My newest sound installation ‘A Garden, Faraway (for Katri Vala)’ is now running in Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki. There’s an exhibition party tomorrow Thu at 5 pm, showing sound works by six different artists, so come by if you’re in town (address Vilhovuorenkuja 15, Sörnäinen). /// ‘A Garden, Faraway (for Katri Vala)’ is a generative 3-D composition, created with the architecture and the sound of the ventilation system of Vapaan Taiteen Tila in mind. It’s a modest homage to Katri Vala, who was forward-thinking Finnish writer in the early 20th century and who is buried in the park above the exhibition space. It’s inspired by her poem Kukkiva Maa (Flowering Earth) which elevated me greatly as an adolescent growing up in a small town, to seek life beyond those offered by then cultural, economic and political realities.