SuomiTaps & Tubes
A former Kugler tap factory at the crossing of the rivers Rhône and Arve, in Geneva, Switzerland. Alphorn yoik & yodling with tubes & taps I found in the factory, as my dress I had a red stretching tube. In the middle of the space there was a huge airbag where you could dive in.… Read more
Namedays
9 short vocal pieces for 9 nameday heroes under the Arcade of the Glass Palace, Helsinki, in June 1999. The phonemes of the day’s name gave the starting point & drew the borders. Duration of each 15 min’s. Under the title of Ma, Ny, Fa, Ces at the Faces Festival, Billnäs, Finland, Aug 14, 1999,… Read more
MuseumTalk / StatueTalk
MuseumTalk I went around in a museum and voiced works I found interesting, works which made me voice. The MuseumTalk was more a sound space than a performance. The museums were normally open and I was a normal visitor, getting just a little bit noisy sometimes. Between March 2000 and January 2001 I visited The Finnish Museum of… Read more
KALEVALA JA SAMMON RYÖSTÖ
A live soundscape with Taito Hoffrén for the Kalevala directed by Atro Kahiluoto. We were the forest, the trees and the birds and the wind. We walked around the audience with long tubes of cardboard on our lips and whispered to the audience’s ears words like wood, linden, birch, block. I had a little role… Read more
Boy
Boy researched my son’s vocal & motional world from his birth till one-and-a half-year-old. In a wide and low vaulted cellar I rolled in side lights, was amazed by the neons, explored spectators’ shoes and raged in a 3-D UV corner. Lights by Johanna Salomaa. Five performances at the Sinebrychoff Museum of Foreign Art, Helsinki,… Read more
ToF
A live soundscape with little dance for the ToF, a choreography by Ismo-Pekka Heikinheimo. ToF handled gay men’s every day life. Five performers – Jari Fyhr, Harri Heikkinen, Jaakko Nousiainen, Juha Valkeapää, Antti Vikstedt – performed it five times at Stoa, Helsinki, Aug 1998. Scenography by Simon Le Roux, light design by Tomi Humalisto.
Pointed and strong boys
Pointed and strong boys, based on sounds made by my son, in Spring and Summer 1997 at Tampere Theatre Festival, at Galleria Allinna in Riihimäki and at Galleria Titanik in Turku. Duration 15 min’s. Photo: Eero Sirén
