Getting ready for the wasteland festival

We are now preparing ourself for the wasteland festival next week. We suggest you do the same.

Wasteland festival, Kouvola 20-22.7.2012

Suomesta Gallery, Berlin 4 - 25 Aug

Suomesta Gallery 4 - 25 Aug: Association of Experimental Electronics and Mikko Lipiäinen
Exhibition opening 4 Aug at 18



101 Sequencers


About the artist


Association of experimental electronics is a group of experimental electronics paramours.
They gather old consumer-electronics and transform it into sound producing devices.
Koelse have been roaming around the world’s art-centers, galleries, wastelands and squats since 2002. They build installations, play concerts, teach workshops and party around their waste.  

www.koelse.org
http://koelsedoc.wordpress.com/

For the exhibition Koelse builds a trasholicious installation using electronics that have dropped out of consumer rotation. A space full of noisy lo-fi disturbance sound mayhem is to be expected. This particular consept is part of Koelses 10-year anniversary festivities.


There's an Invisible Place far away


About the artist:

Mikko Lipiäinen is an artist/activist who operates in the intersection of media, performance and socially engaged art. He is interested in the cross-pollination of the concepts and practices between online and non-online worlds. In his art practice he wants to have a role of a participator/facilitator and seldom works as individual. In his recent works he has focused on the online worlds’ effect on activist identities.

In this minimalistic video installation artist Mikko Lipiäinen meditates on the 21st century's encyclopedic knowledge production and its effect on netizens' worldview by dramatizing the editing process of Wikipedia article 'The Great Pacific Garbage Patch'.

Encyclopedic knowledge is an essential component in modern man's worldview. Since Encyclopédie was published during the later half of 18th century a vast collection of verified facts produced by experts of knowledge invaded the grounds of earlier forms of storytelling, thus allowing the producers of new kind of universal common knowledge - the encyclopedians - to control the worldview of the masses around the globe.

Wikipedia phenomenon continues Enlightment’s encyclopedia project aiming to make us all encyclopedians, the producers of commonly accepted truths. More interestingly, as a byproduct it also makes the battle between the multitude of non-established truths and The Established Truth visible in a very effective way.

Potsdamer Straße 91, 10785 Berlin
www.suomestagalleria.netinfo@suomestagalleria.net

Openinghours: Tu–Sa 1-6pm

Koelse documentary now online

Documentary film about KOELSE by Jari Kykkänen has now its own website. Go ther and watch the 33min documentary online, enjoy.

Olohuone Turku

Next we will visit Turku at the Olohuone festival. Our piece is titled "Touch me" and it concists of our DIY musical instruments and a special touch sensitive mat where audience can play our instruments by touching each other

 We do not exactly know yet where we will be, but we will drop by at opening club on wednesday at Kirjakahvila.

After that we will be out there in the city somewhere every day till saturday. You can ask about our whereabouts from the infopoint, (formerly known as kulma 2011) at the Läntinen Rantakatu in the Kristiinankatu end. We will also be at the ending club at the Cafe Aula

Exhibition in Pori 29.4-20.5

Next we will be setting up our 101 Sequencers exhibition at Gallery 3H+K in Pori. This year we are celebrating our 10 th anniversary, so we will have a very special setup coming. 

We will build our most challenging setup ever, that will feature sequencers throughout our history, and a massive amount of completely new devices. 

At our opening on 28.4 we will also publish a book about our 10-year long journey, so be there and be sure to have some cash with you so you can own a copy of this beauty.

Wastelandfest trailer out now

Jättömaa 2012 festivaali Wastelandfestival 2012 20.7.-22.7.2012 @ Kouvola www.wastelandfest.net

AAVE

AAVE is hounting the northern suburbs of Helsinki, the AAVE-alternative audiovisual
event. Events will be held mostly in Malmitalo 12.-15.4.2012.

KOELSE will be performing on sunday 21.00. Be prepared for a very special audiovisual experience.

THE IRRESISTIBLE SHINE OF AAVE…

AAVE (in English: ghost, spectre) – will have its days of haunting 12. – 15.4.2012. Our festival of moving images will once again show a rich selection of different phenomena in audiovisual art, completely free of harge. From the coldness and darkness of the winter people are waking up to the rays of early spring, and walking towards the light that radiates across the small Malmi square. AAVE radiates. Polar Night is finally over. It is a time to join our hands together in our energetic gathering and wonder the mysteries of the moving images.

