methods of eco-musical work - an interactive experimental performance “Let's Listen to the Cave”, created as a result of the research; it took place in an alternative concert space -
the Cave of Prometheus, which the researchers called "Oases of Sound";