Petri Kuljuntausta is a composer, musician, sound artist and author of three books on electronic music

Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments and electronic music technology in its production. In general a distinction can be made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. Examples of electromechanical sound...

 and sound art

Sound art

Sound art is a diverse group of art practices that considers wide notions of sound, listening and hearing as its predominant focus. There are often distinct relationships forged between the visual and aural domains of art and perception by sound artists....

. Since 1990's he has belonged to a new generation of composers in Finland interested in experimental

Experimental music

Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...

 and electronic music.

Kuljuntausta has composed digital music for experimental films, video art

Video art

Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. . Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations...

, visual art and dance projects, and made media and sound installations in museums, galleries and concert halls. His works has been performed in many European countries, Australia, Mexico and the USA, and he has made recordings for various labels in Australia, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Sweden and the USA. In 2004 Star's End

Star's End

Star's End is a weekly, five-hour-long New Age music radio show broadcast by 88.5 WXPN, the University of Pennsylvania's radio station, in Philadelphia. It is the second longest-running show of its type in the world, after Hearts of Space.-History:...

 and Inner Space

Inner space

Inner space may mean:* Underwater environments* Underground environments* Microscale environments or smaller* The "space" contained in the mind or the imagination-Entertainment:...

radio shows selected Kuljuntausta's Momentum as one of the most significant CD releases of the year. In 2005 he won an award, The Finnish State Prize for Art, from the Finnish government as a distinguished national artist. NPS, the Nederlandse Programma Stichting

Nederlandse Programma Stichting

NTR is a Dutch public-service broadcaster. It supplies television and radio programming of an educational and cultural nature to the Netherlands Public Broadcasting system....

 (Dutch broadcasting foundation), and Yleisradio

Yleisradio

The Finnish Broadcasting Company , abbreviated to YLE , is Finland's national broadcasting company, founded in 1926. YLE is a public-broadcasting organization which shares many of its characteristics with its British counterpart, the BBC, on which it was largely modelled...

 (Finnish Broadcasting Company) has produced extensive artistic profiles on Kuljuntausta.

Petri Kuljuntausta is famous for music composed of sounds both natural and extraordinary. In close collaboration with natural scientists, he has composed underwater installations from underwater materials and made music out of whale calls and the sounds of the Northern Lights

Aurora (astronomy)

An aurora is a natural light display in the sky particularly in the high latitude regions, caused by the collision of energetic charged particles with atoms in the high altitude atmosphere...

. In many ways Kuljuntausta's art is based on good knowledge of tradition. Environmental sounds, live electronic music

Live electronic music

Live electronic music generally utilizes instrumental or electronic sounds but excludes those that have been prerecorded. The timbres of the various sounds may then be transformed extensively during performance using devices such as amplifiers, filters, ring modulators and other forms of circuitry...

, improvisation

Improvisation

Improvisation is the practice of acting, singing, talking and reacting, of making and creating, in the moment and in response to the stimulus of one's immediate environment and inner feelings. This can result in the invention of new thought patterns, new practices, new structures or symbols, and/or...

 and collaborations with Media Artists has influenced him as a composer.

One of his many challenging composition projects is Northern Lights Live, which is based on soundscapes of the Northern Lights and audio feedback

Audio feedback

Audio feedback is a special kind of positive feedback which occurs when a sound loop exists between an audio input and an audio output...

. The work was commissioned by the ISEA2004 (Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts

Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts

ISEA, or Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts is "an international non-profit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science and emerging technologies." ISEA was founded in the Netherlands...

) festival, 12th Symposium on Electronic Arts. Northern Lights Live is a vivid collaboration in the field between art and science, recycling original nature recordings of the phenomena as well as processed aurora borealis sounds. A forty-five minute long continuous audio-visual dialogue between nature's own soundscapes and their digitally altered, urban noise-art substitutes were created on stage. In collaboration with zoomusicologist Dario Martinelli

Dario Martinelli

Dario Martinelli is an Italian musicologist, semiotician and composer.He is Adjunct Professor of Musicology and Semiotics at Helsinki University and until 2007 Guest-Professor at the Finnish Network University of Semiotics....

, Kuljuntausta released in 2008 a CD entitled Zoosphere. A Musical Encryptation of Animal Sounds, which is entirely based on animal sounds, like the sounds of birds, whales, wolves, shrimps. Kuljuntausta has also composed extensive body of works in the style of Minimalist music

Minimalist music

Minimal music is a style of music associated with the work of American composers La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass. It originated in the New York Downtown scene of the 1960s and was initially viewed as a form of experimental music called the New York Hypnotic School....

. Since mid-1990s he has developed new composition technique based on Phasing

Phasing

In the compositional technique phasing, the same part is played on two musical instruments, in steady but not identical tempo...

. Repetitive music could be heard especially in his film and video soundtracks.

