Jazz Finland Live

Jazz visionaries Teppo Mäkynen and Mikko Hassinen join forces to compose a new work for Turku Jazz Orchestra. Premiering at Fuuga in December, the piece transforms the traditional big band sound into an electroacoustic, shape-blurring and electrically expanded jazz work that speaks strongly to the present moment. The work will also be recorded during the same weekend.

Inspired by Jean-Luc Godard’s film Pierrot le fou, the piece approaches big band tradition with a knowingly “misread” perspective: history is acknowledged, but never treated reverently. The compositional process unfolds cyclically, moving from live performance to remixing and back to the stage. Beyond their shared background in drumming, Mäkynen and Hassinen are united by a distinctive use of electronics as both an extension and a counterforce to acoustic expression, creating a sound that is at once familiar and entirely new.

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