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Music Is Everywhere

11/18/2016

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While I was doing an Erasmus study exchange at the Iceland Academy of the Arts in autumn 2015 I took part in a course titled ‘Sounds of Nature and City’. This was an intensive course of concrete music and field recording led by Marie Guilleray. Prior to the course I had very little experience of recording sounds, let alone transforming those sounds in order to create music. During the course we had the possibility to stay a few days in the Icelandic countryside, in a small town called Skalholt, doing field recordings. This experience proved to be interesting and also important for me, as it opened up new ways of listening to the everyday sounds. I remember vividly one instance, when I was recording sounds in Skalholt and came across a tree with completely dried leaves hanging from its branches. Normally I would have just passed by without paying much attention to it, but this time I had my headphones on, and the portable microphone was able to pick up the tiny sounds that the leaves created, beating against each other in the wind. I was really fascinated by this sound, and eventually ended up transforming it and using it in a performance. This experience was a good example of the ordinary becoming somehow extraordinary. Philosopher Susan K. Langer writes: ‘The auditory experiences which impress us are those which have musical possibilities, which allow themselves to be varied and developed, expanded, altered…’

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  • About
    • Introduction >
      • Short introduction
      • Biography
      • Press quotes
    • Projects >
      • Groups >
        • Kokko Quartet
      • Cross-art >
        • Takamaa Collective
        • Dark Tales and Stories
        • Metsän väki - Forest Dwellers
      • Workshops
    • Blog
  • Media
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      • Kokko Quartet
      • Duo Kaisa Siirala & Johanna Pitkänen
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