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  • Phew, just made it from @shapeplatform introduction trip to Prague! Now back in HKI and I realized, I never made a post about my selection. Feeling super lucky to be selected (thanks @meetfactory ) and I had awesome time meeting every one in Prague <3. Looking forward what the next year will bring:) Thanks for the awesome gig @passepartoutduo (second to the last photo)! Last photo: lecture & 303s by the mighty TM404 @tilliander (thanks for Scandinavian chit chat & company!) #noteam 4 life
  • 'Inertia' album release day is upon us! Released by Infinite Machine and now available everywhere. A long journey so I'm super happy that it is out. Thank you @xwolfcultx for believing in my work and all the effort getting this out <3. Thanks @fausto.mercier for the ace mastering as well! *** @infinite.machine is happy to welcome the Finnish interdisciplinary artist, Forces, to the IM family with the release of 'Inertia', Joonas Siren’s fifth album since he began phtting out music in 2018. With previous cosigns from Aphex Twin, Zuli & Daniel Ruane, Forces is known for creating sharp digital textures and ever-surprising rhythmic structures using live coding software such as SuperCollider and TidalCycles. With a background in fine art, Forces is never one to shy away from conceptual thinking about his output and this album is no different. Engaging with the work of theorist Franco Berardi (particularly recent book ‘Futurability’), Inertia tries to soundtrack the political malaise of the last few decades and the growing sense of powerlessness and inability to avoid the many crises generated by the structures of capital. Artwork by Forces Out now link in bio ***
  • Forces - Chaosmosis (IM097) https://chaosmos.is Second track ‘Chaosmosis' from the upcoming album ‘Inertia’ out on @infinite.machine on 1st of July. ’Chaosmosis’ is also a web animation, which u can view at the address: https://chaosmos.is (only laptop/desktop works) (link is bio && also on SoundCloud!). The generative animation is programmed with Three.js library and with two different 3D models of Russian shipwrecks sunken in the Gulf of Finland in the 18th century. The Finnish Maritime Museum generously published those models online for free of use. The whole album is inspired by the philosopher Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi’s 'Futurability' book and the way it deals with the systematic failure of Neo Liberal Capitalism and the current inability to resist it. The 'Chaosmosis' webpage project is a poetic rendering of the failing structures of current hegemony. The sunken imperialistic war and cargo ships of the Russian empire has of course political connotations of this current moment, but they can also be seen as more abstract remnants of the past. Disappearing and rotten forms.
  • forces + @h5io6i54k + @genotcentre + punctum = MEGA party? come and check out this equation next sunday at punctum (in prague)! DJ's 16-20 Live 20-22 (Lénok (SK) + me (FI)) i'll play with the visual work of the always amazing @h5io6i54k video: @h5io6i54k audio: forces (some unrealeased practice tapes)
  • Upcoming album announced today! ´Inertia' will be out on 1st of July on @infinite.machine First single 'Spiritual Automata' out now on IM Soundcloud 💥 Super excited to release it as I have worked on it for pretty long time (more than two years), sooo feells good. Thank u kindly @xwolfcultx for all the help and hard work & @fausto.mercier for mastering <3 More info: IM097 - Forces - Inertia Label: Infinite Machine Release Date: July 1st, 2022 Format: Digital Mastered by Fausto Mercier Cover: Forces Infinite Machine is happy to welcome Finnish interdisciplinary artist, Forces, to the IM family with the release of Inertia, Joonas Siren’s fifth album since he began putting out music in 2018. With previous cosigns from Aphex Twin, Zuli & Daniel Ruane, Forces is known for creating sharp digital textures and ever-surprising rhythmic structures using live coding software such as SuperCollider and TidalCycles. With a background in fine art, Forces is never one to shy away from conceptual thinking about his output and this album is no different. Engaging with the work of theorist Franco Berardi (particularly recent book ‘Futurability’), Inertia tries to soundtrack the political malaise of the last few decades and the growing sense of powerlessness and inability to avoid the many crises generated by the structures of capital. Forces opens up proceedings with ‘Algorithmic Governance’, where doom-laden bass drones pulse and groan over erratic drum hits which play in alien time signatures, outside of the realm of full, human comprehension. The algorithmic control of the track’s title could refer to Franco Berardi’s interest in social media, a force which simplifies and monetises social communication, or it could refer to his approach to co-creation with his software of choice. With many compositions, Forces sets up rules or parameters in his code but allows elements of randomisation and evolution, inviting SuperCollider’s algorithm to become a co-author alongside him. ....
  • I've relocated to Stockholm for six weeks for an EMS residency! Super grateful to be selected for a longer residency which is supported by NCP. Making sounds here everyday, come and say hi, if you're around. Also if anybody knows any possibilities for live set here in Stockholm (or Sweden/ Scandinavia) please DM. Would be awesome to play!
