Hidden Touch on ensimmäinen suomalainen teos BBC:n Between the Ears -ohjelmapaikalla
Suvi Tuulin ja Elli audiofeature “Hidden Touch” julkaistiin ensimmäisenä suomalaisena teoksena BBC:n Between the ears Miniatures -ohjelmapaikalla.
Hidden Touch (13 min) pohtii kuoleman rituaaleja ja kuoleman kulttuuria arkisen ja myyttisen perinteen kautta. Kuolema on väistämätön osa elämää, mutta se on häivytetty taustalle ammattilaisten hoidettavaksi. Audioteos kulkee hauturin mukana vainajan viimeisellä matkalla ja kertoo, miten vainajista pidetään huolta kuoleman jälkeen.
“Relatives often want to put something in the cof in. It can be anything. An unfinished cross. Liquorice pastilles in the breast pocket. Children's drawings. “
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Between the ears -ohjelmapaikan tavoite on tuoda radioaalloille uutta ja innovatiivista audiokerrontaa ja ohjelmapaikalla esitetyt teokset ovat voittaneet lukuisia palkintoja alan festivaaleilla. Falling tree -tuotantoyhtiö kuratoi ja tuottaa ohjelmapaikan teoksia.
Hidden Touch valittiin myös BBC:n Radio 4 -kanavan “Pick of the Week” -ohjelmaan, jonka voit kuulla täältä.
Hidden Touch -arvioita
The Herald (28.11.2023)
“We don’t hear enough Finnish spoken on the radio, if you ask me. Now and again you might hear un peu de Francais or ein bisschen Deutsch, but Finnish – not so much.
So, one of the principal pleasures of Hidden Touch, Suvi Tuuli Kataja and Elli Salo’s contribution to the Between the Ears strand that took over Radio 3’s Essay slot from Monday to Friday, was the copious Finnish that wafted through its short running time.”
“Hidden Touch was the one that most caught my attention. The programme spoke to a Finnish undertaker and a forensic dentist about touching the body after life had left it. It was a lyrical exploration of death and grief that even offered the odd moment of release: “The undertaker asks, is there even such a thing as death? Maybe it’s just a change of being. The energy doesn’t go away, does it?”
It’s a lovely thought. Series like Between the Ears will always be on the margins of radio. That’s no surprise. But it would be a terrible loss if this kind of textured, experimental radio was to disappear altogether. Who wants to eat the same meal every day, after all?”
-Teddy Jamieson
Church times (8.12.2023)
“"For instance, you have to be in the right mood to appreciate the Scandi noir evoked by Suvi Tuuli Kataja and Elli Suter in “Hidden Touch” (Wednesday): one of nihilistic melancholy, in which gazing into the inky blackness of existence is a better option than making a mug of Horlicks and switching over to the Shipping Forecast.”
-Edward Wickham
