SuomiCity Talk
During City Talk, I voice inspiring city objects: statues, newspaper stands, hydrants, trash cans, skyscrapers, phonebooths, police cars, show windows, drain covers. I am equipped with a portable amp and a megaphone. Mountain Standard Time, Calgary, Canada, Apr 17-21, 2001 Urbani Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, July 12-16, 2002 Vocal Walk, City Talk, Szczecin, Poland, July 9,… Read more
DANCE MOTIVES
Improvisations together with dancer-choreographer Katarina McAlester at the Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Feb-Apr, 2001.
Getting Old Project 2
A vocal piece with Tomi Humalisto, lighting designer, and Jyrki Häyrinen, sound designer. The Getting Old Project 2 is intense, warm and sensitive. It is a boxing ring and a dove’s nest. Forces of the Light at the VR makasiinit, Helsinki, Dec 2 and 3, 2000. Photo: Tomi Humalisto
Summer
Partiture: -giving manuals for audience (SUMMER MANUAL 1 Make yourself comfortable 2 Close your eyes and see more 3 And if you feel to, move around, go to the stairways and upstairs 4 This Summer lasts 40 minutes Helsinki University 3 August 2000) -going upstairs as swallow -downstairs as buzzing of fly -on ground floor… Read more
MuseumTalk X: Getting Old Project
MuseumTalk X: Getting Old Project is an audio play about getting old. The Ateneum Art Museum is an instrument Juha Valkeapää’s voice plays. As a sum of Valkeapää’s voice, Jyrki Häyrinen’s mix and Tomi Humalisto’s lights the Ateneum’s inner yard rages and riots by puberty’s defiance, the entrance whines by crisis of thirties, until in… Read more
Spring
Partiture -welcoming people with a tin megaphone -rain with the earth that drinks the water, from balcony -in a red kalmuk woman’s dress I walk smaller and smaller circle, until at the center of the circle I whirl like a mad man: grass, leaves, flowers, bees, birds, sun -final duet. With flutist Katerina Zenz. Duration… Read more
KESKEN
kesken was a duo formed by Jaakko Nousiainen and Juha Valkeapää. Starting in 1992 they utilised vocal improvisation to explore the possibilities of human voice. The duo gave a wide variety of live performances as well as constructed sound installations in Finland and in several European countries. Their main works include kesken sound bus for The Tampere International… Read more
IKI-TURSO
Iki-Turso started as a runo song project in October 1998, transforming eventually towards voice theatre. Together Heikki Laitinen, Eila Hartikainen, Taito Hoffrén, Maari Kallberg, Ilona Korhonen, Anna-Kaisa Liedes, Outi Pulkkinen and Juha Valkeapää were better in vocal improvisation than in runo song. Or vocal impro was more interesting. From September till December 1999, Iki-Turso gave… Read more
Plumber
I wander amongst people with a one-meter-long plastic (over tone) tube on my mouth. I point the tube towards people’s ears (one person & one ear at time!) and make sounds into it: tiny little, gentle, tender whispers and mumblings and yawnings etc. My purpose is simply to surprise, to shake, but warmly, gently. From… Read more
LEPORELLO
Leporello was part of the Helsinki-based Q Theatre’s festival called Baltic Circle, a co-operation between theatres around the Baltic Sea. Nine people gathered together three times, twice in Helsinki (Sept 99 & Jan 00) and once in Oldenburg, Germany (Nov 99): Danish Tine Madsen directed, Michael Olsen from Oldenburg visualized and the others acted as… Read more
