Kamimura participated in the "LABVERDE SPECULATIVE ECOLOGIES RESIDENCY 2023," a residency program held in Manaus, Brazil, in the summer of 2023. This program brought together international artists, Brazilian artists with indigenous roots, local scientists, activists, and philosophers to share knowledge, culture, and art related to environmental issues and Earth's ecology. During the program, Kamimura conducted field recordings in the Amazon rainforest, the Balbina Dam, Rio Negro, and the Amazon River. As a result of his fieldwork, he presented a recording piece, "The Disorderly Harmony Orchestra,” awarded
the SOUND of the Year AWARDS 2023, Best Natural Sound Category. This soundscape was recorded at midnight rainforest and contains not only the natural sounds of the Amazon rainforest; it incorporates ceremonial sounds created by the forest's Indigenous people. These ceremonial sounds form a unified orchestra, resonating with the countless birds, insects, flora, fauna, and troops of monkeys in the Amazon. Moreover, the orchestra attempts to harmonise even with the thunderous roar of a somewhat forceful aeroplane engine flying overhead. The orchestra may be trying to include it as a companion or expressing some significance in response to that roar. It felt like a special ritual, exploring new sounds of nature in this modern era where the boundary between nature and humanity has blurred.
LABVERDE served various programs by local/international specialists, such as day and night forest expeditions, a local food source workshop, and lectures. A unique plant, the Ant-plant provides a habitat for ants, who, in return, protect the plant from foreign enemies. The plant also takes ants' dung as manure. It represents one of Amazon’s relationships.
The vast cloud sea known as the "Flying River” above the Amazon rainforest, which forms when the Amazon's moisture evaporates and turns into clouds, bringing rain to the rainforest and returning to the sky, is a symbolic phenomenon of this ecology. Human activities such as economics, politics, and globalisation profoundly influence these fields and expose them to rapid environmental destruction.
The LABVERDE party explored the Balbina by boat. It is beautiful scenery at first glance, but it has a tragic history behind it.
The Balbina Dam in the Central Amazon basin was built in the late 1980s for hydropower. It symbolises social, economic, and environmental disasters, causing the loss of forests, displacement of tribal homes for construction and flooding.