In collaboration with visual artist and experimental film director Sami van Ingen Kuljuntausta has created media installations where the energy of light waves reveal audible sounds (Wave Motion), and the sound waves in water reveal moving light figures with the help of laser beams (Waves & Patterns). Soundscapes and environmental sounds are often present in his works. Another distinctive character in his music is the use of feedback

Feedback

Feedback describes the situation when output from an event or phenomenon in the past will influence an occurrence or occurrences of the same Feedback describes the situation when output from (or information about the result of) an event or phenomenon in the past will influence an occurrence or...

 noise. Kuljuntausta has developed his own electronic system to generate and control feedback sounds live.

The most extreme musical environment for Kuljuntausta's music is Saturn

Saturn

Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Saturn is named after the Roman god Saturn, equated to the Greek Cronus , the Babylonian Ninurta and the Hindu Shani. Saturn's astronomical symbol represents the Roman god's sickle.Saturn,...

's moon Titan

Titan (moon)

Titan , or Saturn VI, is the largest moon of Saturn, the only natural satellite known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object other than Earth for which clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found....

. When Cassini-Huygens

Cassini-Huygens

Cassini–Huygens is a joint NASA/ESA/ASI spacecraft mission studying the planet Saturn and its many natural satellites since 2004. Launched in 1997 after nearly two decades of gestation, it includes a Saturn orbiter and an atmospheric probe/lander for the moon Titan, although it has also returned...

 spacecraft (Titan-IVB/Centaur

Centaur

In Greek mythology, a centaur or hippocentaur is a member of a composite race of creatures, part human and part horse...

) started its journey in 1997 from Kennedy Space Center

Kennedy Space Center

The John F. Kennedy Space Center is the NASA installation that has been the launch site for every United States human space flight since 1968. Although such flights are currently on hiatus, KSC continues to manage and operate unmanned rocket launch facilities for America's civilian space program...

, United States, his composition Charm of Sound

Charm Of Sound

Petri Kuljuntausta's Charm of Sound is a text-based environmental composition in three parts, which is composed for outer space environment. In 1997 Cassini-Huygens spacecraft was launched from Kennedy Space Center, United States, and reached its destination, Saturn's moon Titan, on Friday...

 was inside the Huygens probe

Huygens probe

The Huygens probe was an atmospheric entry probe carried to Saturn's moon Titan as part of the Cassini–Huygens mission. The probe was supplied by the European Space Agency and named after the Dutch 17th century astronomer Christiaan Huygens....

 of Cassini-Huygens

Cassini-Huygens

Cassini–Huygens is a joint NASA/ESA/ASI spacecraft mission studying the planet Saturn and its many natural satellites since 2004. Launched in 1997 after nearly two decades of gestation, it includes a Saturn orbiter and an atmospheric probe/lander for the moon Titan, although it has also returned...

 spacecraft, stored on the CD-rom. When Huygens probe reached its destination on Friday January 14, 2005, Kuljuntausta's Charm of Sound landed on the ground of Titan after travelling seven years and four billion kilometres through Space.
Kuljuntausta has collaborated with composers and artists Morton Subotnick

Morton Subotnick

Morton Subotnick is an American composer of electronic music, best known for his Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, Nonesuch...

, Atau Tanaka, Richard Lerman

Richard Lerman

Richard Lerman is a composer and sound artist whose, "work...centers around his custom-made contact microphones of unusually small size," including, "piezo disks and other transducers". He studied with Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, and David Tudor.He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Sound Art ...

, David Rothenberg

David Rothenberg

David Rothenberg is a professor of philosophy and music at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, with a special interest in animal sounds as music...

, Richard Jürjendal, Markus Reuter

Markus Reuter

Markus Reuter is a German musician, composer and record producer, specialising in touch guitar playing and loop music. Recently he has expanded his activities by moving into instrument design.-Biography:...

, Pat Mastelotto

Pat Mastelotto

Pat Mastelotto is a rock drummer who has worked with Mr. Mister and King Crimson, amongst others. For King Crimson he initially formed part of the "double trio" lineup, joining Bill Bruford on drums...

, Chris Mann

Chris Mann

Chris Mann is an Australian composer, poet and performer specializing in the emerging field of compositional linguistics, coined by Kenneth Gaburo and described by Mann as "the mechanism whereby you understand what I'm thinking better than I do."...

, Jim Nollman

Jim Nollman

Jim Nollman is a composer of music for theatre, an internationally distinguished conceptual artist, and an environmental activist. He graduated from Tufts University in 1969....

, Dario Martinelli

Dario Martinelli

Dario Martinelli is an Italian musicologist, semiotician and composer.He is Adjunct Professor of Musicology and Semiotics at Helsinki University and until 2007 Guest-Professor at the Finnish Network University of Semiotics....

, Al Margolis (If, Bwana

If, Bwana

-History:Al Margolis has been working under the musical pseudonym If, Bwana since New Year's Day 1984. He has since earned an international reputation for his experimental noise music.-Recording history:...

), Helmut Lemke

Helmut Lemke

Helmut Lemke was a German politician and Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein . He was born in Kiel and died in Lübeck.- External links :...

