Ville Aalto
Sound artist & electronic musician based in Helsinki, Finland.
Works with synthesizers, creates artificial, electronic versions of natural sounds and presents them in the form of surround sound installations, electronic music recordings and live concerts.
Main body of work filed under Avian Electronics. Synthetic birds sing under voltage-controlled weather systems, artificial grasshoppers chirp in digital forests.
The world is moving forward at an unprecedented pace, our accelerating technological developments affect everything - how permanently are we changing the environment that surrounds us? What sorts of natural sounds will we hear 25 years from now? Avian Electronics is one way of listening to these questions, a universe of organic synthetic sounds, blips and beeps, chirps and tweets. What is real, what is natural, what is artificial?
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Curriculum Vitae
Education
Master of arts, sound design - University of the Arts Helsinki, Theatre Academy, 2018
Installation / sound art / music / audio
Ohjeet kaitanokkakuovin henkiin herättämiseksi / Media work
Tampere Art Museum, Light and Energy - Dimensio 50 years exhibition, 2022.
Avian Electronics | Time Runner / Sound installation
Cultural Centre Stoa, Helsinki, 2022.
Avian Electronics | Mustarastaat, Sähkölehto, Hälytystasot, Ainoa konekuikka
Series of four sound installations. Lux Helsinki 2022.
Scene I - The Beginning and the End / video + sound installation
Katajanokka, Helsinki, 2021 / Media art space Pimento, Oulu, 2021
Avian Electronics | Fire & Cicadas / sound installation
Reflektor Vantaa, 2021.
Signals in C# Minor / soundscape concert
Vuosaarenhuippu, Helsinki 2021.
Avian Electronics | Ohikulkijat / sound installation
Culture Centre Stoa, Helsinki 2021.
65,000,000 / audio piece for headphones and landscape
Saaren kartano, Mynämäki 2021.
Avian Electronics | Live / concert in surround sound
Kiasma theatre, Helsinki 2020.
Avian Electronics | Sähkölintujen laulu / sound installation
Tampere Biennale 2.0, Tampere 2020.
Avian Electronics | Muodonmuutos / sound installation
Sound art gallery Akusmata, Helsinki 2020.
Avian Electronics / album
Avian Electronics | Sähköisiä luontokuvia / audio work for radio
Text by Ronja Louhivuori. Radiogalleria, YLE 2020.
Avian Electronics | Keinotekoinen kevät / sound art exhibition
Vapaan taiteen tila, Helsinki 2020.
Avian Electronics | Live / concert
Vapaan taiteen tila, Helsinki 2019.
Puu / sound installation around an algorithmic tree
Part of Wild Wild Wood exhibition by Science Centre Heureka & Botschaft von Finnland, Berlin, 2019.
Alice in Underland / sound installation
Vapaan taiteen tila, Helsinki 2017.
Performing arts / radio drama/ misc
Maannos / sound design for contemporary circus
Blind Gut Company. Näyttämö, Joensuu 2022.
Min fantastiska väninnä / sound design for stage w/ Ilkka Tolonen
Directed by Riikka Oksanen. Lilla Teatern / Helsinki City Theatre 2022.
Jumala on kauneus / sound design for stage
Written & directed by Kristian Smeds. Helsinki City Theatre 2022.
Designing the End / sound design for contemporary dance
Concept & choreography by Broas & Nyberg. Zodiak, Helsinki 2021.
Ilmastokirkko: Riippuvainen (esitys G-duurissa) / sound design for stage
Written by Ronja Louhivuori & Laura Halonen. Night of Science 2019.
Suomenlinna 1918 / sound design for radio drama and binaural site-specific work
Written by Elina Snicker, directed by Susanna Airaksinen. YLE 2018.
Legenda pienestä luusta, osa IV - Rán / sound design for stage
Written by Seppo Parkkinen, directed by Juha Malmivaara & Susanna Airaksinen.
Third Space / Turku City Theatre 2018.
Saunan takana / sound design for stage
Written by Anu Heikkilä & Karlo Haapiainen, directed by Anu Heikkilä.
Vinttiteatteri / Turku Ciry Theatre 2018-2019.
Legenda pienestä luusta, osa III / sound design for stage
Written by Seppo Parkkinen, directed by Juha Malmivaara & Susanna Airaksinen. Third Space 2017.
VIRE / sound design for contemporary circus
Directed by Meri-Maija Näykki, tightrope Maiju Saarimaa. Touring work, 2017.
Siniverinen strategia / sound design for stage
Written by Anu Heikkilä, Laura Hurme & Oona Airola, directed by Oona Airola. Vinttiteatteri 2017.
Endhaltestellen / video installation
Transit Zone Pavilion, Berlin 2017.
folifoli_II. bubble / sound design for contemporary dance
Choreography Caroline Kühner. Production Popticum, West Germany, Berlin 2016.
Legenda pienestä luusta, osa II / sound design for stage
Written by Seppo Parkkinen, directed by Juha Malmivaara & Susanna Airaksinen. Third Space 2016.
Aava / sound design, writing and direction for radio drama
YLE 2016.
Siitä mihin jäimme / sound design for stage
Written and directed by Anu Heikkilä & Laura Hurme. Vinttiteatteri 2016.
Elämän mittainen työ / sound design for contemporary dance (w/ Johannes Brotherus)
Choreography Hanna Brotherus. Theatre Academy / Finlandia-talo 2016.
Ym pä ri / sound design for children’s immersive theatre work
Directed by Jukka Heiskanen & Fabian Nyberg. Annantalo 2015.
XXX Liberation Front / sound design for stage
Directed by Jere Kolehmainen. Three Reasons Theatre 2014.