J.O. Mallander biography, J.O. Mallander discography
"Anoema Recordings is proud to present a complete collection of sound works by the influential Finnish artist J.EPs Extended Play and Decompositions (the only Finnish entries in Broken Music catalog), and a previously unreleased piece.He has since assumed a multitude of roles within the world of art, operating as an artist, critic, writer, gallerist, and curator.Through his international connections he became a singular node of the Fluxus network in Finland.Extended Play, released in 1968, was his debut as an artist.Finnish cultural climate of the day.It displays in torturing detail the drama surrounding the presidential elections in 1962 and 1968.These pieces have haunted the Finnish popular consciousness for decades, and probably caused more complex reactions than any other Finnish sound work.In 1968, Mallander opted for life in the more internationally inclined Stockholm.And two years after Extended Play, in 1970, it was time to confuse the Finnish audience again.Mallander issued his second (and so far the last) music release Decompositions on the legendary Love Records.He has since assumed a multitude of roles within the world of art, operating as an artist, critic, writer, gallerist, and curator.Finnish cultural climate of the day.These pieces have haunted the Finnish popular consciousness for decades, and probably caused more complex reactions than any other Finnish sound work.In 1968, Mallander opted for life in the more internationally inclined Stockholm.Sound Festival held at Fylkingen.And two years after Extended Play, in 1970, it was time to confuse the Finnish audience again.From sizzling jungle atmospheres to rumbling subterranean drones and microscopic details, this is a Francisco López tour de force.López might be unusually forthcoming about the sound sources he uses (as specified on the sleeve) but the dedication for the creation of absolute music remains the same."Scandinavian experimental music, Lasse Marhaug has been active in sound creation since his teenage years.Besides his solo work, he has collaborated with a multitude of fellow sound artists on stage and in the studio.In the everflowing stream of music from Marhaug, Quality Control leans towards the noisiest end of his output."Pioneer, innovator and visionary are words easily associated with Toshiji Mikawa.One of the prime movers of Japanese noise, he started his musical activities in the late 1970s and joined the legendary and notorious Hijokaidan.In 1981 he formed Incapacitants to pursue his interest in pure noise, in contrast to the more performance art oriented Hijokaidan of that time.Finnish
electronic music pioneer Jukka Ruohomäki.CD of Pekka Airaksinen,
now out on Love Records.See also
the separate
discography.Also Finnish composers Erkki
Salmenhaara and Henrik Otto Donner experimented with electronic music.Yleisradio's
Musica
Nova concerts were visited by such important new music composers as
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luigi Nono, John Cage, Luciano Berio, Penderecki
and Oliver Messiaen.As everywhere else in the world, also in
Finland electronic music and avantgarde art were closely connected.In
1963 the Americans Ken Dewey and Terry Riley were organising a performance
or happening for Helsinki Street Piece, with composer Henrik Otto
Donner and some local students.The
Sperm, led by Mattijuhani Koponen and Pekka Airaksinen and with
such members as J.Erkki Kurenniemi's assistant), Paavo Heininen, Antero
Honkanen, Esa Kotilainen
and Herman Rechberger.Kurenniemi
built his own series of synthesizers,
named as DIMI, which are nowadays mostly possessed by Swedish
collector and
electronic musician Ralph Lundsten, and published some of his
experimental
compositions like 'Dance of the Antropoids'.This excerpt of
'Dance of the Antropoids' comes from
the LP Tombstone Valentine by
Finnish progressive rock band Wigwam.From the band's only LP Shh!Markus
Heikkerö and the
musical primus motor Pekka
Airaksinen.EP 3rd Erection, which was Sperm's first
recording.The same people published in 1972 another release at their own
expense, as Samsa Trio, but it was not actual electronic music either.PEKKA AIRAKSINEN: Music For The Play Sisyfos Pt.Samsa Trio, which was also released on the band's
own O Records label."Far Away Lurk Friends"), after which the combo was banned from
festival.Numminen's
idiosyncratic
voice (imagine a sheep trying
to sing whining falsetto and out of tune) became soon familiar in
Finland, as he performed anything from traditional tangos and schlagers to
Schubert's lieds to songs which lyrics had been taken from Wittgenstein's
Tractatus to children's songs.Finnish Winter War') project which
epitomized Finnish underground rock scene.No" some years ago, but that's maybe another
story.An excerpt from the 'song' 'Guidance to the Hypnotic State of Mind'')
Year: ?Straying even further from the subject, but this fine hypnosis record of
Olavi Hakasalo a.Andersson and Antero Honkanen') (Love Records).The name of the record is