, Ocean-North, Juhani Liimatainen, Juhani Nuorvala, Hepa Halme, Jukka Orma, Markku Veijonsuo, Markus Fagerudd, Rihmasto, John Richardson, and VJ group Random Doctors, and he has produced and coordinated many album projects since late-1990s. In 2009 Kuljuntausta composed soundtrack for the film Water Cities (dir. Jaana Puhakka) which won the first prize at III. Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival in Istanbul, Turkey. He has also composed music for the films Texas Scramble, The Blow

The Blow

The Blow is the moniker of Brooklyn, New York-based musician Mikhaela Yvonne Maricich, who has recorded several albums for K Records. Jona Bechtolt, aka Yacht, was also a member of The Blow from 2004 to 2007....

, Days, and Navigator, all directed by Sami van Ingen.

Kuljuntausta is the author of an 800 page history of Finnish electronic music, On/Off. Eetteriäänistä sähkömusiikkiin (On/Off. From Ether Sounds To Electronic Music) (Kiasma

Kiasma

Kiasma is a contemporary art museum located on Mannerheimintie in Helsinki, Finland. Its name kiasma, Finnish for chiasma, alludes to the basic conceptual idea of its architect, Steven Holl. The museum exhibits the contemporary art collection of the Finnish National Gallery founded in 1990...

 and Like Publishing). With the book was released a CD compilation (compiled, restored and produced by Kuljuntausta), which contains the first Finnish electronic compositions from the years 1958-1963 first time on the CD.

In 2006 Kuljuntausta published his second book, Äänen eXtreme (eXtreme Sound) (Like Publishing), on his own approach to music and sound. Together with the book was released a DVD, which was simply entitled as Petri Kuljuntausta (also known as 1994-2005, referring to the composition period of the disc), which contains almost nine hours of electronic music and sound works (42 works) composed and performed by Kuljuntausta. His third book, First Wave

First Wave

First Wave is a Canadian/American science fiction television series, filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, that aired from 1998 to 2001 on the Sci-Fi Channel. The show was created by Chris Brancato, who co-wrote an early version of the script for the seminal X-Files episode "Eve". Francis...

(Like Publishing), on Finnish electronic music was published in English in 2008.

Kuljuntausta is the founder of Charm of Sound association (Äänen Lumo), established in 1995 to support electronic music, experimental music and sound art, and the Finnish Society for Acoustic Ecology which was founded in 1999. Kuljuntausta was the founder and main editor of "..." ezine (electronic magazine, 1997–2001) and he also founded Charmlist emailing-list in 2001, both focused on distributing information on the activities on electronic music and sound art.

During 1997-2005 Kuljuntausta produced a radio programme on electroacoustic music

Electroacoustic music

Electroacoustic music originated in Western art music during its modern era following the incorporation of electric sound production into compositional practice. The initial developments in electroacoustic music composition during the mid-20th century are associated with the activities of composers...

 and sound art entitled Charmed Sounds (Lumottuja ääniä) for Yleisradio

Yleisradio

The Finnish Broadcasting Company , abbreviated to YLE , is Finland's national broadcasting company, founded in 1926. YLE is a public-broadcasting organization which shares many of its characteristics with its British counterpart, the BBC, on which it was largely modelled...

, Finnish Broadcasting Company. In 2000 Kuljuntausta worked at City University London, Department of Music / Composition (Electroacoustic), as a Visiting Scholar. During the visit he composed soundscape music from the sounds of London City. One of these works, Vroom!!, was released on Hearing Place (Sound Art Exploring Place from Around the World), a CD published by Australian label Move Records

Move Records

Move Records is an Australian record label that was started in 1968 by Martin Wright. It concentrates primarily in classical and jazz music, particularly Australian, and most frequently Melbourne-based musicians and composers....

.

In 2005 Kuljuntausta produced internet (media) albums of Atau Tanaka, Richard Lerman

Richard Lerman

Richard Lerman is a composer and sound artist whose, "work...centers around his custom-made contact microphones of unusually small size," including, "piezo disks and other transducers". He studied with Alvin Lucier, Gordon Mumma, and David Tudor.He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Sound Art ...

, If, Bwana

If, Bwana

-History:Al Margolis has been working under the musical pseudonym If, Bwana since New Year's Day 1984. He has since earned an international reputation for his experimental noise music.-Recording history:...

 (Al Margolis) and Petri Kuljuntausta for Aureobel internet publishing company. Since its start the label has worked as a distribution channel for experimental music and sound art. In 2008 Kuljuntausta worked as an artistic director of the Nightingala festival and invited composers and performers to create music from nightingale song. In 2009 Science Centre Heureka

Heureka

Heureka is a science center in Vantaa, Finland, north of Helsinki. Its purpose is to facilitate the access to scientific knowledge and to develop the methods of scientific education. Its exhibits are largely hands-on and many of them are made for children...

 commissioned Kuljuntausta to compose 20th Anniversary Music for the Science Centre. The original opening music of Heureka

Heureka

Heureka is a science center in Vantaa, Finland, north of Helsinki. Its purpose is to facilitate the access to scientific knowledge and to develop the methods of scientific education. Its exhibits are largely hands-on and many of them are made for children...

