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Human w/Rites was written as part of the Korvat auki association and Musica Nova festival’s joint project commissioning pieces from four composers for a festival concert on February 10th, 2025.In line with the festival’s theme “togetherness”, I started exploring ideas about the things that people do together and collectively. The first thought was that I want to break the usual classical and contemporary music pattern of every player being confined in their part at all times – the piece is for seven players but has an eighth part which is performed collectively by all the players whenever they are not preoccupied with their own instrumental parts.I then thought about rites and rituals and became obsessed with the English language homophone rite/write/right/Wright (+ the near-homophone riot). Human rights, human rites, human writes. I decided to incorporate some writing-related props like pens and paper, chanting, body percussion, and other gestures that evoke rites and rituals. A section of the piece is also improvisatory, so every player also gets to “write” a part of the work themselves.

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