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Visual

Concept: Anti-Establishment Ambient

Concept art for a project, which explores the power of sound.

Elements created with ChatGPT, and finished in Photoshop.

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Art

Sonification of a Tree – Requiem for the 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

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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Visual

Poster Art for a Global Grassroots Activist Event 12M

12M Poster Global Action Day Occupy HelsinkiThe poster art needed to convey a sense of immediacy, internationalism, and determination, with a particular emphasis on the principle of universal humanism that underpins the Occupy movement.

The poster traces the key historical milestones of the movement, culminating in the occupation in Finland. Additionally, it functions as the event’s timetable.

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Visual

Website Graphics and Illustrations

Logo concepts and illustrations for a website addressing brain drain and the national cost of neglecting talent.