Experimental Music
FESTIVAL FOR NEW SOUNDS
Ääenen Lumo = Charm of Sounds, experimental music and sound art association of Finland, organizes its first International festival in November.
The information site is now up. http://www.charmofsound.org/
Facebook and Twitter links are available. Check the program!And why don’t you come to Helsinki?
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Lá-Bas Biennale 2010 compilation CD
On Silakka Radio Show the last week and this week I will introduce Lá-Bas Biennale 2010 compilation CD.
The Festival was held the last April 2010. Here is its info.
Listen the live show!
Produced and Mastered by Petri Kuljuntausta. Cover design (above image) by Sami van Ingen.
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Day 3 / THE OTHER SOUND OF FINLAND at FLOW Festival
OK, here it is. And I am sorry that Ville Leinonen & Majakan Soittokunta ( I was at the radio station doing live show), Pekko Käppi and the last band, Kiila are missing.
The day 3. August 15, Sunday
Thanks FLOW Festival!
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THE OTHER SOUND OF FINLAND at FLOW Festival
The short HD video (one minute video clip of the each musician/band) documentary from the other sound of Finland, the Finnish experimental scene curated by Juuso Paaso at the FLOW Festival August 13 – 15, 2010.
Shot, Edited and Uploaded by the Silakka Radio Show (that means me, Shinji).
Have a look! (Don’t forget to watch them [...]
August 8, 2010 THE AUTUMN SEASON OF THE SHOW STARTS
Silakka Radio Show has opened its first show for the Autumn season 2010.
Playlist:
1. Olga Palomäki: Electric Field No. 1
2. Olga Palomäki: Raging Spirits
3. Ari Kurki: Stillleben – Laut leben
4. Grey Park (pla, nosfe, tommi, re-clip and bon jarno): Take Two
Sorry for the last 1 minute that was not sent on air because of the technical [...]
ANNOUNCEMENT
Dear worldwide PODCASTING listeners of the Silakka Radio Show,
The show for the Autumn season 2010 starts on Sunday, August 8 at 5pm as scheduled. However I regret to tell you that I stop podcasting and instead broadcast LIVE on air only. I have been thinking about the problem of copyright that restricts my selection of [...]
April 25, 2010 Wien (Vienna) – Helsinki
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Today’s radio show features two interesting artists: Pleasure to Introduce 1) Matija Schellander from Wien, and 2) the artist duo, Tommi Grönlund & Petteri Nisunen from Helsinki.
1. Matija’s web address: http://matija.klingt.org
His “Dangerfield” I played can be found at Mikroton records, Moscow. http://mikroton.net/site/index.php?mikroton-cd-5-6,77
And the newest release, “old girl, old boy” by rdeča raketa, a duo with [...]
April 11, 2010 Cage on Bazterrak
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Today I will do an experiment: I play BAZTERRAK (Enrike Hurtado)’s LOOPS, 1 hour 20 minutes music “installation” from the year 2008, and at the same time I will read John Cage’s statement on EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC from his book SILENCE, that was printed in the brochure accompanying Geroge Avakian’s recording of my twenty-five-year retrospective concert [...]
April 4, 2010 SORTIE at NMA
Enjoying peaceful Easter holidays?
Today I play the recording of SORTIE, Tommi Keränen/Topias Tiheäsalo/Jari Kaukua, who visited NMA, a series of concerts called NEW MUSIC ACADEMY that I produced during 2004 – 2005 at Sibelius Academy.
SORTIE first played some pages from Cornelius Cardiew’s Treatise (1963.67) and then free improvisation. Total 37 minutes peaceful, quiet, but lots [...]
March 28, 2010 Kazuo Uehara, composer
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Composer in Focus: Kazuo Uehara
Today I introduce Uehara-san (san = Mr. in Japanese) who is old friend of mine, electro-acoustic music composer, multimedia/sound artist, producer of many international music/performance art festivals and professor of Osaka University of Arts. His interests are acousmatics and interactivity among others. I play his solo album CD: COSMOS I.
His other [...]
March 21, 2010 Shinji Kanki Compositions: Winter Skolion 1987 & Self-Portrait in Semi Ukiyoe Style 1990
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Today I introduce two of my earlier works from the year 1987 and 1990: Winter Skolion & Self-Portrait in Semi Ukiyoe Style respectively.These works are written on the staff notation paper, but they are in a way very experimental. More information on these works are found at my web site: http://silakka.fi, but NOT YET! [...]
March 14, 2010 Luis Alejandro Olarte & Clément Victor (live studio guests)
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The radio show has a live studio guests from Paris today: Luis Alejandro Olarte(DIEGO), composer and musician and Clément Victor, actor and free improviser.
They would play live improvisation in the studio.
More information on DIEGO, visit his website here: http://teluria.free.fr/
and on Clément, http://www.myspace.com/journaldetrange and http://www.myspace.com/theatrealchimique
Thanks, DIEGO and Clément for your visit! Great improvisation!
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February 28, 2010 etc.
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Copyright…. Silence…..Experimental Music…etc.
Playlist:
1. Kitisen Saharan / Hermanni Yli-Tepsa: TUOLI VAJOSI
(! Beautiful painted cover of the C cassette release by Hermanni and Inka)
2. Congo Bobé ritual (track 1)/ Ocora Radio France
3. Harri Viitanen: Images d’oiseau pour orgue (excerpt)
The left image taken from http://sirpaleena.blogspot.com
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February 21, 2010 Just Playing Music!
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Snow, snow, snow, ….. everyday and -18C!
Today I just play music. Too tired with snow work everyday. Enjoy good experimental music line-ups! Sorry for my occasional interruption.
Here is the playlist:
1. Dolphins: Echolocation
2. Emi Maeda: Ogenkidesuka?
3. HEDELMÄKORISEVA/Jani Purhonen http://sirpaleena.blogspot.com/
(Jani is the curator of the music releases from Sirpaleena)
4.Topias Tiheäsalo
5. Ponytail
6. Antoine Verhaverbeke
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February 14, 2010 Charm of Sound Winter Concerts III
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Today I introduce The Charm of Sound’s Winter Concert part III that is coming tonight, Sunday Feb.14 at KOKO Teatteri at 6.30pm. Be there!
More info here.
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