Eero Yli-Vakkuri
My talk for Ihme-days is now on youtube. I’m pretty proud of the relaxed tone of the talk. It was prepped during the Error Collectives Serious Inspections-“talkshow” with Nestori Syrjälä, Pekka & Teija Isorättyä which is on youtube too.
The only thing I miss about twitter is @SUCHHELSINKIs witty comments.
An absolutely fucking fantastic list of silent musical compositions! Check out Sleepify album by Vulfpeck.
It should also include “The Experience Of Silence” from the album “The Experience Of Silence” by Two Witches and “Minuutin hiljaisuus” from the album “Sisäinen solarium” Ismo Alangon Säätiö (I’ll add them later).
I’m sitting next to the Record Singers LP cover which has never included an album inside.. I’m not sure if the eight songs listed on its back cover count as silent compositions. The songs on this record are radically absent compositions. I listed it on the Discogs site.
My first talk for Ihme-days is online (in Finnish). Audio is a tad low so here are the notes for the talk.
Accidentally met Mikko Kuorinki at a Cafe. We went on to talk about the Record Singers (group) vinyl cover designed by Jorma Puranen in 1974. Kuorinki was interested in getting a copy so I gathered my guts and called Mirja Airas to ask if she had any left. She has some copies stored and her friend Marjatta Hanhijoki will bring them to Helsinki later this week! I’ll give copies for Puranen and Kuorinki too. This is the same vinyl cover I’m tasked to write about for the Artsi-museum catalogue.
Song about the Przewalski horse (in Finnish).
Going to the movies is a form of voting. You can vote for a artificial techno-immersion (fantasy) or fleshy optical penetration (drama).
Hear this rant as a song!
Making music with loops and limited sequencers (no option to transpose etc.) is all about exit-strategies. The end of a song should be plotted before the highlights are played. An exit-strategy requires foresight which is build with education, believe and training. My down sight in music is my lack of training and education. But I’m having trouble with believing too. I can build a wall of sound but have trouble letting go. I should trust that I can build sounds and stop treating good vibes as miracles.
These same dynamics are evident in all art. Arrogance towards the present is an important requirement. I build arrogance by multitasking, by working on several projects at the same time. Keeping secondary projects helps me alleviate stress the primary project causes.
Wonder if this is why people have affairs?