Thursday the 22nd of May 2014. This week has been
filled with a little bit of this and that and a lot of composing. On Monday I
applied (of course on the deadline day) for the comprovisation course at the
contemporary music festival Time of Music in Viitasaari (Finland). The rest of
the day I only used for composing my orchestra piece “Unborn” which has to be
finished by the end of this month.
Tuesday morning I wrote a small test for my thesis
(to prove I’m the actual author), then voted in the EU elections, composed the
whole day and took quite a late train back to Helsinki.
On Wednesday I had to go to the “sailors doctor” for
a regular check-up for getting the “sailors health certificate” so that I can
work on board for the next two years. You have to book the time to the sailors
doctor about two to three month ahead, and you can’t work on a ship without
having a valid certificate, so that’s why I had to do it this week although I’m
supper busy with graduating right now…
After the check up I took directly a train back to Tampere and headed for my one of my last composition lessons with my teacher Hannu Pohjannoro. It was quite a depressing and stressful lesson. First of all, he told me the deadline for my composition “exam” (returning all the pieces that will be evaluated as my exam), is next Tuesday the 27th of May, so in 6 days time.
After the check up I took directly a train back to Tampere and headed for my one of my last composition lessons with my teacher Hannu Pohjannoro. It was quite a depressing and stressful lesson. First of all, he told me the deadline for my composition “exam” (returning all the pieces that will be evaluated as my exam), is next Tuesday the 27th of May, so in 6 days time.
I have been working on (=planning in my head) my orchestral piece “Unborn” for
about 3 years now. It is basically going to be a string ostinato (= patterns
that stay the same throughout the piece) with a dialogue between woodwinds and
brass on top of the ostinato. This dialogue I have begun to write about three
times so far and on my lesson I had only about 4 minutes dialogue written out
of 12 minutes music planned. Not only did I notice my teachers undertone that
he didn’t believe I would ever be able to get the piece ready by the deadline,
but I also noticed that he didn’t seem to be sure if the material I had would
be enough to fill a 12 minute piece.
Well, after this depressing encounter I went home and dropped of my bags, ate, and headed to listen to my friend Annuska Hannula’s final exam concert in theatre music at Kulttuuriravintola Kivi, and she did absolutely great. I tried to leave a bit early, because more or less at the same time it was the final exam concert of my singer friend Tiitus Ylipää, in which the piece “The Voice” by my friend Matilda Seppälä’s was premiered. I ran all the way from Annuska’s concert to Tiitus’ concert, but by the time I arrived I could hear the final applause, so sadly I heard nothing of that concert.
Well, after this depressing encounter I went home and dropped of my bags, ate, and headed to listen to my friend Annuska Hannula’s final exam concert in theatre music at Kulttuuriravintola Kivi, and she did absolutely great. I tried to leave a bit early, because more or less at the same time it was the final exam concert of my singer friend Tiitus Ylipää, in which the piece “The Voice” by my friend Matilda Seppälä’s was premiered. I ran all the way from Annuska’s concert to Tiitus’ concert, but by the time I arrived I could hear the final applause, so sadly I heard nothing of that concert.
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| Eero Kiukkonen, Annuska Hannula and Vera Veiskola 21.5.2014. © Cecilia Damström |
The whole Thursday I spent writing, about 4 or 5 hours in the day and the same amount at night again. In
between I went and listened to the “Young soloist concert”, where many of my
friends (like trombonist Roosa Lampela, violinist Riikka Alakärppä, percussionists Henri Sakki and Ville Koppanen and pianist Lotta
Penttilä) got to play one movement or a short piece as the soloist of the Tampere Philharmonic! The audience in the Tampere Hall consisted this night mainly of friends and relatives of the
soloists so the ambience was really great; warm and encouraging.
After this I headed to the composition studio where I spent the next 7 hours (until 4 AM) writing my orchestra piece “Unborn”. And as crazy as it might sound; I began a fourth and final time from the beginning with writing the dialogue between woodwinds and brass! Yep, quite crazy to do that 6 days before the deadline, but I agreed with my teacher and felt like my material wasn’t quite good enough for making a 12 min piece.
After this I headed to the composition studio where I spent the next 7 hours (until 4 AM) writing my orchestra piece “Unborn”. And as crazy as it might sound; I began a fourth and final time from the beginning with writing the dialogue between woodwinds and brass! Yep, quite crazy to do that 6 days before the deadline, but I agreed with my teacher and felt like my material wasn’t quite good enough for making a 12 min piece.
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