Hello and welcome. First of all, can you introduce yourself really quick, say who you are and maybe where you're from? I'm Teppe Higuchi. My name is Teppe Higuchi from Japan. I'm doing music, but I'm presenting music in like multiple forms, like installations, theatre, exhibitions, whatever. But the main concern is about music and all about music. Okay, so why did you decide to make art? What's your personal ambition behind it? My biggest interest is always about the context of the music, like what does it mean in music? Like for example, you play this chord for example, you can call it C major, but what does it mean actually? Could it be like the funeral of the hero or it'd be just the accumulation of a third. So this is always so difficult to think about the meaning of the music and that's the most fascinating thing about my art. My main concept is displacement and so I always try to change the context of something, but I'm always doing it in the music, the context of the music. Okay, that's really interesting. So now you're here in Hallstatt. Why exactly Hallstatt? What's so special about this town? Well, I came here just to work because I wanted to, first of all, I wanted to do the artist residency. But after I arrived here, of course, it was first time for me to come here. And I found like kind of multi-layered aspect of this place. Like, for example, the first time I came here and first time I saw this place, I was of course really impressed. I thought it was really like a fairy tale. But soon after I started work and engaged with people, I also was more and more aware of the conflict, let's say, between locals and tourists. And also, it seems like they have like 7,000 years of history here. So there are like three dimensions, I feel like, or three layers. Okay, so let's talk a little bit about your work. what's the idea behind your work yeah so I wanted to work with this kind of like multi-layered aspect of this place so I decided to create a fictional person which means who doesn't exist actually and her name is Rika Ono. So she is an artist, Japanese artist, but came here as a tourist, and she disappeared. What was working on it like? Were there any problems, or what was it like in general? I'm mostly really happy about working, because I'm now working also, corresponding to three aspects of this place, historical and touristic, and the world with indigenous, local people. I'm also doing three projects at the same time. One is doing her jazz music. So she wrote really cute jazz music. I will also present lecture performance about this missing person, Rika Ono. So far the project is going pretty well, so I'm really happy that I could work here. Okay, and the last question. What's the goal of your work? What should people take away from it once they saw it? Yeah, I guess I never think my artwork could make the world more peaceful or something. But maybe at least I hope I could make people think of it more. And that's probably what I hope for this project. Well, I'm sure there will be a discussion around your project. And thank you so much for the interview. Thank you too.