Welcome to a unique 104 Floppies evening, presenting two compositions for BITS AND BYTES, by Marko Timlin & Juhani Vesikkala.
BITS AND BYTES is a kinetic sound installation consisting of 104 recycled floppy disk drives created by Marko Timlin. By combining obsolete technology of the 1980s and 1990s with the technological means and aesthetics of the 21st century, completely new sonorous universes arise.
BITS AND BYTES combines the everyday, the mechanical, but also the broken, discarded, the machine scrap with highly complex computer controls and introduces us to an unknown sound world. It resembles a living organism that sings with 104 different machine voices inviting visitors to immerse themselves in complex spatial sound phenomena that move around them.
BITS AND BYTES aims to reveal the hidden poetry of the machine world by singing songs beyond humankind.
SCHEDULE:
19.00
- “sentient unconditioned interbeing” (2024, premiere) - Juhani Vesikkala
- Q+A session
- second listening of “sentient unconditioned interbeing” (2024, premiere) - Juhani Vesikkala
19.30 - 19.45 Break
19.45
- “Cycle of life” - Marko Timlin
- Q+A session
- second listening of “Cycle of life” - Marko Timlin
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About the artists:
Marko Timlin creates artworks that link science with art, technology with nature and the past with the present. His artistic work centers on the development of kinetic sound installations and performances with self-made sound machines.
His approach is part of a broader perspective of a peaceful coexistence between the human and the machine. With his artistic inventions he proves that both can work together to create experiences that transcend them.
In the recently published anthology covering Finnish media art´s last century (“Suomalaisen mediataiteen ensimmäinen vuosisata”) Timlin is named as a successor of inventive genius Erkki Kurenniemi.
Timlin’s works have been exhibited and performed world-wide including at Whitebox New York (USA), Sight & Sound Festival Montréal (CA), Fylkingen Stockholm (SE), Kiasma Helsinki (FI), EOF gallery Paris (FR), E:vent gallery London (UK), Piksel Festival (NO) and Neues Museum Nürnberg (DE).
www.timlin.de
Timbre, noise, and microtonality have held a fascination for composer (PhD), Grammy Award-winning choral baritone, and teacher Juhani Topias Vesikkala (*1990, Helsinki) since 2010. For Vesikkala, this encompasses all the steps of how music can make sense, from compositional pre-concepts via performance to strategies of listening. With this new piece, the performance aspect is brought to an extreme with sound features that only this MIDI-steered electric instrumentarium could achieve.
Vesikkala has been supported by Musiikin edistämissäätiö (MES) for the creation of his new piece.
http://vesikkalacomposer.com/
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This concert is realized with the kind support of Helsingin Kaupunki & TAIKE.
FREE ENTRANCE
Doors open at 18.00, concert starts at 19.00.
Welcome to be amongst like-minded people and enjoy a variety of donation based tasty drinks before the concert in our charming venue.
BITS AND BYTES is a kinetic sound installation consisting of 104 recycled floppy disk drives created by Marko Timlin. By combining obsolete technology of the 1980s and 1990s with the technological means and aesthetics of the 21st century, completely new sonorous universes arise.
BITS AND BYTES combines the everyday, the mechanical, but also the broken, discarded, the machine scrap with highly complex computer controls and introduces us to an unknown sound world. It resembles a living organism that sings with 104 different machine voices inviting visitors to immerse themselves in complex spatial sound phenomena that move around them.
BITS AND BYTES aims to reveal the hidden poetry of the machine world by singing songs beyond humankind.
SCHEDULE:
19.00
- “sentient unconditioned interbeing” (2024, premiere) - Juhani Vesikkala
- Q+A session
- second listening of “sentient unconditioned interbeing” (2024, premiere) - Juhani Vesikkala
19.30 - 19.45 Break
19.45
- “Cycle of life” - Marko Timlin
- Q+A session
- second listening of “Cycle of life” - Marko Timlin
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About the artists:
Marko Timlin creates artworks that link science with art, technology with nature and the past with the present. His artistic work centers on the development of kinetic sound installations and performances with self-made sound machines.
His approach is part of a broader perspective of a peaceful coexistence between the human and the machine. With his artistic inventions he proves that both can work together to create experiences that transcend them.
In the recently published anthology covering Finnish media art´s last century (“Suomalaisen mediataiteen ensimmäinen vuosisata”) Timlin is named as a successor of inventive genius Erkki Kurenniemi.
Timlin’s works have been exhibited and performed world-wide including at Whitebox New York (USA), Sight & Sound Festival Montréal (CA), Fylkingen Stockholm (SE), Kiasma Helsinki (FI), EOF gallery Paris (FR), E:vent gallery London (UK), Piksel Festival (NO) and Neues Museum Nürnberg (DE).
www.timlin.de
Timbre, noise, and microtonality have held a fascination for composer (PhD), Grammy Award-winning choral baritone, and teacher Juhani Topias Vesikkala (*1990, Helsinki) since 2010. For Vesikkala, this encompasses all the steps of how music can make sense, from compositional pre-concepts via performance to strategies of listening. With this new piece, the performance aspect is brought to an extreme with sound features that only this MIDI-steered electric instrumentarium could achieve.
Vesikkala has been supported by Musiikin edistämissäätiö (MES) for the creation of his new piece.
http://vesikkalacomposer.com/
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This concert is realized with the kind support of Helsingin Kaupunki & TAIKE.
FREE ENTRANCE
Doors open at 18.00, concert starts at 19.00.
Welcome to be amongst like-minded people and enjoy a variety of donation based tasty drinks before the concert in our charming venue.