Succesful concert days in Time of Music 

Wednesday and Thursday were succesfull concert days in Time of Music – despite the other bad news coming from Viitasaari. Wednesday started with a lecture by the Ears Open Society at the school centre titled by “Many Musics”. In the chapel the “Cultural Transpositions”-concert had up to three premiéres, including Asko Hyvärinen’s piece “Channels”, which was interpreted by Eija Kankaanranta, Olga Shiskina and Janne Tuomi. The piece combined the tones of Finnish zither, Chinese traditional guzsheng and various percussion instruments. Later that day in the parish hall Michael Finnissy performed his own piano piece “English Country-Tunes”, which moved from extremity to another through its eight different movements. Last concert of the day was seen and heard at the theatre, as Dark Project combined piano, percussions and electronic and visual elements together. Dark Project continued in the evening with some electronical tones and visual elements along with piano and percussions.

On Thursday afternoon Dieter Mack lectured on the topic ”In Search of an Own Culture – Composing in the Realm of Bi- or Multicultural ’experiences’”. School centre’s concert “Unpredicted Encounters” held suprises and electronical sound elements in it. Along with suprisingly heavy rain, the audience saw clarinettist Heikki Nikula landing with an elevator and playing the premiére of “Bashô Fragments” by Juha T. Koskinen. The piano recital, heard in the parish hall, Ian Pace on the other hand performed two movements of Michael Finnissy’s five hour piece ”The History of Photography in Sound”, along with two other pieces. As the day drew to a close, Italian Signorafranca gave the audience a treat with some electromusic in the festival club of Pihkuri.