Keltainen huone (Yellow Room)

Keltainen huone (Yellow Room) was written during a residency at the Nelimarkka Museum in Alajärvi, Finland in 2008. This piece focuses on the sense of pitch movement of unvoiced sounds that are achieved by highlighting the dominant formant frequencies of the vocal tract. However, through the use of radical manipulations of the upper vocal tract, the voices intentionally do not always follow natural production characteristics seen with speech and song. These procedures, naturally, are done to continue systematic explorations of art-music in the 20th and 21st centuries. A Painting titled “Keltainen huone” by Marjatta Hanhijoki was the inspiration for this piece.