EMBODIED: Soprano Solo (2018)
Jarkko Hartikainen, composer
Meeri Pulakka, soprano
January 15, 2019 (world premiere)
Camerata hall, Musiikkitalo
Helsinki (Finland)
Jarkko Hartikainen and Meeri Pulakka began their first musical collaboration by retreating to Rome for the month of September. EMBODIED: Soprano Solo (2018), receiving its world premiere, takes the composer's collaboration-heavy research of the 'body' in instrumental music and sound to new contexts. There is no text in the traditional sense. The vowels, consonants and other vocal techniques serve expressivity in the bodily registers of the singer(s) embodied by the one-, two- and three-voiced music: Cecilia of Trastevere (tortured widow of Valerian), who never stopped singing... and soprano Meeri Pulakka, who also doesn't seem to.
© 2018 Jarkko Hartikainen
