It's the everyday things that I put into my music. How hard they are to handle, the harder the music is to understand when listened afterwards. When there's no-one around to talk to all that dirt must go somewhere, and in to the songs it goes. My life is not polished, it's not nearly always even fun, it is now also not. But what it is always, it is genuine. At best I don't have a clue what happened to the song, or where did it come from. This is my way, I cannot do it in any other way.
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
I'm working on a techno soundtrack for a 1927 movie "Berlin - Symphony of a Great City". It will be performed live in Oulu in an event by Oulun Juhlaviikot. Here's a test video I did with an unreleased techno piece. Watch out, there's bass all over the place, haven't yet started working on the mix. It's a lot of work to get the 60 minutes of music in that I feel that fits the different moods of the 5 acts in the movie. Let's see how much live action I can squeeze in there, the schedule is tight! Nevertheless a cool project.
I'm planning to combine the moving images of Berlin with dreamlike experimental techno, with the purpose of deepening the visual obsevation of what's going on in the great city. Also music should help the immense amount of information provided by the fast pace of editing. The tracks will be both released and unreleased material from my "Artificial Latvamäki" archives. New and old. All of the music will be manipulated real-time while observing the feeling of the venue and the images portrayed in the movie. All of the tracks in the set will be re-programmed and re-mixed just for the movie. Because it really deserves it.
I believe in accidents, I believe in sounds coming from outside, from an open window. I trust my bedroom's reverb, and I trust my broken guitar. All the best sounds come from my own recordings, from moments when I decide to insert kitchen utensils between the strings of an instrument and play notes that just do not exist.
Most of my music is written to the people I know or have known. We all change, usually for the worse.
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