As a sound recordist I’m able to provide such skills as music recording, audio recording and sound recording for live sound, live music and in a recording studio – on-location or in a contract.
I handled the production of the music video for Laura Iso-Metsälä, including recording both the visuals and audio. I also mixed the final piece, ensuring the sound and imagery were seamlessly integrated.
The installation gives aural and visual form to human cycles, intimately highlighting menstrual pain (dysmenorrhea) through sound. It sonifies the orbital interactions between Earth, Moon, and Sun, translating their gravitational effects into an immersive experience that reflects our connection to these celestial bodies.
Presented at the Cycles group exhibition during Helsinki’s AAVE audiovisual arts festival, the work features four LED strips and a four-channel audio system. The Sun and Moon are represented as rotating sound sources around the visitor, while a heart rate sensor invites direct audience participation.
The installation’s sound cycle lasts about 50 minutes—equivalent to roughly two years—chosen because the Sun and Moon return to similar positions at the cycle’s start and end. Sounds of pain randomly occur every 1–2 minutes, synchronized with pulsing and fading LED lights.
The Sun’s sound is a higher octave of its roughly 11-year activity cycle, rendered as a low, continuous tone. The Moon’s sound derives from the Saros cycle (about 18 years), producing higher, pulsating tones with pulse lengths representing thousandths of a month. The relative amplitudes of the Sun and Moon sounds correspond to their respective tidal forces.
Audience interaction occurs via a pulse sensor mounted on a pole at the room’s center, indicated by a green light. A red LED beside it pulses with the visitor’s detected heart rate when contact pressure is optimal. After detecting six sequential pulses, the installation plays a real heartbeat sound, connecting personal rhythm to the cosmic cycles.
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.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30XJhUVNIio
I worked as the sound designer for Anni, a Finnish indie feature film directed by Jussi Einola and produced by Joonas Einola. My responsibilities included on-site recording, Foley effects, and mixing. In addition to mixing the film’s soundtrack, I mixed and mastered the music and composed several original pieces using material from composer Simo Salo. Anni also incorporates samples from Freesound.org contributors, listed below.
acclivity, adcbicycle, amszala, Anton, audible edge, Benboncan, bennychico11, Bram, boziav, csengeri, dobroide, dkristian, dommygee, Dynamicell, fonogeno, FreqMan, gadzooks, gelo papas, gezortenplotz, Glaneur de sons, hazure, hello flowers, HerbertBoland, homejrande, inchadney, ingeos, j1987, jasinski, jimblodget, juskiddink, LG, lonemonk, malexmedia, martian, miastodzwiekow, mikaelfernstrom, MRQZ, nathanprtII, pempi, pushtobreak, RHumphries, Robinhood76, rutgermuller, RZ 1, sagetyrtle, sandyrb, Schalkalwis, scarfield, Slanesh, slerner, stephsinger22, thealchemist12, THE bizniss, tigersound, Timbre, timofei, timtube, tmc zach, ToddBradley, Tomlija, ViaTorci, zebraphone, xef6, xyzr kx, YngvieM
Muutos is a traditional Christian indie feature film that I contributed to in multiple roles. I worked as a sound recordist on a few shoots, created ambient atmospheres, and handled aspects of the overall sound design.