Liquid Listening

Liquid Listening is a practice during which we explore how the music we’re listening to makes us feel. It might make you want to dance, move you, make you sleepy or relaxed – all sensations are equally true. You can do the practice anywhere you like. To begin the practice, take a comfortable position wherever you are.

Liquid Listening continues the collaboration between harpsichordist Marianna Henriksson and choreographer Anna Mustonen on early music and new dance. In the early 1600s, when early Baroque music was born, it was thought that the sound of vibrating air could affect the body by modifying the balance of its various fluids.

Henriksson and Mustonen collaborate to find a way to make these embodied notions of music visible and tangible in the present. According to them, listening to and playing music can manifest as dance, and this dance can be anything, including internal movement.

Credits

Concept, performance and text: Marianna Henriksson & Anna Mustonen
Cinematography and editing: Sinem Kayacan
Costume design: Piia Rinne
Set assistant: Riikka Thitz
Voice over recording: Johannes Vartola

Music:
Michelangelo Rossi (1602–1656): Toccata Settima
Performed by Marianna Henriksson
Courtesy of SibaRecords

Liquid Listening has been produced within the Zodiak Youth project. The project is supported by Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation.