Taken from the new album Interspaces (2022) https://ilpo.bandcamp.com/album/interspaces

Composed, performed and mixed by Ilpo Jauhiainen

Produced by Ilpo Jauhiainen
Mastered by Gregor Zemljic at Earresistible Mastering
Cover art and design by Ilpo Jauhiainen

Radiant City

Taken from the new album Interspaces (2022) https://ilpo.bandcamp.com/album/interspaces

Master version 1, differs sonically slightly from the album version.

Composed, performed and mixed by Ilpo Jauhiainen

Produced by Ilpo Jauhiainen
Mastered by Gregor Zemljic at Earresistible Mastering
Cover art and design by Ilpo Jauhiainen

Glisten

Petals

Futurhythmachine – Ilpo Jauhiainen
Ginette – Petteri Mäkiniemi

Attractor I

The backing track for my solo Sähkö Club live-set at Vakiopaine, Jyväskylä FI, 9 September 2023

Composed, performed, mixed and produced by Ilpo Jauhiainen

'Ginette' parts composed and performed by Petteri Mäkiniemi

Field recordings – Ilpo Jauhiainen
Recorded in Jyväskylä, June-September 2023

Cover art: a detail of a Sähkö Club poster design by Olli-Pekka Tennilä

Ships (Live at Vakiopaine 9.9.2023)

From the new album 'LOS-HEL: Possible Cities' (2016), available now on Bandcamp https://ilpo.bandcamp.com/album/los-hel-possible-cities

Lagos soundscape - Emeka Ogboh
Music - Ilpo

Cover art - Emeka Ogboh

Lagos State Of Mind

Music for spoken words (2023).

Composed, produced and mixed by Ilpo Jauhiainen

Voice – Sanna Karlström
Ginette – Petteri Mäkiniemi
Field recordings – Ilpo Jauhiainen

Performed originally with poet Sanna Karlström in Sähkö Club at Vakiopaine, Jyväskylä FI, on 9 September 2023.

Terrestrial 1 (excerpt)

Original track is from the album Shimmer & Bloom (2011).

This is a previously unreleased master version B.

Composed, performed, mixed and produced by Ilpo Jauhiainen

Mastered by Niklas Silen

Cover art by Ayako Kishi

In a Landscape (master version B)

Taken from the forthcoming album Earth Variations (2024).

Composed, performed, mixed and produced by Ilpo Jauhiainen

Mastered by Gregor Zemljic at Earresistible Mastering

Rainforest / Rithmcity

Monday Morning in Lagos (2015) is a generative composition made with the Pure Data software. It is based on a Lagos Soundscape recording of the same title by Emeka Ogboh, and forms part of our LOS-HEL project in which Lagos and Helsinki come together through sound, image and text.

In the beginning of Ogboh’s recording, an itinerant young beggar is heard singing a beautiful tune on a street corner in Lagos. I have chosen a few short phrases of the singing and turned these into ‘seeds’ (audio samples), from which the piece then generates itself. Additionally, I have created few ‘seeds’ of harmonic chords to accompany the singing and which similarly grow over time. Both of these ‘seed sets’ are further subjected to a chain of audio treatments such as granular synthesis, convolution, delays and modulation that enable the piece to grow more abstract as it progresses.

The engine behind the piece is an elaborate sample player created in Pure Data, operated by a probabilistic algorithm; the treatments are similarly operated by a set of probabilistic algorithms using mostly Markov chains. This probabilistic character means that while the piece is slightly different and randomized each time it is played, it always retains a unified character throughout. This to me is more interesting than if the piece had a completely random and unpredictable behaviour: it becomes like a river, always changing yet always retaining its character.

This is a 9-minute recording of one of the variations of the piece.

Original Lagos Soundscape - Emeka Ogboh
Afrorithmic programming - Ilpo

Cover image - Emeka Ogboh

Monday Morning in Lagos (generative composition, Pulse version)

From the new album 'LOS-HEL: Possible Cities' (2016), available now on Bandcamp https://ilpo.bandcamp.com/album/los-hel-possible-cities

Original Lagos soundscape - Emeka Ogboh
Music and soundscape treatment - Ilpo

Cover art - Emeka Ogboh

Brother

An excerpt of a 30-minute composition that I made for Emeka Ogboh's installation 'Egwutronica', as a part of the exhibition 'Disguise: Masks and Global African Art', at the Seattle Art Museum in 2015.

The music is based on recordings of Igbo ceremonial music from southeastern Nigeria, performed by traditional Igbo musicians and recorded by sound artist Emeka Ogboh. These recordings have then been subjected to various electronic treatments (heavy dub-like rework if you will) and overdubbed with some synthesized elements at my studio in Helsinki, Finland. The complete installation music consists of two 30-minute compositions (based around the two original 30-minute recordings), both slightly different in character and atmosphere.

Concept and original recording: Emeka Ogboh
Music: an unnamed group of musicians (?!) in Enugu, Nigeria; Ilpo 
Sonic treatments: Ilpo

Mixed by Ilpo Jauhiainen
Produced by Emeka Ogboh

Mastered by Niklas Silen at Bad Sauna Oy

Original cover photo: Emeka Ogboh

Egwutronica I (an excerpt of installation music for the Seattle Art Museum, Seattle US)

Taken from the album Pulses / Radiance (2017), out now ilpo.bandcamp.com/album/pulses-radiance

Field recording/soundscape - Em'kal Eyongakpa 
Original saxophone - Christian Biegai
Ginette - Petteri Mäkiniemi
Guitar - Moritz Cartheuser

Written, performed, mixed and produced by Ilpo Jauhiainen

Mastering by Niklas Silen

Radiance

Taken from the album Flash of the Spirit (2018) https://ilpo.bandcamp.com/album/flash-of-the-spirit

Vocoder vocal - John Follass 
Non-vocoder vocal - Gustave Dylamour 

Written, performed, mixed and produced by Ilpo Jauhiainen

Mastered by Niklas Silen

Cover art by Ilpo Jauhiainen

Cotonou Beat

Composer, music producer, sound artist (b. 1977 Finland). Albums: Shimmer & Bloom (2011), Arrival City (2013), Sahara (2016), LOS-HEL: Possible Cities (with Emeka Ogboh, 2016), Pulses/Radiance (2017), Flash of the Spirit (2018), Outlands (as Aihio, 2019), Flux (2020), Sharawadji (2022), Interspaces (2022).

I work collaboratively and globally across the arts. My musical interests revolve around the possibilities and combinations of music and sound art, new global musical styles, contemporary classical and generative music.

Ilpo

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