One of the world’s leading contemporary music groups, London Sinfonietta, brings to Viitasaari Hans Werner Henze’s masterpiece Voices, to be heard for the first time in Finland. The theme of the Time of Music festival 2023, “Voices & Spaces”, is also connected to contemporary and socially aware new voices and questions: this perspective led to […]
Major international works on the diversity of life at Time of Music’s 40th anniversary The diversity of nature, humanity, and history unfolds in the festival’s programme this year. ”Compared to last year’s emphasis on smaller scale works, this year we will hear larger compositions performed by international ensembles”, reveals artistic director Johan Tallgren. Building on […]
with Toks Dada, Du Yun, Julia Gerlach and Vigdis Jakobsdottir Curatorship and curationism have become important buzzwords in the art world and world at large during the last decades. The classical and new music field, the ensembles and festivals involved are also moving towards more hybrid, collaborative projects and processes that involve other art forms […]
Interdisciplinary duo Brigitta Muntendorf and Michael Höppner’s audiovisual installation Memorial of Rebellion (2020). Brigitta Muntendorf’s new installation, Memorial of Rebellion, is about protest songs. How have protest songs been lately? Are they good? In 2016, singer-songwriter Amanda Palmer described the inauguration of Donald Trump as ‘our moment’. He was ‘going to make punk rock great […]
Memory Linkage Sessions A comprovisation for two ensembles in different locations July 6 – 10, 2021 This four-day comprovisation of two ensembles will be worked on remotely from Berlin to Viitasaari and vice versa. The outcome is a chain poem, Nagori Rengakai. The final result was streamed on Saturday, July 10 at an online concert […]
