Esa Ruoho | zh

Jukka Ruohomäki is a veteran in electronic music. He started on analogue equipment at the end of 1960's, worked with music through the 70's, made computer graphics in the 80's and began composing music again in 1994, after sixteen years of silence. Ruohomäki makes music with computers, and his method is based entirely on hearing. Bird song, human voices or steel plate scratching can all serve as basic material which is then worked into music. This is usually an extensive and time-consuming process. Ruohomäki does not use traditional pulse-based rhythmics, harmonics or notation. Instead, he listens to his sound material...

Lackluster's ambient drone project under his own name, Esa Ruoho, started in, or around, 1999 with the first compositions made with a software for the PC Audiomulch. These songs (Reset, Space) led to further exploration in the ambient / drone universe. Far and away from the melodic and beat-laced Lackluster, Esa explored found sounds, synthesis based drones and obscure methods to produce the debut album 'Spaces', out on the Belgian U-Cover Records imprint in 2001. 'Spaces' was originally supposed to be released under Lackluster, but Clair of deFocus convinced Esa to release it under his own name, taking a leaf...