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What we live through finds its music
Some moments stay with us: a conversation we still remember, the presence of someone we miss, the joy of feeling loved, or the wish to love without losing who we are. Time passes, but what we feel finds other ways to stay with us.
ORIMERA begins by paying attention to what remains. Every story asks for time: it must be heard, so we can discover where it hurts, what it wants to preserve and what it still does not know how to say. Only then does it find its form, whether in a song, a musical narrative, a wordless piece or an image. The aim is not to explain what we feel or close what remains open, but to keep something true from what we have lived, so we can recognise it, share it and perhaps see it differently.
The Other Side of Us
Two friends separated by fear try to recognise each other again.
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Eight songs. A distance that may still be crossed.
No story can be held within a single emotion
We can love someone and still need distance. Remember with tenderness and remain hurt. Recognise another person’s fear without ceasing to hear our own. ORIMERA’s songs stay in that uneasy place, where an experience is allowed to keep its contradictions.
Here, music does not explain what happened or dictate how it should feel. It gives the experience a body, a duration and a place to return to when words have not yet arrived.
Staying yourself
Two ways to approach what is your own: a song about loving without losing your voice, and an instrumental piece built around returning light.
YOUR STORY IN A SONG
Which memory would you like to turn into a song?
An encounter that changed your life. Someone you want to remember. A joy worth holding on to, or words you are still trying to find.
At ORIMERA, we explore how memories, experiences and emotions can become a song. Tell us what you would like to preserve from your story, and we can talk about the music that could accompany it.
Tell us your storyA voluntary artistic project, with no obligation. Writing to us does not mean your story will be published: we will only do so with your permission.