Ajatuslapsi ('Thought Child').During this era he
was
playing gigs on the ferry called Finnhansa which sailed
between Helsinki and
Travemünde, and paid for
the instrument 6.Finnish marks: the price of a small car those days.He started working in 1970 in the Electronic Music
Studio at Helsinki University's Department of Musicology as an assistant
of Erkki Kurenniemi and he made independent compositions as well as music
for
ballet, theatre, radio plays and films.He also provided synthesizer
sounds for the albums of such pop musicians as Pekka Streng and
Hector.In the 1980s Ruohomäki was mainly
involved with computer graphics but recently he has started to compose
music again."Putney", image above) to Finland!Putney to Wigwam, or consulted the band
about the instrument's connections, not playing himself there, though the
album credits him as "Putney assistant".In 1981
the Uusi Laulu ("New Chant")
magazine organised its first "narcissistic" futurist disco at Klippan,
Helsinki.Tauno Railo, the future bass player for Piirpauke et al.Despite these claims, the
reception of group was only lukewarm, and they disbanded soon after.Stressi
(picture left) hailed originally from Imatra, Finland, and were successful
at the
Finnish Rock Championships, subsequently releasing a couple of singles
('Tatsia', 'Labyrintti', 'Ma Joeur') and an eponymous LP ('81).Obviously the belief in the future of
futurism(!ORGAN: For Next
1982
Organ, maybe the pivotal Finnish synth act, was the answer of Poko Records
and Mikko Saarela to the futu craze.Mikko Saarela's witty, humorous lyrics held some social
concern in them,
dealing with the rights of test animals, helping the third world
countries, bureaucracy and so on, in the best
punk tradition.Kundi meikkaa' ("A Guy Makes Up") being the best known
of them.Kekkonen, Kekkonen, Kekkonen" (and ad infinitum).From The Dirt Road To The
House')
1972
Danny, a.Wigwam
was a Finnish progressive rock band, who gained some success even
internationally.It is no
surprise then that Kinetic
(a.Bowie and Japan, releasing some solo albums.British synth band Classix
Nouveaux, and has later on concentrated on a career of record producer for
several Finnish rock acts.Hefty
Load
and
Twiggy
Oliver.The track was also published as a 7" in France on Barclay.Finnish punk journalist, producer and so on.Levoton Tuhkimo', which could well be
called the swansong of Finnish synth pop.The dream was not over yet, though: the synthetic experimentations
were to continue in Finnish pop music.HinnWeb can't guarantee the continuing validity of these links.Arctic
History by Jukka Lindfors
The First Finnish
Electronic Compositions by Petri Kuljuntausta
Finnish
Contemporary Art: The 1970s
Maanalaista menoa!Erkki Kurenniemi ja elektronimusiikin alku
yliopistolla.Olof MALLANDERBorn 1944 in Helsinki, Finland.For a few weeks, the gallery served the public vegetarian cuisine instead of art.Olof Mallander has been active in and around art in several roles, including those of an artist, poet, critic and gallery owner.As a writer possessing a sharp pen and direct approach, Mallander has often awakened fierce debate.During the thirty years that followed, Mallander has participated in, and also organised, several group and solo exhibitions in Finland and Sweden.Mallander's conceptual paper sculptures were, in 1972, so exceptional in this country, that they were not always recognised as sculpture at all.The pictures were printed as posters.In the 1970s, art was supposed to be affordable and available to all.However, Mallander's idea was to use his art as a bridge to something other than the continuous flow of commodities.And what was important, with respect to the Finnish climate: paper sculptures work in all weather conditions.In the 1960s, Mallander was active in the early stages of the Finnish Trade Union of Artists (SKA), but he was never caught up in trade union politics.On the contrary: he became a relentless critic of politically committed art.In the case of Mallander, this meant a conscious move away from the prevalent values of society, although, by cherishing the myth of the Bohemian artist, it revealed a need to be appreciated by his own era.As early as 1970, critics gave Mallander the esteemed E.Increasingly often, it is the neglected sidelines that are given prominence.However, the undercurrent in Mallander's various artistic phases (exemplified by Pop art, Conceptual art, Underground, or Minimalism) has always been to question the power of money and matter.In the spirit of Eastern religions, Mallander's art, too, seeks to achieve harmony through seriality and repetition.In the Realm of the LotusA Conversation about Art, Beauty and the Spiritual LifeSangharakshita (Author) J.Reflections on angels as messengers, the primacy of color in the transformation of consciousness, and the possibility of reaching higher states of awareness from the dream state are just some of the treasures revealed.
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