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Spheres

2/20025 Dance House Helsinki, Pannuhalli

Assembling and concept: Marianna Henriksson, Anna Mustonen

Choreographer: Anna Mustonen

Composers: Shiva Feshareki, Justina Repečkaitė, Lauri Supponen

Harpsichord, positive organ: Marianna Henriksson, Petteri Pitko

Dancers: Anna Maria Häkkinen, Mira Kautto, Marlon Moilanen, Anna Mustonen

Dramaturge: Masi Tiitta

Lighting designer: Meri Ekola

Materials of the space: Piia Rinne

Sound designer: Markus Heino

Administrative coordination and conceptual dialogue: Riikka Thitz / i dolci 

Production: i dolci, Zodiak - Centre for New Dance, Musica nova Helsinki

Photo: Venla Helenius

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Live installation River Eye with Miia Rinne

4.1.2025 Mältinranta Artcenter, Tampere

in the exhibition opening of Niina Lehtonen Braun, Mirka Raito and Miia Rinne

Photo: Petteri Rinne

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Laura the Light & Co.

Star children in the world

It is difficult for the star children to adapt to the world. They breathe and express themselves like the clouds in the sky, the sea on the land, and the stars in space.

Star children in the world is a show that contains an insane mix of five mini-performances. The mini-performances have been made during the years 2022–2024 and each of their life’s challenges and physical blockages has been trembled, distressed, shaken, illuminated. Silliness, homemade, truthfulness, rejoicing, and airing of the beliefs have been and will be present and are now painted with an even bigger brush. There are crazy costumes, magical silk paintings, and limitless creatures that prove the mystery of living. Spaciousness versus the mundane world. Freedom is very close, you can let go. The intention is to make a show, that is at the same time a B-class comedy, a spa for souls, and a church of the new era.

Choreography, costumes, and performance: Laura the Light (Laura Pietiläinen) Creating together and performance: Alm Gnista, Lätsä (Lauri Antti Mattila), and P.P. Puska (Piia Rinne) Visualist (videos and paintings): Sara Pathirane Sound design (together with performers): Sirja Puurtinen Lighting design: Anna Pöllänen Mentor: Lin Da Ehkä-production’s house dramaturg: Even Minn Perfume: Sielunkuu / Tiina Pitkänen Production: Ehkä-production, Live Art Society, and Laura Pietiläinen, in collaboration with the Regional Dance Centre of Western Finland Residency: Ehkä-production/Contemporary Art Space Kutomo (Turku) Supporters: Arts Promotion Centre Finland, and City of Helsinki

2024 XS Festival/Contemporary Art Space Kutomo Turku 2025 Mad House Helsinki

Photo: Sara Pathirane

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River Eye

Limited Edition 12" Vinyl

Released October 31, 2024

Artsy Records 2024  ART-40

All music by Piia Rinne  Mastered by Samuli Tanner  Visual concept by Miia Rinne  Layout by Tom Backström  Bleeding heart by Eija Koponen 

Making of this album was supported by the Arts Promotion Centre Finland 

Piia Rinne, a Pori-based sound artist and textile designer, operates at the intersection of sonic experimentation and tactile craftsmanship, weaving a profound connection between these two mediums. Her debut vinyl, River Eye, released under Artsy Records, presents an evocative foray into experimental music, one that defies traditional genre classifications. Artsy, known for its dedication to "the trve experimental music heads," provides a fitting platform for Rinne's boundary-pushing auditory visions. 

The album, River Eye, is a radical exploration of sound, largely constructed from tape loops, rough cut-and-paste digital editing, and pitch shifting. These techniques evoke a tangible, almost sculptural relationship to sound, where the process of creation becomes an aesthetic and philosophical gesture. The raw, analog feel of the work resonates with a certain materiality—sound as fabric, woven through repetitions and mutations, distorting and elongating time. Her process becomes a metaphor for the textile artist’s craft: cutting, stitching, and layering materials, Rinne shapes sound in much the same way she might approach fabric, imbuing each element with texture and depth. 

River Eye is, in many ways, psychedelic, but it eludes the trappings of the familiar, often commodified tropes of "psychedelia." Instead, Rinne’s sound world confronts the listener with an intense, emancipatory psychism, one that refracts consciousness in ways that question the limits of perception, technology, and embodiment. Through her rough, fragmented editing techniques, she presents a fractured auditory reality, one that mirrors the discontinuities of lived experience. Her pitch-shifting manipulations dislodge sounds from their referential anchors, further unsettling the listener’s expectations. In this way, River Eye pushes against the normative frameworks that constrain both art and life, carving out a space of radical freedom. 

Piia Rinne’s River Eye is not just music, nor is it just art—it is a deeply philosophical engagement with sound as a medium of resistance. The album serves as both a listening experience and an intellectual provocation, urging us to reconsider the ways in which we hear the drum of cosmos, experience time and relate to the materiality of the world. In Rinne’s hands, sound becomes a tool for emancipation, a way of unraveling the oppressive structures that govern both art and life and weaving together new possibilities for the future. 

