SuomiHuttunen 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
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.
DANCE MOTIVES
Improvisations together with dancer-choreographer Katarina McAlester at the Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Feb-Apr, 2001.
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
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
Song of two men who are cut in their navels
The vocal piece was made for an occasion organized by the M.A. Castrén Society at the Museum of Cultures, Helsinki. It is based on exclamation ”kajjajjuujig”, used in bear rituals of Hantis and Mansis, Siberian Fenno-Ugrian people. I was accompanied by Heikki Laitinen playing naresjuk, a string organ. Sept 18, 1999, duration 15 min’s.
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
