Category: Art

Creations that have artistic values, sound art installations, performance art; interesting and challenging exploratory works.

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Interactive Space Radio Explorer

Expanding Sonic Universe is a tool for exploring radio-wave-emitting objects in space.

Using a mobile device and headphones, the work allows visitors to listen to ten active galaxies in deep space at their real-time positions in the sky. The objects can be discovered by pointing the device around you and following their sounds. The sonification of these quasars and blazars is based on decades of research data from Aalto University’s Metsähovi Radio Observatory (MRO), documenting variations in the brightness of these distant objects.

I led the development of the application, including its functionality and visual layout. It’s easy to assume that AI produces the best and most practical code, but that’s not the default case. The application required several rounds of testing to accommodate a wide range of modern mobile devices. For example, the initial methods proposed by the coding tool for handling device orientation proved insufficient.

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Visual Interpretation of a Musical Composition

A visualization or music video for Big Reveal (In C) — an experimental choral work by renowned musician, composer, and sound artist Petri Kuljuntausta.

Screenshot of the Magic Music Visuals project

The piece was exhibited MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre in 2024.

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Soundtrack Composition and Production for an Art Exhibition

An excerpt of the soundtrack loop for an exhibition by a Guadeloupean artist Karib.

The piece is largely based on the high-pitched sound of a reverberating cannon shell casing, which acts like a tuning fork after being fired. In this case, its frequency is about 4400 Hz, or slightly below C#, which corresponds to the wavelength of the casing’s diameter or the cannon’s caliber. The sound is played at different octaves/pitches and processed in various ways. It is mixed with the sound of a Tibetan prayer bell and a temporally lengthened and highly processed sound of a creaking door brings along an organic dynamism.

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Augmented Reality Art Activated by Street Signs

ORB, commissioned by Juha van Ingen, transforms ordinary street signposts into pedestals for virtual sculptures.

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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.