Dreaming Enterprise

Music:

Music is the language everyone can understand and which causes emotions. For a short time one can reach the ideal.
We create a space where this form of community can be lived. The interface between Ein Hud and the kibuz of Ein Hod represents the ideal space as a neutral basis for these festivals we intend have organized for both cultures.
It’s the old, maybe simple, but often right idea that music brings people together. And it is a fact that the Jewish and Arabic music have influenced each other for centuries.

First the Sephardic music must be mentioned. Its origin goes back to the first settlements of Jews in Spain, 500 a.Chr., and it has been preserved until now and had been highly influenced by the Arabs who came to Spain in 711 and thereupon by the respective mediterranean countries the Sephardim fled to because of the requonquistá. There are also a lot of Sephardic Jews in Israel.
In Israel the raw material of the new art music (beginnings in the 1880s) were a.o. Palestinian influences: oriental Jewish folk music, Arab music, folk instruments and, more indirectly, the impact of the rugged landscape. [Mordecai Seters, Ben-Zion Orgad, Josef Tal].

In the 1940s, the more conscious attempts by composers to associate themselves with a national psyche in Israel led to the foundation of the “Eastern Mediterranean School”,[Ben Haim, Lavry, Menahem Avidam, Boskowitch], the composers of which introduced a number of Eastern traits into their melodies, rhythms, scoring and general expression. Their works were prompted by the enthusiasm for their new land and the values it represented. Yet as with all blatantly nationalist expressions, Eastern Mediterranism was short lived, for the further development of Israeli art music was, because of hostilities, signed by westernization and cultural introversion, and, in case of folk music, by patriotism and hostility.
But Hubert Stuppner, a present composer living in South Tirol, says that there are two things Jews and Arabs have had in common for centuries: monotheism and a stylistically integrated, monothematic folk music.
Béla Bartok says that folk music has a pacifistic character, because he could not find any hostile thoughts against other nationalities in the lyrical texts of folk songs.

The musical principle of “ hope” encourages present artists and musicians, both Jewish and Arabic, or from any other nation to invent peace projects, such as Hubert Stuppner, who composed “Jalel, Jalel,…”, a musical synthesis of Israeli texts and Arabic motives. Other famous musicians are Timna Brauer, Giora Feidman, Marwan Abado, Daniel Barenboim, Yair Dala & Al Ol, a.o.

Timna Brauer mentions in a text of her disc “Voices for peace” that there exist several resemblances between the cantoral and chassidic singing and the arabic-moslemic melodies and cadenz,…, the language of music is universal.
We think that these multicultural projects (such as “Voices For Peace” by Timna Brauer and Elias Meiri, or the “Tour for Peace” (featuring Yair Dalal Ari Agababa from Israel and Elias, Victor and Ranja from Betlehem/Palästina, and others), should take place in the country where they originate:
In Israel, for example, in the middle of an Israeli and an Palestinian village, in the underground, for resistance against common sense often begins cautiously – in the underground.

Festivals:

Festivals can fill masses with enthusiasm.

They awake emotions.

They satisfy requirements and influence people and they are able to spread out their effect all over the world.

Today events are an instrument of economy, publicity, politics and urban development.

Events are adventures and can have a great effect on young people.
The more unique an event, the more it stays in mind.

The speciality of a location and corporate identity influence the success of an event.

Although individualization is increasing, social experiences are very important.

It is not the community which celebrates, but a celebration constructed for a moment of community.

The more a participant becomes an acting person, the more intense the participant’s identification with the event will be.

Only very unique and unusual events are able to break through the daily routine and stay in mind.

We want to improve the image of Ein Hud (and Ein Hod) so that their acquaintance will increase through media a.o.

The Cave:

Caves have unique acoustical conditions.

They can be extended at anytime.

It is cheap to build a cave.

They are secure in case of earthquakes, storms, fire and bombs.

Sleeping-places in caves:
Isolation, heating and air conditioning are not necessary because of constant temperature conditions throughout the whole year.