 was composed by Einojuhani Rautavaara

Einojuhani Rautavaara

Einojuhani Rautavaara is a Finnish composer of contemporary classical music, and is one of the most notable Finnish composers after Jean Sibelius.-Life:...

 in 1989. Kuljuntausta lecturers regularly on Sonic Art, Electronic Music, and Soundscape Art at the University of Art and Design Helsinki

University of Art and Design Helsinki

Aalto University School of Art and Design , known commonly as TaiK, is the largest art university in the Nordic countries, and was founded in 1871. Media Centre Lume – the National Research and Development Center of audiovisual media – is also located in the university...

  and Theatre Academy (Finland)

Theatre Academy (Finland)

The Theatre Academy is located in Helsinki. It provides education in performing arts, including acting , directing, dramaturgy and script writing, dance, choreography, lighting design and sound design...

.

Concerts, Performances (selected)

Visiones Sonoras festival (Mexico)

Insomnia

Insomnia

Insomnia is most often defined by an individual's report of sleeping difficulties. While the term is sometimes used in sleep literature to describe a disorder demonstrated by polysomnographic evidence of disturbed sleep, insomnia is often defined as a positive response to either of two questions:...

 Festival (Tromsø, Norway)

ISEA

ISEA

ISEA, or Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts is "an international non-profit organization fostering interdisciplinary academic discourse and exchange among culturally diverse organizations and individuals working with art, science and emerging technologies." ISEA was founded in the Netherlands...

2004 festival

EXPO 2005 World Fair (Aiichi Japan)

Ars Electronica

Ars Electronica

Ars Electronica is an organization based in Linz, Austria, founded in 1979 around a festival for art, technology and society that was part of the International Bruckner Festival. Herbert W. Franke is one of its founders. It became its own festival and a yearly event in 1986. Its director until 1995...

 festival (‘Rivers & Bridges’, Linz)

Festival di Musica Acousmatica (Cagliari, Italy)

Jauna Muzika

Jauna muzika

Jauna muzika is a chamber choir in Vilnius, Lithuania, formed in 1989 by composers Remigijus Merkelys and Algimantas Gurevičius. The members of the choir are professional musicians - graduates and students of the Lithuanian Academy of Music. Depending on the repertoire being performed, the number...

 festival (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Futura

Futura

Futura may refer to:* Futura International Airways* Futura * Futura * Aprilia Futura, a motorcycle* Lincoln Futura, a Ford concept car* Futura a product of Hawkins Cookers Limited* Futura 2000, a graffiti artist...

festival (France)

Synthese

Synthese

Synthese is a scholarly periodical edited by Johan van Benthem, Vincent F. Hendricks and John Symons specializing in papers in epistemology, methodology and philosophy of science...

 festival (Bourges, France)

Electric Rainbow Coalition Festival (USA)

Eclectica festival (Tartu)

8th Annual Santa Fe International Festival (USA)

Música electroacústica de Hoy (Argentina)

Festival Internacional de Musica de Cadiz (Cadiz Spain)

Musica Nova (Helsinki Finland)

Avanto

Avanto

Avanto can refer to:*Avanto S70, a model of tram/light rail vehicle*Avantouinti, a form of ice swimming...

 festival (Finland)

Tampere Biennale (Finland)

Finnish National Gallery

Finnish National Gallery

Finnish National Gallery is the largest art museum institution of Finland. It consists of the Ateneum art museum, the museum of contemporary art, Kiasma, the Sinebrychoff Art Museum and the Central Art Archives....

 (Helsinki)

Kiasma

Kiasma

Kiasma is a contemporary art museum located on Mannerheimintie in Helsinki, Finland. Its name kiasma, Finnish for chiasma, alludes to the basic conceptual idea of its architect, Steven Holl. The museum exhibits the contemporary art collection of the Finnish National Gallery founded in 1990...

 Museum (Helsinki)

Helsinki Sound 2001 (Finland)

View

View

A view is what can be seen in a range of vision. View may also be used as a synonym of point of view in the first sense. View may also be used figuratively or with special significance—for example, to imply a scenic outlook or significant vantage point:...

 (Finland)

Sound Galleries, Exhibitions (selected)

Chapman Gallery / University of Salford (Manchester, UK)

Hearing Place (Melbourne)

Fondazione Nicola Trussardi (Milan, Italy)

Three Rivers Arts Festival / SoundscapePGH (USA)

Collage Jukebox (touring sound exhibition)

Festival le Bruit de la Neige (Annecy France)

Video Positive (Liverpool)

Helsinki Kunsthalle (Helsinki)

Helsinki City Art Museum

Helsinki City Art Museum

Helsinki City Art Museum or Helsinki Art Museum is an art museum in Helsinki, Finland. It has exhibitions in two main locations: Meilahti Art Museum in Meilahti, near Tamminiemi, and the Tennis Palace Art Museum near the city centre. The museum also manages the Kluuvi Gallery.-External Links:***...

