SuomiHaloo!, Ear Channel, Cloud Nest
With architect Kari Sivonen, we built three sound installations to Pori Art Museum exhibition Peace, Love & My iPad Interactive sound works and sound art workshops in February–May, 2014. They offered three angles to listen to the museum; entering them, one listened to the museum building, which sounded different every time. All three modified the acoustics… Read more
Star Rain
Star Rain is a sound installation. Star Rain was recorded in empty, deserted places, when the crowd has left, and the high season is over: on a winter beach, side alley of bazar, in tunnel underneath a busy road. One can hear people, but see nobody. And just now they were here! Under the Star… Read more
Electric WoMan
Electric WoMan is an audio-visual installation, made of two elements: body part stories & images people have donated to it, and body part images based on stencil graffiti. Electric WoMan is an image of or a proposal for a contemporary human being. Or more generally, a living being. Fragmented, scattered, transformable, now and then disoriented.… Read more
MAD HOUSE
MAD HOUSE AND ME We are friends. What kind of friends? Friendships are bilateral, give and take. What do I give to Mad House, what do I get from there? I belong to the group, that Mad House is, right now. Everyone is not there always but someone is, always. The group keeps changing but the common… Read more
A Guy and a Wooden Guy
I asked sculptor Tapani Kokko to make me a wooden guy for a sound installation. Tapani said, Do it yourself! I began sculpting in August 2014. And finished in March 2016. The wooden guy made his first appearance at Tampere Biennale in April 2016. The work is called A Guy and a Wooden Guy, when we are… Read more
B Funeral
The B funeral is Pro-Art, Pro-Life, attached to Reality and Convention. It is irrational, dramatic, overemotional, sad for the whole Universe, and respectful towards life. We want to say, in the spirit of that: “We would rather have our new DADA with the old DADA taste!” Jovanka Trbojevic composed and directed, Petri Kekoni and Juha… Read more
2341AD: a journey from the future
2341 AD: a journey from the future is an audio-visual poem that imagines the year 2341. People have vanished. What is left there? What is the world like after humanity, without us people? What would a venue be like if only echoes remain of a prior civilisation? Would it feel lonely? Would it feel relieved?… Read more
Bone Garden
Bone Garden With sound archaelogist Riitta Rainio, we built Bone Garden to Turku, into the medieval basement of The Old City Hall. Bone Garden aimed to become a Stone Ageish sound installation. It was based on Riitta’s research on the Ajvide burial ground on the island of Gotland. It had three parts: with stuff, without… Read more
From Bark til Tail
From Bark til Tail A half-an-hour long vocal performance of someone in cage, the cage being in his mind. Barked at: j-o-h-n @ Wolke, Brussels, 01/15; NoMad House Berlin, 06/16; New Performance Nights, Turku, 08/16. Picture: Aleks Slota
Juha Valkeapää 50 yrs
This solo got its spark from a very personal perception, how a middle-aged man behaves like a teenage boy when falling in love and waiting for reaction, feedback from his love’s object. The performance plays with the real person and role, celebrates life, plays Adele, ponders on animal behaviour and one plant. Soundscape is stippled… Read more
