Maailma ympärilläni käy yhä nopeammalla vaihteella, ja minä – premiere performance by AEKI trio
su 27.2.
|University of North Carolina
In the title, the important word is ’vaihde’ — gear. Or turn, between periods of time? It refers to an individual (=ME!!) feeling as if the world surrounding them was running at increasingly faster gears, whereas the individual... is in a slow place, going at a slow pace.


Time & Location
27.2.2022 klo 15.00 UTC-5
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
About the event
AEKI ensemble premieres "Maailma ympärilläni käy yhä nopeammalla vaihteella, ja minä" by Leevi Räsänen alongside Alebrijes (2019) by Daniel Martínez García, City as? (2019) by Erick Tapia, Amfisbaina (2021) by Olli Moilanen (world premiere) and Les danseuses de Rodin (2019) by Bosba Panh.
About the piece: Time and pacing, the experiencing of time through music is something I’ve found an increasing interest in lately. Needless to say, the world around us is getting more and more bizarre every minute. Just to mention a few things: frequent natural disasters, pandemic, capitalist exploitation of people and our planet, toughening political attitudes... whew. As for me, I’ve always found stillness and peace in music and I tend to think about time spent inside music as time outside of the realm of reality.
When I’m sitting in a concert, time seems to stop. There aren’t any phones or noti&cations, news headlines or crises but…