Fourth

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

"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"

"The most enthusiastic reception got 'ettette' by Miika Hyytiäinen"

"Genuinely avantgardistic German music theatre."

"Ohrenvergnügendes Tafelkonfekt"

"Musically the performance is excellent."

"Miika Hyytiäinen has composed the score which is full of rich elements."

Music theater for string quartet and ad libitum soprano

Premiered 2015 at International Contemporary Arts Fesitival in Sibiu/Romania

In 2015 Miika Hyytiäinen was the composer in residency at IconArts Festival in Sibiu. Part of this honor was the possibility to compose a piece for internationally acclaimed string quartet ConTempo. The result was a music theatre piece ”Fourth” which plays with social constructions: In the social medias different choreographies, musical quotes and words associated with the word ”fourth” were collected and then used as musical, spoken or danced material in the performance. Also the social relationships between the players were an important part of the piece.

In the premier the soprano Lydia Bechtel sung the ad libitum part for the soprano.

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Fourth - Premiere in Sibiu, 2015

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