29/02/2024
S+T+ARTS funded GRIN project presents
Grin Club : SynchroniCities + Hakosalo&Tuohino
Facebook event: https://fb.me/e/5IACGtV9A
On Leap Day, Thursday, February 29, 2024, at 5.30 p.m., a concert of experimental music and sound art will be organized in the Cross media studio (7B129), with two sections. The first is the sound art performance SynchroniCities, which takes place simultaneously in both Oulu and Bucharest, Romania, realized by local sound artists Jussi Alaraasakka and Stefan Damian. After this, Osmo Hakosalo and Jussi Tuohino from Oamk will perform their first public concert with kantele and live electronics. Tuohino is responsible for the spatialization of the sound, and Mikko Bergström takes care of the live performance technology. Free admission.
SynchroniCities:
Immerse yourself with the soundscapes of Oulu and Bucharest in multichannel sonification live performance(s) of SynchroniCities.
Sound artists and -designers Stefan Damian(ROM) and Jussi Alaraasakka(FIN) create simultaneous performances of field recordings modified to evolving, processed soundscapes that are then spatialized in multichannel sound systems.
Both artists have collected sounds from their home cities, exchanged and remixed those and will perform at the same time in their local venues.
In Bucharest the performance will be a part of the https://foc-iff.com/ film festival.
Stefan Damian is a sound-designer / composer / interaction designer based in Bucharest, Romania. His artistic exploration revolves around sonic interaction design, sound spatialization, sound synthesis / transformation algorithms, and the artistic and social contexts in which they can coexist, in a highly expressive way. Listener of hip-hop, metal, jazz, funk, fusion, electronic, and electroacoustic music. He holds a bachelor's degree in cinema and media from UNATC Bucharest, a master's degree in sonic arts from Queen's University Belfast, and a PhD in performing arts at UNATC Bucharest.Stefan has been working as a producer, composer, sound engineer, sound designer, and interaction designer for a varied range of musical, advertising, film, and new media productions, often endeavoring to find a common ground where all these different backgrounds and interests can coexist.When he is not playing with sounds, he teaches sound design at UNATC.
Portfolio: https://www.stefandamian.com/portfolio
Jussi Alaraasakka is a sound designer and -artist, musician and producer of related workshops.
Drawing inspiration from the contrast of nature and technology and their contrast, the professional artist explores new ways of expression through sound environments + "traditional" and new means of electronic music production. The methods are often field recordings, editing those with modern tools (grain synthesis and generative sound editing, etc.). The end result can be performances based on improvisation, publications or carefully planned commissioned work for partners.
Battery-powered instruments + loudspeakers enable improvisation anywhere: He’s gigged from a rowing boat and played along with trains for example.
Portfolio: https://alaraasakka.wordpress.com/
Tuohino & Hakosalo:
"We took the quiet and short sound of kantele and stretched it into infinity"
Osmo Hakosalo is a violinist and a founding member of the folk music group Rällä and works as a Project Manager in Oulu University of Applied Sciences’ Center for Arts Innovation.
Jussi Tuohino works as a Senior Lecturer of music technology in Oulu University of Applied Sciences and advances the creation and listening opportunities of spatial sound in Oulu.
