Global Spring: João Luís
Porto-Helsinki Sound Promenade Project.
The Porto-Helsinki Sound Promenade is an artistic project that intends to explore the relation between the soundscape, the musicians, and the audience on a live performance setting.
The live installation performed by a multicultural ensemble of 10 musicians, uses the urban environment of Porto and Helsinki as inspiration and stage for an happening where the audience is invited to walk and listen to the soundscape and instrumental interventions during the path.
Musicians and audience are exposed to pre-recorded sounds of both cities, interpreting its sonic complexity, and exploring the dialog between them.
The composition is based on a theoretical framework around improvisation over the soundscape of the urban environment as well as exploring the interaction between the audience and the musical performance itself, giving the musicians the possibility to create a sound narrative that will compliment that soundscape.
The concert is divided in three parts; the first being an improvisation laboratory, the second having three songs inspired by specific places, and the third a long piece that combines all the information gathered during these past years of research. While raising the awareness to the soundscape of Porto and Helsinki, this performance intends also to reduce the emotional distance between the performers and the audience, trying to dissolve the elitist stereotypes of contemporary performative arts by embedding the performance into the soundscape and reshaping the stage into a live installation built to bring the image of its own urban environment.
Performers
João Luís: Porto-Helsinki Sound Promenade Project
- João Luís, percussion, direction, and composition
- Kata Vuoristo, voice
- Joni Vierre, guitar, mandolin, and composition
- A-P Rissanen, drumset
- Ami Kajan, electric bass
- Nancy Tahlfeldt, live electronics
- Grácio Zaqueu, trumpet
- Sergio Castrillón, cello
- Noah Eamon, violin and mandolin
More information: Anna Huuskonen, anna.huuskonen@uniarts.fi
Global Spring 13.-17.5.2024
Global Spring is an annual festival featuring students, teachers, alumni and special guests representing Sibelius Academy’s Global music programme. The global music studies embraces pluralistic, fluid approaches to sound, culture and identity, creating new hybrid musical spaces through intercultural dialogue and collaboration. This year’s festival has the special theme of percussion and rhythm. Expect a feast of inspiring concerts, workshops, and discussions that highlight diverse approaches to working with rhythm through the hands of performers from around the world, celebrating the diversity of our planet.
The Porto-Helsinki Sound Promenade is an artistic project that intends to explore the relation between the soundscape, the musicians, and the audience on a live performance setting.
The live installation performed by a multicultural ensemble of 10 musicians, uses the urban environment of Porto and Helsinki as inspiration and stage for an happening where the audience is invited to walk and listen to the soundscape and instrumental interventions during the path.
Musicians and audience are exposed to pre-recorded sounds of both cities, interpreting its sonic complexity, and exploring the dialog between them.
The composition is based on a theoretical framework around improvisation over the soundscape of the urban environment as well as exploring the interaction between the audience and the musical performance itself, giving the musicians the possibility to create a sound narrative that will compliment that soundscape.
The concert is divided in three parts; the first being an improvisation laboratory, the second having three songs inspired by specific places, and the third a long piece that combines all the information gathered during these past years of research. While raising the awareness to the soundscape of Porto and Helsinki, this performance intends also to reduce the emotional distance between the performers and the audience, trying to dissolve the elitist stereotypes of contemporary performative arts by embedding the performance into the soundscape and reshaping the stage into a live installation built to bring the image of its own urban environment.
Performers
João Luís: Porto-Helsinki Sound Promenade Project
- João Luís, percussion, direction, and composition
- Kata Vuoristo, voice
- Joni Vierre, guitar, mandolin, and composition
- A-P Rissanen, drumset
- Ami Kajan, electric bass
- Nancy Tahlfeldt, live electronics
- Grácio Zaqueu, trumpet
- Sergio Castrillón, cello
- Noah Eamon, violin and mandolin
More information: Anna Huuskonen, anna.huuskonen@uniarts.fi
Global Spring 13.-17.5.2024
Global Spring is an annual festival featuring students, teachers, alumni and special guests representing Sibelius Academy’s Global music programme. The global music studies embraces pluralistic, fluid approaches to sound, culture and identity, creating new hybrid musical spaces through intercultural dialogue and collaboration. This year’s festival has the special theme of percussion and rhythm. Expect a feast of inspiring concerts, workshops, and discussions that highlight diverse approaches to working with rhythm through the hands of performers from around the world, celebrating the diversity of our planet.