Hello, my name is Lauri Wuolio. I make drum-and-bell music with acoustic and electronic instruments, while writing on echosophy.
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Long tones & a new label
I’m opening a new sonic chapter with Ocean in A, my first album as Atonauer — a meditative exploration of sustained tones, spatial textures, and minimalist depth. Born from a dream and mastered by Taylor Deupree, it also launches my new label, Future Sonant, dedicated to experimental and exploratory sound.
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Concert at Hvalfjörður
On June 29, 2025, I performed an acoustic concert at Hallgrímskirkjan í Saurbæ, a small church by a fjord in Iceland. This text, written for the concert handout, reflects on emptiness, space, and the healing presence of landscape — themes that continue to shape my music and being.
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XLI (birthday reflection)
Turning 41 — a quiet, prime-numbered milestone between 40 and 42 — led me to reflect on existence, music, and becoming. In this birthday meditation, I write about joy, gratitude, and the inevitability of change — from childhood dreams to echoes of echoes — and the endless process of becoming.
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A photographic ear
We can’t close our ears like we close our eyes. Listening is never a raw recording but a living act of perception — a dance of presonance, resonance, and desonance. In this post, I explore sonance and echosophy: the art of hearing space, time, and our own being within sound.
About me
Sound is the most inspiring way I know to connect with direct experience. By listening attentively, we tune into being in both time and space.
I enjoy creating acoustic and electronic sounds that appear in real and imagined spaces. Echo and reverb are important practical and conceptual tools that keep shaping my thinking and art.
I studied sound art at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts and have been studying the philosophy of religion at the University of Helsinki since 2020. I also work as a spatial experience specialist at Haaga-Helia University of Applied Sciences.
I create music as Kumea Sound and release it through Future Rust, my own cupola (handpan) music label.
