SuomiPipings
The pipings are improvised concerts where, more or less, the focus lies on a two-meter-long organ pipe. I’ve piped at Small Music Theatre, Athens (05/03, with Dimitris Kamarotos and Katerina Zenz); Taju 03 in Hyvinkää (08/03); Espa bandstand (09/03), Malmitalo (11/03, with Markku Veijonsuo and Jarkko Lievonen), Forum Box (01/04), all three in Helsinki; von… Read more
Huttunen ja Valkeapää: Exercise
Kantele player Riitta Huttunen and I did 11 different sound performances at Koetila in Helsinki in May 1-11, 2002. We commissioned works from eight artists, had guest performers and rebuilt the space every day. Don’t recall clearly, what we did with Riitta, but remember quite well, how my 2 and 5 year old sons took… Read more
matka maahan – expedition
matka maahan – expedition was an improvisational living installation. It was built four times: in Vieremä and Freiburg in 2002 and in Helsinki and Bremen in 2003. Constructers: costume designer Iris Bramsemann, musician Riitta Huttunen, dancer Pia Karaspuro, director Sibylla Klein, actor Julia Klein, architect Dirk Kottmann, lighting designer Pekka Pitkänen, musician Susanne Schrenk and vocal performer… Read more
Siberia trilogy
My Siberia is a story of my Siberian year. This is the first performance where I combined live voice and pre-recorded soundtrack. I guided people through spring, summer, autumn and winter. I was a fish, mosquito, dog and raven, shaman. I performed the first version, My first Siberia, at Ferens Gallery, deep_ROOT Festival, Hull, 10/01. Next… Read more
Trombi
Q Theatre at Suomenlinna, Helsinki, June 20-August 18, 2001. Joy and play for all ages. Music, comique and virtuosity with aesthetics of new circus. Holiday for the brain of reason. Directed by Minna Vainikainen.
City 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
