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Work in 2024:

Working on the big stage sound design of Jäniksen vuosi, Finnish National Theatre, Helsinki. Premiere 16.10.2024.
One new sound art piece & two collaborative pieces have been opened for public as part of permanent exhibition of Finnish Forest Museum LUSTO
Sermon I was premiered at the Magic ! Made in collaboration with Juhana Moisander. Exhibition curated by Kalle Nio at Sinkka, Kerava Art Museum. 9.9.2023-7.1.2024.
The examined artistic part of my artistic research was held in January 2024 in the form of a workshop that combined sound design and performer’s voice. The work was made in collaboration with Tuuli Nilsson. Theater Academy /Uniarts.
Rajakangas will start as lector of sound design programme at Theatre Academy, University of Arts, Helsinki in August 2024.

About

Hanna Rajakangas (b. 1979) is a sound artist and designer based in Helsinki, Finland. Her multidisciplinary work revolves around sound and voice. She works in the fields of artistic research, performing arts, sound art, field recordings, acoustic ecology and sound installations. Since 2022 she has been teaching at the University of Arts Helsinki. In November 2023 she started to work there as a lector in sound design programme. At first as an invited lector for a period of nine months, then in March 2024 Rajakangas was selected for the permanent position.

Her ongoing artistic research in the doctoral program of the University of the Arts, Theatre Academy, explores the affectivity of the performer's voice from the perspective of sound design.

Her work has been supported e.g- by Kone Foundation, Aalto Digital Creatives Art&Tech, TTOR / Uniarts Helsinki, Svenska Kulturfonden, Saaren Kartano.

Soundworks

Featured

Duo Hurme

Inherited Listening

Stone

Sermon I

Vägar och Folk i Dalsbruk

Whizz, whirr, bang, clang!

Ruumiinmullat

Divine Lie

Deluge

Pied Piper

A Knot | Solmu

Katkera Paita

e l i n v o i m a

Prework With Voice

Pagan Church | Pakanakirkko

A Women Choir Tellus

Europeaus

Paanajärven kasvot | Faces of Paanajärvi

Sound Escape to Asia

Under the Sky of Cherry Orchard

Artistic Research

Hanna Rajakangas is currently conducting artistic research at the University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland. Her twenty years of professional experience lie at the intersection of two professions; she is a performer / a cappella singer and a sound designer in the performing arts. Current research focuses on the affectivity produced jointly by the performer's use of voice, spatial phenomenology, and performer agency. In order to study the affectivity of the voice in theatrical contexts, rather than studying the semantics of language, the research explores voice’s paralinguistic materiality. As part of addressing these research questions, Rajakangas (in collaboration with sound technologist and composer Josué Moreno) developed a responsive, time- and space-specific interface, an XR multi-channel sound concept for the theatre arts stage. The concept, called Theatrical Voice, was a selected winner of the Aalto University Finland / Digital Creatives, Art & Tech Open Call 2022.

Keywords for the ongoing research are: voice and sound studies, phenomenology, agency, affect theory, process of becoming, cyborg body, cyborg theory, paralinguistics, prosody, immersive sound system, artistic research

Some themes that are currently related to the research and artistic work:

• Tuning in • Inherited Listening • Vocal Cartographies and Memory •
• Becoming Through Voice • Agency & Theatrical Speech • Ecology of Sound and Voice•

Gallery: work – atmospheres & environments

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