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Official edition of "Habitus" by Jarkko Hartikainen, published by Escobar.Digital (ED-W25), scored for （全）总谱. Edition includes 1 part, 17 pages.
- Composer
- Jarkko Hartikainen
- Publisher
- Escobar.Digital
- Catalog No.
- ED-W25
- Instrumentation
- （全）总谱
- Specifications
- 1 parts · 17 pages (Single Score)
- Purchase Orders
- cdiyao@gmail.com (Email to Purchase)
Parts & Score Materials
| Part Name | Instrument | Pages |
|---|---|---|
| （全）总谱 | FullScore | 17 pages |
Work & Edition Details
Habitus (2014–17) for orchestra
Orchestra as body. A living, breathing body in space, consisting of humans and instrumental sounds. The limits and limbs of the body. Its pain spots, the comfortable positions. Body changing through time or in relation to its surroundings, such as when falling down, under stress, being seated, or kept waiting. Holding your breath, or breathing deeply. Body’s rhythms. The corporeal-empathetic emotional knowledge carried by sound.
The body’s non-verbal messages and demands. Oxygen. Movement. Repetition. Streching. Nerves, tissues. Even memories and fears in a fibre somewhere. Beethoven and Sibelius in its muscle memory. The bodily concept of time and, through it, the body’s relationship to the wild nature which birthted it and the back of which it is living on. One body seen as a part of a larger body. Or consisting of many bodies, as a culturally-societal body. Concreteness instead of the speculative.
Oh, and of course power. Deliberately affecting the body. An example: relieving an ongoing stress reaction by hitting the so-called vagal break of the parasymphatetic nervous system – by consciously extending the exhale.
Composing means affecting at least one body. In me, these thoughts produced a kind of sculptural-meditative undulation, in which the rhytmic profile or “leitmotif” that gains momentum, is, in simplified form: 3–(hold)–6–(hold). This rhytmic theme is repeated, not only as a breathing rhythm in real-life fear management or even hate management training, but also in the approximate durations of certain uttered ambiguous Finnish word pairs that may be associated with inhaling and exhaling, such as ‘luo – luota’ (‘to – from’ / ‘create – trust’) and ‘syvään – ääneen’ (‘deeply – into sound/out loud’). Music begins where words end, but one can always let different frameworks coexist, side by side or within each other, as I’ve tried to do here.
Habitus (2014–17) was commissioned by Tapiola Sinfonietta, the best symphonic body of the city where I grew up, and was designed to be premiered in a Musica nova Helsinki 2017 concert – it is dedicated to everyone involved with this.
© 2017 Jarkko Hartikainen
