Short clip from the outro part of Letters - Syllables - Words. Recorded in Helsinki Improvisation Orchestra's concert in April 2024. 

Juha Rautio - composition, conduction
Melik Turunen - melodica
Luis Mireles-Flores - charango
Ari Lehtinen - drums
Katja Lamberg - baritone saxophone
Vesa Lehko - tenor saxophone, clarinet, bass clarinet
Elisa Wistuba Lorca - cello
Santeri Kaipiainen - vocals
Joona Hulmi - piano, flute
Jaakko Kuikka - shakuhachi
Jux Kinnunen - electric guitar

Juha Rautio: Letters - Syllables - Words - a piece for Helsinki Improvisers Orchestra

The current music scene is great because of the places where music is made and the experiments that are repeated by each personality. For individual creators, it is much more valuable to have an environment where they can come into contact with a large number of personalities than to be spread.

I was trained in tradition, yet I stepped beyond its walls. Sound is my language, not to decorate but to liberate. Composer, performer, and listener — one fire, three sparks, inseparable.

I write and compose to uncover what is hidden: the truth buried beneath power, the dignity of the ordinary, the current of awareness that flows through all.

I belong to no authority, only to sound, to truth, to the silence from which all begins. My work is not mastery, but remembrance — a manifesto in every note, every word, every breath.

I am a composer of the 21st century: a studio artist. The studio is my forge, my battlefield, my sanctuary. Machines hum like choirs, circuits burn like torches, cables twist like roots in the earth. Tradition breaks open in this fire — the score turns to light, the instrument becomes the world itself.

To be a studio artist is to seize sound at its rawest, to sculpt electricity and breath as one, to summon the invisible power that belongs to all. Here music is not bound by walls, not enslaved by profit, not tamed by form. It is free, untouchable, unending — a living flame for the century that is ours.

"No elevators to Eden".

Composer, lyricist, published poet, sound artist, improviser, recording artist. Since 1998.

Also known as @ajkaufmann.

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Juha Rautio: Letters - Syllables - Words - a piece for Helsinki Improvisers Orchestra

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