Grab it from AppStore!

The soundtrack is also available at Bandcamp!

Here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NBnNEWbOkc

Thanks to the wonderful actresses, and everyone else who participated and helped in the making of the video.

And thanks to Anna Grundström (cello), Petrus Laitinmäki (violin and viola) for great playing.

Also, this is the first piece to use my new Analogue Solutions Leipzig synthesizer which has in brief time became an integral part of my studio.

Some moments ago, sad news also came that Jon Lord, the legendary keyboardist of Deep Purple has passed away. This piece & post shall be dedicated to his memory.

I’m happy to tell you that Petra’s Planet, virtual world for children is officially launched. It features much of my audio work, and has kept me very busy during the last months. Check it out! (Hint: for just some casual fun, go to the games page!)

Also, our pet toys from Petra’s Planet wrote and performed this nice song, with little help from me:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVwWYZp4hX4

I want also to share this song I made this week with you. It was inspired by traditional melodic electronic music, mostly Jean Michel Jarre, my childhood icon. (Hence the working name, Jarre of Hermanni, referring to myself and the area in Helsinki where I live. Too lazy to invent a proper name for it now )

When I got this idea, it reminded me of some battle music themes of classic Final Fantasy games, and I ended up making a similar instrumentation for it.

I used to play the classic Final Fantasy games quite a lot, and the music Nobuo Uematsu composed for them has admittedly influenced me.

The name of the piece reflects Final Fantasy memories as well, as in the old FF games battles appeared quite “out of blue” when you were walking around.

Thanks to the musicians who played in this one:

Vesa Pännäri : bass
Teemu Salo : guitar
Petrus Laitinmäki: violin
Samuli Peltoniemi: trumpet
Eero Koski : trombone

First, here’s a new piece, with a nature-themed video by Sabine van Gameren. In addition of samples, some humane parts were recorded to enhance the sound. Many thanks to:
Panu Ali-Rantala & Sirke Nieminen – voice
Samuli Peltoniemi – trumpet
Eero Koski – trombone

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rYhu3Gsx-k

Second, in summer I had an idea to organize a gig playing classic video game music in game developers gathering (IGDA Finnish chapter), and this Tuesday this became finally true. I managed to gather a group of talented musicians to play with me. Thanks Juke (drums), Anu (keys), Olli (violin), and others who helped to make this possible.

Here is a video clip of us performing Trine theme by the great game composer Ari Pulkkinen (present in the audience, of course! )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1MqrFwTFIc

Third, I recently got into a position in my dayjob where I can also contribute to music and sound design in the virtual world for children we’re creating. So, future versions of Petra’s Planet will have some of my audio there as well!

With everything going on, I just recently noticed that Christmastime is here very very soon, so merry Xmas/Holidays/etc, and great new year for everyone!

An interesting thing about these two pieces is that they are quite poles apart considering their sound and compositional process:

“Strange Logic” is electronic piece, involves sitting in front of computer, clicking & tweaking, while “Dance III” involves sitting in front of an acoustic piano, and getting into some serious playing.

Enjoy!

Thanks to Tommi Koskenheimo for the piano recording.

Strange Logic:

Dance III:

This is a video for my solo piano piece “Resolution”, written/directed/edited by Sabine van Gameren who also had to be the actress contrary to what we originally planned.

The video turned out really cool, I think. It was an interesting and fun experience as well. More videos might come later…

Yeah, I was heavily influenced by one certain French synth artist at that time