An improvised music concert with bowed strings and voices. Charlotte Hug, Kristjan Kannukene, and Sergio Castrillón create site- and time-specific hybrid soundworlds, where voice, viola, and the custom-built sercello intertwine in an unpredictable sonic landscape.
Time: Sunday 29.3. at 19.00
Place: Toinen Kerros (Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki)
Entrance: pay-what-you-can
Charlotte Hug is a Swiss-born performer (voice & viola), composer, improviser, and visual artist. With Son-Icons (Visual-Music), SpatialScores, and Live-Scoring with Temporary Son-Icons, she created a new genre of transdisciplinary music and art. Her musical-visual solo performances in distinctive locations have created an international furor. She sang and played in the Rhone Glacier, in the rising waters of the Atlantic Ocean in Ireland, or in the Brazilian jungle, Mata Atlântica. She often chooses powerful places in nature that are fragile or threatened with extinction. Hug is a professor of improvisation musical-scenic performance and creation in interdisciplinary contexts, at the Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts/Music and head of the international postgraduate studies program Creation & Scenario in Music at the Zurich University of the Arts.
Sergio Castrillón is a cellist and composer deeply dedicated to improvised and experimental music. Within his career Sergio has collaborated with a big number of Finnish and international improvisers and composers, from diverse music genres and in a variety of ensembles. Sergio also performs actively as a solo improviser, featuring in festivals, series of concerts, and music happenings around the globe. In his performances and recordings, Sergio uses different kinds of self made cello modifications, a “campanula” made by Eero Ristilä, the “skillo” built by Andrew Bentley, and the “sercello” designed by himself in collaboration with luthier Markko Sunni. Thanks to these diverse projects and his innovative approaches, Sergio Castrillón has established himself as one of the central figures of his generation in the field of cello improvisation and experimental cello music.
Kristjan Kannukene is an Estonian violist, vocalist, electric guitarist, and performer-composer working at the intersection of improvisation, intermedia art, and sonic experimentation. His work extends beyond conventional performance into transdisciplinary contexts, including intermedia instruments and interactive sound installations such as project “9”, exploring the evolving relationship between body, voice, and instrument. Central to his artistic research is the search for a living symbiosis between voice and viola — a space where sound, gesture, and presence converge. Kannukene is a doctoral researcher at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, focusing on “The Symbiosis of Viola and Voice”, and the founder and artistic director of HETKfEST, an international festival for improvised arts in Tallinn.