Tomi also sang a poem by the poet Eino Leino, his deep voice ringing out beautifully through the room. Both performed their own poems, the translations were spoken by Tixa. He came and brought his friend and colleague Tomi Vuorinen.
Next to being a poet, Matti is also the priest (one out of four) of the Mänttä-Vilppula community and he is teaching a writing class. Matti Kivilahti had written to me some weeks earlier and had sent three poems about ‘kaamos’… and that’s how our acquaintanceship started. And in a way, so do the musings of the walker. The sound sounds and resounds differently with changes in temperature and humidity. It’s a long winding path along the shores of the lake, and one keeps walking in the footsteps of so and so many predecessors in a kind 40 cm deep furrow in the snow. Every day he walks the 3 km that separate the resident’s home at the Gösta Serlachius Museum to the studio close to the Gustav Serlachius Museum. Kari Soinio is a photographer but currently he is working on a video about memory and personal resilience. Kari Soinio talking about his daily snow walk Anita had facilitated many of Kaamos Radio’s recordings in the town and vicinity of Mänttä, and together with her horse Lissu we had taken a sleigh ride.
(The talk with her will form part of the program on the 20 th of February.) Anita Hannunen started out to give a description of the studio from memory with her eyes closed, congenially translated by Kari. The broadcast began with a Karelian lament song, performed by the Helsinki artist Kirsi Poutanen. His wife Tyyra – having brought in a medium sized and promising looking suitcase – settled into the office chair with her knitting work and the two poets comfortably lounged on the sofa. Tixa set up the gear for his up-coming performance, involving a table record player and a reindeer horn fixed in a clamp to the table.
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