Sour Grapes, getting tickled, getting interviewed

My graphic score "Import Blues" is part of Sorbus Gallery's Sour Grapes show. It's open until 9th of October. They are making Sorbus wine out of the rowan berries picked from the tree in front of the gallery! "Import Blues" is also the front cover of Tomutonttu's "Kevätjuhla" LP to be released by Alter.

Here's an interview I did with The Witzard.

Something for the adventurous ear! You can now listen n download "Näkymättömän hipaisuja", a crude collection of spontaneous site-specific compositions / sound impression from 2012. This set was originally a sound walk commissioned by the 5th Triennial of Pirkanmaa. 

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TOMUTONTTU – XL RATKAISIJAN VIITTA

Here's a new TOMUTONTTU music video “XL RATKAISIJAN VIITTA”. It's a continuation to an incurable life long obsession with flags, them trance inducing rags. It was filmed with a mobile phone while visiting Viikinsaari Island, a "verdant summer haven" 20 minutes away from Tampere city centre.

TRARAT is out

Go get it!
https://kemiallisetystavat.bandcamp.com/album/trarat
http://leavingrecords.com/releases/lr099-trarat/

TT cover art

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KEVÄTJUHLA, LP, Alter, 2016

Two new Tomutonttu albums!

I'm excited to bring you two "new" albums of Tomutonttu music.

The first one was finished in the beginning of 2015 and was premiered as a soundtrack to my KEVÄTJUHLA exhibition. The album shares the same title, "Spring Celebration". Here's a new SINGLE from that album, it's called SIUNATUT JYVÄT.

KEVÄTJUHLA LP New Images 2016

Here's another track from Kevätjuhla, this one's called KUINKA VOIN AUTTAA.

w/ Yarahi (voice)

The other new album is called TRARAT and it is collection of recordings I made this spring while working on a live piece commissioned by Tampere Biennial. It is to be released on cassette and as a digital download by Leaving Records maybe before the summer is gone. Here's what one section of it sounds like:

TRARAT cassette Leaving Records 2016

Metso LIVE documentation

Don't be sad if you couldn't make it to the Metso Library in Tampere yesterday. Thanks to the skilful youth at Tampere Nuorisopalvelut the event was streamed live and documented. I was asked to select some books, music and films from the collections of the library that I would recommend to people. The video starts with librarian Juhani Koivisto interviewing me about my picks. In Finnish. Then there's a little improvisation (starts at 27:50) with a volunteer assistant operating the Tomutonttu Music Box. The sound is a bit rough but that's just how it is sometimes.