Art Fair Suomi 09 (Cable Factory Finland)

Korjaamo gallery (Helsinki)

MuuTen (MUU festival)

Pipe Hall gallery (Finland)

Lusto Museum

Tampere Hall

Tampere Hall

The Tampere Hall is the largest concert and congress centre in the Nordic countries, located in the southern edge of Sorsapuisto, in the centre of Tampere, Finland. Opposite of the Tampere Hall is the main building of the University of Tampere, and the Tampere railway station is only half a...

 (Winter Garden)

Forum Box gallery (Helsinki)

Galleri Leena Kuumola (Helsinki)

Radio Broadcasts, Profiles, Projects (selected)

Folio (The Netherlands)

Electric Storm (Canada)

Quiet Space / ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, commonly referred to as "the ABC" , is Australia's national public broadcaster...

 (Australia)

Fieldwork 2SER 107FM (Australia)

Crossover: Sound HR2 (Germany)

Foldover WOBC 91.5FM (USA)

Resonance

Resonance

In physics, resonance is the tendency of a system to oscillate at a greater amplitude at some frequencies than at others. These are known as the system's resonant frequencies...

 104.4 FM (London)

Star's End

Star's End

Star's End is a weekly, five-hour-long New Age music radio show broadcast by 88.5 WXPN, the University of Pennsylvania's radio station, in Philadelphia. It is the second longest-running show of its type in the world, after Hearts of Space.-History:...

 (USA)

Inner Space

Inner space

Inner space may mean:* Underwater environments* Underground environments* Microscale environments or smaller* The "space" contained in the mind or the imagination-Entertainment:...

(Zagreb)

Borderline

Borderline

Borderline or border line may refer to:*Border-In film:*Borderline , a film starring Paul Robeson*Borderline , a film noir starring Fred MacMurray*Borderline , a film starring Charles Bronson...

Freien Radio Kassel (Germany)

Difficult Listening (Australia)

NPS-4FM/Muzikale Delicatessen (The Netherlands)

Acoustic Frontiers (Canada)

Springel & Zabrinsky (Brazil)

Feedback Monitor (Canada)

Kalvos & Damian (USA)

Ström

Strom

-People:* David Strom, American radio personality, former president of the Taxpayers League of Minnesota* Earl Strom , American professional basketball referee* Harry Strom , Canadian politician* Karl Morin-Strom, Canadian politician...

 / SR

Sveriges Radio

Sveriges Radio AB – Swedish Radio Ltd – is Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster. The Swedish public-broadcasting system is in many respects modelled after the one used in the United Kingdom, and Sveriges Radio - like Sveriges Television - shares many characteristics with...

 (Sweden)

Estonian Radio (Estonia)

Yleisradio

Yleisradio

The Finnish Broadcasting Company , abbreviated to YLE , is Finland's national broadcasting company, founded in 1926. YLE is a public-broadcasting organization which shares many of its characteristics with its British counterpart, the BBC, on which it was largely modelled...

 (Finland)

Net projects, Netcasts (selected)

Sound Box

Sound box

A sound box or sounding box is an open chamber in the body of a musical instrument which modifies the sound of the instrument, and helps transfer that sound to the surrounding air. Objects respond more strongly to vibrations at certain frequencies, known as resonances...

 1.0 (Kiasma

Kiasma

Kiasma is a contemporary art museum located on Mannerheimintie in Helsinki, Finland. Its name kiasma, Finnish for chiasma, alludes to the basic conceptual idea of its architect, Steven Holl. The museum exhibits the contemporary art collection of the Finnish National Gallery founded in 1990...

 Museum)

Sound Box

Sound box

A sound box or sounding box is an open chamber in the body of a musical instrument which modifies the sound of the instrument, and helps transfer that sound to the surrounding air. Objects respond more strongly to vibrations at certain frequencies, known as resonances...

 2.0 (Kiasma

Kiasma

Kiasma is a contemporary art museum located on Mannerheimintie in Helsinki, Finland. Its name kiasma, Finnish for chiasma, alludes to the basic conceptual idea of its architect, Steven Holl. The museum exhibits the contemporary art collection of the Finnish National Gallery founded in 1990...

 Museum)

Sound Calendar (Austria & Canada)

Le Train Fantôme (France)

ARS01 / Arsradio (Kiasma

Kiasma

Kiasma is a contemporary art museum located on Mannerheimintie in Helsinki, Finland. Its name kiasma, Finnish for chiasma, alludes to the basic conceptual idea of its architect, Steven Holl. The museum exhibits the contemporary art collection of the Finnish National Gallery founded in 1990...

 Museum)

Ääniradio 1 & 2 (Sibelius Academy

Sibelius Academy

The Sibelius Academy is a university-level music school which operates in Helsinki and Kuopio, Finland. It also has an adult education centre in Järvenpää and a training centre in Seinäjoki. The Academy is the only music university in Finland. It is among the biggest European music universities...

