Tiia Kasurinen: Songbird

Music by Keliel

Intonal Festival, Malmö Sweden, 2025 (Premiere)

Dance Base Yokohama, Japan, 2025

Urb Festival, Kiasma, 2025

The work is based on the choreography of vocal cords and uses sound to address the identity of the voice and the relationships between gender, power and frequencies. In my composition work, I produced music and sound, which served as the basis for the construction of the choreography of the work. The human voice is full of flaws. Birds do not have a larynx, but a balloon (syrinx) in the trachea. Still, I believe that we can send out a frequency that is impossible to produce. From what the air flow begins, the electrifying vocal processing, lyricism or the microphone cable can continue. I was involved in creating these effects.