Excited to be at @guildhallschool.bsky.social for the Performance Studies Network conference presenting with dejana sekulic! Yet another round of our hit piece ‘Impossibility of DDMMYYYY’. (Photo from the graduation party the day before)

Opera, theatre and visual art in Paris (and Helsinki and London). I tried to remain in silence.

Some of the artists@tate #louisebourgeois @operacomique @claraolivares #sentinelles @boursedecommerce @legenerateur @dsamuelstern @backslashgallery #janneräisänen .

A contract so weird that finnishcomposers society had never seen anything like! Yes, I’m composing a Living Requiem, for my friend S (he doesn’t plan to die, but he likes to plan). What would you like to have in your Requiem? #livingrequiem #composerinresidence #composerinresidenceinparis

Week three in the life of a composer in residence in Paris! It involves hellu, a balloon, and pretty windows. I actually get to open @dorico notation software too, to answer questions of @amandaidsounds and Tobias Schick 🤓. #composerinresidence #composerinparis #grantaplication

Composer in residence in Paris #2
In Paris to meet Finnish artists, at least Outi Martikainen, Tuula Anttonen, Kastehelmi Korpijaakko, Hanna Galtat and Mirka Viitala . #composerinresidenceinparis #composerinresidence #composerinparis

A hectic day of a composer in residence in Paris. Week one: some vitamins, negotiating the Requiem contract (thanks @finnishcomposers for the help) and learning French. #conposerinresidence #composerinparis #paris

Some things just need pink champagne by the river Seine

Luckily I’m being all calm and relaxed of the fact that for the next three months I’m staying in Paris, @citedesartsparis ! See you there! But first a quick stop for the carnival.
#residence #composerlife #carnaval

Berlinale experience: see a film you are allergic to(you feel sick, you fall asleep, or you get a rash) and pose like the star you are! #Berlinale

YAY, I'm getting to Paris and Cité internationale des arts again for March to May. There I composed #mytomato for Olga and #impossibilities for @daisyeek.bsky.social! This time it is getting even darker! Thanks @skr.fi and @vkeynas.bsky.social. #residence #composer #Pariscomposing #11Ways #requiem

Maybe I will need to fall in love and then break up with #GerardGrisey every 10 years. Oh, why did I stop listening to this music? Thanks #musicaNova and Tuuli Lindeberg for inviting me back to him, although I unfortunately couldn't hear your version. #composer #Composerlife

Have you been to #DarmstädterFerienkurse , #Münchenerbiennale , #Maersmusik, #SibAFest and #HelsinginOopperakesä?
Because graphic Soune notation has! If you want to learn how to read or write it, we will publish a video next week. Thanks, #SarahAlbu, for singing!

What do @divineshark.bsky.social @daisyeek.bsky.social @annikaerdmuthe.bsky.social and @juliamihaly.bsky.social have in common? For one, they and dozens of others have performed the Soune notation I developed. Soon, you can learn it with a video we did with Sarah Albu! #Soune #Sounenotation

First time to compose every single word of a language before. Sure, it is a language with less than 150 words, but still. #tokipona #composerlife