Kalevala Duo, Playing Bones performance at Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, New York Commissioned and Produced by Claire Schneider, CS1 Curatorial Projects on the occasion of FinnFest, USA, 2015

A 60 minute performance of Kalevala bone setting

Music by Wooden Cities Orchestra

Score by Nathan Heidelberger and Brendan Fitzgerald

Vocals: Esin Gunduz

Participant: Timothy Oefelein

Collaborating with the Wooden Cities Orchestra, Pia Lindman gave Kalevala Bone Setting treatments to each of the members of the orchestra. Based on the protocol of a Kalevala Bone Setting treatment and, musically, on early recordings (1905) of the singing of poems of the ancient Finnish oral tradition, composers Nathan Heidelberger and Brendan Fitzgerald created a musical score to be performed in sync with the treatment Lindman improvised on the body of the person receiving the treatment in the performance on stage

Video credits

Camera: Carl Spartz

Editor: Pia Lindman

Singer: Esin Gündüz

Courtesy: Commissioned and Produced by Claire Schneider, CS1 Curatorial Projects

Photographic Credits: Kate Lovering