  • It's like a week of my previous event, but time to put my organizator/curator hat on again, SOLA festival 2022 is out! www. solafestival.fi 4.5. Pre-festival Club in Oodi Library - Maijansali (free!) 13.-14.5. @whsteatteriunion I think we have an awesome program and lot of planning and work goes into these, so hope to see a lot of people there! Thanks to my fellow association members and all the artist who agreed to come <3 Wednesday 4.5. Oodi Library-Maijansali 18.00 Saara Ekström: Amplifier (2017, HD, 17:03) Ilpo Numminen plays Oodi Modular (maybe? if not just Ilpos's own synth) Saara Ekström: Body All Eyes (2018, HD, 14:39) Minerva Juolahti: erottuminen(–) Saara Ekström: Shadow Codex (2021, HD, 12:30) Friday 13.5. WHS Teatteri Union 18.00 Sandra Lahire: Arrows 1984 15min 16mm Daïchi Saïto: Chiasmus 2003 16mm 8min LIVE 1 Tina Mariane Krogh Madsen Daïchi Saïto: Never A Foot Too Far, Even 2012 14min 16mm (double projection) LIVE 2 Fågelbörs (Tuure Tammi, Jaakko Tolvi, Matti Luokkanen, Tero Kemppainen) **break** 21.00 Sandra Lahire: Terminals 1986 18 min 16mm LIVE 3 Helena Pulkkinen Daïchi Saïto: earthearthearth 2022 30min 35mm LIVE 4 Tomutonttu __ Saturday 14.5. 15.00 Kruununhaka Sound Walk 18.00 Sandra Lahire: Lady Lazarus 1991 25min 16mm LIVE 5 Minna Koskenlahti Daïchi Saïto: Engram of Returning 2015 18:30min 35mm Sandra Lahire: Night Dances 1995 15 min DCP LIVE 6 Zherbin **break** 21.00 LIVE 7 Pakasteet (Jussi Lehtisalo & Mika Taanila) + Ilpo Väisänen LIVE 8 Maarja Nuut Daïchi Saïto: Trees of Syntax, Leaves of Axis 2009 10min 35mm
  • EVOL (BCN) Keiska game cafe Olmi Forces & ang3l_sp1der Värvöttäjä *** 5€ (free for Uniarts students) 17:00—22:00 Free Art Space (Vilhovuorenkuja 15) Sound system by Tatu Nenonen *strobo warning for epileptics during EVOL set*
  • orchaedia spawn v0.17b tomorrow! 18-22 (gmt+2) www.twitch.tv/orchaediaspawn (fb event link in bio). 18 (gmt+2) adventures of @harriharrigame episode II (film + introduction) 19.10 (gmt+2) #jeremycouillard & @fffforces presents escape from lavender city island (live game / sound) 20 (gmt+2) jacqouline delacroix & alien child @jaa2ko_ri @andra.exe7777 live av 21 (gmt+2) M @stickypsyche live video: #jeremycouillard sound: @fffforces
  • //orchaedia_spawn_v0.17b //sun_30_01_2022_18-22_GMT+2 // www.twitch.tv/orchaediaspawn function start (){ let load = this.loader.app.load load.OS_v017b void (null).start //type: www.twitch.tv/orchaediaspawn lineup() } // // function lineup(){ /// 18.00 (gmt+2) Harold Hejazi: Adventures of Harriharri Episode II. (film, 56min+introduction) // 19.10 (gmt+2) Jeremy Couillard & Forces present ESCAPE FROM LAVENDER CITY ISLAND ___ (live game / sound) // 20.00 (gmt+2) Jacqouline Delacroix & Alien Child ***LIVE AV** /// 21.00 (gmt+2) M (LIVE) } begin.descent; //orchaedia.def(orchaedia is a safe heaven deep in/at the internet(arpanet spawn) for weirdos working with videogame-adjacent mediums) app.close delete.all;
  • Mine and @milkeniemi new digital, algoritmic poetry project "Kesken kaikista paikoista" is now up at Nokturno.fi :: digital and experimental poetry website! Go and have a look! (link in bio) Kesken kaikista paikoista poems by Milka Luhtaniemi code & sound: Joonas Siren concept: Milka Luhtaniemi & Joonas Siren
  • THE EERIE VOID OF SPACE @iklectikartlab event in two weeks at Corsica Studios London! Wednesday 17th 19.30 onwards. So stoked to be playing there together with @aho_ssan and @ana_fosca + Ozel AB dj'ing after our sets! ❤️❤️❤️ Video by me Audio by me, unreleased track
  • I'm again bit behind on my social media game but here is a track called "Anti-Apophenia" from a recently released compilation AURAL COOPERATIV by the Chilean label @hibridanita . Big up for all the artists included! Some words about the title: Apophenia is a condition where u see connections between unrelated things. But i was thinking a different kind of condition. Maybe the denial of climate change against massive amounts of evidence is akin to anti-apophenia - some kind of breakdown of cognitive faculties, where u aren't able to to see the reasons behind catastrophic weather conditions and other CC derivatives. Track link in bio! Video by me from a still picture of the compilation cover by @_v.3lo
  • I have a peculiar 60s Agfa pocket camera, which uses half frame of a 35mm (so I guess like 16mm). There are really almost no settings at all in the camera but I really dig the quality of images if u let them cook for a while inside the camera xD. Just got these developed from 2015 Sodankylä Fest (Midnight Sun Film Fest).