, Finland)

Audio Autographs (Finland)

art@radio (USA)

Elektra (France)

Radio Internationale Stadt (Germany)

Selected works

• Hailstorm (2010)
• Marquis (2010)
• Clickz (2010)
• Mexican Cars (2009, 4:20)
• Irresistible District (2009, 28:00)
• Grooves (2009, 30:00)
• Water Cities (2009, film music)
• Heureka! (2009, 20th anniversary music, commissioned by Science Centre Heureka)
• Whistles, Trills & Clicks (2008, 13:00)
• Heavy Feather (2008, 4:30)
• Eight Rooms (2008)
• City Noise (2007, 30:00)
• Waves & Patterns (2006)
• Water City (2005, 55:10, altered versions)
• Noise City (2005, 41:26, altered versions)
• Wave Motion (2005)
• Nordic Prince (2005, 7:27)
• Zoomusicological 2 (2005, 16:06)
• 4'33" (2005, 4:33)
• Collaro 3RC-531 (2005, 5:45)
• Do Not Feed The Artists (2005, 34:24)
• Muu (Radio) (2005)
• Northern Lights Live (2004, 40:00)
• Navigator (2004, 5:31)
• Cosmic Jam (2004, 18:01)
• 15'00" (2003)
• Roaring Silence (2003, 5:18)
• Zoomusicological 1 (2003, 10:05)
• SoundHappens^TM (2003)
• Planetarium (2003, 9:23)
• Code-X (2003, 10:24)
• A Zoomusicological Essay (2003, 28:40)
• Aurora Borealis 1 (2002)
• Deep Blue (2002, 12:08)
• Drifting (Walking Music) (200224:46)
• Landing (2002, 5:18)
• Formations (2002, 10:00)
• The Mixer (2002)
• Music For Three Bazookas And 12 Steel Sheets (2002, 12:24)
• Soundscape Miniatures (2002, 6:07)
• Four Notes (2001, 7:33)
• In The Beginning (2001, 12:45)
• Voice Miniatures 2 (2001, 8:11)
• Departs/Arrivals (2001, 13:50)
• St. Virus City (2000, 7:46)
• Vroom!! (2000, 8:11)
• Days (2000, 16:00)
• Sonic Miniatures 1 (2000, 5:55)
• Canvas (1999, 10:18)
• Voice Miniatures 1 (1999, 7:23)
• Hysteria (Fatigue) (1999, 5:53)
• Hysteria (Saint Vitus Contemporary Dance) (1999, 6:47)
• The Words (Soundtrack Variations) (1998, 16:48)
• Free Zone (1998)
• Transitions (1998, 5:18)
• Video Surveillance (1998, 20:01)
• Spartacus (1998, 60:00, music for dance theatre)
• Freedom (1998, 8:58)
• Momentum (1998, 6:10)
• Charm Of Sound (1997)
• The Blow (1997, 21:00)
• Anchorage (1997, 7:32)
• April Fool (1997, 28:38)
• Helsinki Soundscapes 1997 (1997)
• Ex Post Facto (1997, 10:40)
• Still Life (1997, 5:50)
• Theremin Dream (1997, 4:40)
• Birdscape Music (1997, 8:45)
• Violin Tone Orchestra (1996, 4:33)
• La Mer (1996, 20:03)
• The Flow (1996, 5:20)
• Texas Scramble (1995, 21:00)
• Lux In Tenebris (1995, 12:56)
• Between Life And Death (1995, 8:48)
• In A Shadow Zone (1995, 13:18)
• The Good And The Evil (1995, 10:45)
• Soundscapes 1 (1994, 5:59)

Releases

• Petri Kuljuntausta Project: Visions and Play (PKP, CD) 1992
• Petri Kuljuntausta: Private (CDr, Album), 1997
• Petri Kuljuntausta: Momentum (Aureobel CD), 2004
• Petri Kuljuntausta: Noise City (Aureobel, MP3 album with Multimedia), 2005
• Petri Kuljuntausta w/ Markus Reuter-Pat Mastelotto: Live In Helsinki (ProjeKction, MP3 album), 2006
• Petri Kuljuntausta: 1994-2005 (DVD), 2006
• Petri Kuljuntausta w/ Robert Jürjendal-David Rothenberg: 3Corners Of The World (Terra Nova CD), 2008
• Petri Kuljuntausta w/ Dario Martinelli: Zoosphere. A Musical Encryptation Of Animal Sounds (CD), 2008

Appears on

• V/A: Sound Box 1.0 (Kiasma, CD-ROM, Multimedia), 1998
• V/A: Sound Box 2.0 (Kiasma, CD-ROM, Multimedia), 1999
• V/A: Sounds! (Charm Of Sound, CD compilation), 1999
• V/A: On-Off - Eetteriäänistä Sähkömusiikkiin / On-Off - From Ether Sounds To Electronic Music (Kiasma Records, CD compilation), 2001
• David Rothenberg: Sudden Music (Terra Nova CD), 2002
• Erkki Kurenniemi: Äänityksiä / Recordings 1963-1973 (Love Records, CD), 2002
• David Rothenberg: Why Birds Sing? (Terra Nova, CD), 2005
• Jacques Coelho: Video Works 1993-1996 (KUD, DVD-V), 2006
• V/A: Muu For Ears (Muu, CD compilation), 2009
• V/A: Là-Bas Biennale (Aureobel, Studio Là-bas, CD compilation), 2010
• V/A: Muu For Ears 2 (Muu, CD compilation), 2010
• V/A: Muu For Ears 3 (Muu, CD compilation), 2010
• V/A: Muu For Ears 4 (Muu, CD compilation), 2010

