Programme: Fluorescence – sounds of the deep sea
24 January 2026 at 12:00, Musiikkitalo, Black Box
Improvised music and dance performance as part of SibaFest 2026
Working group
- Light design Sirje Ruohtula
- Sound design Jaakko Kulomaa
- Recording Rody van Gemert, Aurora Fustinoni
- Sound engineering Mikko Ingman
- Production Anna Huuskonen-Kuhlefelt
- Supervision Assi Karttunen and Maarit Mammu Rankanen
Performers
- Aurora Fustinoni (kantele)
- Catrin Kaitaro (dance)
- Assi Karttunen (harpsichord-organetto-organ, supervision)
- Jaakko Kuikka (shakuhachi, dance)
- Jaakko Kulomaa (sound design, synthesizer)
- Katja Lamberg (sound design, synthesizers)
- Eerika Perkkiö (traverso)
- Eva-Christina Pietarinen (soprano)
- Maarit Mammu Rankanen (dance, supervision)
- Mariette Reefman (viola and soprano)
- Kristine Tukre (dulcimer)
Program text
Fluorescence -sounds of the deep sea is an artist-pedagogical project in which musicians and dancers learn to work together by improvising and listening to each other and experiencing.
The performance and the associated workshops 2025 are related to Karttunen’s artist-pedagogical project ‘Groans and muffled tones – hybrid, multidisciplinary realms of sounding bodies’ (2025–2026). Read more about the project here.
The project is based on the idea that artists’ teaching includes many systemically flexible and insightful practices, which they can pass on to other artists, in this case musicians and dancers, by working together.
By artist-pedagogy we mean artist-led teaching and thinking, where the artist’s experience and understanding of art serve as the basis for pedagogical practice. Although art pedagogy can be understood as a broad concept that covers various teaching and learning situations in which art plays an essential role, artist pedagogy focuses specifically on the teaching given by artists. (Erkkilä-Hill 2024; Kauppila & Rouhiainen 2024).
Within this type of working process, growing as a musician and dancer takes place through an approach that is applied, hierarchically flexible, intersecting, cross-cutting, and based on collaboration and a multidisciplinary pedagogy.
The project includes an eco-pedagogical component, which is based, among others, on Amorina Kingdon’s book Sing like fish (2024) and the observations of the iNaturalist website (www.inaturalist.org) about UV-glowing plants and animals, which are found especially in the exceptional living conditions of the deep sea. The ultraviolet glow of the project was designed together with lighting designer Sirje Ruohtula.
The performance and the related workshops in 2025 are part of Assi Karttunen’s artist‑pedagogical project ‘Groans and muffled tones – hybrid, multidisciplinary realms of sounding bodies’ (2025–2026), carried out within the Profi6 project (The Research Council of Finland). Mammu Rankanen works on the project with a grant awarded by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland.
