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People behind "Echoes of the Ancient"

Mikko Keinonen, Finland

Project manager, filmmaker

Mikko Keinonen is in charge of project management and administration for the main organizer. He also takes care of public relations and website and he’s in charge of video documentation and the musical short film.

Mikko Keinonen has an academic degree on journalism, but he’s made his main career as a film maker and cultural producer. He’s directed over 100 films and videos, and he’s managed about 20 other project on branch of culture and development.

Harri Loiva, Finland

Musician, technical expert

Harri Loiva is in charge of preliminary research on the locations in Heinävesi, hosting and assisting international guests. Harri Loiva is an actor, musician theatre technician.

Carlos Norton, Portugal

Senior expert, sound artist

Carlos Norton is in charge of arrangements for Fungo Azul and location research. He also takes part in the project as a sound artist.​

 

Daina Zalane, Latvia

Producer

​Administrative staff, producer in charge of arrangements by Cultural Management Centre Lauska. Daina Zalāne has been active in managing different folk music projects for more than 20 years. She is founder and manager of the NGO Culture Management Centre “Lauska”, and runs a folk music label with more than 100 releases from authentic roots music to contemporary world music. The NGO is also partnering in different European funded projects, organising musician exchanges and enabling creative co-operations between artists from different countries and diverse spheres. Daina is programming director of the international Valmiermuiža Ethnomusic Festival in Latvia. She is expert in different international funding bodies and Member of the Board of the European Folk Network.

Martine-Nicole Rojina, Germany
Artist, produder

Martine-Nicole Rojina (DE, *1982) works on augmented multi-sensory experiences in the fields of media-art, music composition and -production, sound- and light-engineering and sound-design. Currently she’s working in the fields of tactile music, human non-human communication and space art.

She teaches Sound Art and Innovative Use of Technology at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich, Germany. Martine-Nicole Rojina’s expertise is deep and wide, and it will contribute to the whole project. Her special branch will be tactile music and art for people with restrictions in seeing or hearing.

 

Patrick Tubin McGinley, Estonia

Sound designer

Patrick Tubin-McGinley is a field recordist, phonographer and composer with a focus on found sound and site-specific work. He also works as a sound recordist for documentary film and makes radio and films. Over many years Patrick Tubin-McGinley has been recording musicians is site-specific locations, live mixing their music with the environment and it's acoustics. That experience is in the core of Echoes of the Ancient project both from a technical and artistic point of view.

​Joakim Berghäll, Finland

Musician, sound designer

Joakim Berghäll is a freelance musician, composer, arranger and educator. His main instrument is baritone saxophone, but he plays also all other saxophones, cello, various kinds of percussion, drums, electric and double bass, guitar and other stringed instruments, piano, keyboards, bass clarinet, clarinet and a bunch of different flutes. He’s specialized on improvisation. Joakim Berghäll does also a lot recordings nature using a great variety of microphones, especially “seismophone” aka geophone. In this project Joakim Berghäll will attend both as a musician and recording expert.

 

Johanna Mattila, Finland

Artist

Johanna Mattila is a theatre director and musician and an activist for the cultural rights of disabled people for example as a chair person for Eucrea Finland. She lost her sight due to an operation failure in the age of 21 but since then she’s done a wide career on art, including graduating as a theatre director from the university of Tampere. In this project Johanna Mattila will attend as an artist and educator. She’ll be in charge of Sensing the past workshops along with Erro Peltonen and Martine-Nicole Rojina.

 

Eero Peltonen, Finland

Eero Peltonen was introduced to the soundscapes in the mid-1990s at Valamo monastery in Heinävesi by French professor Iegor Reznikoff - one the key figures in archaeoacoustics research. In 2020 Eero Peltonen joined archaeologist Riitta Rainio from Helsinki University and her archaeoacoustics team at Keltavuori (Lappeenranta) and got a chance to assist professor Reznikoff again in testing the echoes. Since then Peltonen and Rainio have explored together sacred sites in Eastern Finland.

