Erkki Kurenniemi (born 1941) is one of the most important characters in the history of Finnishelectronic music. His mother was Marjatta Kurenniemi, the famous author of children's books. Erkki Kurenniemi founded an electronic music studio for the Department of Musicology at the University of Helsinki in the early 1960s. Kurenniemi built several electronic instruments for himself and also for other people, such as M.A. Numminen, for whom he created first a "singing machine" with which Numminen participated in a singing contest in 1964, and in the late 1960s Sähkökvartetti ("The Electric Quartet"), which is heard on M.A. Numminen's track 'Kaukana väijyy ystäviä' (1968). The most ambitious of Erkki Kurenniemi's projects, though, was the series of digital synthesizers, called DIMI, in the early 1970s. For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Electronic music is a loose term for music created using electronic equipment. ... The University of Helsinki is a university located in Helsinki, Finland. ... Mauri Antero Numminen (born 12 March 1940, Somero) is one of the best-known Finnish artists, having worked on several different fields of music and culture. ... For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...
Alongside his musical career Erkki Kurenniemi has worked as an automation designer at the service of industry and also as a consult for the Science Centre Heureka in Vantaa, Finland. He has written several articles on such subjects as artificial intelligence. Location within Finland Vantaa (IPA: ; Vanda in Swedish) is a city and municipality in Finland. ... Artificial intelligence (AI) is defined as intelligence exhibited by an artificial entity. ...
In 2002 Finnish film director Mika Taanila made a documentary film on Erkki Kurenniemi, called The Future Is Not What It Used To Be. 2002 (MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Discography
Äänityksiä / Recordings 1963-1973 (LXCD 637, Love Records, 2002)
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ErkkiKurenniemi (born 1941) is one of the most important characters in the history of Finnish electronic music.
ErkkiKurenniemi founded an electronic music studio for the Department of Musicology at the University of Helsinki in the early 1960s.
Kurenniemi created the first commercially manufactured and marketed microcomputer already in 1973, which was two years before the American MITS Altair 8800.
ErkkiKurenniemi is considered a prophet of artificial-intelligence research, headband videos and artificial reality, often being 10-40 years ahead of his time.
According to Kurenniemi's own "principle of individuality", all his work and research - articles, plans, visions of the future, films, home videos, lectures, TV interviews, work at the Heureka Science Centre, compositions and the fantastic electric instruments he has built - reflect the same holistic ideas.
Kurenniemi also designed an instrument called the Electroencephalophone (dimi-e), in which the electronic sound was monitored by electrodes behind the player's ears, recording changes in the user's brain activity.
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