In this year our primary attention is on the live cinema performances and in the relationship between analogue film and digital media. We believe that this discussion has just started. We are glad to show works in Super 8-, 16-, 35 mm and digital formats.

To the delight of our audiences we will be bringing back our screening program of Japanese movie delicatessen, edge-of-the-art/ cutting edge art selections of both domestic and international media art and a historical program of the women animators from Soviet Union. Our new theme En Garde! will guarantee a sharp taste of the spiciness of the 21st century avant-garde. Our collaborators among others are AV-arkki, National Audiovisual Archive, FixC Cooperative and Impakt–festival, our soul sibling from Netherlands.

Our main venue is Malmitalo, but we will also haunt in Lasipalatsi exhibition space, XL Art Space, Finnish National Theatre Stage Club and Porvoonkatu bar. The lecture / panel discussion session between the structural film / film performance artist Guy Sherwin (GB) and media artist Oliver Whitehead (FI) is organized together in the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. In Malmitalo the media artist Markus Renvall (FI) will have a two day experimental chroma-key –video workshop for children of any age and their parents. Welcome to the shine of AAVE!

Yours ghostly,
Artistic directors Ivan Punzo & Kari Yli-Annala

Koelse live at Polymer Tallinn 22.3

Koelse will perform tomorrow 22.3.2012 at Reuse exhibition opening at Polymer Culture Factory in Tallinn. Very special show coming, and interesting exhibition. 

 

REUSE : THE POLYMER CHALLENGE

 

Exhibition Opening Thursday 22 March 2012 17:30

 

Art Container Gallery/ Culture Factory Polymer

 

 
10 days, down and dirty at Polymer.

 

REUSE is a showcase of functional art made in the “Polymer Style.” The works of art share themes of repurposed materials, improvisation and elegant solutions.

 

Join us at the exhibition for refreshments and demonstrations of the works of art.
REUSE: THE POLYMER CHALLENGE is part of the educational program of Polymer titled Polykool.

 

 

 

Works by:

 

Linda Al-Assi (Estonia)

 

Erik Alalooga (Estonia)

 

Ryan Left (Canada)

 

Sara Millazo (Finland)

 

Ig Noir (Estonia)

 

Justin Tyler Tate (America/Estonia)

 

Trashlab/Error edition (Finland/Estonia)
Curated by Ernest Truely (USA/Estonia)

Also exhibiting:
Jukka Hautamäki (Finland)
Albert Laine (Finland)

Additional performance at the opening by
Koelse (Finland)
Association of Experimental Electronics
www.koelse.org

Supported by
Pixelache (Finland)
Culture Factory Polymer
The art program of Culture Factory Polymer  and Art Container is supported by Estonian Ministry of Culture and Estonian Endowment of Culture

Kunstikonteiner
Kultuuritehas Polymer
Madara 22/ Ülase 16
Tallinn
www.artcontainer.ee
info: (+372) 55 94 12 11
(+372) 55 43 961
(+372) 51 93 70 03

Video & photos from the Image club

Uploaded some videos from the Korjaamo gig. Also some photos on my photoblog.

Give your money to the wasteland festival

Wasteland festival in Kouvola is collecting donations for their 2012 festival. Go to Holvi website and give your money for a good cause. 

And remember to go to the Wasteland festival next summer  

Image club 10.03

Check the Image-club at Korjaamo next saturday. Lineup includes Itetune, Cleaning women and KOELSE. Also Boys of summer DJ:s.

Do not miss.
Place: Korjaamo Vintti, Helsinki
price: 10e advance/12e door

20:00 DJ
21:30 JIMI TENOR ITETUNE
23:00 KOELSE
00:30 CLEANING WOMEN
01:45 DJ



More info:

Korjaamo,

Cultural tram gig cancelled

Gig atg the Cultural tram cancelled, Cultural tram burned down.