In the Echoes of the Ancient project Eero Peltonen brings his expertise on creating sounds, voices, rhythms and songs that reflect the nature of each archaeological site. In Sensing the Past workshops, he will teach how to listen, sense and express the unique character of the archaeological site. During the project he will also perform songs that echo and embody the experiences at the archaeological sites.

 

Minna Hokka,  Finland

Minna Hokka is an instrument builder who makes ancient instrument of plants. Her expertise is a wild spectrum of Finnish, Karelian and Ingrian traditional wind instruments which she uses as a part of her performances. She also arranges workshops. Her instruments list features: Reedpipe-clarinet, humming pipe (kazoo), Lävikkö-clarinet, Mänkeri-clarinet, Karutsa-pipe and wooden trumpet. Minna Hokka will do experiments with her instrument on selected nature locations in Heinävesi, Latvia and Monchique. She’ll also share her expertise in workshops.

Salla Hämäläinen, Finland

Sound designer

Salla Hämäläinen is a freelance sound designer who’s worked over 20 years in different productions for TV, films and also game productions. She has a special interest in nature acoustics, and she’s done experiments with a wide variety of microphones. In this project she’ll work as a technical expert and sound recordist with other colleagues.

Noora Vikman, Finland

Researcher, senior expert

Noora Vikman is a researcher on the fields of cultural and soundscape studies, acoustic ecology. She’ll attend as a partner of a research project by university of Helsinki: Sacred sound and soundscape in fennoscandian ancient and modern tradition: acoustic measurements, ethnographic research and introduction to cultural echology studies. She has been developing sustainable silence tourism practices in silent environments and interested in activating them as part of the active ways of intangible cultural heritage. In this this project she participates and documents the new ways and places like historical sacred rocks can be and become special and meaningful today and how future generations could continue the recovered heritage in a sustainable, ecological and culturally sensitive way. 

 

Chanan Hanspal, UK 
Musician, researcher

Chanan Hanspal is a senior lecturer in Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and a critically acclaimed composer and guitarist. He has worked in the music industry since 1993. He has performed and recorded with a variety of artists including John Medeski, Roots Manuva, Jazz Jamaica, Kylie Minogue, Jeff Lorber, Jay Kay (Jamiroquai), Valerie Etienne (Galliano), The Roots, Quest Love, 23 Skidoo, Imanni (Incognito) Summer and ex Miles Davis musicians Bill Evans and Mike Stern. In Echoes of the Ancient Chanan Hanspal will attend both as a musician and researcher producing new music and research data.

 

Malcolm Mortimore, UK 

Musician

Malcolm Mortimore is a veteran drummer known for playing with a variety of famous musicians and groups. He played drums on Three friends, the first album by Gentle Giant and 2020 he replaced the legendary Jon Hiseman for the blues-jazz-prog veteran group Colosseum. Malcolm Mortimore says he loves to play outside and in this project, he’ll take part as an invited musician.

Mike Keneally, USA

Musician

Mike Keneally is an American composer, songwriter, pianist and guitar virtuoso. He debuted as a stunt guitarist in the last tour band of Frank Zappa and since then, besides his wide solo career, he’s played with artists like Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Devin Townsend. Mike Keneally is a critically acclaimed and influential musician. All Music Guige even defined him as the most important prog artist of post-Zappa era. In this project Mike Keneally will attend as an invited musician.

Ole Jonas Storli, Norway 

Musician

Ole Jonas Storli is a Norwegian pianist and music producer. In this project he’ll work as an invited musician and technical expert on recording technique.

Alexey Chichakov, Altai, Russia

Musician

Alexey Chichakov is throat singer virtuoso and multi-instrumentalist from Altai. He’s known for his innovative way of mixing Altai music tradition with modern music technology. He’s also been one of the pioneering artists to explore the sacred places and acoustic locations of Heinävesi. In this project he’ll attend as an expert and if possible as a recording arist.

Funded by the
European Union.

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