Luonnos

New Electro-acoustic album, Luonnos by Ilari Hongisto, takes the listener to the middle of nature! For one, luonnos (draft) means an outline, for another, a dialectal version of the word "in nature". However, the word contains the most important information: every work on the album consists of the sounds of nature. On this fascinating album, you can hear insects (Taivas alla), birds (Kaakkoismuutto) and frogs (Matkalla). With Soiva kivi, which closes the album, folk musician and kantele player Arja Kastinen improvises the rhythms on the ringing rock stone on Nötö island in the Archipelago National Park. Kastinen also leads the Aino-tytöt (Aino Girls), who together created the song's Kantele parts. The works are composed for surround listening, that's why the album is in Blu-ray format. The Blu-ray disc also takes you to nature with the videos adapted to each composition, based on Finnish nature pictures. You can listen to the stereo versions of the compositions on a regular CD player. Find out more and listen to samples of the works at www.luonnos.net.

Ilari Hongisto (b. 1978) is an internationally awarded composer, musician, studio worker and music teacher from Turku. Hongisto's works have been performed both in Finland and abroad, and they have gained fame in composition competitions as well: The work Taivas alla won the European electroacoustic music composition competition in Paris 2012. The work Kävellen placed third in the Nordic choral music composition competition 2007. Hongisto has acted as Finland's composition representative at the Ung Nordisk Musik festival in Norway 2008 and Helsinki 2010. Hongisto has also been successful in several song composition competitions. Hongisto has a master's degree in music from Stockholm's Royal Academy of Music, majoring in composing electroacoustic music. In his studies, he was able to combine his previous composition studies at the University of Applied Sciences with his studio and technology background. In addition, Hongisto graduated from the Turku Conservatory majoring in percussion. Hongisto has a Master of Philosophy in musicology and the Finnish language. His dissertation on musical nomenclature is being worked on at the University of Turku. Hongisto currently works as a lecturer at the Turku Conservatory. In addition to music theory and tuning, he teaches composition and arranging and holds a professional degree in music production. Hongisto also works as the conservatory's quality manager and is a member of the Finnish Composers Association.