syklit jotka puhkeavat

syklit jotka puhkeavat

ryppy 2:17

norro 7:10

ontto 4:01

materials: stones, sandpaper, water in glass bowl

instruments: modular sampler and synthesizer

recorded in 2022 in home studio in Kumpula, Helsinki

mixed by Mikko Sarvanne

mastered by Juho Luukkainen

the album art is a photograph of a sculpture by Vera Kox, from the series Temporary forms and permanent doubts, 2011. © Vera Kox, photo: Max Reitmeier

animation: Oona Pennanen & Mikko Sarvanne

all tracks are recorded live on a single take

TITLES IN ENGLISH

cycles that blossom

wrinkle 2:17

trickle 7:10

hollow 4:01

For composer Mikko Sarvanne, music reveals places: abstract, invisible spaces of harmony, and tangible, physical spaces that are constructed in real time through performance. On ”syklit jotka puhkeavat” (eng: ”cycles that blossom”) EP, Sarvanne performs using a modular sampler as their instrument, loaded with sounds of stone, water and sandpaper. These sounds form crackling, bubbling cycles that gradually tear open into glowing pillars of sound.

”Captivating, meditative rhythmic weave. Something hidden between the cracks”

- artist Joonas Siren (Forces)

”While listening to the EP, I kept thinking about all kinds of creatures — beings and entities

somehow taking the form of stone and water. In my imagination, the stones had eyes and the water took on a figure. Then they held some kind of celebration at the boundary between water and shore, and played music that sounded like this.”

- choreographer Laura Jantunen

”I find this music obstinate, lush and irrigating at times, yet immediately inviting to inhabit it, to be submerged by the organic environment it evokes.”

- composer Lauri Supponen

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank you Eetu Vekki, Oona Pennanen, Tiia Roivanen, Joonas Siren, Laura Jantunen and Lauri Supponen for offering your kind, delightful and precise insights on the conceptualization of the EP.