Cutovers - concert de fin d'année

The corps de ballet has vanished. Left in the woods is a slow concert at the end of the year. The group has become a phantasmagoria in the murky forest. This low-frequency piece is playing with suspension, as a gesture of what might have been or what might come.


The work builds on circles of repetition. It continues to contemplate on the uncanniness of togetherness and cozyness as another iteration of Freja Bäckman's body of work I was told I chop wood like a ballet dancer (2015- ).

This concert, performance/installation is a collaboration between Tari Doris and Freja Bäckman. Bäckman and Doris have also worked together on the previous part of this series, publishing the vinyl record Spruce Spray Shadings (2022).

Another iteration of Cutovers is part of the Mad House publication #4.

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Initiator, text, installation, voice, bass by Freja Bäckman
Voice, bass and guitar, sound design by Tari Doris
Voice by Teo Ala-Ruona
Light design by Erno Aaltonen
Sound designer and hand-built subwoofers: Tatu Nenonen
Artistic dialogue by Vappu Jalonen
Funded by Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Svenska Kulturfonden
Production by Freja Bäckman & Mad House Helsinki

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