Talking trashlab, Antti Ahonen friday 17.2

Antti Ahonen from KOELSE will be talking on the Talkingh trashlab series on friday at Aalto media factory

Welcome to the first lecture in the ‘Talking Trash(lab)’ series by Antti Ahonen (Koelse, FI), on Friday 17th February, 17.30-19.00 at Aalto Media Factory.
“How I learned to stop worrying and love trash”
The question of trash is very essential today, as the rate our limited natural resources is turning into hazardous waste is constantly accelerating. Will we drown in our own waste, or is there an answer to this question? If there is, should we search for it in technology, activism, philosophy, religion, history, art or somewhere else? Is the end of consumer-culture near, or will we be saved by singularity, green politics or our own actions?
Antti Ahonen from Koelse will tackle these topics, explaining how he learned to stop worrying and love trash.
Express your attendance on related facebook event.
More info about Trashlab & Talking Trash(lab) series: http://trashlab.info/
How to get to the location: http://mediafactory.aalto.fi/?page_id=693

Koelse documentary premiere

Long waited KOELSE documentary by Jari Kykkänen will be premiered this week.

The movie is about young men who form a group called the Association of Experimental Electronics (KOELSE). They gather electronic devices thrown away by people and build musical instruments and art installations from them. Their opinion of music, fun and the culture of consuming differs from the masses. What others see as a worthless piece of junk is valuable technology for them. Their whole idea is based on the idea of reusing this carbage. KOELSE is not really a band, it´s also not really an art community. It´s more like a way of life that relies on doing together and using the old technology again. The documentary is a part of an ongoing process of making a full lenght movie. address: Art Lab Nilsiänkatu 10, 2. floor. 00510 Helsinki time: Thursday 16.2., 18-20 (screening at 19) lenght of the movie 33 min after the movie KOELSE will play a live gig.

Bring your own booze

Today, Teatteri Minä Minä

Maippi (who you might remember from VJ:ing on our gigs) has her own project Teatteri minäminä 
going on right now. Concept is, that anyone can come and perform in her theater.

We thought we perform something today.
Round five I think.

address is Viipurinkatu 6.

http://xn--min-sla.tv/
http://omakaupunki.hs.fi/paakaupunkiseutu/tapahtumat/pop_up-teatteri_minamina/22.01.2012/

Some setbacks

Ollis car burned down yesterday, destroying among other things 20 or so sequencers for our 101 sequencers project. So our demo-day today will not show 50.5 sequencers as we were planning, but we will present as many as we have.

So wellcome to our studio, today 19.30.

Maker faire helsinki?

Word is on the street that there are some plans for a "Maker faire" type of event in Helsinki. Behind the process are Altparty and Finnish Hacklabs, Pixelache will propably participate somehow and KOELSE as well. Hacklabs have a form you can fill if you want to participate, and Altparty will be having a planning meeting at Korjaamo restourants balcony on 4.2.2012 14-16 if you want to participate te arrangements. Thats all I know at the moment.

Next we build sequencers

2012 is a 10 year anniversary year for KOELSE. One of our anniversary projects is upcoming 101 sequencers exhibition in 3H+K gallery Pori 29.4-17.5. Our aim is to build 101 different sequencers and build a massive audiovisual entity out of them.

You can follow our process in  http://101sequencers.blogspot.com/.

We will also have an open demoday at our studio saturday 19.30. Leave us a message for more details.

Läski Fest

LÄSKIFEST11 la 17.12.2010 klo 20:00 5€ Valvomo, Kaasutehtaankatu 1, Suvilahti, Helsinki.

Jorma Tapio, Saunamantra, KOELSE, Wammacet, Pig Bänd, Tuonpuoleisen Portot, läski, DJ Sneik - Greiv Digga, etc. 

Läskifest on täällä viidettä kertaa! Kokeellisen ja vapaan musiikin äänitorvi kutsuu luokseen valtavirran rannoille tylsistyneitä. Tarjolla on virkistävä  ja monipuolinen kattaus suomalaisen outsider-musiikin erikoisuuksia!  Luvassa myös julkaisuja ja performance henkeä!
 
