Eliel Tammiharju: Lampi 2

Some notes want to be alone, some notes want to be one with the dance.

Lampi 2 (Pond 2), created by Eliel Tammiharju and his working group, is a sound design in which notes hide until revealed by dance. In this work, equations of music are proven by forms of sound, dance and crystals.

Why feel small before the infinite when you can visit a pond? If the surface ripples, it turns to another. Something disappears, peeps out, brightens the surface, flashes into a dew drop. Rises! Sparkles. And yet, it is a finite event.

The work uses Tammiharju’s method of lacking sound. In this method, every disappearance reveals a secret. Rather than absence, lack is a composed incompleteness that only a performance can make complete.

Alongside Tammiharju, the working group includes Anna Maria Häkkinen, Johan Högsten, Helmi Nöjd and elieli (Elisabeth Raymond). The work continues their ongoing collaboration between music and dance, and follows Leipäkivi, presented at Pitted Dates gallery in August 2025.

For a moment, it is possible to imagine the earlier sight. Until she has understood something again, that she belongs elsewhere, belongs to one, belongs to the pond.