GÁTT Nordic Arts Festival: The Concert

Earth Ears Ensemble in a Nordic reverie

In the opening night of GÁTT Nordic Arts Festival we hear a concert by exciting electroacoustic Earth Ears Ensemble. The late-night concert explores brand new Nordic contemporary music and invites the audience to different atmospheres in the beautiful Hietsun Paviljonki.

The concert features a snowy love song by Tytti Arola (FI) and Lil Lacy’s (DK/USA) Tribute to the Craft of Time. Thorkell Nordal’s (IS) composition summons demons with a mythical wind instrument from Icelandic folklore and in Jacob Ridderberg’s (DK) piece the ensemble is looking for new bird species. The hit song by Malin Bång (SE) explores the necessity of oxygen.

Earth Ears Ensemble (FI):
Livia Schweizer, flute
Lucy Abrams-Husso, clarinet
Iida-Vilhelmiina Sinivalo, cello
Helga Karen, piano
Tuukka Tervo, electronics

The Earth Ears ensemble was founded in 2021 with the goal of enlivening contemporary music performance with focus on experimentation and presenting lesser-heard ideas and voices in new concert settings.

GÁTT Nordic Arts Festival is an artist-led multidisciplinary festival made by the GÁTT community that was held for the first time in Copenhagen, 2022. GÁTT 2024 is a partner festival of Helsinki Festival and it's held 23.–25.8.2024 in Helsinki, hosting at Ylioppilasteatteri, MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre, Forum Box, and Hietsun paviljonki. The festival is supported by Nordic Culture Point, Nordic Culture Fund, Svenska Kulturfonden, Arts Promotion Centre Finland and The City of Helsinki.

photo: Klavs Kehlet
visual identity: Lucía Peralta & Angel Garcia Dominguez