self-aware (2011)

for accordion (male performer with a speaking part), piano (female performer with a speaking part)

Duration: 13′
Fp: Duo Oneplusone (Timo Kinnunen, accordion, and Anna Veismane, piano), Rīgas Latviešu biedrība, Rīga, Latvia, 4 October, 2011

This recording is from a performance by Antti Leinonen (accordion) and Elisa Järvi (piano) on 29 October 2012 at G18 during the Korvat auki 35 festival in Helsinki (Finland)

the text in the work:

Aren’t I here to be a mirror?
So you can see your world anew.

To make you listen what’s actually there.
Thus making you conscious of how you listen.
Or used to, before you met me.

I hope you notice something new.
Realize, that it wasn’t like you thought it was, or would be.

Are you then sure you don’t carry with you
any other such false assumptions
you’re not aware of?

(c) Jarkko Hartikainen

self-aware (2011) for a male accordionist and a female pianist

www.jarkkohartikainen.net
sheet music: core.musicfinland.fi/composers/jarkko-hartikainen

Jarkko Hartikainen is a composer striving to create works that explore what music is and could still be, researching the possibilities in sound through rigorous performer-collaboration as well as studying findings in a plethora of disciplines. Stimulating acoustic phenomena, exciting sonorities and concrete, bodily impulses through rhythm, resonance and empathy fuel his often extremely instrument-specific, concentrated writing. Currently Hartikainen is working as a commission-based freelance composer, as well as pursuing his D.Mus degree at the Sibelius Academy of the University of the Arts Helsinki. Eriikka Maalismaa, defunensemble, Tapiola Sinfonietta, Ensemble Adapter and other such distinguished performers have recently promoted his work.