upcoming
23.9.2022 EQ UINºXIIN a composition for 11 loudspeakers at Solstice-Equinox, Nowogród Poland
30.9.2022 L=10 at Biuro Dźwięku Katowice, Poland
1.10.2022 L=10 at Gallery Serce Człowieka part of Warsaw Gallery Weekend, Warsaw Poland
17.-23.10.2022 Multichannel sound installation for AQUAE ORCINAE exhibition by Alicja Wysocka at fffriedrich, Frankfurt am Main Germany
Feature Music ~ Nightlover OR ~ Nightlover in SAW Sofia Art Week 2022 vol.5 RE_SPIRIT TRANS_SPIRIT, Bulgaria
EQ UINºXIIN or Equalizer for falling a sleep or Equalizer I swim into branches
duration 23 minutes 09 seconds
premiere 23rd (9)September
Composition for eleven loudspeakers using 10 letters.
E = 1
Q = 2
U = 3
I = 4
N = 5
º = 6
X = 7
I = 8
I = 9
N = 10
EQ UINºXIIN = 11
Ode to Equinox.
Performing L=10 at Gasthof 2022 in Städelschule 5.7.2022 Photo by Alicja Wysocka
Performing L=10 at Domie, Poznan Poland 23.7.2022 Photos by Gosia Patalas
Interview on Radio Kapital
||: o / dear<3 :|| (2022)
2022 ||: o / dear<3 :||
also known as
Rekordarling
computer music for 11 dumpster salvaged hifi loudspeakers
Composed at Bajramovic Unlimited spring 2022, Athens Greece
"The concept of this piece
is memory loss
and how to
represent it
by sonic means.
With this experiment
I want to inverse
the process of listening
so that
we become aware of
the results of listening
before we hear
the components
which comply it.
During listening
we learn systematically
more about
what we hear
and
from this we create
understanding
and the synthesis
about what we have heard.
It is a —
a totality
of sonic memory
that we share
afterwards.
A conclusion
a desired climax
of reasoning
as you do now
as you try
to understand.
I reveal you
right away
in the beginning
what I am after
and what you will hear
and what you
will experience.
You start from the light
from clarity
and you go to the unknown
to obscurity
you will slowly forget
what you were
supposed to remember.
Of course it won’t happen
it is just a tactic to start
the composition.
In the fantasy world
you will lose your memory,
because
this charlatan
who you hear speaking
proposed a trick,
an illusion
in order to
create a simulation
of the process
of memory loss.
Let the show,
the experiment begin.
Now as your doctor,
I tell you:
The diagnose is
we all have memory illness,
dementia.
It’s not the end,
it’s the beginning.
This is the beginning
for mumbling.
We will learn a new skill
skill of forgetting
we will forget
how we formed reason,
and
eventually
we only form sound.
We don’t hear anymore
with our ears
or
not with our reason.
It’s time for the heart
to listen.
U are about to enter
to the world
where your will forget
these three words
I <3 U
Keep them in your mind
throughout this experience,
because I will ask
in the end
what was it
that I wanted you
to remember."
With this sonic journey I am asking myself, whether diagnosis is the end, or a completely new beginning. Can idea of a memory loss transform during its course to something else; like into a freedom from memory?
L=10 (2019)
L=10 is a minor tragedy about an inability to L=10.
To overcome this incompetence a loudspeaker-headed-puppet prepares to leave I behind in order to enter the world of U.
This message was brought to you by gateway to solar trance
leave your earthly fears behind and step in:
"
NO_RIGID_SELF_EVIDENT_USER_INTERFACE
EMBRACE::NEW::EXPERIMENT
MELT YOUR IDEALS ONE BY ONE
**explosing ideals**
etermal incompleteness
No QUARANTEED results
only experimental acts
complete redefinition
VAST REVISION
stay vigilant
"
Project has received support from Sound Development City, Frame Contemporary Art Finland, and Arts Promotion Centre Finland
King Combucha (2021)
King Combucha is a still-drawing movie, with an original voiceover and soundtrack. It takes inspiration from a genre that was popular in the 1960s, and simply known as "still image film", a film made of still drawings and based on editing and camera movement, rather than animation or live-action. King Combucha is written and produced by Israeli artist Dan Allon and Finnish artist Ari-Pekka Leinonen. The film was created during a residency at Hordaland Kunstsenter in Bergen Norway in 2020, and was completed by working remotely, between Israel and Finland during 2021.