Läskifest11 toteutetaan Läski-yhtyeen ja Circus Maximus ry:n yhteistyönä. 

www.läski.fi / www.laski.fi
www.circusmaximus.org

Yhtyeistä:

Jorma Tapio - Solo
- Pitkän linjan puhallinmestari Jorma Tapio konsertoi läskifesteillä soolona. Luvassa primitiivistä free-ilmaisua. 
Jorma Tapio on vaikuttanut mm. yhtyeissä Edward Vesala Sound&Fury, Hugry Tribal Marching Band, Rolling Thunder, Krakatau, Sielun Veljet etc.
http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/jormatapio/

KOELSE (Kokeellisen Elektroniikan Seura)
Kokeellisen elektroniikan seura on luovaan teknologian väärinkäyttöön keskittynyt ryhmä. "Keräämme vanhaa kodinelektroniikkaa, ja muutamme sen ääntä tuottaviksi koneiksi. Näillä koneilla me soitamme keikkamme, vai soittavatko koneet kenties meitä. Musiikkimme on elektronista, rytmikästä ja yllätyksellistä."  
www.koelse.org

Tuonpuoleisen Portot
Tuonpuoleisen Portot esiintyvät uudella kokoonpanollaan! Tarjolla on parhaita kappaleita albumeilta: Usvatarten Lampi ja Kirken Loihtimana. 
Aarni Lehtinen:Laulu ja kitara
Tuomas Timonen:basso 
Tomi Suovankoski:rummut  
http://www.myspace.com/tuonpuoleisenportot

 Wammacet
"Samat demonit jotka lennättivät Elviksen sotaväkeen Saksaan, kaivoivat keväällä 2011 Tattarisuon lähteestä esiin merkillisen C-kasetin. Nauhalle oli taltioitu alkuperäisen The Wammacet kokoonpanon live esitys vuodelta 1982!
Tämän Suomipunkin,mutta myös sprogen klassikon kruunaa 80-luvun merkittävin naisbasso-soolo,jonka 80-luvun merkittävin naisbasisti Holttinen murretusti leikatussa
otsatukassaan esittää. Koska muut originaalit Wammacet jäsenet katosivat journalismin ravintoketjusta jo 1900-luvulla, Anarkiaa Unkarissa livellä xylofonista ja huilusoolosta vastaava Aarni esittää levyn sävelteoksia uusina raikkaina sovituksina.
Nyt vain Läskifest 2011 yleisölle avautuu ainutlaatuinen tilaisuus hankkia tämä klassinen taltiointi digitaalisesti masteroituna.
Levyn kiistaton helmi "Bingo pyärii Unkarissa" löytyy myös upealta
"Suomipunk oli täyttä Paskaa" kokoelmalta joka on niinikään saatavilla vain Läskifest 2011 yleisölle."

Saunamantra
Saunamantra on visuaalinen ääniteos, jonka ytimen muodostaa haapahirsistä rakennettu lyömäsoitin. Kolme lyömäsoittajaa tuottavat hirsisoittimella kudoksen, jonka kanssa muut muusikot kommunikoivat. Teoksessa on laajoja sävellettyjä jaksoja, mutta myös runsaasti tilaa improvisaatiolle. Musiikin lähtökohtana on käytetty vanhaa suomalaista saunalaulua, sekä seitsensävelistä asteikkoa jonka hirsisoittimen hirret soidessaan muodostavat. 
Saunamantrassa tutkitaan saunomiseen liittyvää rauhoittumista ja puhdistautumista musiikin, performanssin, sekä rituaalin keinoin.
Kuinka sauna vaikuttaa ihmisiin? Voiko samankaltaisia vaikutuksia saada aikaan äänten ja musiikin avulla?
Esityskokoonpano:
Otto Eskelinen: Alttosaksofoni
Konsta Eskelinen: Viulu
Kusti Vuorinen: Kellot, Soivat Kulhot, Trumpetti
Janne Tuomi/Pena Dassum: Hirret
Erkki Joutseno: Hirret
Paavo Eskelinen: Hirret
Hirsisoittimen rakennus ja tekninen toteutus: Paavo Eskelinen
Sävellystyö: Otto Eskelinen

Pig Bänd

- Kiistan alaiseen Pig Bäng -teoriaan pohjautuvaa sika jatsia. Äärimmäistä soittoa ja laitimmaista runoutta. 

Läski 
- Festivaali-isäntä läski julkaisee joulumarkkinoille uuden räjähtävän Ukkoskupu C-kasetinsa! Ja esittää livenä kasetin helmiä, sekä runsaasti tuoretta, läskiäkin läskimpää läski-materiaalia. Mukana lyömäsoittimissa muusikko/taiteilija Björn B. Lindström.

www.läski.fi, www.myspace.com/laeski, facebook - läski

Koelse 3.0

Yes, we have complitely new look for our website. Go check www.koelse.org