  • Documentation shots from my & @milkeniemi s Toinen laji/Different Species joint exhibition @ @forumbox gallery. Thanks a lot to the photographer @annaautio ! <3
  • Super happy to announce that my and @milkeniemi joint exhibition 'Toinen laji/ Different Species' is finally going to open on Thursday at @forumbox gallery. We have been working on with it for ages, like 2.5 years so it feels so good to finally present it! U can find more info about the themes of the exhib. at Forum Box website (link in bio). Also presenting in Forum Box is @alisa_javits exhibition: 'Seeing' and @malinahlsved exhibition: 'My Roots Are In The Forest'. I think our works gel very well with each other so I'm glad that we were curated together! The opening is on Thursday at 16-19 and everybody is warmly welcome (+spread the word!). Due to the ongoing circumstances we can't offer refreshments and please wear masks inside (BYOB outside totally fine!).
  • Second episode of the adventures of Juha S. in my video game 'Juha The Unemployed' which is now completely free of charge on my itch.io (link in bio). In this episode Juha escapes the unemployment office and ventures into the wonderful world of Internet. Alas, he encounters the most terrifying demon of them all 'Open Positions: Junior Consultant' from the depths of MOL.fi. Prepare to fight / escape or you must make an application!
  • new charity compilation for palestine by the helsinki based label @worldcanvas_ . including my track the olive tree. all the funds will be donated to MECA (MiddleEastChildren'sAlliance) https://www.mecaforpeace.org/ sharing & supporting very much welcomed! ❤ https://worldcanvas.bandcamp.com/album/persimmons-from-palestine (link in bio as well) V/A - Persimmons From Palestine (World Canvas) 1. Forces - The Olive Tree 04:44 2. jjjacob - Oxygen Demand 04:47 3. Softie - Vanity Garden 03:28 4. Traumesser - Conversion Artifact 05:24 5. Kointähti - Snape 03:39 6. Sebastian Greer - A Loss Of Leisure 05:52 7. acedia - gloss (feat. queendyster) 03:11 8. Chance - Babamın Korunması 08:18 9. Comastasis - Waiting Room 03:52 10. R000000M - Never Good Enough
  • I'm also a sound person for hire and I designed this 29 speaker/channel sound installation for #tiinapalmu s exhibition, opening tomorrow at @hippolytegallery . Tiina's exhibition is called 'Dramatis Personæ' and is open until 2.7. Come and see it's pretty impressive if I may say so 🙃 On the studio @ullakokki 'Light Fabulous Frogs' that looked super cool as well!
  • 🍄🍄🍄The Neo Fungi-able Token. Countless copies of little value, infinitely reproduced forever. The Mycorrhizal Network is a spore that has spread through the internet, taking over the cortexes of artists. It works tirelessly to spawn countless none-of-a-kind, hard to access, difficult to interface, critically ignored work for the masses. Spreading without mercy, the Mycorrhizal Network’s hive mind rejects the feeble scarcity of the apex predator in favour of the horde.🍄🍄🍄
  • Juha The Unemployed finally released as an actual game you can play! It's part of Mycorrhizal Network Bundle released today on Itch.io. Myco... is a new international network for artist working in game-adjacent mediums. Super happy to be part of an much love to all the artist included in the network/bundle (@fantasiamalware @d0ruk_b #jeremycouillard @halberball @yuhagirl #chloelangford #outlands) #MyccorhizalNetwork Released part of #itchio s #CreatorDay which is the same as Bandcamp day so all the funds go to us!
  • Neural selfie Processed one original selfie image in Photoshop with neural filters, doing incremental changes to the previous frame. Here is the result!
  • Failed Units x @wearetar night tonight at @currents.fm COMMON MULTIVERSE INITIATIVE! I will be the first and I'll play a 40min livecoding set at 18 GMT (19 Berlin, 20 FIN time etc). Will continue until late! 🙃 RSVP at: https://a.currents.fm/common (Chrome only)
  • Fourth and final one of my archival ”post-teasers” this time actually from my first ever released album (or anything really) Plastisphere relased in 2018 by @genotcentre . This track is called ”Great Pacific”. I was overjoyed, when back in 2017 I got an actual reply from sending demos and still feel like it was a pivotal moment for me. Very greatful to @ondrej.genot & @wim.genot for all the support during these years <3. Also kudos for @h5io6i54k for the album cover!
  • Decided to do a full length video of my track WildCat I posted here a few weeks ago. Posted it to Youtube today! Clickable link in the bio. (or here if u like copypasting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4Pf0er-_L8)
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