Earth Machine Music
Kimmo Pohjonen’s Earth Machine Music features Pohjonen performing live on farms in collaboration with local farmers and their machines, tools and animals. The seeds were planted in summer of 2006 with the Ite Festival concert in Rämsöö, Finland where Pohjonen performed live with farming machines operated by local farmers. The program then toured in UK in 2008 with British farmers. It involved Pohjonen first travelling to UK in advance of the tour, meeting local farmers, sampling the sounds of local machines, engines, equipment, farm implements, tools and any sound-emitting creation, inanimate or animate, mechanical or living. Pohjonen then returned to Helsinki and composed new music using these sounds and integrated them into his accordion sounds, samples and constructions. The concerts, performed in local farms, featured Pohjonen with accordion and sampled sounds, creating new musical soundscapes live in real time performance with the local farmers and machine operators. Earth Machine Music successfully toured Queensland Australia in 2009 as part of the Queensland Music Festival, with Australian farmers, machines, tools and animals.
