Kaiku: Hailuoto Sound Choir

The Hailuoto Sound Choir recreates the sounds of the island with vocal tools and learns a program of pieces composed or curated by sound artist Antye Greie. The pieces are specifically curated and written for this choir. Rehearsals are recorded and archived. The program is open to everybody. No singing skills required. Find next rehearsal times under events .

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Score: contains collective hum, wind imitation, sonic wave and deep sea exploration, horse rhythm copying, mosquito swarming drones, deconstructed poem citations and more



Piece: Wind, Storm, Waves, Ferry, Kaamos, 2 Horses, Mosquito


related links
Kaiku 2011
Hailuoto info
Hailuoto ferry timetable
Antye Greie
Iiris Poukkanen

Kaiku recordings on soundcloud - listen!






Kaiku meeting February 4th 2012

Working on DaDa poetry. Iiris Poukkanen wrote the first Kaiku poem in Schwitters tradition. Listen!













Kaiku meeting February 18th 2012

Hailuoto/ Koppakota recording session! Koppakota is the moose hunters hut, we rented for one day to make super silent recordings, all you hear is 11 adults and the open fire! We had a minus 3 sunshine day with quite a strong wind, which we listened and imitated.

Kaiku: Wind And Fire (Koppakota) by Hai Art



Kaiku: Mmmmm (open fire session in koppakota) by Hai Art



Kaiku: Kaamos And Fire (Koppakota) by Hai Art



Kaiku: Schwitters Simultangedicht (Koppakota) by Hai Art





Kaiku Meeting February 25th 2012

Inspired by Kurt Schwitters' Simultangedicht, we are writing a 3 group piece with Hailuoto sounds as a base such as wind, waves, moose, birds, mosquitoes, kaamos, silence etc. This is the first recording of this approach.



A first draft of a 3 string piece about numbers, Finnish numbers!






Schwitters famous and genius Simultangedicht, in a slow version.






Choir rehearsal 10th of December, Hailuoto


We first time work with animal sounds, test more sirens, correct our ferry sound piece and try out a rhythmical piece based on TA! Also first time 3 people from Oulu attend!





Piece: Hailuoto animal language (work in progress)




Hailuoto Ferry Sound (work in progress)






Choir rehearsal 3rd of December, Hailuoto


We worked deeper on kaamos interpretations and the waves.




Piece: Wind, Storm, Waves, Ferry, Kaamos, 2 Horses, Mosquito





Piece: Kaamos Without Snow (post production by AGF, not happy yet, due the noise in the room, AC etc)






Choir rehearsal 26th of November, Hailuoto


A very stromy and dark day in Hailuoto, we add Myrsky (storm) and Kaamos (the dark time) to our sound repertoir.


Piece: Wind, Storm, Waves, Ferry, Kaamos, Horses, Mosquito, Kill








Choir rehearsal 19th of November, Hailuoto




Close eyes and ears, breath in, and hum out slow and listen to your own voice and space. This exercise is a very good listening experience and voice warm up as well a method against anxiety, nervousness, loss of self awareness.


Waves: Ocean Fall




the tone aaaaaaaaa






Choir rehearsal 12th of November, Hailuoto




creating mosquito swarm sounds




Sonja Blomster explaining breathing technics



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