Finland

Aeolian Suite unfolds as a multisensory environment, transforming the Pavilion of Finland into a windscape of sound and movement. The composition uses meteorological data, musical instruments and recordings of winds from Venice, Helsinki and beyond. Fuzzy kinetic sculptures installed in a circle, like a wind rose diagram, resemble microphone wind muffs.

Countering the logic of noise cancellation and weather prediction, and bringing attention to feedback between instrument and atmosphere, Aeolian Suite engages with the wind’s unpredictability and its fully relational being. The wind is a source of true randomness; it is uncomputable. It is a carrier of particles, microbes, seeds and messages. We can only hear wind as it blows into, out of, or against trees, alleys, flutes and wings. Letting it take over the microphone or the recording is a way of staying porous to the world, of recognising registers beyond human experience and yet shaped by us.

In this elemental drama, the five Venetian winds – Tramontana, two different Boras, Scirocco and Garbin – become protagonists, singing the weather while acting as guides for deep listening. By personifying the atmospheric forces that shape the lagoon and the increasingly volatile global climate, the work addresses environmental questions from the mundane to the existential.