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Lotta Wennäkoski & Heikki Nikula: Immersed in the Finnish Quiet 33
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Lotta Wennäkoski is a Finnish composer based in Helsinki. She has won praise and has been described as a lyrical Modernist and post-Expressionist.
She studied violin in Budapest in her youth. She also studied music theory & composition at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki as well as the Royal Conservatory of The Hague under Louis Andriessen.
Wennäkoski launched her career composing for radio plays and short films. Her breakthrough was her performance at the Musica Nova Helsinki festival in 1999. Her work consists of orchestral, chamber and vocal works, many of which are performed worldwide. Notable works include Sakara for orchestra (2003), the flute concerto Soie (2009), which was one of the recommended works at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in 2012, Verdigris for chamber orchestra (2015), commissioned by The Scottish Chamber Orchestra, & the harp concerto Sigla (2022) for Sivan Magen & the Finnish RSO, which was awarded the Gramophone Award 2023 for the contemporary music category.
Wennäkoski was the artistic director of the Tampere Biennale festival in 2008 & 2010, composer-in-residence of the Tapiola Sinfonietta in 2010–2011 & designed the program of the Avanti! Summer Sounds festival in 2017.
Meanwhile, Heikki Nikula is no slouch either. He’s a Finnish musician from Seinäjoki, a small city in the southwest of Finland. He plays numerous wind instruments, percussion & harp but is most known for his work on bass clarinet. He is one of the only proponents of the bass clarinet as solo instrument & has a special fondness for free improvisation.
He graduated from the the Sibelius Academy & joined Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra in 1991, for whom he continues to perform. He also works with the renowned Finnish chamber orchestra Avanti! & the Free Okapi ensemble. He has also performed on numerous Finnish film & series soundtracks inc. the Battle for Finland. He has recorded 2 CDs of solo music for the instrument – Hoepnadium & Piping Down the Valleys Wild. He has been a member of the Helsinki Filharmonia since 1991, & is one of the original members of the renowned Finnish chamber orchestra "Avanti!."
Sound collage backdrop: b/art & Wreck This Mess
40 episoder
Manage episode 433453388 series 3345377
Lotta Wennäkoski is a Finnish composer based in Helsinki. She has won praise and has been described as a lyrical Modernist and post-Expressionist.
She studied violin in Budapest in her youth. She also studied music theory & composition at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki as well as the Royal Conservatory of The Hague under Louis Andriessen.
Wennäkoski launched her career composing for radio plays and short films. Her breakthrough was her performance at the Musica Nova Helsinki festival in 1999. Her work consists of orchestral, chamber and vocal works, many of which are performed worldwide. Notable works include Sakara for orchestra (2003), the flute concerto Soie (2009), which was one of the recommended works at the UNESCO International Rostrum of Composers in 2012, Verdigris for chamber orchestra (2015), commissioned by The Scottish Chamber Orchestra, & the harp concerto Sigla (2022) for Sivan Magen & the Finnish RSO, which was awarded the Gramophone Award 2023 for the contemporary music category.
Wennäkoski was the artistic director of the Tampere Biennale festival in 2008 & 2010, composer-in-residence of the Tapiola Sinfonietta in 2010–2011 & designed the program of the Avanti! Summer Sounds festival in 2017.
Meanwhile, Heikki Nikula is no slouch either. He’s a Finnish musician from Seinäjoki, a small city in the southwest of Finland. He plays numerous wind instruments, percussion & harp but is most known for his work on bass clarinet. He is one of the only proponents of the bass clarinet as solo instrument & has a special fondness for free improvisation.
He graduated from the the Sibelius Academy & joined Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra in 1991, for whom he continues to perform. He also works with the renowned Finnish chamber orchestra Avanti! & the Free Okapi ensemble. He has also performed on numerous Finnish film & series soundtracks inc. the Battle for Finland. He has recorded 2 CDs of solo music for the instrument – Hoepnadium & Piping Down the Valleys Wild. He has been a member of the Helsinki Filharmonia since 1991, & is one of the original members of the renowned Finnish chamber orchestra "Avanti!."
Sound collage backdrop: b/art & Wreck This Mess
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×1 Charlie Morrow & bart plantenga: iMMERSEd in iMMERSion 34 38:15
1 Lotta Wennäkoski & Heikki Nikula: Immersed in the Finnish Quiet 33 36:14
1 CM Hausswolff: Immersion at the Junction of Electronics & Nature 32 32:41
1 Robin Sip: Fulldome & 3D Cinema Pioneer 29 21:01
1 Phill Niblock: Maximum Immersion in Minimalism 28 46:10
1 Stephen Vitiello - A Space Without Distraction 27 21:13
1 Pierre Brand - Cinematic Soundtrack Immersion 26 22:50
1 Wreck The Drowning World 1249 [iMMERSE! REmix] 25 1:28:42
1 Tim Ventimiglia - The Museum as Immersive Event 24 23:14
1 Gideon D’Arcangelo - Designing Immersive Experiences 23 36:33
1 Ville Pulkki & His Pursuit of SuperHearing 22 33:11
1 Micky Remann & His Operahouse Filled With Water 21 36:34
1 Bread & Puppet & Peace with Peter Schumann 20 37:02
1 Chris Wangro - Park & Circus as Real Immersion 19 43:22
1 Charlie Morrow - The Magnetic Still Point 18c 9:37
1 Relaunch Renovated immerse! 6a / Brian Katz 18b 24:20
1 Luc Courchesne - Pioneering Immersion Worldwide 17 21:39
1 Ian McLennan - The Immersive Planetarium 15 22:28
1 Revisiting Michael Gerzon - Ambisonics & Immersive Sound 0b 1:20:38
1 Ka Chun Yu - Immersion Before Computers 13 16:11
1 Monica Bolles - Immersed in the Brain 12 25:07
1 Rip Hayman - Forever Reverb Immersion 11 18:18
1 William Fitzhugh - Immersed in the Arctic 10 42:06
1 Paco Underhill - Immersive Consumer Behavior 7 29:52
1 Brian Katz - Reconstructing Notre Dame’s Acoustics 6 21:43
1 Miya Masaoka - Being in Awe of What Eixsts in Nature 5 49:35
1 Annea Lockwood - From Burning Pianos to Immersive Sound[s] 2 22:59
1 Jaron Lanier - Co-Founder of Virtual Reality 1 20:00
1 The Gerzon Factor - Ambisonics & Immersive Sound 0 1:17:43
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