venerdì 3 giugno 2011

Finlandia memories I

A group of 15 singers from Cembra visited Finland and Joensuu in February 2009.
Hibernating and obviously surprised Finnish dwellers could hear their songs since the very beginning of their arrival: in the train station, in the train, whenever walking in the streets, hostels and hotels, behind the window glasses when visiting our homes, in various echoing places in the university of Joensuu, Jokela, an old restaurant unfortunately soon a disappearing part of cultural history of Joensuu, in Laulutalo with the local men choir and its smaller singer group called Pienet sievät, in the meeting of local friendship associations, in Joensuu art museum - just to mention some of them.
(https://www.facebook.com/pienetsievat?sk=info)

The sounds we experience are vibrations reaching our ears. Singing for the choir means looking for the most suitable conditions to create harmonies combining and playing with different voice pitches in different acoustic spaces. Of course, then, all the different places had to be tested properly!

In May 2011 we had an opportunity to see and listen together the singing videos shot in Finland. The recordings also proved the fact that what is good for the eye can be…hmmm…at least interesting for the ear and for the process to produce harmonies. We visited Akka- and Ukko-Koli in the +300 meters high hill peaks in Northern Carelia under the beautiful, bright early spring sunshine. The shiny and soft snow did not reflect the sounds at all – probably wanted to keep them all as a memory!




Noora

The audio will be added soon!

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