Music
ONSYMPHONY
With gratitude for the prayers of our ancestors, we inherit the Earth.
World Folk Music Project
A music project born from the work of artist KENICHIRO IWAO
Our Philosophy
Folk music was born from the prayers and cries of those who came before us.
It is the memory of lives that endured this Earth,
and the wisdom handed down to the present day.
As inheritors of this planet, we give thanks to our ancestors
and circulate the memory of the world's music.
Here, we leave it as an archive.
AI is the crystallization of our ancestors' wisdom.
We honor it, and we choose to coexist with it.
Its vast data is an accumulation of the prayers and endeavors
that humanity has gathered across time.
If AI carries the weight of our work,
we can reclaim the time that makes us human —
and return to the care that only people can give.
Our hope is that more people will cherish nature,
and turn their hearts to kindness and to welfare.
500 Folk Music Traditions
ONSYMPHONY gathers 500 folk music traditions from across the world
and circulates them into the present.
The prayers, cries, joys, and sorrows each people has preserved
for thousands of years — we carry them all into the future,
as a musical map of the Earth.
Folk Music Traditions
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Listen to the music of ONSYMPHONY on YouTube.
Together, with the Memory of the Earth.
Listeners of the world, this is ONSYMPHONY.