Name: No Mercy! by Teemu Halmkrona
Duration: 7 min 25 s
Description: No mercy! was performed by UMO at the finals of the 8th Esko Linnavalli Composition Competition on May 28 2019 at Savoy Theatre Helsinki.

Creations of the Teknogod are results of zero planning, but lots of concept building.

Concept Of World

Trio N O X - Athena

Is there a rave scene, under that techsroom???

Techsrooms in partygarden

Grave Continuation 2

b231020 [dt010+onevoice]

Minimalistic experimental electronic composition.

As the title suggests, this song tries to capture the feeling of a soldier on the edge of a trench during a ceasefire. 

Soma lyra8, ether, Field FX, Minimoog, Drumbrute.

A Ceasefire

Mycelium-Drive [135 bpm]

No mercy! was performed by UMO at the finals of the 8th Esko Linnavalli Composition Competition on May 28 2019 at Savoy Theatre Helsinki.

No Mercy!

Lego Technic

This is a live recording of the first performance of Karui at Uuden Musiikin Lokakuu Festival in Oulu, Finland on September 29, 2018. The performance was given by Helmi Malmgren, quarter tone clarinet and Veli Kujala, quarter tone accordion.

Program notes for Karui:

For me, Karui is a leap into a new area, a world of microintervals. In some of my previous works I have occasionally used microintervals to color the twelve-tone equal temparament, but in the past microintervals – in the case of Karui, the equally tempered quarter tones – have not played a significant role in my music.

My growing interest in the power of music to influence the receiver's perceptions and experiences of time and surroundings around themselves has led me to focus on the resonant qualities of the tones. Microintervals bring a lot of new dimensions into the play.

With the melodic and harmonious possibilities offered by the quarter tone clarinet and the quarter tone accordion, I became mostly preoccupied with fragile sound surfaces, and the more or less traditional development of the musical material is deliberately left out. The slowly moving microtonal harmonies and melodic figures invite the listener to come to a halt – to stop and dwell into the fragile sonic world of Karui.

I would like to warmly thank Lauri Sallinen and Veli Kujala for the commission and the Sibelius Fund for their support towards this commission and the Finnish Cultural Foundation for supporting my work during the year 2018.

– Markku Klami, work commentary for the premiere performance, September 2018

Karui

Solo piano improvisation with subtle electronic soundscapes. The thick gray sky of Helsinki in December makes me think of -20C starry nights in snowy Lapland.

Waiting For Snow

Composer, musician and music teacher from Helsinki.

I started composing in my teens with tracker programs of Commodore 64, Amiga 500 and PC. After one year of mathematics studies I began to study music at my hometowns music institute: in the beginning only piano lessons and basic music theory, later counterpoint, harmonizing and thorough-bass lessons. Much later I graduated as a composer-arranger from Helsinki Polytechnic Stadia and keyboard harmony teacher from Metropolia University of Applied Sciences. Nowadays I compose music for many purposes: commercial, educational and art music.

I've been working as a professional pianist and keyboardist since 1994 playing in a wide array of styles mostly in rhythm music genre.

As a teacher, I mostly teach piano and keyboard harmony students, but also a little bit of music theory, arranging and composing in West-Helsinki Music Institute.

No Mercy!

Teemu Halmkrona

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