Tuomas Toivonen

Tuomas Toivonen (b.1975) is an architect and musician/dj/sound artist. Toivonen has composed music for contemporary dance, film and installations. He has produced a wide range of music from the Finnish Top 5 hit "Helsinki Rock City" with Giant Robot to sound installations for Prada at A.M.O. and techno for the legendary Finnish Sahko recordings label known for its pioneering minimalism. He has performed in Scandinavia, Europe and Japan in several line-ups and as a solo artist. Tuomas will perform his piece Toinen Linja in pixelACHE New York and Montreal events.

"Toinen Linja"
Improvisation Structure for a Duo of Me
for studio, digital video and electronics with visual performance by Amfibio.org

The piece is played by a duo of the artist, one on video, one on stage. The video is a recording of a home concert held specifically for this purpose in the apartment of the artist in Helsinki. This part of the piece is performed using the artist's home studio for an audience of one. In concert, the artist performs with the video, using a portable setup of analog equipment, guitar and voice. The piece fuses a rhythmic techno aesthetic with rich harmonic structures and dub spatiality to produce somber moods and cinematic ambiences.

The concert has also a visual component, a live video performance by Amfibio.org collective. Amfibio.org and Tuomas Toivonen have collaborated before on several occasions, always aiming to create a dynamic dialogue between the sound and the image.