[of sound]
Performance evening I [Sirpa Jokinen, Erik Alalooga, Malte Steiner]
24.3.2023
EN
During the [of sound] sonic arts exhibition at Oksasenkatu 11 gallery there two performance evenings organised! In the first evening on March 24th, 2023 the performers are Sirpa Jokinen, Erik Alalooga, and Malte Steiner.
Sirpa Jokinen: Horses In The Wind
Performance consists of sounds made with mechanical wind, self-built instruments, field-recordings made by the artist and open source sound effects. The performnace aims to create a listening experience of layered sound using an installation of obejts.
Sirpa Jokinen
The sound performances of Sirpa Jokinen are layered polyphonic experiments with electronic instruments
and synthesizers she built, field recordings, objects and traditional instruments. She plays synthesizers in the duo Brutou Dou, Helsinki Improvisation Orchestra and Synthestra. She also makes acousmatic pieces using field recordings made with self-built equipment but also combine these using standard recording equipment, found sounds and played sounds. She is painter by education. Conceptually her work deal with the surrounding space.
https://soundcloud.com/
https://vector7.bandcamp.com/
https://artsyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deep-tunnel
https://artsyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/windy-why
http://www.kuvataiteilijamatrikkeli.fi/fi/taiteilijat/2029
Erik Alalooga: The Random Light Orchestra
Erik Alalooga´s recent piece The Random Light Orchestra is a cable-jungle with suggestively blinking light, inaudibly ticking relay, receding rear-lights of technological progress, everlasting expectation of next impulse, negatively charged particles with blameless discipline, enlighment of photons, distorted coordinate-axis, annoying presence of invisible force-vectors, non-recurring patterns of noise, hidden gearwheels in their planetary solidarity, relativity of motion, sincere animality of liberated machines and passionate wedding-night of poetry and technology.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8o4zFNWQwc&t=27s&ab_channel=ErikAlalooga
Erik Alalooga
Erik Alalooga is a performance director, performer, sound artist, teacher and cultural manager living in Tallinn, Estonia. He is mostly known by exploration and application of DIY analog-technological solutions in his artworks. Since 2005 his focus has been on immediate relationships between human and machine. Born in 1974 in Tallinn, Estonia, Alalooga studied in Estonian Academy of Arts (EAA), sculpture (BA) and interdisciplinary arts (MA). In 2018 he started doctoral studies in theatre art in Estonian Music and Theatre Academy. Since 2014 Alalooga performs as solo artist in experimental music and sound- performance. A cornerstone of Erik Alalooga´s musical expression is an analytical interaction with matter and self-made mechanical objects. Basic unit of composition isn´t a note, but periodically repeated pattern.
Malte Steiner: Piece For Modular Synthesizer And Real Estate Data
The audiovisual Piece For Modular Synthesizer And Real Estate Data is part of Malte Steiner’s art project The Big Crash – art for the pending burst of the real estate bubble – which has as the thematic departure point the instability of the real estate market as a consequence of extreme gentrification. Something that is actively taking place in all bigger cities around the globe. There is a pending ‘big bubble crash’ awaiting because of this and the piece deals with the increasing uncertainty and its effects on society this movement creates. The foundation is a software written by Malte Steiner, which harvests the data of some real estate websites from Berlin, e. g. prices and square meters, but also the photos from the advertisements. Those are analyzed with a Machine Learning algorithm, performing an image segmentation and thus separating objects found in these images into picture fragments which are used for the visuals. The numerical data like prices and square meters over a certain period of time is used to control a custom software synthesizer implemented in Csound and Max/MSP plus an analogue modular synthesizer to create the Piece For Modular Synthesizer And Real Estate Data. Concert performances of that piece so far have been in Berlin, Zagreb, and Aarhus.
http://www.thebigcrash.net
http://www.thebigcrash.net/music.php
Malte Steiner
Malte Steiner is a German media artist, electronic musician and composer, currently living between Aalborg (DK) and Helsinki (FI). Steiner started creating electronic music and visual art around 1983, developing his own vision of the interdisciplinary Gesamtkunstwerk. Started 2019 to work on the art project The Big Crash, reflecting on the housing crisis, urban development and gentrification, which includes installations, VR and paintings. Physical exhibitions have been in Aarhus and Aalborg, both Denmark and in Bergen, Norway. The Virtual Reality version of the project was included in several online exhibitions like Sound Campus shown at Ars Electronica 2020, the XR Music section of the International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) 2021 and Rencontres Internationales 2022 Paris / Berlin.
The performance evening I is part of [of sound] sonic arts exhibition organised in Oksasenkatu 11 gallery between March 5th–30th, 2023.
The exhibition has been supported by Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) and Musiikin edistämissäätiön (MES).