Haukijärvi One

Selected for an artist residency at Arteles in Finland during October 2011, created together with spin-off project Music For Installations, the assignment was surprisingly clear: make music for a month. A new piece for every day. The focus lied on combining ambient music and experimental soundscapes. This resulted in a massive amount of material and extra remix-afterthought work: a work in three parts. The first CD of the trilogy follows the first half of October, where autumn manifests itself in full force at that higher latitude and the days get shorter very quickly.
The works translate the impact of the great landscape around Haukijärvi into emotional music. In short: the landscapes are being soundscaped.
The vast landscapes and the melancholy are the main motivators to create the music. It results in a balanced setlist with moody, melodical tracks and more darker pieces that reflects the solitude and fear which are always hanging around the artists when you reflect deeper and deeper about the melancholy.
Arteles is an inspiring place to produce original work and collaborate with other energetic and ambitious artists & creative professionals. It’s a place that encourages experimentation and innovation – a place that also gives voice to works that otherwise have no other place to be produced or displayed.
The location of Arteles is in the extraordinary nature of Hämeenkyrö (European Union Landscape Award in 2009) where you can soak in the fresh air, go for wandering, walks in the deep forests, swimming in the many lakes nearby, go skiing and skating at winter time, do guided hiking and trekking trips in the nearby nature or have daily relaxing in a traditional wood-fire sauna.
The great Finish outdoor is a perfect companion for this album. It reflected very strongly on the music itself, on the ‘melancholia’, even until the level of the more abstract soundscapes.

Also available on CD and with a beautiful crafted companion-book.

More info: https://www.lounasan.com
Check it out live with live video mixing on stage with Niek Cornil - can be booked!