Current Residents Panu Räisänen
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Panu Räisänen, Performance in ”one century abc” as part of Kiilan Äänipäivät, Turku, photo by Santeri Niemi 2023
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Ida Haukka and Panu Räisänen, Kuun Luut (installation and sound piece), 2024. Photo by Krasimir Jovanovic Hyvärinen
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Panu Räisänen, work in progress, 2025
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Maa SMR: compilation by Art School Maa’s sound workshop students, cover art by Panu Räisänen 2024
Panu Räisänen is a Helsinki based music-maker and artist. His music moves through lands between experimental and pop sounds. Working mainly with a laptop and a phone, his sound practise weaves a mix of goblinoid midi instruments, digital environments and resonant human voice. He is currently finishing his studies at Art School Maa, where he has worked with sound and experimented with text and visual based mediums.
In the residency I’ll be working on my final work in Art School Maa, a visual essay studying the relationships between birds, finnish folklore, intergenerational ghosts and the internet. My practice currently involves writing poems, making ASCII-art and augmenting my family photos with AI & photoshop and printing them on self-made papers.
Lately I’ve started to make paper with self-built tools and scavenged materials. I think the manual craft of making paper is slow and forgiving, like an old oak. Have starlings made a nest in it? Arey they learning to imitate a ringtone?