These are based on vocal portraits I made in Vooruit, Ghent, 2007.

Peter II

Peter I

Juuso

Ann I

Anita

Aleksandr

Alda

Humble bee is a part of a sound installation based on Kristiina Wallin's poetry.

Humble bee

Luutarha / Bone Garden is the sound part of an installation I made with sound archaeologist Riitta Rainio for Aboagoa / New Performance Turku, in 2015.

Luutarha / Bone Garden

Puiden synty / Birth of Trees was the final part of soundtrack for "50 Lovely Ways to Die", a piece of community theatre, I made with choreographer Kaja Kann, in 2008.

50 Lovely cd

Puiden synty / Birth of Trees

Vuosi

Eleven days in February

Polvet Knees belong to a sound sculpture called Wooden Guy.

Ihminen

Polvet/Knees

In winter 2007, I was commissioned a sound work of Minna Canth, writer etc who lived 1844-1897. She became the first woman to get an official flagday in Finland. The work has two parts: a live performance and a piece for radio.
I recorded the material in Kuopio, on the first Minna Canth flagday 19 March, 2007, and in the beginning of June in those four towns that have street named after M.C. – Tampere, Jyväskylä, Helsinki and Kuopio. Walking the streets, I asked passers-by, who was Minna Canth? The answers became the main ingredient for both the radio work & the live performance, that took place in Kuopio on 8-9 September, 2007.

Kuka oli Minna Canth? Who was Minna Canth?

A vocal and performance artist, with a good 20-year long career of performances, installations, radio pieces and soundscapes of one hundred and forty different works in twenty-seven countries – solos and various group works – vocal & sound & performance art, theatre, music, dance.

Juha Valkeapää

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