Bio
A whole song can begin with a single sound. A guitar chord that opens something up. A Diosynth breath. A synth patch that wasn't quite what you expected. The rumble of a sub arriving at a station. I've known that for as long as I can remember — not as a technique, but as something I've always felt. The right sound doesn't just inspire a melody. It can become the whole story. That love of sound has made me a restless player. I've picked up a lot of instruments over the years — keyboards, synthesizers, guitar, Bouzouki, wind instruments — not to master any single one, but because each has sounds nothing else can make. Finding the right sound for what I want to say has always mattered more to me than technique. At some point the instruments and the world outside started merging. I began carrying field recording equipment when I travel — and recording at home in Finland too — and what I captured started finding its way into the music. The noise of the London underground arriving at Paddington became an intro. The Aegean Sea at Leptokarya became a track. A stream in the Finnish forest becomes a sample, becomes a texture, becomes a melody. Sometimes I transform what I've recorded through software synthesizers or my sample instruments. Sometimes I leave it exactly as it is and let it open the door into the song. The music is instrumental and synthesizer-led, shaped by a lifetime of wide and restless listening — from progressive rock and classical music to synth pioneers, metal, folk, and traditional Greek music. None of it is a genre I work in. All of it is somewhere in the sound. Based in Vihti, Finland. Recording everywhere else too.
Studies
University of Arts Helsinki — Recording Arts, 2018–2019
Sibelius Academy — Live Sound Basics for Musicians, 2010–2011
Lahti Conservatoire, Finland, 1981–1984