Finnish Electronic Music – A brief checklist
Finnish Electronic Music – A brief checklist This page will be updated later. Finnish synthesizers In the 1960s and early 1970s Erkki Kurenniemi (1941-2017) designed and built such instruments as DIMI, DICO, Sähkökvartetti (the Electric Quartet), etc. Otherwise Finnish composers, musicians and producers utilised mostly imported US and European hardware, such as MiniMoog, Korg’s synths, etc. One of the Finnish synth pioneers was the musician Esa Kotilainen who imported his first MiniMoog from Germany in the early 1970s. Before that, the use of musique concrète type of spliced tapes and manipulating the sounds of simple oscillators or traditional instruments through a mixing desk were a typical production technique for the early Finnish electronic composers when synthesizers were not available yet. Composers and musicians (also avantgarde/experimental) 1950s – 1980s Pekka Airaksinen (also as a member of The Sperm ) Åke Anderss