I’ve been quite busy lately. I’ve been finalizing the sound work for one short indie film, and during the comings months I’ll be composing music and design the sound for a longer indie feature.  A couple of musical collaboration projects will begin too in the coming months. I’m also collaborating in a sound design project for the Finnish Aviation Museum. I have practically devoted all of my time to creating audio or visuals (I do visual and www stuff as a day job at the moment).

I’ll be playing live too in a couple of weeks. The event is called Ambient Breakfast, and the idea is to cook food to the guests and make them as comfortable as possible while listening to the soothing ambient music.  My set will take place around the noon, and I look forward to playing during the daylight.

Here’s a poem I’ve written on  a train to somewhere…

When the night falls, begin
the shadows their journey towards light,
from which they draw their vitality.

At the moment of blue twilight, the time
momentarily stands still, and in the frontiers
light and shadow become one, entangled
to each others’ dreams and expectations.

Light has gone its way, and the ways
have created shadows, like an oar
disturbs water and animates the waves.

What moves light? Infinitely it sparkles,
twinkles, changes places with a dark stream and looks
for a place to rest,
as quickly as possible.

It was the darkest day of the year yesterday, but what a view in the morning.

I wish you all come back refreshened – a whole new revolution around the sun is just around the corner.

Latest set is now uploaded to Archive.org. It’s an intuitive abstract ambient set where the notes and harmonies were mostly derived from various sounds. The sources were for example cockpit voice recordings, laughter of adults and children, whispered words and nature sounds.

Sometimes the sounds were used individually and sometimes they were mixed together. I monitored the derived midi notes and hit some static chords on top of the FFT-midi note stream. The first composition was something that build itself up during the sound check. After that all of the rest was improvised.

Sometimes a sound triggers the next composition, sometimes a feeling  needs to be composed. It’s a purifying experience, where one is deeply concentrated on the present and on the change.

There was a small lake near the place where I lived at the time of processing the tracks for Andra. I often walked up there to get some fresh air. The lake was connected to a bigger lake by a small waterway, and there was a small bridge on which I used to rest and ponder things, while watching the waters underneath.

The picture was taken from the bridge towards the smaller lake. It was a late winter – early spring afternoon. I especially like that time of the year. The sun can barely overcome the almost freezing temperatures, and the air is crisp and clear. It’s warm if you stay still and there’s no wind, but when you move a bit or it begins to wind just slightly…

I’ll be playing a live set on StillStream on Friday the 11th of December. It’ll be three hours and 50 minutes of minimal, intuitive and progressive ambient for the people of Earth. Stay tuned! I’m going to apply spectral analysis to various sounds and soundscapes and turn them into music.

It’s about being still, experiencing the single moment of time and space where all the change is taking place… about concentrating on the present and the transformation of sound. I’m really glad that I’ve been able to get out from using systems of N note polyphony. I can focus on the process itself now. The world is the composer, and I’m the interpreter.

The set will begin at 23:00 GMT, and it’s hosted by Tange on his show ‘Mysterious Semblance’.

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