Tracks appear on

• Charm of Sound on Huygens (ESA European Space Agency / Patagonie, CD-ROM, Multimedia), 1997
• In Spe on Hope (Audio Research Editions, CD), 1998
• Le Train Fântome on Le Train Fântome (Ghost Train) (Éditions Suicide Commercial, CD), 1998
• Momentum on Looper's Delight Compilation CD: Volume 2 (Marathon Records, 2xCD), 1998
• How many does it take... on The Frog Peak Collaborations Project (Frog Peak Music, 2xCD), 1998
• Momentum on European Loop Project - Phase One (Sonnenengel Musik, CD), 1999
• Idea Of Proof on Sounds! (Charm Of Sound, CD), 1999
• The Waiting Room on Sounds! (Charm Of Sound, CD), 1999
• False Step on Trace (Audio Research Editions, 2xCD), 1999
• At The Well on Farm Soundscapes (Earminded, CDr), 2000
• The Milker on Farm Soundscapes (Earminded, CDr), 2000
• XY+Z on Sonic Eye (YLE, HIAP, CD), 2000
• There Was Nothing In The Room on Zero (Audio Research Editions, CD), 2000
• Stelle's Dream on Virtual Zoo (Studio Forum CD), 2001
• This Is Piccadilly Circus on Détonants Voyages (Astonishing Journeys) (Studio Forum, CD), 2003
• Vroom!! on Hearing Place (Move, CD), 2003
• Navigator on Karta/Terräng (Laika CD), 2004
• Tampere03 on FreeJazz.org Sampler Vol. 1 (whi music, MP3 Album), 2005
• Do Not Feed The Artists on New Music Academy Concerts 2004-2005 (Boring Films, 6xDVD-V), 2005
• The Blow on 3 Films (Jinx Ltd, DVD-V), 2006
• Texas Scramble on 3 Films (Jinx Ltd, DVD-V), 2006
• Days on 3 Films (Jinx Ltd, DVD-V), 2006
• Navigator on Belly Of The Whale (Important Records, CD), 2006
• Four Notes on Junction (KUD DVD-V), 2006
• Noise City on Suomalaiset Sävelet, Osa 8 / Finnish Tones, Part 8 (YLE, CD), 2006
• La Planète sauvage on Video Works 1993-1996 (KUD, DVD-V), 2006
• La Planète étrange on Video Works 1993-1996 (KUD, DVD-V), 2006
• Nordic Prince on Yokomono 03: 55 Lock Grooves (Staalplaat, LP), 2006
• Canvas on Clouds Vol. 2 (Ambient Man Presents) (Ambient Man, MP3 album), 2007
• Momentum on Clouds Vol. 2 (Ambient Man Presents) (Ambient Man, MP3 album), 2007
• Kolmest maailma nurgast on Ürgne Kaja (Primal Echo) (Looduse-Sober CD), 2007
• Transmission 42 on Ambient. Volume VIII #2. Radio Sampler (Oasis, CD), 2008
• Canvas on Art On Location. (DVDr), 2008
• Heavy Feather on North South Project (Elektron Records, CD), 2009
• Mexican Cars on Muu For Ears (MUU CD), 2009
• Marquis on Là-Bas Biennale (Aureobel, Studio Là-bas CD), 2010
• Maa all on Improtest 2007/2008 (Improtest Records, CD), 2010
• Water Cities on Muu For Ears 4 (Muu, CD), 2010
• Hailstorm on ...menu for murmur (Chapman Gallery, CD), 2010
• Hailstorm on ...menu for murmur (Chapman Gallery, DVD), 2010

Production

• Sound Box 1.0 (Kiasma, CD-ROM, Multimedia), 1998
• Sound Box 2.0 (Kiasma, CD-ROM, Multimedia), 1999
• Sounds! (Charm Of Sound, CD compilation), 1999
• On-Off - Eetteriäänistä Sähkömusiikkiin / On-Off - From Ether Sounds To Electronic Music (Kiasma Records, CD compilation), 2001
• Atau Tanaka: Prométhée Numérique (Aureobel, MP3 album with Multimedia), 2005
• If Bwana: Procession Of Shadows (Aureobel, MP3 album with Multimedia), 2005
• Richard Lerman: Within Earreach (Sonic Journeys) (Aureobel, MP3 album with Multimedia), 2005
• Là-Bas Biennale (Aureobel, Studio Là-bas, CD compilation), 2010

Petri Kuljuntausta has also produced and/or mastered (audio post-production) music and sound art works for CD releases at least from the following artists: Gordon Monahan

Gordon Monahan

Gordon Monahan is a Canadian pianist and composer of experimental music. He has been active since at least 1978. Along with his own work, he has performed works by other composers such as John Cage, James Tenney, Udo Kasemets and Roberto Paci Dalò...

