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Erkki Hyva (Mr. Good) is one man subculture from Tartu, Estonia. Through rain and shine he has been 24h-a-day performing artist during last 25 years, played in various indie films, made psychedelic sketches in streets and talked like like Socrates on LSD. And he really i s good :) He began making his own music circa 1990 in his home studio. His music ranges from campy schmaltz to top-notch prog psychedelica and beyond. While playing live he creates every track anew in quite different way. His home contains much unreleased and surprising stuff. In 2004 Õunaviks´s (Apple Polish) crew decided...
Erkki Kurenniemi (Hämeenlinna, Finland, July 10, 1941- May 1, 2017) was a Finnish designer, philosopher and artist, best known for his electronic music compositions and the electronic instruments he has designed. He is considered one of the leading early pioneers of electronic music in Finland. Kurenniemi is also a science populariser, a futurologist, a pioneer of media culture, and an experimental film-maker.
The most well-known part of Kurenniemi's music production is his electroacoustic compositions, which he realized in the Electronic music studio of the University of Helsinki. Beside his own work, he acted as an assistant to other composers -...
Erkki Melartin (February 2, 1875–February 14, 1937) was a Finnish composer and pupil of Martin Wegelius from 1892-99 in Helsinki, and Robert Fuchs from 1899-1901 in Vienna. Interestingly enough, he shares identical birth and death years with more famous composer Maurice Ravel.
As well as composing, Melartin also taught and directed music at the Helsinki Music College, later the Helsinki Conservatory. As conductor of the Viborg Orchestra in 1908-11, and despite chronic health problems, Melartin toured extensively (as far as North Africa and India), conducting the first performance of Gustav Mahler's music in Scandinavia, a movement of the Resurrection symphony...
Erkki-Sven Tüür is an Estonian composer who started his musical activity in the second half of the seventies as a leader of progressive rock band In Spe, influenced by the music of King Crimson, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Mike Oldfield, Frank Zappa, Yes and Genesis.
In the second half of the eighties he entered Estonian music life as a professional composer.
Instrumental music makes up the main body of Tüür’s work. He is the author of eight symphonies, several instrumental concertos, a lot of chamber music and an opera. Tüür uses in his work a broad spectrum of compositional techniques....
