Traces – chamber ensemble

Traces is a performative installation based on two songs by English renaissance composer and lutist John Dowland, Flow My Tears and Come, Heavy Sleep. The ensemble is divided into three groups and spread out in space: Group I, consisting of violin, horn, and concert kantele, plays the two songs more or less in original form. Groups II and III, consisting of viola and classical guitar, and flute and cello, respectively, play fragmented and distorted versions of the original material. The audience is free to move between the groups to adjust the degree of deconstruction.

Performances:
Musica nova Helsinki 10.2.2025

Orest Smovzh, violin
Iida Ranta-Nilkku, horn
Iida-Maria Kuronen, concert kantele

Kara Koskinen, viola
Teuvo Taimioja, classical guitar

Nianrong Zhong, flute
Auroora Perttunen, cello