It narrates a story of two misfortunate travellers, who cross paths unintentionally three times during their trips, affecting each other's destinies. The outline of the story is a "journey story", based on three diaries Allon's had written, starting in 2001 on a trip to Peru. It then goes on to 9/11 New York, and ends during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Brazil. It incorporates some 400 drawings, divided into three chapters, accompanied by two narrators, opening up their feelings, thoughts, and dreams. The characters deal with their vulnerability, lack of self-confidence, and self-deceit, while they explore unfamiliar territories, carrying the profound feeling "someone's paradise could be someone else's hell". They have overlooked the privilege they had while travelling, even when they chose to travel when it was almost impossible. This film is also about proportions: choosing to focus on small self-centered details, when the world seems to collapse.
Based on a story by
Dan Allon
Script by
Dan Allon & Ari-Pekka Leinonen
Drawings, Voice-over and Drums by
Dan Allon
Music, Sound Design, Voice-over and Post Production by
Ari-Pekka Leinonen
9.7.2022 King Combucha at Contemporão SP, Sao Paulo Brazil
!!NEWSFLASH!!
22. october 2021, 19:00
Film Screening: 'King Combucha'
Hordaland kunstsenter is proud to present a screening of 'King Combucha', by Dan Allon and Ari-Pekka Leinonen. Screened in the Hordaland kunstsenter cafe space from 19:00 as part of the artist in residence program.
http://kunstsenter.no/615eb3d24f44ac515dca853c
A video from 2017 Bad Research 5: ROKKENROLLERS - Unpracticed Knowledge audiovisual album, De Hunknie, is part of suturo.com internet exhibition.
suturo.com is a new dynamic and interactive website that reacts uniquely to each visitor as they navigate the site, allowing for exploration that fosters new formal and conceptual perspectives between the art, the poems, and the viewers.
Jacobs-Leinonen (2019-)
After his nocturnal walk for last year's Night Shift in Brussels, sculptor and storyteller Bert Jacobs now joins forces with the Helsinki-based audio-visual artist Ari-Pekka Leinonen. With their brand-new performance, they wildly speculate on the quaint events that have led to The Beatles' break-up and hatred between the legendary song writing duo Lennon-McCartney. Heartbroken Uncles 5 Karaoke Band explores themes floating between toxic egoism, stardom, success and failure. Expect a not-so-average musical farce with harmonious looks and sabotaging intentions.
ELDORADO (2018) TV ELDORADO or Clarinet Ivan & Weddingband (2019)
ELDORADO is an experimental film that shows the impressions of two foreign artists who,
in overtime, sought and examined the ideas that shaped the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv as the European capital of culture.
Questions are asked like where is the budget? And to what extent does such a phenomenon need state intervention?
Imagine a fairy tale told in footage from Plovdiv.
TV Eldorado or Clarinet Ivan and the Weddingband is a 2019 experimental film made by Jacobs & Leinonen.
The story revolves around a group of strangers who sign up for a mission in search of the lost Thracian gold.
Soon after the adventure kick-starts the unexpected happens.
ERNST PINOSSI Picture Show (2018)
Photo by Hugard & Vanoverschelde
A house, imaginary or real, is one of the most significant integration powers for the thought, memories, and human dreaming. Ernst Pinossi's house, an installation of a music-related room and dwelled spaces all combined into a multi-layer time- distorting story, will act as a symbol, catalyzing memories and immortality in the spectator's mind. It is a place where imagination and memories are undissociated. A performance, installation and a radio show by Dan Allon, Ari-Pekka Leinonen and Bert Jacobs. The installation consists a radio shack, in which the trio reenact his music, show photographs from his life (a combined selected images of non-professional photography from the life of Allon, Leinonen and Jacobs), and wait for his arrival for an interview live in the studio. As the show goes it becomes unclear if he really exists, or is he a combination of the dark sides of the three.
Bad Research (2016-2019)
Bad Research was a performative collaboration between Ari-Pekka Leinonen and Dan Allon, started in 2016. The project transcended cities and countries, narratives, and practices. It is comprised of different, yet well connected episodes; each is dedicated to a place on earth, and unfolding story and a performative rolling action of collecting material and digesting it. Work was documented into a web page consisting videos, audio, pictures and text.
With five different finished episodes, we have consulted Bad Research tackling topics of terrorism, fake news, national histories, current politics, rock music, psychoanalysis and humor to mention a few. We have openly expressed our naive and irresponsible prejudiced attitudes while inspecting various serious phenomena. Our work tries to expose via laughter things that oppresses us, as well as the mechanisms that make us classify and discriminate.
Episode 1 - An ecoterrorist wants to start a new religion in Jerusalem
Episode 2 - A duo of artists talk about life, in the time of the 2016 US-election
Episode 3 - A recruitment of Tahini-based terror group and its dismantling
Episode 4 - A philosopher criticizes cartoonist for "disgraceful" Holocaust art and reconsiders the limits of humor
Episode 5 - A duo of historical kings, go through therapy and compose a rock opera http://unpracticedknowledge.com/
This work by Ari-Pekka Leinonen and Dan Allon (aka Bad Research) is a site-specific multi-disciplinary performance. The work evokes questions regarding the nature of artistic research, the relationship between war and humor, and interweaving the history of conflicts with the history of rock music.
