Green Pilot Tours

Sweden | 20–26 March 2025

Tour dates & venues:
- 20 March – Workshop, interview & podcast at HSM University, Gothenburg (SE)
- 21 March – Jazz i Helsingborg, Helsingborg (SE)
- 22 March – Jazz Akademi, Södra Öland (SE)
- 24 March – Kalmar Teater, Kalmar (SE)
--- Morning concert for schools
--- Evening public concert
- 25 March – Jazz i Halmstad, Halmstad (SE)
- 26 March – Brötz, Gothenburg (SE)

The Satoyama Project Green Pilot Tour in Sweden was an intense and deeply human experience, combining artistic research, environmental awareness and sustainable touring practices. Organised by nusica.org in collaboration with Biloura – a collective active for over ten years at the intersection of art, environmental and social activism – and with the local coordination by Knutpunkt,  the tour was designed as a concrete experiment in slow and conscious mobility.

The entire journey, from Italy to Sweden and back, was completed exclusively by train, involving seven different train connections and crossing five national borders. Rather than being a limitation, slow travel became an integral part of the project: time to reflect, to meet people along the way, and to strengthen the group dynamic. The journey itself turned into a shared artistic and human experience.

Throughout the tour, the group adopted a fully vegan diet, reinforcing the coherence between artistic content and daily practice. The concerts presented immersive and imaginative music performances focused on the theme of rising sea levels, using storytelling as a way to address the climate crisis in an accessible and emotionally engaging way.

Each performance was followed by open conversations with audiences, creating space for dialogue, questions and shared reflections on environmental responsibility. Swedish audiences responded with great curiosity and openness, showing strong interest in the project’s “artivist” approach and its attempt to connect music, awareness and action.

Despite the logistical challenges of coordinating long-distance rail travel with instruments and tight schedules, the experience proved that sustainable touring is not only possible, but enriching. It fostered stronger bonds within the group, encouraged more mindful relationships with audiences, and amplified the social impact of the artistic work.

This Green Pilot Tour demonstrated that live music can reduce its environmental footprint without compromising artistic quality or audience engagement — and that, sometimes, moving more slowly allows art to travel much further.

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