
Songs my grandfather could have sung to me
Songs that could have been in different versions, as Miika remembers them
"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."
Voice is Voices brings opera and singing closer than you have ever heard it. It is an opera installation about voices and identities:
tricksters of fairytales,
sister inventing their own language,
opera prelude for four coloratura sopranos,
and about one voice growing into different genders, feelings and personalities.
Different bodies, queotes and styles from baroque to Sprechgesang and Viena Karelian yoik tie Voice is Voices into an opera that invites the audience right inside the intimacy of the opera.
SCORE of the part Bird sisters.
Artistic team:
Miika Hyytiäinen, composition and concept
Henriikka Tavi, libretto
Maija Turunen, Tonmeisterin
Kajsa Dahlbäck, voice (specialist in old music)
Annika Fuhrmann, voice (specialist in contemporary music and folk styles)
Marika Hölttä, voice (specialist in coloratura and pop styles)
Kaisa Ranta, voice (dramatic coloratura)
Louna Hosia, viola da gamba
Pinja Nuñes, cello
Merja Ritola, procuer
Emma Kuntsi, production assistant
Production has been supported by Arts Promotion Center Finland, Wihuri Foundation, TTOR foundation, Sibelius-Academy Foundation, Sibelius foundation, and Kordelin Foundation.
Premiere:
Music Hall, Helsinki Finland 4.9.2021 Feel Helsinki festival,
further performances 5.9. to 10.9.2021 Music Hall 10 year festival
Performances take place in the Music Hall every full hour. Tickets are free of charge, but they need to be booked from a link that will soon be published.
Duration of the piece is 45 minutes.
Songs that could have been in different versions, as Miika remembers them
Emote is a emotions for voice, percussion and video.
Experimenting with the graphic notation
"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."