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Kari Vakeva

Composerat -
Espoo,
Finland
Focus area: Sound, Acoustics

Kari Vakeva (b. 1957) is a Finnish composer and sound artist whose oeuvre includes orchestral works such as Symphony (1976-1979) which was partly recorded by Finnish RSO/Jorma Panula in 1982 and Elegia (1989-1990) performed by RSO Frankfurt/Diego Masson in 2005, and electroacoustic works like Ray 6 (2002), Halo (2005-2007), p(X) (2011), Sundog i (2012-2015), Sundog ii (2012-2015), Void i (2015-2016), I saw Eternity (2016), and I kiss the Sky (2017-2018). His electroacoustic works have been performed in ICMC, EMM and NYCEMF, among other festivals across Europe and North America. An installation Diptych - A Sonic Installation was exhibited in Blacksburg, VA, in 2016. Early works are acoustic. From 2001 onward the electroacoustic works use computer to synthesize the sound: Csound, and from 2003 with MAL-d, an evolving synthesis software. Kari Vakeva lives and works in Espoo, Finland. He is selfeducated as a composer.