Last month, me and Marko Rantanen went shoot­ing around the Hel­sinki met­ro­pol­itan area for Helsingin San­o­mat omakaupunki.fi ad cam­paign. “Oma kaupunki”, which trans­lates as “My city”, is a site where people can exchange tips, events, news and ser­vices. The cam­paign theme is “Greet­ings from the neigh­bor­hood. This is what Oma Kaupunki is made of.” All […]

Com­poser and orches­trator Thomas Goss has a great video series on You­tube called Online Guide to Orches­tra­tion. He goes through the dif­fer­ent ele­ments and tech­niques of the craft in an inter­est­ing man­ner. He also has great score-reading videos in which he breaks down clas­sical pieces, one of which I’ve embed­ded as an example below.

Yes­ter­day, someone on Red­dit pos­ted a chip track they had made on MilkyTracker, a multi-platform Fast Tracker 2 clone for mod­ern com­puters. Nat­ur­ally, I had to try it out imme­di­ately. I still remembered most of the com­mands, but the inter­face was a bit hard to use after almost 15 years. For example, copy and paste […]

I present you with a new song called Stars, which turned out pretty nice. It pon­ders the dis­tant future of human race. If humans travel to the stars someday, will the col­on­ists sep­ar­ated by huge dis­tances and liv­ing in dif­fer­ing envir­on­ments evolve into dis­tinct spe­cies, unable to repro­duce with oth­ers colon­ies? Or will they mingle […]