The German ensemble Trio Abstrakt arrives in Finland for the first time. The concert brings together four contemporary works in which sound carries movement, erosion, and transformation. The works lead listeners through forests, trace fading memories, uncover fragments of history, and expose sound to extreme pressure. Each composition approaches change from its own perspective: as ritual, collective memory, the disintegration of historical layers, or the physical transformation of matter.
In Marco Momi’s Vuoi che perduti, the listener is drawn into an enigmatic stage world. The work unfolds less as a journey toward a desired destination and more as an experience of becoming lost while moving toward something unseen. In Isabel Mundry’s Songlines, recurring lines and rhythms circle endlessly, returning again and again as altered traces layered upon traces.
In Michael Finnissy’s Opera of the Nobility, the fragile shadows of Baroque arias collide with mechanical repetition and fractured time. The concert concludes with Milica Djordjević’s Šljaka, in which sound is treated not as a sequence of notes but as raw ore exposed to intense heat and mechanical pressure until its final crystallization.
Performers
Trio Abstrakt
Salim/Salim(a) Javaid, saxophone
Marlies Debacker, piano
Alexandre Ferreira Silva, percussion
Programme
Marco Momi: Vuoi che perduti (2018)
Isabel Mundry: Songlines (2024)
-intermission-
Michael Finnissy: Opera of the nobility (2017)
Milica Djordjevic: Šljaka (2026)