"Intellectually stimulating and teasingly funny art of our time."
Auli Särkiö-Pitkänen
Auli Särkiö-Pitkänen in Rondo on Voice Box
"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."
Vroni Silberg
Vroni Silberg in M.94,5 on NOS
"Voice Box was full of tongue in cheek [...] that allowed the audience to fully join in."
Auli Särkiö-Pitkänen
Auli Särkiö-Pitkänen in Rondo on Voice Box
"The avant-garde business trip to the green creates a situational border experience with a feel-good program."
Anna Schürmer
Anna Schürmer in Neue Musikzeitung on NOS
"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."
Jörn Peter Hiekel
Jörn Peter Hiekel in die Deutsche Bühne on NOS
"Delightful and playful experimental opera from young Finnish composer"
Hilary Glover
Hilary Glover in Planet Hughill on Aikainen
"The most enthusiastic reception got 'ettette' by Miika Hyytiäinen"
Hannu-Ilari Lampila
Hannu-Ilari Lampila HS on ettette
"Genuinely avantgardistic German music theatre."
Kare Eskola
Kare EskolaYLE on Hipstercredo
"Ohrenvergnügendes Tafelkonfekt"
Lauri Otonkoski,
Lauri Otonkoski, HS on Madame Herz und Herr M.
"Musically the performance is excellent."
Jukka Isopuro
Jukka Isopuro HS on Pierrot Lunaire und drei Schattenträume
"Miika Hyytiäinen has composed the score which is full of rich elements."
Hannu Björkbacka
Hannu Björkbacka

Logic Pieces

Logic Pieces is a collection of performance pieces. They are kind of games or plays where the artists reconstrucs pieces according to set of rules. At the moment two parts have been performer: “ettette” and “jollainen”.

“ettette” is a study on negation. Based on the rehearsal plan the performers make a piece of art that is the absolute opposite of the given score.

“jollainen” is a kind of detective story with musical implications. The performers find a piece of art baced on the given objects: An article, a poem, an email question about the piece, a dead rose, a whistle,….

 

 

Performances:

  • 2010 Aikamme kamarimusiikkia festival, Helsinki. “ettette”: Annika Fuhrmann, Helmi Nyman, Kalle Kataja, Lauri Kilpinen ja Eero Lehtimäki
  • 2011 Music in Raum festical, Lübeck. “jollainen”: Frauke Alubert
  • 2012 gehörgänge: hörselgångar festival, Härnosand, Sweden. “ettette”: Ensemble Xenon
  • 2013, Berlin. “jollainen”: Ensemble Xenon 

Links:

Annika Fuhrmann’s thesis about “ettette”

Hyytiäinen writes about “ettette”

Helsingin Sanomat Music Review

Other projects:

"Intellectually stimulating and teasingly funny art of our time."
Auli Särkiö-Pitkänen
Auli Särkiö-Pitkänen in Rondo on Voice Box
"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."
Vroni Silberg
Vroni Silberg in M.94,5 on NOS
"Voice Box was full of tongue in cheek [...] that allowed the audience to fully join in."
Auli Särkiö-Pitkänen
Auli Särkiö-Pitkänen in Rondo on Voice Box
"The avant-garde business trip to the green creates a situational border experience with a feel-good program."
Anna Schürmer
Anna Schürmer in Neue Musikzeitung on NOS
"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."
Jörn Peter Hiekel
Jörn Peter Hiekel in die Deutsche Bühne on NOS
"Delightful and playful experimental opera from young Finnish composer"
Hilary Glover
Hilary Glover in Planet Hughill on Aikainen
"The most enthusiastic reception got 'ettette' by Miika Hyytiäinen"
Hannu-Ilari Lampila
Hannu-Ilari Lampila HS on ettette
"Genuinely avantgardistic German music theatre."
Kare Eskola
Kare EskolaYLE on Hipstercredo
"Ohrenvergnügendes Tafelkonfekt"
Lauri Otonkoski,
Lauri Otonkoski, HS on Madame Herz und Herr M.
"Musically the performance is excellent."
Jukka Isopuro
Jukka Isopuro HS on Pierrot Lunaire und drei Schattenträume
"Miika Hyytiäinen has composed the score which is full of rich elements."
Hannu Björkbacka
Hannu Björkbacka

 Miika Hyytiäinen

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