wasteland festival

This summer KOELSE will finally participate the Wasteland festival in Kouvola. Festival will happend 21.-22.7.2012 in Kouvola at the snow-landfill. I will not go into details yet, but mark the date in your calendars (or start using our new Koelse google calendar) it will be massive. Organizers have not released much info yet, check what was there last year from www.wastelandfest.net, check the official 2012 promo video

Turku 18.8 Kirjakahvila

Next gig in Turku 18.8 at Kirjakahvila. Lots of other interesting things going on as well, so check it out.

KIRJAKAHVILAN TAITEIDEN YÖ

Brinkkalan pihassa (Vanha Suurtori 3, Turku)

torstaina 18.8.2011 klo 19:00-02:00

Ei pääsymaksua, ikäraja 18 vuotta

Elokuvanäytös: Chaplinin poika (USA 1921)
http://www.filmgoer.fi/new/klassikko/chaplinin-poika

Livesäestys: Dead Keys
http://www.myspace.com/deadkeys

Musiikkiesityksiä:

E-Musikgruppe Lux Ohr
http://www.myspace.com/luxohrkult

Koelse
http://www.koelse.org

Push Button Music
http://www.facebook.com/pushbuttonmusic?sk=info

Valovoima
http://valovoima.kovaydin.net

Dj Mind Control (Kuolleen musiikin ystävät)
Dj Fake Fag (Qlub)

Turku experiment

If you ever thought about going to Turku, now might be a good time. Next weekend there will be both Turku Modern and Ilmiö festivals happening there. Koelse will be participating both, for Turku Modern we will have a workshop from Thursday to Friday, concert on Friday and the workshop exhibition will be open on Saturday and Sunday at Titanik Gallery.


Still time to sign up for the workshop, just email me (aahonen at gmail.com) and join the experiment.


On Friday we will be playing a very special set, and there will be also Angel and DJ-Esko Routamaa.




In Ilmiö on saturday (23.7) we will participate on KoKoMys:s project "Kodinkonemetsä".


Some info from the Turku Modern facebook page:


Koelsen (Kokeellisen elektroniikan seura) kaikille avoin työpaja
21. – 22.7.2011, klo 12-18
Turku Modern Experiment LIVE Pe 22.7.2011, klo 18-22
-Angel (Ilpo Väisäsen-Pan sonic ja Dirk Dresselhaus-Schneider TM)
+ tanssi Tomoko Nakasato
-Koelse live
-DJ Esko Routamaa

Titanik-gallerian kaksipäiväisessä työpajassa osallistujat purkavat Koelsen väen ohjauksessa vanhoja sähkölaitteita ja elektroniikkaromua ja rakentavat osista soittimia, valoja ja liikkuvia taideobjekteja. Kaikki tarvittavat työkalut löytyvät työpajalta, mutta osallistujat voivat halutessaan tuoda mukanaan omia rikkinäisiä laitteita. Työpajassa toteutetuista teoksista kootaan näyttely, joka on avoinna lauantaina ja sunnuntaina 23.-24.7. kello 12-18 Titanik-galleriassa.
Työpajaan voi ilmoittautua etukäteen Koelsen Antti Ahoselle aahonen@gmail.com. Työpajassa ei ole ikärajaa, ja osallistuminen on kaikille avointa ja maksutonta.
http://www.koelse.org/
http://www.myspace.com/ang​elnoise

Light parasite

Koelse has been working with Maria Duncker to realise her Light parasite project. It will be displayed at the Camp Pixelache exhibition in Suomenlinna next weekend. 

more photos


More info about the festival

Workshops 29.1 Helsinki 12-13 Tampere

Experimental electronics sound workshop 29.1.2011 Vaihtolava Fleminginkatu 21 13.00-19.00

Join association of experimental electronics (www.koelse.org) on our next adventure in the world of abandoned consumer electronics. Bring anything that makes sound: radios, boom-boxes, sound-toys, keyboards or whatever you can find. Our team will guide you through the process of hacking and bending your thrash into something complitely new.

So browse your attic, check the flee-markets, dumpster-dive around or otherwise acquire sound-producing electronic devices and come to Vaihtolava. You can work all day (13-19) or just drop by and look around.

Email me (aahonen at gmail.com) what you will be bringing, and if you already have some plans what you wish to do with it.

Next workshop will be held 12-13.2 in Tampere, at Hirvitalo

More info at the Hirvitalo site

Panetone & Koelse at Ptarmigan

On Saturday 27.11 we are will be playing a special set at Ptarmigan. Our Brazilian guest Cristiano Rosa will be performing with his wonderfull set of circuitbend toys and DIY instruments. Cristianos show is titled Short lived like a butterfly.

