from: a.ksiezopolska@laznia.home.pl
16 April 2020.

Dear Guy,

thank you for your last email. Please excuse me for taking time to respond we were however going though some tormented moments .... Eventually we just found yesterday that our budget has been cut dramatically for the time being. We are still hoping that it will somehow change in the 2nd part of the year but for now we are where we are...Our budget is close to 0. So I need to ask you to freeze your plans for this year with regards to the Senses project. We will resume next year with the stages that follow. In case the situation changes to a more favourable one with regards to finances I will let you know. We will also write to Anna and inform her about the whole situation.

Sorry to bring bad news. Hope it is better at your end with Czech Rep. opening up a little bit and getting back to life. take care,

Aleksandra

from: Nina Czegledy
16 April 2020.

Dear All,

Very sorry to hear about the budget cut and sincerely hope while this is a serious challenge, we will be able to proceed either as you mention later this year but at least next year.

all the best

nina

To Nina Czegledy, Aleksandra Ksiezopolska, Lila Bosowska, Agnieszka Kulazinska
7 April 2020.

Hi Nina, and all,

In follow up of our talk on Sunday and the current state of immobility in Europe, I would certainly simplify the scheme. Now, as we were mailing on 17 February 2020, I would still keep the following groups in mind:

(1) 441 Hz Marching Choir (20-30 singers) (2) Youngsters and electronic music (10 in total) (3) Additional musicians and sound artists (7 in total)

But concentrate on the first 2. The timings seem still ok for me, so that I can send the first version of a score to Anna for Choir 441 Hz by end of spring. I assume there are not so many rehearsals at the time being, but maybe I would like to try an online experiment with them the following months, depending whether they are up to it or not. (I am currently investigating the least latency solutions for audio/video interactions over internet). Then we talked about the youngster program and that would stay into place, probably it will be easier to work next year and travel again.

The additional musicians and sound artists, I believe will come along or not, but the more important thing is to reserve enough time for the choreography of at least the events at both Laznia's.

For the budget I would say that for each of the 3 parts [choir, youngsters, choreography/events] I would need 1000€, since it is a lot of work and involvement, within the context of the community approach that we are envisioning. I hope this is still within your reach. I am also willing to help to apply for a Visegrad Fund grant, which has as a deadline October 1st 2020. I could also try to hand in support requests elsewhere and see what is coming in from there, which would relieve the general budget a little, but I will ask for documents and letters as those become relevant.

I hope everyone is ok and healthy and hope this epidemic is soon better under control, and then we can meet again. I am always available to skype, signal, zoom, whatsapp, etc... anytime!

till soon G