After Hours

“Do you know the way? Have you ever been? Do you remember? Have you ever heard?” A song sung by many voices, the lyric consists of four sentences with a similar rhyme. Having watched so many local art festivals that were just filled with large-scale monumental sculptures and installations, Umeda Tetsuya considered how he could develop deeper communication with a local community through a work of art and came up with an idea of a sculpture made up of sounds. The familiar melody of After Hours, to which one constantly sings along, is a copy of the harmony of “Here’s To You” by Ennio Morricone. The round that sounds like a traditional children’s song makes the listeners dream about a story that may be hidden in the sound, as if telling us an old legend that has been long forgotten.