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Work in 2024:
New work Sermon I has been 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.
Working on a few new sound art & collaborative pieces for Finnish Forest Museum LUSTO for their new permanent exhibition. Opening Spring 2024.
Workshop of sound design, XR–tools and performer’s voice, in collaboration with Tuuli Nilsson. In January 2024 /Theater Academy /Uniarts Helsinki.
Rajakangas is an invited lector of Sound Design program of Theatre Academy, University of Arts, Helsinki unit 31.7.2024.
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 teacher at the University of Arts Helsinki (Sound Design Programme). In November 2023 she started to work there as a invited lector for a period of nine months.
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.
©2022, Jussi Virkkumaa, Saari Residency
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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 into the Sonic Earth • Inherited Listening • Vocal Cartographies and Memory •
• Becoming Through Voice • Agency & Theatrical Speech • Ecology of Sound and Voice•
Gallery: work – atmospheres & environments
