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S T Ä M M A, 2025
Aura Bridge, Turku, Finland
Sound installation / composition 2 x 30’00” loop
STÄMMA is a created in an interdisciplinary collaboration between artist Sandra Nyberg and musician-composer Mikko Perkola. The site-specific sound installation draws on Turku’s historical and geographical landscape. The title carries multiple meanings--meeting, gathering, voice, tone, and musical harmony—all of which resonate through the work and its soundscape.
The soundscape weaves together recordings from the main organ of Turku Cathedral and elements of the Piae Cantiones—among the earliest Finnish songs ever printed and originating in the Cathedral itself—with the distant call of a foghorn traveling up the Aura River. Through this meeting of sounds, the work creates a dialogue between sea and land, nature and culture, and the living history of Turku’s soundscape.
Piae Cantiones (“pious songs”) is a collection of Latin songs sung by clerical students or choirboys, originating from the Cathedral School of Turku in the 16th century.
STÄMMA is based on a song from the collection, In stadio laboris:
“But if you wish to live free,
Live in love, and you will be spared pain.
You have nothing, you suffer not, you mourn nothing lost,
But in what you have, you rejoice.”
The work can be experienced 7.11 - 7.12 2025
Mo - Sat 07.00 - 11.00 & 18.00 - 22.00
Sun 10.00 - 18.00
With culminations every 30 min, starting 07.15, 18.15 and 10.15 etc.
Pictures:
1. Turku Cathedral main organ, with which the sound for the work was recorded
2. Aura Bridge, westside view
3. Aura Bridge, eastside view
Special thanks to:
Markku Hietaharju / Turku Cathedral
Hans Knut Sveen (NO)
Aura Bridge, Turku, Finland
Sound installation / composition 2 x 30’00” loop
STÄMMA is a created in an interdisciplinary collaboration between artist Sandra Nyberg and musician-composer Mikko Perkola. The site-specific sound installation draws on Turku’s historical and geographical landscape. The title carries multiple meanings--meeting, gathering, voice, tone, and musical harmony—all of which resonate through the work and its soundscape.
The soundscape weaves together recordings from the main organ of Turku Cathedral and elements of the Piae Cantiones—among the earliest Finnish songs ever printed and originating in the Cathedral itself—with the distant call of a foghorn traveling up the Aura River. Through this meeting of sounds, the work creates a dialogue between sea and land, nature and culture, and the living history of Turku’s soundscape.
Piae Cantiones (“pious songs”) is a collection of Latin songs sung by clerical students or choirboys, originating from the Cathedral School of Turku in the 16th century.
STÄMMA is based on a song from the collection, In stadio laboris:
“But if you wish to live free,
Live in love, and you will be spared pain.
You have nothing, you suffer not, you mourn nothing lost,
But in what you have, you rejoice.”
The work can be experienced 7.11 - 7.12 2025
Mo - Sat 07.00 - 11.00 & 18.00 - 22.00
Sun 10.00 - 18.00
With culminations every 30 min, starting 07.15, 18.15 and 10.15 etc.
Pictures:
1. Turku Cathedral main organ, with which the sound for the work was recorded
2. Aura Bridge, westside view
3. Aura Bridge, eastside view
Special thanks to:
Markku Hietaharju / Turku Cathedral
Hans Knut Sveen (NO)