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TITLE "Äänityksiä / Recordings 1963-1973"
PERFORMER "Erkki Kurenniemi"
REM GENRE "Electronica/Dance"
REM DATE 1971
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Some people are perhaps born with more brains than could reasonably be considered good for them. Take 17th century philosopher Baruch Spinoza, whose immaculately argued Ethics put forward an elegant mathematical proof that God is the one thing that constitutes the universe – a conclusion that swiftly earned him expulsion from the Jewish church. Or the more tragic example of 20th century multidisciplanarian Gilles Deleuze, whose densely knotted and fiercely independent attacks on the conventions of modern capitalist society rest upon an ideology so complex, today’s legions of postmodernist grad students are only now beginning to unravel it – some eight years after his death.
And then there’ s Erkki Kurenniemi, the Finnish electronic music pioneer whose relentless quest for innovation has left him consistently ahead of his peers, and consistently surpassed in popularity as a result. Of course, being blessed with the kind of thornily unpronounceable name that would make Iannis Xennakis jealous, Kurenniemi was perhaps always destined for obscurity. But the man’s legion of inventions alone makes a convincing argument for his inclusion in Philip Glass’ Experimental-Music-Household-Names club. Besides developing a range of synthesizers that aimed to radicalize the performer’s relationship to sound and image (including the DIMI-T, an instrument controlled by electrodes that measured changes in brain activity, and the DIMI-0, which transformed video images into music in real-time – built in 1971), Kurenniemi also created the world’s first commercially manufactured and marketed microcomputer in 1973. And that’s not to mention his forays into the field of electronic music and media art – or his career as a professor of Nuclear Physics.
Lucky, then, that Love Records has seen fit to release Aanityksia / Recordings 1963-1973, a compilation that will hopefully serve to make Kurenniemi familiar to a new crowd of experimental music heads. The disc collects Kurenniemi’s earliest recordings, pieced together from his tenure as “voluntary assistant” to the University of Helsinki’s Electronic Music Studio. And these recordings really do deserve to be heard, bursting with a bristling energy and concision that’s far from the tepid instrument-demonstration atmosphere that mars many recordings of early electronic music. The opener, “Sounds of the Electronic Instrument #4”, is startlingly simple but effective: a two-note chord hovers menacingly, occasionally swooping all over the sound field, before being joined by a noisier and discordant duplicate. The power of the piece resides in its elegant construction – the component parts are supremely basic, but Kurenniemi slots them together with a masterly sensitivity to sonic placement. The end result is a short and sweetly squelchy chunk of analog sound – similar to what Add N To X would sound like if that had no drummer, and they were good.
But “Sounds #4” is just an appetizer for the tastier treats to come, like “Sounds of the Electronic Instrument #1,” in which Kurenniemi crossfades the various parts of a reverberant synth-drum machine figure. The surprisingly groovy results recall the motorik drive of Kraftwerk while prefiguring the minimal glitch-house movement by a good twenty years (not to mention the army of Gameboy musicians abusing software like Nanoloop). “Dance of the Androids” is another surprisingly funky affair, a nest of synth squiggles occasionally resolving into melody of rhythm like some mutant offspring of Goodiepal and Karlheinz Stockhausen. And the strange, cascading tape-spliced arpeggios of “Mix Master Universe 2” are perhaps best explained by reference to Kurenniemi’s own liner notes: “We spent the afternoon in the Institute. It was a sunny day. One of us listened to the ‘material’ while the other spliced the tapes. Maybe we smoked a joint, I can’t recall. The title refers to one type of solution of the [sic] Einstein’s equations.”
The real highlight here is “On/Off,” Kurenniemi’s very first recorded composition, committed to tape in 1963. A massive, reverberating swarm of hiss, feedback, and what sounds like an analog synthesizer being cruelly abused, it brings to mind the dense mindfuck of Hecker’s Sun Pandamonium. What’s more stunning, the piece was recorded in real time, without any tape montage, with Kurenniemi manipulating the various knobs and switches of the Electronic Music Studio while winding back reels of pre-recorded material. If you’re a fan of proto-electronic noisicians like Conrad Schnitzler and Tod Dockstader, you owe it yourself to add this disc to your collection and namecheck Kurenniemi to your buddies – so start learning to spell his name NOW.
Reviewed by: Nick Phillips
Reviewed on: 2003-09-01

Artwork By [Sleeve Design] - Timo Manttari
Compiled By, Liner Notes - Mika Taanila
Composed By - Kurenniemi* (tracks: 1 to 6, 8 to 10)
Photography [Front Cover] - Ensio Ilmonen
Remastered By [Digitally] - Pauli Saastamoinen , Petri Kuljuntausta (tracks: 3)