Voicing Borders

"Mytomato is a brilliant piece, dancing away on the borders of parody and multi-layered commentary – musical and extra-musical – all woven together with witty irony and creative craziness."

"Die grafische Notationstechnik Soune, an der der Komponist seit Jahren arbeitet, transzendiert durch ihre visuelle Komponenete die Grenzen traditioneller Notation und bietet Raum für humorvolle, tiefgründige und gleichzeitig körperliche Erlebnisse auf der Bühne. "

"Intellectually stimulating and teasingly funny art of our time."

"A peculiar, yet ever-so-wonderful mixture of absurd comedy and versatile virtuosity, gorgeously performed by Heikkilä and Kozlovski"

"This three-hour, precisely timed sound structure is a confusing, constantly moving deconstruction of language, voice and sound. […] The bizarre fascination that the spectacle has created will not get out of your head so quickly."

"Voice Box was full of tongue in cheek [...] that allowed the audience to fully join in."

"The avant-garde business trip to the green creates a situational border experience with a feel-good program."

"The audience […] experiences an masterfull musical performance, which is then deconstructed in an irritating sequence of events at different locations in a deliberately bizarre manner."

"Delightful and playful experimental opera from young Finnish composer"

"Genuinely avantgardistic German music theatre."

Voicing Borders is an artistic research project that combines maps as social and visual codes, Soune notation, singing and artistic research.

Since the beginning of politics, the human voice has been used to agree, challenge, praise, adore and demonise the borders we have created between countries and people in those countries. Sometimes, we fight on the borders with guns or emphasise them with wire, but the actual, political, historical and social border is one that we talk, scream, whine and sing about.

In Voicing Border, I collect maps and sing them: Real and invented maps, personal and political maps, expensive and cheap maps. I deconstruct them and use their borders as inspiration for composition, written in Soune notation. Then I sing them through.

Performances

Open studio, 30.4.2025 Cité internationale des arts, Paris

Research Retreat to the Russian Border, 2.6.2025. Parikkala, organised by the University of Arts, Helsinki

Berlin, fall 2025

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