This episode, the 5th they created, consists of a rock opera, alongside with a musical release entitles "ROKKENROLLERS – Unpracticed knowledge," and multi-layer video works, some stand for video-clips for the songs. All material was created under a disguise of a multitude of characters, mainly those of two obscured generals who came to Brugges to overcome a trauma through making music. The performance, video, and album, which all to be featured on a unique website, combine the history of rock and war, which was initially contradictive, in a hilarious dialog.
The exhibition would suggest three ways to experience the episode:
• A live performance, including psychotherapy sessions, and a concert of the song, accompanied by the animation videos.
• A listening room for an in-depth listening experience of the rock opera.
• A "Bad Research" library, in which the spectators can go through the story on the website. In addition, a small numbered edition of the album for sale.
ROKKENROLLERS featuring
Proxy Muzak
Rolling and Stoned
Hummus Sexuals
The Waving Sideburns
The Kiss Singers
Eggy Poop
Cream Kingdom
Jimmy Schmendrix
Radio Floyd
Frank & Shappa
The Cutting Heads
Sound Development City (2016)
I am Helping My Friend to Think / My Friend Is Helping Me to Idle
Time, slowness, devotion to idleness and friendshipThe artist, a bit of a restless guy, and his calm Friend with a loudspeaker head, sound recorder ears and heart, intervene the fast rhythm of the big city with their slow actions and devotion to idleness. They explore the city, find places that provide time and space for being idle in the eye of the metropolis, and help each other to stop and ponder the question 'What to do with all this idle time we have?'. The silent Friend focuses on reaching a state of the total emptiness, while the artist helps to translate his thoughts into reality through text and sound, engaging into a dialogue with the city.
Their mutual exploration searches for positive traits of being idle, even when there is no measurable outcome in their economic or cultural unproductiveness. Might idleness be such a remarkable threat to the predominant way of life that the anxiety of boredom forces us to fill our emptiness with entertainment? What if time is our only true possession and united idleness is a forgotten revolutionary force to liberate it?
Part of Sound Development City 2016 expedition Madrid Casablanca 6.9-25.9.2016
http://sound-development-city.com/
The work was executed in several methods and documentated in various channels
http://sound-development-city.com/520-Ari-Pekka_Leinonen
https://www.instagram.com/amigoismyfriend/
http://amigoismyfriend.tumblr.com/
Sound intervention in Madrid
Sometimes the most random detour can be the most meaningful way in your life.
Various works
Helsinki-based Ari-Pekka Leinonen (1988) is currently fascinated about composing and performing music for multi-channel loudspeaker setups. He holds a MA degree in Sound in New Media (2015) from Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture.
contact
aapee.leinonen (a) gmail.com
Curriculum vitae
Ari-Pekka Leinonen
aapee.leinonen (a) gmail.com
ari-pekkaleinonen.com
https://www.instagram.com/amigoismyfriend/
Education
2012-2015Master of Arts, Sound in New Media, Department of Media Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Finland
2008-12
Bachelor of Arts, Audiovisual Media Culture studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Lapland, Finland
Solo
2022 L=10, a sound performance for 13 loudspeaker-headed-puppetsBajramovic Unlimited, Athens; Aristotle Hall, Chalkida; To Pikap, Thessaloniki, Greece
Ostavinska, Belgrade Serbia
Буква / Bookva; Zelenata Arka "The Green Ark", Skopje North-Macedonia
Termokiss, Pristina Kosovo
Hupa Brajdič Produkcija, Ljubljana Slovenia
Gasthof 2022 at Hochschule für Bildende Künste–Städelschule, Frankfurt am Main Germany
Domie, Poznan Poland
2021 L=10, a sound performance for 13 loudspeaker-headed-puppets, Vapaan Taiteen Tila, Helsinki Finland
2017 Apatia & Ital, sound installation, Ostavinska Galerija, Belgrade Serbia
2016 Välittäjä, video installation, Ti-La 2016, Jyväskylä Finland
2014 Pesula, 10-channel sound installation, Gallery K6A6, Jyväskylä Finland
2013 Kadun ääniä, sound installation, Node Gallery, Helsinki Finland
2012 Kadun unta, photography exhibition, Galleria Kajo III, Rovaniemi Finland
Collaborations
