Earth Ears Ensemble: Practical Mechanics

Saturday 16.5.2026 • 19.00 • Paavo Hall

Explore the physicality of music-making in this concert featuring works by prominent Finnish and international contemporary composers.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world
― Archimedes

“Practical Mechanics” is a program of contemporary music that discovers the mechanics and mechanisms of music making. Each work explores a certain mechanism and its way to produce a sound, from something as simple as a jacket zipper to the complexity of live electronics, from a motorised glissando inside the piano to a delicate mechanism of chamber music creation. With the mechanics big and small, the program offers the audience works interesting for both eyes and ears.

Program:
Carola Bauckholt: Hirn und Ei (2010-2011) for Four Performers
Esa Pietilä: Forest X (2025) for cello and electronics (world premiere)
Lisa Streich: Cadenza (2018) for motorised piano (Finnish premiere)
Maija Hynninen: Borrowed Tunes: 1. Dead Man Theme (2011) for electric cello and live electronics
Beat Furrer: Presto (1998) for flute and piano
Jukka Tiensuu: Loimut (2026) for flute, clarinet, cello, piano, and electronics

Performers:
Livia Schweizer, flute
Lucy Abrams-Husso, clarinet
Iida-Vilhelmiina Sinivalo, cello
Helga Karen, piano
Tuukka Tervo, electronics

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