Tuning in and intoning: microtonal pedagogies by Juho Laitinen

Name: Tuning in and intoning: microtonal pedagogies by Juho Laitinen
Start: 2025-03-23T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Myymälä2

Schedule

Sun, 23 Mar, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC+02:00

Location

Myymälä2 | Helsinki, ES

Tuning in and intoning: microtonal pedagogies by Juho Laitinen
27.03.2025 at Myymälä2 gallery starting at 18.00
During this workshop talk Juho Laitinen introduces his recent compositions. What kinds of corporeal, sensuous, philosophical and metaphorical understandings can be derived from studying (microtonal) tuning and resonance?
Juho Laitinen works as an instrumentalist, composer, pedagogue and scholar. After studying the cello and voice in Turku, London and New York, he received a doctoral degree from Sibelius Academy in 2013. Laitinen has performed internationally and composed acoustic and electronic music for concerts, films and installations. As director of Tulkinnanvaraista, a forum for new and experimental music, he conducts the resident ensemble UMUU and works as dramaturge in the forum’s music theatre productions. He has also initiated the founding of Naarmu Ensemble, a collective of enthusiasts of music and live art open to all.