Appu Jasu

A concerto where a 16mm camera shoots approximately 60 seconds of black and white film at the beginning of the concert – a film which will then be developed live on the stage while the orchestra keeps playing in sync with the film developing process. In the end the developed film will be shown on the very same stage with a projector. Estimated length of the piece is 55 minutes.

composers: Jaime Belmonte and Tuomas Kettunen
film and performance: Paola Guzman Figueroa, Appu Jasu, Verneri Salonen and Lasse Vairio
accompanying text*: Appu Jasu

Lappeenranta City Orchestra
conductor - Vytautas Lukočius

for more info contact appu.jasu (at) gmail.com

			
Can you hear me?

Yes.

Good. Return back to the night of the concert. What do you see?

...I see a machine, it’s ah... whirring and clanking, things
are rolling around. Subjects move the rolling things, the
machine is moving. There isn’t much other than that now here...
But I remember ...remember feeling everything was going as
usual, but I had a sense I had forgotten something. This is
that Thursday. There are familiars in the audience, the little
that I see.

Could you define the moment you got wind of the events
unfolding?

It’s not a specific moment, but rather a series of twitches
...and a sense of a looming outside, outside that is not
defined but it defines the inside. But those sounds, I could
hear them beyond the lights, I think it’s the image. Except,
oh, what is this I– , the moment seems to be changing, this
isn’t like–

Where are you now?

On the stage, I’m... I’m one of the violinists. Anxious.
This is a difficult part. I’m thinking, I’m thinking of the
Schrödinger’s cat. Which... is the name of my cat. Did I
remember to feed it?

Okay, move to coordinates 61.057, 28.192. Can you see any sight
of the unified field?

.......it really wasn’t here then, but now its glow is starting
to emanate through things. Somehow everything is right. And
they kept winding and winding. How many laps more can it go, I
ask myself.

––

	And then, I believe there was a fire, a raging fire.

Where is the fire?

In the back of the stage.

What did you do when the fire began?

No, it wasn’t a fire, a light, a very bright light. The rest is
darkness.

			
Can you hear me?

Yes.

Good. Return back to the night of the concert. What do you see?

...I see a machine, it’s ah... whirring and clanking, things
are rolling around. Subjects move the rolling things, the
machine is moving. There isn’t much other than that now here...
But I remember ...remember feeling everything was going as
usual, but I had a sense I had forgotten something. This is
that Thursday. There are familiars in the audience, the little
that I see.

Could you define the moment you got wind of the events
unfolding?

It’s not a specific moment, but rather a series of twitches
...and a sense of a looming outside, outside that is not
defined but it defines the inside. But those sounds, I could
hear them beyond the lights, I think it’s the image. Except,
oh, what is this I– , the moment seems to be changing, this
isn’t like–

Where are you now?

On the stage, I’m... I’m one of the violinists. Anxious.
This is a difficult part. I’m thinking, I’m thinking of the
Schrödinger’s cat. Which... is the name of my cat. Did I
remember to feed it?

Okay, move to coordinates 61.057, 28.192. Can you see any sight
of the unified field?

.......it really wasn’t here then, but now its glow is starting
to emanate through things. Somehow everything is right. And
they kept winding and winding. How many laps more can it go, I
ask myself.

––

	And then, I believe there was a fire, a raging fire.

Where is the fire?

In the back of the stage.

What did you do when the fire began?

No, it wasn’t a fire, a light, a very bright light. The rest is
darkness.