Symbol – Body – Miika Hyytiäinen

"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."

Symbol – Body

Since 2013, Miika Hyytiäinen has been working with graphic scores. With the generous support of Aalto University, the City of Helsinki and Genelec, he can now create this laboratory project that studies the possibilities of graphic notation as a language that could communicate between the art forms, finally even being a language that will allow Artificial Intelligence to understand music theatre holistically.

& The dualism we create between notation & performance, idea& reality, sign & body

HONESTY Looking through the talk and the concept. What does it all mean and why? Distancing effect

MERCY(LESS) Can we afford mercy? Is art worth anything if it isn’t brutal, virtuosic, too much, merciless?

= We stop believing in dualism and individuals. Questions, answers, and searchers of wisdom are the same

The piece will be premiered in 2024 with Annika Fuhrmann and Lisa Fornhammar. Also, the programmer Juho Häme is involved.
Stay tuned for more information! (A working title of the piece was Sign&Body).

Symbol – Body won the Art and Tech days grant!

Prezi presentation that we gave at the TENOR24 conference in Zürich before the premiere

PREMIERE

Symbol – Body will be premiered at the TENOR conference in Zürich in April 2024. TENOR is an International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation. In addition to performing the piece, we will be giving a workshop about the Soune notation developed by Miika Hyytiäinen. If you want to see the documentation of the premiere or have Symbol – Body performed at your university or festival, don’t hesitate to contact us.

Annika reacting with the graphic score

From the video

Presentation at Aaltouniversity, and Zürich, with the generous support, prices and grants

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