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Study for Life was reconstructed in 2019.

  • electronics, light
  • Soprano
  • 18 min
    • 30th July 2025,
    • 31st July 2025,
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Programme Note

Study of Life is a twine of glass and white light. It sometimes becomes entangled around the stem – the vocal part – sometimes pushes out new shoots, which prevent the stem from being seem. Light is silent glass, a living image with the parameter of time; scratching glass, tinkling, breaking of glass are sounds of light. “… I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. …” The piece is composed for and dedicated to Marjatta Mahlamäki. 2nd February 1981 – Kaija Saariaho

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Features

  • Kaija Saariaho’s Poetic Montages
    • Kaija Saariaho’s Poetic Montages
    • From the very beginning of her career as a composer, Kaija Saariaho has turned to poetry as a material and inspiration for her music. The forms and logics of poetry have played a defining role in her output since then.

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