Žižek Says!

"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."

[...]the human voice
not as the sublime, ethereal medium 
for expressing the depth of human subjectivity,
but the human voice as a foreign intruder.

Miika says!

Instrumentalists are proper musicians,
but we change that easily:
make them sing!
Only one thing could be worse:
making them move and speak!

Žižek says!

[...] but who possessed her?
A voice. A voice in its obscene dimensions.

Miika says!

Accordion already looks like a weird puppet
that the player tries to control,
but it just screams!

Žižek says!

Or, since we cannot simply get rid of it,
how to domesticate it, how to transform this voice
nonetheless into the means of expressing humanity, 
love and so on.

Miika says!

Thank god the saxophone goes peep, that is 
the only excuse to hang in public with 
such a phallic object.

Žižek says!

Voice is not an organic part of a human body.
It's coming from somewhere
in between your body.

Žižek says!, a humoristic music theatre piece directly from uncanny valley, will be premiered in an international festival in early 2024. More details will be published soon!

Žižek quotes are from the Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006).

Photo copyrights Hanna Koikkalainen, Octavian Balea, James Kriegsmann.

Žižek says! will be premiered at the Tampere Biennale on 10/4/2024. See you there!

Update: because of a force majeure the premiere had to be cancelled and a new date will be announced soon.

Artistic team:

Joonatan Rautiola, saxophone and singing

Niko Kumpuvaara, accordion and voice

The project is supported by:

(SKR working grant)

Other projects:

Emote

Emote is a emotions for voice, percussion and video.

Häutungen or Skin-In-G

hubris, gravitation, and looking good out of your skin

Sag mir, was ich gestehen soll

Mystery play about structural misogyny and witch hunt

Video of the first section of Mytomato

"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."

Miika Hyytiäinen