, Francisco López

Francisco López (musician)

Francisco López is an avant-garde experimental musician and sound artist.He has released a large amount of sound pieces with record labels from more than fifty countries and realized hundreds of concerts and sound installations worldwide; including some of the main international museums, galleries...

, Jorge Haro, Disinformation

Disinformation

Disinformation is intentionally false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately. For this reason, it is synonymous with and sometimes called black propaganda. It is an act of deception and false statements to convince someone of untruth...

, Charlie Morrow, Jimi Tenor

Jimi Tenor

Jimi Tenor is a Finnish musician. His name is a combination of the first name of his youth idol Jimmy Osmond and the tenor saxophone. His band Jimi Tenor & His Shamans published its first album in 1988, Jimi's first solo album appeared in 1994. "Take Me Baby" became his first hit in 1994...

, Incite/, Erkki Kurenniemi

Erkki Kurenniemi

Erkki Kurenniemi is a Finnish designer, philosopher and artist, best known for his electronic music compositions and the electronic instruments he has designed. He is considered one of the leading early pioneers of electronic music in Finland...

, Jukka Ruohomäki, Timo Hietala, Juhani Liimatainen, Jarmo Sermilä, Patrick Kosk, Hepa Halme, Nemesis, Juhani Nuorvala, Chris Mann

Chris Mann

Chris Mann is an Australian composer, poet and performer specializing in the emerging field of compositional linguistics, coined by Kenneth Gaburo and described by Mann as "the mechanism whereby you understand what I'm thinking better than I do."...

, Urban Shepherds, Dario Martinelli

Dario Martinelli

Dario Martinelli is an Italian musicologist, semiotician and composer.He is Adjunct Professor of Musicology and Semiotics at Helsinki University and until 2007 Guest-Professor at the Finnish Network University of Semiotics....

, John Richardson, Jukka Ylitalo, Teemu Ontero, Inéz, Pekka Sirén, Jukka Mikkola, Tom Ahola, Agnieszka Waligórska, Vesa Lahti, Teemu Mäki, Kalev Tiits, Koray Tahiroglu, Shinji Kanki, Reijo Jyrkiäinen, Bengt Johansson, Henrik Otto Donner, Erkki Salmenhaara, Ilkka Kuusisto, Seppo Mustonen, Usko Meriläinen, Pehr Henrik Nordgren, Martti Vuorenjuuri, Veikko Eskolin, RANK Ensemble, Horst Quartet, Grey Park, Täydellisyys, Koelse, Umpio, Kheta Hotem, Tripolar, Gaia B, Alice Evermoore & Eavesdropper, Sami Klemola, Helena Gough, Jean-Marc Savic, Sinebag, Gintas K

Gintas K

Gintas K is a sound artist born in Lithuania in 1969 . He was the core member of the first Lithuanian industrial music group "Modus"...

, Siri Austeen, Pekka Sassi, Olle Essvik, Goodiepal

Goodiepal

Goodiepal or Gæoudjiparl van den Dobbelsteen, whose real name is Parl Kristian Bjørn Vester, is a controversial Danish/Faroese musician/composer wanted by the Danish police authorities for an unsolved theft from the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus...

, Marja-Leena Sillanpää, Child of Klang, Åsa Maria Bengtsson, Ida Lundén, Lise-Lotte Norelius, Mikko Maasalo, Juhani Räisänen, Pink Twins, Juha Valkeapää, Pauli Apollo Ahopelto, Pessi Parviainen, Jakob Nordgren, Juan Kasari, Aleksi Keränen, Taito Kantomaa, Janne Jankeri, Jussi Österman, Jukka Rintamäki, Sebastian Lindberg, Sami Pennanen, Sound Meccano & Evgeniy Droomoff, Gas Of Latvia, Andres Lõo, Taavi Tulev, Lauri Dag-Tüür, Arturas Bumsteinas

Arturas Bumsteinas

Arturas Bumšteinas was born in 1982 in Vilnius, Lithuania. He is composer of acoustic and electronic music , founder of international ensembles Works and Days and Quartet Twentytwentyone, visual artist with various projects presented in more than 30 exhibitions around Europe...

, Antanas Jasenka, Kaspars Groshevs, John Grzinich, Taavi Kerikmäe, Kiwa, Darius Čiuta, Raul Keller, Antireality & Bernurits, Astma, Lina Lapelyté, Martins Rokis, Raimundas Eimontas, Pekka ja Susiluoto, USO, Lau Nau

Lau Nau

Lau Nau or Laura Naukkarinen, is a singer-songwriter and musician from Helsinki, Finland. She is also a member of free improv and psych folk bands Kiila, Päivänsäde, the Anaksimandros, Avarus, Maailma, and the trio Hertta Lussu Ässä formed by fellow acid folk singer-songwriters Islaja and...

, Tsembla.

External links

1. Petri Kuljuntausta: International Who's Who in Classical Music 2003
2. Petri Kuljuntausta: Aureobel's homepage
3. Petri Kuljuntausta: releases