Saturday
the 17th of May, the day of festivities! So what is happening today? Well: Korvat Auki is arrangint the mini
festival “RRR!! Taide valtaa”, it is the Restaurant Day, it is the National Day
of Norway (although that doesn’t really affect me) and it’s my sister’s
birthday!
Up
after an other refreshing night of 4 hours sleep and ran off to the rehearsal
of the Korvat Auki concert tonight. My solo viola piece Loco will be performed
by my friend Oili Tuhkanen and my
friend Liisa Oikkonen has made a
choreography to the piece and will perform it at the concert tonight! Was a bit
anxious because this is the first rehearsal that I could attend, but everything
went fine.
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| Viola player Oili Tuhkanen 17.5.2014 © Cecilia Damström |
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| Dancer Liisa Oikkonen 17.5.2014. |
After
the rehearsal I had a quick lunch and then took part of the RRR!! festivals
“guided tour” around the Sibelius Academy’s R-house, and was a really cool tour!
We were guided by composer Lauri Supponen around the R-building and saw many different performances
including dance, singing, music improvisation, a monologue and two wind
instruments playing in to a old piano for getting resonance! This one-day
festival is organized as Korvat Auki’s way of saying good bye to the Sibelius Academy’s R-house, which will be out of use for
the next five years, because our parliament will be using it for conferences
while the main hall of the house of parliament is in renovation. Korvat Auki
has had a deal with the Sibelius Academy that we are allowed to book the venue
of the R-house four times a year, and unfortunately we haven’t yet got any
promise about some other venue that we can use for Korvat Auki concerts now
that this one is out of use for five years.
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| The poster for RRR!! 17.5.2014 © Cecilia Damström |
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| Matilda Seppälä trying out an installation at RRR!! Taide valtaa. 17.5.2014 © Cecilia Damström |
After
the tour of the R-house I headed home. Time for shower and make up. Then I
headed back to the city centre and took part of the restaurant day together
with Matilda and we had a really nice afternoon, although a bird decided to
take a shit on my shoulder, lovely…
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| Quinoa sallad made by Kalle Autio for Korvat Auki's Restaurant Day 17.5.2014 © Cecilia Damström |
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| Kalle Autio at Korvat Auki's Restaurant Day. 17.5.2014 © Cecilia Damström |
My
piece Loco went really well in the concert and I was very happy. The concert
was filled with a lot of experimental art, which was both cool and sometimes
also confusing (which I think also is cool in it’s own way!). But sadly there
were also great technical problems with getting the computer attached to the
big screen. So while Lauri managed with to entertain the audience just by his
good stage presence and telling about the festival, Matei Gheorghiu and OctavianBalea managed to fix everything so that their show could be shown as well;
and it was worth waiting for. It was a film with Octavian Baleas photos
combined with a cynical text by a friend of Matei (whose name I don’t remember)
and moreover Matei had written a great comprovised piece for the Korvat AukiEnsemble. (Comprovised means
partly composed and partly improvised, so it is like a “composed
improvisation”.) I have to say I got a total information overload, because I
didn’t really manage to look at the pictures at the same time as I read along
the text and listened to the music… But it was beautiful, so I hope I will get
the chance to see it again!
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| Elina Lajunen at RRR!! 17.5.2014 © Cecilia Damström |
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| Matilda Seppälä RRR!! 17.5.2014 © Cecilia Damström |
In
the second half there was a piece for cello and electronics by Sergio Castrillón, which was made into a
drama piece with the versatile artist ElinaLajunen who both sang, acted, tried to sell (as part of the show) hats made
of ties (which she actually had made her self!), and danced tango. Then there
was a strong performance by the tap-dance artist Hannaleena Markkanen to the music of Kalle Autio and last but not least, there was a piece written by my
friend Dante Thelestam in which I
was honoured to take part. Because this concert was a goodbye concert to the
concert venue of the R-house of the Sibelius Academy, Dante had written a piece
for the chairs of the venue, which are famous for their bouncing sound after
flipping back when you stand up. So the audience was given different papers
with words that started on R. Then Dante, Aino, Niilo and I went up on stage
and read aloud words that began with R. If someone in the audience had the word
on their own paper they were supposed to push down a chair and let it go (so
that it would bounce back into place). So reading out different words in
different rhythms made the whole spectacle into a really cool piece!
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| The chairs of the venue of the R-house. © Cecilia Damström |
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| Me, the happy composer after the performance of Loco at the RRR!! concert 17.5.2014. And wearing a hat made from a tie, made by Elina Lajunen. |
After
the concert Korvat Auki offered all the participants of the concert some
sparkling wine in the backroom and we had some nostalgic speeches about what a
great Korvat Auki year we have had, filled with so many good concerts.
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| Viola player Oili Tuhkanen, Korvat Auki's Chariman Matei Gheorghiu and cellist Sergio Castrillón at RRR!! 17.5.2014 © Cecilia Damström |
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| Some sparkling wine for everyone who helped organize the RRR!! concert. 17.5.2014 © Cecilia Damström |
After a while we all moved to have a drink at the restaurant Kaisla. I should have been sensible and gone home, but instead I went with my friend Sergio and two of his friends to the bar Siltanen in Sörnäinen for dancing.
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