SuomiSiberia 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
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
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
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
Boy’s Toys
Boy’s Toys was inspired by my 2-year-old son’s sounds & motions & two toys, a spinning-top and a Russian swinging & klinging doll. How does a child see and comprehend the world? Swing, tube, ladder, mimics and shadows became important elements at VaraQ’s (the Q-theatre’s main stage’s exit) high, narrow space. Lights by Tomi Humalisto. The… Read more
Taps & 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
