Kaleva Youth Association produced a YouTube video series for its 50th anniversary camp. The series – TaigaVisio (All episodes) – provided helpful tips on various topics for the children to prepare for the camp life.
I shot, edited and sound designed the series with the help of the camp guides Jussi and Hannu.
A solo musical project since the beginning of the universe and beyond. Several live performances, which usually take hours to fold out, and hundreds of single tracks produced over the years. Approaches the laminarity and supraconduction through intuition, improvisation and unpredictability. A psychophysical expedition on the wavecrest of the caleidoscopic reality.
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Releases:
2022 – Elämänpuu, with Heikki Lindgren (Voyager 1 Records)
2021 – Ea EP (Voyager 1 Records, France)
2019 – Apokatastasis EP (Voyager 1 Records, France)
2009 – Andra (Atmoworks, USA)
2004 – Ajan Geometria (Atmoworks, USA)
Releases available on Bandcamp. Live performances available from the Archive.org
Muutos is a traditional Christian indie feature film, to which I took a part for some time. I was present at a couple of shootings as a recordist, created a couple of ambient atmospheres and designed the sound.
The video depicts a scene from a short feature ‘Astronautti’, which was directed by Topias Parkkonen. The sound player has the complete sound track, which consists of five pieces. The first four pieces are tied together by one low frequency sound. When the protagonist is releaved from his childhood traumas in the ending scene by the help from a girl he has fallen in love with, the low frequency sound ceases to haunt him.
The melodies and other material from various analogue synthesizers were recorded straight to the sound editor without much rehearsal or careful composing. The film was played on the screen at the same time and the feeling of the scenes and the story intuitively transformed into music.
The method didn’t allow any midi sequencing, because there wasn’t any specific tempo set and the sounds of various synthesizers was directly recorded. During the editing phase the sounds were further processed and cut to fit better to the events of the film. The method was fast, sensitive and intuitive, and the result organic and fitting.
The sample is from the second song of the three song set Muutos performed at Gospel Savo event in 2009. The drums were electronic and their sound was available only in two channels, so they couldn’t be mixed in as properly as would have been best. All of the other instruments were recorded individually.