Voice Box

an academic opera role-play about voices in boxes and outside of them

Phenomenological Notation

Previous Next Phenomenological Notation is an installation-composition for two performers. It is not a static or ready composition, but more a loop of different actions of music: 1) The Performer reads the graphic score and decodes it 2) The Performer performs the music with his or her body 3) The program creates new notation out […]

You Are Here

Voriger Nächster YOU ARE HERE is a new location specific opera by Miika Hyytiäinen and Jaakko Nousiainen. The work creates an abstraction of ‘the opera house’ by connecting interior spaces in the Glyndebourne opera house to exterior spaces in front of the three opera houses in Berlin. YOU ARE HERE will be encountered in form […]

Aikainen_ an opera about time

Premiered_ in Berlin, 4./5. April 2014 Performed_ in London, 1.-3. September 2014 Voriger Nächster Aikainen [Finnish for “early/about time”] is a piece of experimental music theatre that spans many art forms: Visual arts, performance art, poetry and film. Its five parts are about different aspects of time and temporality: “Ending”, “Generations”, “space-time-continuum” and “Memory”. In another part […]

La Figure de la Terre

Previous Next Opera “la figure de la Terre” is an opera about measuring the shape of the Earth and the depth of the heart.  Two journeys, two strangers: the French scientist Maupertuis travels to Lappland to determine the shape of the earth. He meets Christine Planström, a young woman from the northern wilderness, who accompanies […]

Makabere Geschichten

Makabere

Makabere Geschichten” is a buffet of horrible little stories. They all have different point of views to themes of death and love, intimacy and indifference. In Abendessen the love is shown by food, or is it? In Prelude and Fughetta the strict chamber music style hides something horrible. Kylning shows us a little maiden with […]

Pierrot lunaire und drei Schattenträume

Previous Next Pierrot lunaire und drei Schattenträume Pierrot lunaire und drei Schattenträume combines Arnold Schöberg’s modern master piece to my music. The music was directed by Jaakko Nousiainen into a one hour music theatre piece. The text was a dream diary of soprano Annika Fuhrmann who also sang the solo part. Katariina Nyberg was the […]