SONGSCAPES #5: SOLO - Sound Promenade Project by João Luís & Meetings by Ruusu Saksio

Name: SONGSCAPES #5: SOLO - Sound Promenade Project by João Luís & Meetings by Ruusu Saksio
Start: 2025-08-29T18:00:00+03:00
End: 2025-08-29T22:00:00+03:00
Location: Vapaan Taiteen Tila

Schedule

Fri Aug 29 2025 at 06:00 pm to 10:00 pm

UTC+03:00

Location

Vapaan Taiteen Tila | Helsinki, ES

SONGSCAPES #5 - 29th Aug 2025
Join the Song Journey at Vapaan Taiteen Tila, in this edition we welcome:
SOLO - Sound Promenade Project by João Luís & Meetings by Ruusu Saksio
ABOUT THE PERFORMANCES & ARTISTS
The SOLO – Porto Helsinki Sound Promenade connects local sounds with personal and collective narratives, fostering a deeper understanding of how we experience space and sound. João Luís will map a street, a line that could be the same in Helsinki and Porto, to create a video-sound installation in which the landscapes of both cities overlap, opening the possibility for a dialogue between places.
João Luís is a percussionist/composer based in Helsinki since 2016, with an MA in Music from the Sibelius Academy. He co-founded the KAôS Global Music Collective, Coletivo Peixe Fora D’Água, and Colectivo Azul, a collaborative project that expands his work as a performer and creator. His work includes performances with Talvi Sirkus Ilo, a summer tour with the Sápmi band SOLJU, and collaborations with diverse Finnish groups like DanchevDomain and MeNiños. João is a featured artist in Global Art Point and Artists With Evidence.
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Meetings - This concert explores the Nordic tradition of tralling: singing instrumental folk dance tunes with the voice as an instrument, as well as storytelling through folksongs. Inspired by village traditions where songs carried the dancers when no fiddler was around, the performance combines Nordic folk music with dance animations and video installations. A vibrant meeting of music, movement, and cultural heritage from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Finland.
Ruusu Saksio is a Finnish folk musician who is just graduating from the Nordic Master in Folk Music programme in Sibelius Academy. She uses accordion and voice for storytelling, and during her masters has been concentrating on the trall traditions of Northern Europe. In addition to musical expressions she also brings in a small element of puppets in the form of stop motion animations, to bring the element of dance and story to the performance.
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ABOUT SONGSCAPES
SONGSCAPES encompasses moments of togetherness and inspiration, through sharing the diverse landscapes that a song can have. It is a project run by students of the Sibelius Academy Global Music Department and independent cultural producers based in Helsinki.
Our motivation is to showcase local Helsinki based song composers and song performers and perhaps through this establish a local scene.
Vapaan Taiteen Tila is the place where it all happens once a month. You are welcome to listen to the music landscapes of Helsinki based artists, performing original compositions and arrangements of songs.