Emote
Emote is a emotions for voice, percussion and video.
"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."
[...]the human voice
not as the sublime, ethereal medium
for expressing the depth of human subjectivity,
but the human voice as a foreign intruder.
Instrumentalists are proper musicians,
but we change that easily:
make them sing!
Only one thing could be worse:
making them move and speak!
[...] but who possessed her?
A voice. A voice in its obscene dimensions.
Accordion already looks like a weird puppet
that the player tries to control,
but it just screams!
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.
Thank god the saxophone goes peep, that is
the only excuse to hang in public with
such a phallic object.
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
(SKR working grant)
Emote is a emotions for voice, percussion and video.
hubris, gravitation, and looking good out of your skin
Mystery play about structural misogyny and witch hunt
"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."