- Juho Toivonen

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Video: Miia Rinne

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Yet something is different -performance

9 / 2024 Liisa Pentti + Co -studio, Helsinki

Concept, choreography, costumes, performance, Finnish translations and arrangement of the songs: Laura the Light a.k.a. Laura Pietiläinen

Creating and ideating together, own music, performance and arrangement of the songs: P. P. Puska a.k.a. Piia Rinne

Silk paintings and photo: Sara Pathirane

Supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland and City of Helsinki

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Summer Stalker, 2024

Video: Miia Rinne

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Tumma kukka (Dark Flower) -live installation

Muu Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre 29.5.2024

Piia Rinne: sound (c-cassette loops, samplers, multitrack recorders)

Miia Rinne: space (hand-painted 35 mm film, video image, folds)

Photo: Noora Niinikoski

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Undress me, then

Teatteri Takomo 10-11/2023

Play: Marie Kajava

Directing: Ami Karvonen

Sound: Tatu Nenonen

Light: Jenni Pystynen

Space: Jaakko Pietiläinen

Costume: Piia Rinne

Public work and curating critical evenings: Iiris Laisi

Actors: Geoffrey Erista, Joanna Haartti, Niina Hosiasluoma, Katja Küttner, Ella Lahdenmäki and Juliette Sossou

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Miia Rinne: The Latest Worm, 2023 / teaser

music Piia Rinne aka P. P. Puska

in the exhibition

Spiderwomen: Niina Lehtonen Braun, Mirka Raito, Miia Rinne

Porvoo Art Hall 29.6.-3.9.2023

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Tellervo series 4, 2023

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Tellervo series 4, 2023

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Ray of light 

2/2023 Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Turku

Choreography, dance and convener: Anna Torkkel

Costume design: Piia Rinne

Lighting and video design: Kristian Palmu

Scenography: Kristian Palmu and Piia Rinne

Live mixing of the sound and singing: Johanna Porola

Sound design: Johanna Porola and Biitsi (Heidi and Kaino Wennerstrand)

Artistic dialogue and co-dancing: Mira Kautto

Production: Ehkä-production and Anna Torkkel

Photos: Katri Naukkarinen

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Nature Untitled / Movements I-III, 2022

Veli Lehtovaara, Eija-Liisa Ahtila & Jani Hietanen

Oil Silo 468, Zodiak Stage, Redi Shopping Center

Choreography: Veli Lehtovaara in collaboration with the performers

Performers: Elias Girod, Anni Koskinen, Sofia Simola, Matilda Aaltonen, Erik Eriksson, Inga Huld Hákonardóttir, Kevin Fay

Space, scenography and moving image: Eija-Liisa Ahtila

Sound design: Jani Hietanen

Costume design: Piia Rinne (movement I & III, movement II with Heide Vanderieck)

Light design: Luc Schaltin (movement II), Anton Verho (movement I original design, adaptation Anna Pöllänen)

Dramaturgical support: Merel Heering

Environmental educator: Riitta Nykänen (movement III)

Cinematography: Pekka Uotila (movement I), Arto Kaivanto (movement II)

Edit: Heikki Kotsalo

Production assistant: Sofia Charifi

Production: Entirely Moved

Co-production: Zodiak, Moving in November, Institut finlandais

Productional support: Arts Management Helsinki

Photo: Sinem Kayacan

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Eros 10/2022 Dance House Helsinki

Assembling and concept: Marianna Henriksson and Anna Mustonen

Choreography: Anna Mustonen

Musical directing, harpsichord and organ: Marianna Henriksson

Performers: 

Hanna Ahti, Mikko Hyvönen, Anna Kupari, Pie Kär, Eleni Pierides (dance) 

Tuuli Lindberg and Sirkku Rintamäki (soprano), Teppo Lampela (alto), Juho Punkeri (tenor), Jussi Lehtipuu (bass)

Finnish Baroque Orchestra: Anne Pekkala and Hannu Vasara (violin), Hanna Pakkala (viola), Louna Hosia (cello),  Anna Rinta-Rahko (violone), Jani Sunnarborg (dulcian), Eero Palviainen (lute and baroque guitar)

Dramaturge: Masi Tiitta 

Costumes: Piia Rinne

Light: Heikki Paasonen

Producer: Riikka Thitz / i dolci

Dressmaking: Veera Vuorisalo and Anneli Partanen

Airbrushing: Eija Koponen

Production:  i dolci, Zodiak – Center for New Dance, Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Helsinki Early Music Festival

Video: Sinem Kayacan

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Tellervo series 3, 2022

airbrush painting Eija Koponen

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Principia 

Cirko, Helsinki 4/2022

Choreographic framework and direction: Kati Raatikainen

Aerial acrobatics facilitation: Jenny Mansikkasalo

Somatic facilitation: Sally Davison

Performers: Sally Davison, Georgia Goater, Kadar Khristan, Jenny Mansikkasalo, Noora Västinen

Scenography: Aino Koski

Light: Milla Martikainen

Costume: Piia Rinne

Sound: Roy Boswell

Producer: Inari Pesonen

Production: Kaaos Company, DanceAbility Finland ry

Video: Leandro Lefa