“Short lived like a butterfly” – Performance

“Short lived like a butterfly” is an audiovisual performance that uses unique electronic instruments, delicate and unstable, built by the combination of assorted materials found at electronic debris, using Circuit Bending. These devices when played together generate electrical signals that reach a wide range of frequencies (from audible to ultrasonic). Depending on the combination of these signs, to locate its source is impossible because the space is filled with this mass of sound that resonates in our body. The instruments are unstable and sometimes they can simply stop, creating a constant risk during the presentation. All these malfunctions or glitches turn part of the improvisation.

KOELSE will warmup playing with a prototype of our selfs-sufficient performance platform.

And the nice people from Cristianos DIY together workshop will be playing something as well.

So be there, Ptarmigan Nilsiänkatu 10, 27.11.2010 21.00

Costs you 3 euros

Link

panetone

I am proud to announce, that very talented circuit-bender Cristiano Rosa will be visiting Helsinki next week. He will be first participating Piksel festival in Bergen Norway this weekend, and after that he will be heading to Helsinki.

Cristiano Rosa has been in the experimental music scene all around South America since 1989, and this is his first visit in Finland.

We will be having a workshop and a concert at Ptarmigan in Vallila. Workshop is unfortunately fully booked, but do not miss the concert on Sat 27.11 at the same place.

Koelse will be also playing there.

More info at pixelache and ptarmigan sites

And remember to check Cristianos site

Art and sustainability workshop

Now it is time for you to get ready for our art and sustainability workshop. Workshop will be held at Ptarmigan Nilsiänkatu 10.

This workshop will be done in collaboration with MIMproject from Tallinn. MIM is currently working on a energy-neutral theaterpiece 2011, and KOELSE is working to make our expermental soundsystem energy self-sufficient.

In this workshop we join forces to give you an interesting insight on issues regarding art and sustainability. So join us for a a weekend filled with theoretical discussions and practical tinkering, when we think together how art should be made and try out in practice how to make it.

So dpop me an email if you are coming and see you next week.

mail is aahonen (ät) gmail.com

More info

Koelse with defunensemble at siba

Tomorrow 25.11 there will be a very special show at Sibelius Academy. Defunensemble has invited us to play with them. Sami Klemola has Composed a short composition for a acoustic instruments defunensemble plays and experimental electronic instruments Koelse plays.

So it should be quite interesting mixture, and also the first (perhaps last also) opportunity to hear us in a big concert-hall.

After the concert there is also a panel discussion somehow related to subject.

Show should start 20.30, place is Sibelius academy concert hall. R-building
Pohjoinen Rautatiekatu 9

More info

CDR out now

Long waited first KOELSE CDR out now. 

KOELSE: Party around our waste 

Availlable from us, 10e

Acid symhony

Acid Symphony Orchestra - Diamonds Of The Night from Jori Hulkkonen on Vimeo.

Couple of years ago I got a call from Jori Hulkkonen. He had a problem, he was planning a symphony for 10 Roland TB-303:s, and he did not know how to sync those. 303:s do not have midi, but they do have older dinsync.

Jori did not want to use dindsync to midi or other commercial products, so we soldered together a custom buffered 1 to 10 dinsync box. 

Daniel made a nice set to flickr about the technical side.

So if you are going to see Kraftwerk in Suvilahti tomarrow, check the Acid Symphony as well. 

And check what boingboing wrote about the project, misspelled our name atleast.

AEE on myspace as wel

We finally gave in to myspace, koelse myspace account here

AEE on TV

This week we will be on Yle TV-2 Summeri program. Mon-fri 10.20, rerun 16.00.

Inserts will also appear on yle site later, check here

AEE on youtube

We never been very active in posting videos, but since some other people are I have started collecting AEE related youtube videos on my youtube account

AEE on radio

We will be on local radio tomarrow wednesday 29.7.2009. You can hear it if you are in Helsinki and tune to 100,3 MHz.

Time 19.15-20.00

Ollaan lähiradiossa huomenna klo 20.15-21. 100,3 MHz.

Aee on radio

AEE featured on finnish radio Yle-X next tuesday 8.7.2008 11.20. Program is called "mun heimo", my tribe, and it is a series of people who belong to differet types of communityes. 

Art-automation workshop

This weekend we will have an open art-automation workshop at Lá-bas festival at the cable factory. So come there, and bring your old electronics with you.

friday from 17-23 and saturday from 15-22.

More information about out art-automation project on our artbots proposal page

artbots

Next we are trying to get our art-autmation project to the artbots festval. Only 20 robots from all over the world will be chosen to participate, so we will see.

We did a website for the proposal, and it was already featured in the make blog

Helsinki soundscapes

Our soundscape is a part of this collection of soundscapes from Helsinki

video

Some new video from our artlab opening by kalle kuisma