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Art

Sonification of a Tree – Requiem for the Tree of the Glass Palace

Tree of the Glass Palace

In downtown Helsinki, there’s a place called Lasipalatsin aukio (Glass Palace Square), slated for renovation along with the surrounding area. At the center of the square stands a tree that is set to be cut down. In response, a group of artists created works dedicated to the tree — I was invited to contribute as well.

For my piece, I photographed the tree and used the images as input for a generative sound process. The photo is scanned from left to right, with the light areas providing data for a set of oscillators, waveforms, and filters. The resulting sound composition is taken from one full scan pass.

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Sound

Sounds of Saturn’s Rings – A Sonification of Space

Rings of Saturn

The rings of Saturn resemble a spectrogram, which inspired this experimental sonification of space.

An authentic image of Saturn’s rings was used as a spectral source. A 1-pixel vertical slice of the image was extracted and separated into three color channels. The intensity values of each channel were mapped to the cutoff frequencies of resonant filters—effectively translating the visual data into sound.

Each color plane drives 256 simultaneous sound sources, spatially arranged across the stereo field to mirror their position in the image. Some variations use up to 1024 voices, creating rich, layered textures. Minor frequency offsets per color channel introduce a subtle chorus effect.

The result is an immersive soundscape—an audible interpretation of Saturn’s rings. Original lossless audio files are available on Freesound.

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Art

Generative Interactive Sound Art Installation

Ambient2

AMBIENT² translates the soundscape of Harakka Island in Helsinki into music through a computer-driven generative process. We are born into a familiar sound environment that becomes our baseline, making everything else seem strange or peculiar. This project is about reinterpretation—by rendering the same soundscape as music, it reveals unexpected and uncanny elements. Video of the interactive sound installation.

Ambient^2 Generatiivinen ääni-installaatio

The music created by AMBIENT² does not conform to any traditional note system. Instead, it reconstructs the source material’s frequencies using synthetic instruments in a spectral musical framework. The result is a composition that never exactly repeats itself; the observed environment acts as the composer, generating its own unique tonal system. This music is not random but governed by its inherent rules.

Rooted in ambient aesthetics, the piece blurs the boundaries between ambient sound and ambient music, seamlessly merging the musical space with the surrounding world.

AMBIENT² was featured at the La-Bas Biennale 2012 and exhibited at the Sound Art Gallery Akusmata.

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Visual

Short Documentary of an Occupy Helsinki Action Evening

occupy_hki_mbar

Occupy Helsinki organized an evening of action-oriented events at a local bar. I took part in planning and coordinating the event, and together with a collaborator, I documented the evening. I was responsible for shooting and editing a short documentary video that captured the atmosphere, activities, and discussions that took place during the event.

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Visual

Promotional Video for a Youth Camp

TaigaMetsä

Teaser cut from footage I shot at TaigaMetsä camp in July 2010, organized by Kaleva Youth Association for their 50th anniversary. I worked as their media producer for a year.

Related videos include the TaigaStudio series, which I also filmed and edited.