CHRONOVARIATIONS (Multiphonic Works 2024)
an award-winning experimental 3D-sound piece for tenor saxophone, live electronics, resonating metal objects, and a space with a magnificent acoustics. It is a longform immersive sonic journey that explores the themes of time, resonance, and unfolding.
Antiphonia (Untempo Postcards 2025)
Antiphonia is an imaginary, unwritten choir piece, inspired by an idea of polychoral singing. Only this time, it is a choir of overlapping saxophones, and the melody simultaneously starts at 60 bpm and 63 bpm. The layers of saxophones weave and tumble through each other, creating a sea of sound, wooshing over the cumulatively overlapping material, sinking into the sound itself, and weaving continuously shifting harmonies.
Recording of the Heli Hartikainen and Noise Trees live performance at Nomen Nescio Festival, organized by Nomen Nescio and Post—Rift, January 2024 in Helsinki. (Post-Rift 2024, released 17.7.2024)
Study on Overtones / Improvisation at Ställbergs gruva (Why Keith Dropped the S 2024)
The recording took place in the old machinery hall of an abandoned iron ore mine. The acoustics of the hall were extraordinary; the overtones resonated with astonishing brightness. The rich overtones of the saxophone made the improvisation sound polyphonic, with complex, interwoven layers of melody and harmony.
Aoide – I (Helmi Levyt 2020)
Passionate, minimalistic, improvisational art folk that has its roots in the finno-ugric music tradition.
Project Vainiolla Ensemble – Suruvesi (Vainiolla Sounds 2018)
Project Vainiolla Ensemble’s album Suruvesi is an exploration of possibilities of laments and a prepared piano. The laments are mixed with instruments, both acoustic and electronic, and improvised soundscapes that were recorded in the fields and forests.
PERFORMANCE ART:
Heli Hartikainen 