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Photo: Sini Koskelainen
Photo: Sini Koskelainen
Photo: Sini Koskelainen
Photo: Sini Koskelainen
Photo: Sini Koskelainen
Photo: Sini Koskelainen
Photo: Sini Koskelainen
Photo: Sini Koskelainen
Photo: Sini Koskelainen
Photo: Sini Koskelainen
Photo: Sini Koskelainen21
Photo: Sini Koskelainen
Photo: Sini Koskelainen
 
Welcome to the world of musical
and visual multiverses, on land and in the imagination!


Nadja Itäsaari is a songwriter, producer, poet and multi-artist based in Gothenburg. The vision is to create live experiences where the mix of music, poetry, performance art and moving image draws the audience into intense audiovisual landscapes. On site at your event, Nadja also offers sales of Mer-Chandise, jewelry and bath bombs.

Her biggest sources of inspiration are extreme weather, birdsong, animals/nature, imagination, art and human psychology. Sea and forest collide with everyday concrete house views.

Nadja just released a new EP with Audiovisuals, available on YouTube and all music streaming platforms from 16/11-2025. 

Mermaid Cathedral Meditation is an audiovisual meditation for people living with dissociation and pent up heavy emotions. Through this meditation you can explore your inner mermaid in a safe space, guided by a mermaids voice through a suggestive audiovisual landscape. To release control and fall in love with being you again. Atleast, if so, for a brief moment ❤️

This Meditation exists in four different versions:

*1, Mermaid Cathedral Meditation - Music Video, witch is especially created for the music and listener of suggestive soundscapes and visuals.

 

*2, Mermaid Cathedral Meditation - Binaural beats mix (to reach the unconscious): Some claim binaural beats can alter brainwave activity to induce states like relaxation, focus, and sleep. This works well for some individuals, for others not. However it should be listened to with headphones due to one headphone having one frequency, and the other headphone having a slightly different frequency to alter brainwaves into creating a third frequency. This visual is created to further enhance the experience of the listening.

 

*3, Mermaid Cathedral Guided Meditation - Healing journey for all, which is especially created for individuals that needs guidance to reach relaxation. This version witholds lyrics in a guided meditation style for the listener to safely be guided into the shape of a mermaid, living out their inner most selves , to feel safer navigating on land again. This visual is created to further enhance the visualisation process of the meditation.

 

*4, Mermaid Cathedral Guided Meditation - Transforming story for neurodivergent mix, which is especially created for Neurodivergent individuals that needs guidance to reach relaxation. This version withholds lyrics in a guided meditation style for the listener to safely be guided into the shape of a mermaid, living out their inner most selves , to feel safer navigating on land again. The frequencies in the mix are also lowered to avoid triggering to reach a safer state of relaxation for the neurodivergent individual. This visual is created to further enhance the visualisation process of the meditation in a fluffy underwater environment and lighter color contrasts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Music, Production, Mix, Costume, Cinematography, Editing: Nadja Itäsaari (The Mermaid)

Mix 2, Mastering: Anneli Rosvall (The Hermit Crab)

Fragments filmed at Subterra, by: Tania Candiani at the Helsinki Biennale 2025.

Fragments filmed for the Avbitartången video (2022) by Nadja, with the Mermaid Athiraa from Sweden

Cinematography: Sini Koskelainen

Right now, Nadja's sound art is also included in Sara Sam Skoglund's installation during GIBCA Extended at Stationen in Svenshögen. The work deals with inherited grief between generations. Both Sara Skoglund's grandmother and Nadja's grandmother were war children from Finland. Sara created a text and melody for a lament that she sent to Nadja to set to sound the poetry, which is in both Finnish and Swedish.

 

The installation and exhibition period has unfortunately ended. But a online version will be created as well.


In addition to this, Nadja was a guest on the podcast Ett varv i mina skor which is available on Spotify. The podcast is run by Wispen Sjob who has been visually impaired since birth and has autism. In her podcast Ett varv i mina skor, people have the opportunity to experience a restaurant visit completely without sight. Nadja was accompanied and got to eat a meal blindfolded and talk about her artistry and get to know the podcast host Wispen. What happens when we lose our sight, which makes up eighty percent of our senses? 

Nadja Itäsaari - Känna Igen (Official Video)
04:18
Weeping Myself to Sleeping OFFICIAL Video - Nadja Itäsaari
04:16
Avbitartången - Nadja Itäsaari - OFFICIAL Video
05:05
Neverending Solitude - Nadja Itäsaari
03:54
Tramride With Voldemort - Nadja Itäsaari [OFFICIAL]
04:53
TURTLESHELL - Nadja Itäsaari & Fillobill (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
03:33
Röken&Elden - the smoke and the fire - Nadja Itäsaari OFFICIAL Video
03:55
Deer in the Headlights - Nadja Itäsaari (Official Video)
03:29

2025 Nadja Itäsaari Productions

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