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Akanvirta (2016) Lauri Sallinen (cl), Henrik Sandås (bnd), Saku Mäkelä (acrobat) Akanvirta (Finnish for “river eddy”) was conceived almost as a site-specific work, tailored for its premier at the studio-museum of Finnish painter Reidar Särestöniemi (1925-1981) in Kaukonen, Finnish Lapland. Särestöniemi’s bold, colourful acrylics most often depicted landscapes and other natural subjects from his Lappish surroundings. Akanvirta drew its inspiration from the same environment – as well as some of Särestöniemi’s works themselves. I composed the work in a close collaborative process with acrobat Saku Mäkelä, in which we allowed his choreographic ideas to influence the development of the music and vice versa. Akanvirta is one in a series of works in which I was interested using manipulation of physical materials and their gradual transformation as way to organize form and generate sound, in addition to ambiguous extramusical narrative. |
