Tag: soundtrack

  • Olen jossain (I’m Somewhere) wins at Koura Awards

    Last week I was working with the young people in Sipoo with Gutsy Go so I couldn’t attend the award gala, but on thursday night a friend sent me a fairly cryptic message, which made me suspect our documentary had won something. Next morning I learned that Olen jossain (“I’m Somewhere”), the multimedia documentary about memory loss was awarded the main prize in the category of best documentaries (along with the tv documentary Operaatio Alaska)!

    Koura is awarded to the best tv, radio and web productions in Finland.

    This is from the website (https://www.koulutusrahastokoura.fi/palkinnot/palkitut/2017/):

    DOKUMENTIT JA JOURNALISTISET SISÄLLÖT -SARJAN KOURA-PALKINNOT

    Olen jossain
    15 000 euroa

    Kanava: Yle TV1, Yle Radio1, yle.fi
    Tuotanto: Yle Asia, Dokumentit

    Palkitaan: Tuula Rajavaara, Kirsi Kukkurainen, Marja Söderlund, Teemu Kokkonen, Lauri Wuolio, Viivi Berghem,  Kai Rantala, Tiina Klemettilä, Hannu Karisto,  Ari Lehikoinen

    Tämän tuotannon sisältö ei jätä ketään kylmäksi. Se myös koskettaa yhä suurempaa osaa suomalaisista, joko oman itsensä tai läheisen kautta. Miltä tuntuu kun arki ei enää suju tai se saa jopa tragikoomisia piirteitä. Miltä tuntuu kun äiti ei enää muista edes syödä ilman muistilappua. Muistisairaan ihmisen ja hänen läheisensä maailmaa avataan poikkeuksellisen onnistuneesti Olen jossain -dokumentissa. Dokumentti on moniulotteinen ja vuorovaikutteinen kokonaisuus: nettisivusto, valokuvanäyttely-tapahtuma, tv- ja radiodokumentit.

    I’m happy! The project was meaningful to me personally as it gave me a chance to reflect on my own experience with memory disease in my family.

    Check out the documentary at YLE/Finnish Broadcasting Company website!

    Read more about my music in the documentary by clicking here.

  • “I’m somewhere” nominated at PRIX EUROPA

    I just learned that “I’m somewhere” (orig. “Olen jossain”), the radio documentary I composed the music for, has been nominated at PRIX EUROPA 2017 in the radio documentary category.

    For the soundtrack I used two different musical elements. The first one was a 50 minute solo acoustic composition, which was composed/improvised with my grand mother’s life story in mind. In her 80s she has struggled with memory illness, which is reflected in the composition as themes that develop early and then slowly degenerate like a failing memory. Something, that was present in the beginning is still present in the end, but only as fragments or vague impressions of the original themes. The other musical element was a 30 minute long experimental electronic composition of 7 distinct parts, which all present different “scenes” of life, such as “routines” or “people” or “places”.

    These two musical elements were composed so that you could combine parts freely from both elements creating new compositions or ambiences for the documentary.

    For the tv version of the documentary I composed another four themes — one of them can be heard on this playlist that I just posted on Soundcloud (track number two, “Kaikki toistuu” or “Everthing repeats”).

    The first track on the playlist is from my next album, which I will release in a couple of weeks… More info on that soon!