Heta Bilaletdin is a multidisciplinary artist from Finland, who works with sound, experimental music, and moving image. Her sonic compositions blend home and field recordings, singing, electronic and acoustic instruments, samples, found objects and tapes to create collages, dusty beats, deconstructed pop and musique concrète. In addition to live performance, she works with sound through exhibitions, sonic sculptures, radio pieces, and workshops. Her visual work consists of films and installations, gravitating toward poetic forms of resistance, subtle connections, rituals, patterns, power structures and hidden choreographies in our coexistence.
She says: “My practice with sound and film is fragmentary and resembles collecting. For a few years I have been living half-time in Helsinki, half-time in the woods of Hattula. I record and film in my surroundings, on walks, canoe trips, and with an underwater camera in forest lakes and rivers. I capture splashing and rustling sounds, woodpeckers, water and ice, fire, the cry of a lynx, water lilies, algae, metamorphoses in plants, blooming and withering. The ongoing collection of field material is later mixed with other elements, mutated into rhythms, melodies, murmuring songs, loops, landscapes, dances and secret passages. At Cafe Oto, I will present a piece that came together, among other things, like this.”