2021 King Combucha, film screening with Dan Allon, Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen Norway
2020 TV ELDORADO or Clarinet Ivan & Weddinband, film screening & live soundtrack performance with Bert Jacobs, Dom Na Kinoto, Sofia Bulgaria
2019 TV ELDORADO or Clarinet Ivan & Weddinband, film screening & live soundtrack performance with Bert Jacobs, Adata AIR, Plovdiv2019 European Capital of Culture, Plovdiv Bulgaria
2019 Bad Research 5: ROKKENROLLERS - Unpracticed Knowledge, film screening, VAFT-mobile, Ilmiö2019-Festival, Turku Finland
2019 Bad Research 5: ROKKENROLLERS - Unpracticed Knowledge, audiovisual performance with Dan Allon, Circle1, Berlin Germany
2019 Heartbroken Uncle5 Karaokeband, performance with Bert Jacobs, Night Shift: from dusk till dawn, De Studio, Antwerp Belgium
2019 ELDORADO & KIVIKASA, exhibition with Bert Jacobs and Saku Kämäräinen, The Embassy of Republic of Bulgaria, Helsinki Finland
2018 ERNST PINOSSI Picture Show, exhibition with Dan Allon and Bert Jacobs, Hypercorps, Brussels Belgium
2018 ELDORADO, film screening with Bert Jacobs, Kino Cosmos, Plovdiv Bulgaria
2017 Bad Research 5: ROKKENROLLERS - Unpracticed Knowledge, audiovisual performance with Dan Allon, De Tank, Bruges Belgium
2017 Bad Research 4: The Gas Bill, iBazar/t part of The Wrong internet biennale
2017 Bad Research 4: The Gas Bill, exhibition with Dan Allon, Hanut Gallery, Tel Aviv Israel
2017 Bad Research 3: Tahini Is Thicker Than Blood, exhibition with Dan Allon, La juan Gallery, Madrid Spain
2016 I'm Helping My Friend to Think — My Friend Is Helping Me to Idle, performances & interventions in a public space, Sound Development City 5th Expedition, Madrid & Casablanca
2015 Why Do We Do the Things We Do?, intervention in public space directed by Ariel Bustamante, Kampintori, Helsinki Finland
2014 KIVIKASA, 20-channel sound installation with Saku Kämäräinen, Media Lab Helsinki 20th Anniversary Exhibitions, Design Forum Showroom, Helsinki Finland
2014 KIVIKASA, 20-channel sound installation with Saku Kämäräinen, Sounds from Finland Exhibition, Spiral Garden, Tokyo Japan
Miscellaneous
2021 Off the menu – Neapolitan pizza's made with Finnish tomatoes and a secret ingredient, a film by Uzair Amjad, Mänttä Art Festival 2021, Sound design
2020 Sauna Culture in Finland, Video by Annamaria Peltokangas, Sound Design, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qY__OOcv--M
2020 Phantasmagoria, a film work by Ilona Lehtonen and Tia Hassinen, Sound design
2020 Leonarda: Flesh Ain't Weak, a short film by Mariangela Pluchino, Music and Sound design
2019 Multimadeira artist in residency, production team member, Funchal Madeira
2019 Light of the Forest, Helsinki Art Fair19, sound design for immutocollective.com
2018 Every Month & My Dream, performances by Dimitar Shopov, live electronic music for the performances, Kulttuuritalo Stoa, Helsinki Finland
2018 Light of the Forest, sound design for immutocollective.com,London United Kingdom
2017 A, sound performance with Mikko Varakas, Artur Närvänen and Lauri Solin, Kiilan äänipäivät, Kemiönsaari Finland
2016 Sampo שמש Sammas Shemesh Towards the New Temple, performance, Alfred Cooperative Institute for Art & Culture, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 www.tyhjantoimittaja.info, performance in public space and web page documentation
2016 Fusilli, sound performance at LÀ-BAS→ KUILU: SIRPALEET SYVYYDESSÄ
-performance festival, Merikaapelihalli, Helsinki Finland
2013 JAA/EI/POISSA -kokoelma todellisuuksia, sound installation & sound design, EMMA Espoo Museum of Modern art, Espoo Finland
Residencies
2020 Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen Norway
2019 Adata AiR, Plovdiv2019 European Capital of Culture, Plovdiv Bulgaria
2018 Hypercorps, Brussels Belgium
2018 Adata AiR, Plovdiv2019 European Capital of Culture, Plovdiv Bulgaria
2017 Cut The Crap#4, Het Entrepot, Bruges Belgium
2016 Sound Development City 5th Artist Expedition, Madrid Spain & Casablanca Marocco
Publications
2017 "Listening at the Place of Silence" in Why Do We Do the Things We Do?, Aalto University2016 Sound Development City 5th Artist Expedition Documentation, Sound Development & Heller Enterprises, Zürich Switzerland
Releases
2021 Jacobs-Leinonen - Feature Music ~ Nightlover OR ~ Nightlover, digital release2020 Jacobs-Leinonen - Shipwrecked Waltzhop, digital release
2017 ROKKENROLLERS - Unpracticed Knowledge, 12" limited edition 30 copies