Spatial Audio Week: MuTe 25 Years Jubilee Concert
The Department of Music and Technology is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year with a concert in the Black Box
We will hear pieces from the SACMUS studio era, as it was called 25 years ago, as well as works by more recent younger generations. Thus, we propose a journey along the timeline of the department, from a retrospective of what has been done to an anxious and inexorable future, spiced of course with live performances. The pieces are composed or arranged for multichannel systems in various configurations and a diversity of styles, in line with the main theme of Spatial Audio Week.
The celebration also includes a visual retrospective of the department’s life in the Agora space and a cross-cultural sound walk experience facilitated by former director Marianne Decoster-Taivalkoski. We look forward to sharing our thoughts and ideas on how to take advantage of all the challenges and opportunities that technology brings to the field of music, so come and join us.
Programme
- The MuTe Handheld Orchestra: Fanfare: Improvised community performance (3:00)
- Paola Livorsi: Rooms of Elements, Eau 3/Watery 3 (2:07)
- Raoul Björkenheim / 5 channel mix by Risto Hemmi: Always but Never (11:08)
- Paola Livorsi: Rooms of Elements, Feu 1/Fiery 1 (2:52)
- James Andean: Déchirure (7:35)
- Paola Livorsi: Rooms of Elements, Earth 7/Earthly 1 (1:44)
- Intermission
- The MuTe Handheld Orchestra: Spatial performance (~5 min)
- Elisa Härmä: Winter Sun Remix (5:00)
- Jonatan Snapir and Ænie: Shroid, free improvisation (~12 min)
- Mute Bandi: 1st year Students (~10 min)
Spatial Audio Week, 27.11–1.12.2023
The Spatial Audio Week is a biannual symposium and festival organised by the Department of Music and Technology of the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki. It assembles guest lecturers, students, and artists from music academies across Europe. For the 2023 edition this includes participations from the Baltic states, Estonia, and Lithuania, the Nordic countries Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, as well as Germany, Italy, and Spain.
The topic of this gathering is ‘Sounds in Space’, that is, spatial music and tools and methods for composing and producing electronic and electroacoustic music in various manners and styles of surround sound. Spatial Audio Week culminates in a celebratory concert of the Music Technology’s 25th-anniversary concert at the Music Center’s Black Box on December 1st.
Read more about the other Spatial Audio Week concerts
Further information: Anna Huuskonen, anna.huuskonen@uniarts.fi
Mannerheimintie renovation project
Access to the Musiikkitalo from the direction of Mannerheimintie will be difficult. We recommend that you allow enough time for your arrival and use the entrance on the side of Kansalaistori if possible. According to current information, the entrance to Mannerheimintie will also remain in use throughout the renovation, but pedestrian routes can be challenging at times.
We will hear pieces from the SACMUS studio era, as it was called 25 years ago, as well as works by more recent younger generations. Thus, we propose a journey along the timeline of the department, from a retrospective of what has been done to an anxious and inexorable future, spiced of course with live performances. The pieces are composed or arranged for multichannel systems in various configurations and a diversity of styles, in line with the main theme of Spatial Audio Week.
The celebration also includes a visual retrospective of the department’s life in the Agora space and a cross-cultural sound walk experience facilitated by former director Marianne Decoster-Taivalkoski. We look forward to sharing our thoughts and ideas on how to take advantage of all the challenges and opportunities that technology brings to the field of music, so come and join us.
Programme
- The MuTe Handheld Orchestra: Fanfare: Improvised community performance (3:00)
- Paola Livorsi: Rooms of Elements, Eau 3/Watery 3 (2:07)
- Raoul Björkenheim / 5 channel mix by Risto Hemmi: Always but Never (11:08)
- Paola Livorsi: Rooms of Elements, Feu 1/Fiery 1 (2:52)
- James Andean: Déchirure (7:35)
- Paola Livorsi: Rooms of Elements, Earth 7/Earthly 1 (1:44)
- Intermission
- The MuTe Handheld Orchestra: Spatial performance (~5 min)
- Elisa Härmä: Winter Sun Remix (5:00)
- Jonatan Snapir and Ænie: Shroid, free improvisation (~12 min)
- Mute Bandi: 1st year Students (~10 min)
Spatial Audio Week, 27.11–1.12.2023
The Spatial Audio Week is a biannual symposium and festival organised by the Department of Music and Technology of the Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts, Helsinki. It assembles guest lecturers, students, and artists from music academies across Europe. For the 2023 edition this includes participations from the Baltic states, Estonia, and Lithuania, the Nordic countries Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, as well as Germany, Italy, and Spain.
The topic of this gathering is ‘Sounds in Space’, that is, spatial music and tools and methods for composing and producing electronic and electroacoustic music in various manners and styles of surround sound. Spatial Audio Week culminates in a celebratory concert of the Music Technology’s 25th-anniversary concert at the Music Center’s Black Box on December 1st.
Read more about the other Spatial Audio Week concerts
Further information: Anna Huuskonen, anna.huuskonen@uniarts.fi
Mannerheimintie renovation project
Access to the Musiikkitalo from the direction of Mannerheimintie will be difficult. We recommend that you allow enough time for your arrival and use the entrance on the side of Kansalaistori if possible. According to current information, the entrance to Mannerheimintie will also remain in use throughout the renovation, but pedestrian routes can be challenging at times.