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Phōnḗ

A new, vocal work by Tytti Arola

Join in our choral focus

We invite all children, amateur, school and professional choirs to join in and create a mass, premiere performance of phōnḗ on Saturday 2 November.

Connect over distance, cultures and language by staging a performance in your home location on the same time and day as choirs across the UK, Nordics and beyond!

phōnḗ is a piece for voices and tin can telephones. The piece reflects on how we can connect with sound: we can sing, talk and listen, even with distance, by using different technologies.

The piece has been written to allow as many choirs as possible to take part, from children’s choirs to choral societies, and everything in between.

It requires a minimum of 20 singers split over two or three scores and works really well with multiple choirs singing together.

Illustration by Tytti Arola

How to join in
Phone Human

DOWNLOAD the learning pack, which includes the scores, recordings, tips on technique and instructions for making the tin can telephones and information in Danish, Faorese, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish. 

Questions? Read the FAQs

On the performance day –tag us on social media and document your performance @nordicmusicdays

Send photos and videos after the event to info@nordicmusicdays.org

Can’t perform on the 2nd? The learning pack will continue to be accessible after the Festival and we encourage you to stage a performance  when you can. We would love to hear where, how and when you have performed phōnḗ. Let us know on info@nordicmusicdays.org