Peäskylintu, päivälintu

An ongoing compositional and ritual work rooted in Karelian and Baltic Finnic creation myths and the runosong tradition.

The work unfolds through music, voice, embodied practice, and collective presence. Myth is approached not as narrative material, but as living knowledge — something carried, remembered, and transmitted through bodies.

The process begins in the soma. Listening, movement, breath, and voice precede musical form. Images and relations emerge first: circles and nests, heaviness and flight, stillness and sudden change. These qualities later find their way into sound, melody, and score.

Rather than arriving at a fixed composition, Peäskylintu, päivälintu explores music as ritual structure — a means of positioning performers and listeners in relation to one another, to ancestry, and to the present moment. The score functions as a living framework: sometimes musical, sometimes graphic or embodied, supporting transmission rather than control.

The work draws from archival runosong material, ancestral heritage, and intuitive processes, without treating tradition as a closed form. Folk knowledge survives through use, variation, and collective carrying. What has life stays.

At its core, Peäskylintu, päivälintu asks how creation myths can act as protection in times of fragmentation — not by reproducing the past, but by allowing ancient logics of relation, reciprocity, and memory to re-enter contemporary bodies and voices.

The work is conceived as communal. Its continuation depends on performers embodying and transmitting the material in their own ways, allowing it to live beyond any single performance.