Works
(Selected works)
IMPROVe
IMPROVe is an aural architecture for socio-cultural exchange. Sonic realities of the everyday are improvised live in a non-linear mode. Local and remote audiences contribute and access open content.
IMPROVe explores the role of the mobile phone user as a creator of her/ his own content. It attempts to define the mobile device as a tool for environment awareness by making the user conscious of their immediate sonic surrounding. By exploring the role of the mobile phone as a medium of sonic content creation and exchange, we propose the understanding of the music making mobile device as a medium of empowerment.
IMPROVe is a collaborative project between Zeenath Hasan and me. More.
It was also my Master thesis project in Medialab, University of Art and Design Helsinki called IMPROVe - Exploring modes of listening (pdf).
The sound and video examples belonging to the thesis can be accessed here.
Photo by Antti Ahonen
Sunrisescape
Sunrisescape is the sound of the sunrise. You listen to the day getting brighter and brighter. From the time before the sun starts to rise over the horizon to lightens up the sky until the sun have risen high enough to give a more constant daylight. The lightwaves from the sun are translated into audible soundwaves with the help of light sensors and two oscillators producing sinewaves.
Sunrisescape was recorded one morning in November 2004 in Helsinki.
Sonic MobLog
Sonic MobLog let you with a simple interface record and publish your found sounds using your mobile phone where the sounds goes straight to a podcast. This was used during ASEF Hearing Helsinki artcamp in Helsinki 2006 where you could follow the participants sonic traverses in realtime. It consists of a mobile phone application and a WordPress hack. I am working on releasing the software for mobile phones and a as a WordPress plugin. From a conceptual viewpoint this work explores my interest into different ways to publish and access sound.
Sonic MobLog was developed with the help from Jürgen Scheible.
In Ice & Singing Ice
Recordings of the ice of the lake Sången in Hällefors, Sweden.
In Ice is recorded with a contact microphone frozen inside the ice of the lake.
Singing ice is recorded with a stereo microphone on top of the ice of the lake.
What you hear is the lake’s ice constantly moving as it is reacting to itself and the weather, pressure etc. Apart from being beautiful this work explores what is audible with the help of technology.
Metamorphosis
Is an audio-visual live performance based on my ice-recordings and Teemu Kivikangas videos from melting ice in cities in the southern hemisphere. The performance is an improvisation with the sounds and the images.
Performed live at Ars Electronica Campus exhibition 2006.
Rummets språk
(Spatial Semantics)
Was an investigation together with Jon Grönlund into the the subject of spatiality expressed with images and sound and how hearing and vision make one perceive space. We did this by combining a spatial sound with images projected onto large projection screens. The sound was recorded using binaural microphones in the waiting room at an emergency dental clinic in Stockholm. The same room was then built in the computer using 3D graphical software maintaining the physical proportions but removing all details.
For the finished installation we built a room constructed by three projection screens and three video projectors connected to three computers. Each of the projectors showed a view of the virtual space that extended the real space. Two chairs were placed inside the room with one set of headphones each for the spatial sound.
Tokyo 10:56
A Soundscape composition from my subjective sonic experience of Tokyo. Best listened to with headphones since it is based on binaural recordings.