| Some of their equipment is made by third "extra" member Jari Lehtinen.These and other custom made instruments are responsible for creating the sounds typical to Pan Sonic's music.Pan Sonic are great fans of experimentation and art performances and have done exhibitions and sound installations in museums.History
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3.Originally, the band was called Panasonic, but the corporation of the same name discovered this and threatened with legal action unless it was changed.The conflict was resolved, and the duo removed the "a" from their name altogether to become "Pan Sonic".The article could be improved by integrating relevant items and removing inappropriate ones.Hz) noise at 125 decibels.For instance, Aaltopiiri means Wave circle or Wave Circuit.This page was last modified 04:00, 31 December 2007.All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.See Copyrights for details.Id + " Link: " + targetLink.Id + " Text: " + targetLink.Guerilla Jazz Rules group.Eventually our musical tastes turned toward reggae, hip hop and
experimental music.Salo had recorded a 12" as Hertsi), and their first EP was also
released that year.Pan sonic's performance at New York's Disobey club of
Knitting Factory in
early 1995 also increased duo's popularity Stateside.EP,
Osasto out in July 1996.Furthermore, they broadcast a live session
with John Peel for BBC in autumn 1995.As Jimmy Cauty is known as the master of disinformation, these rumours
should be taken with the proverbial grain of salt.At a recent Ars
Electronica festival of Linz, Austria, Pan sonic played in a train which
circulated around an industrial area.Other memorable Pan sonic prank was, of course, the group's original name
nicked
from the famous electronics manufacturer, which must have caused many
frustrations to their record label.The latest news tell that after having been contacted by the
lawyers of Panasonic USA, who threatened the act and their record
label with legal actions, from spring 1998 onwards the duo is officially
to be called Pan Sonic.Mika Vainio has sometimes jokingly
called Pan sonic's music "horsemeat rockabilly".Unsurprisingly, Japanese noise artists, such as Pain Jerk,
have lately
inspired Pan sonic.Tokyo night was received very well among the press and the audience.Pan sonic have increasingly delved into modern sampler
technology as of late.The group also has an "extra member" called Jari
Lehtinen who's responsible
for building Pan sonic's instruments with which their extraordinary
humming
sounds have been created.We have several drum modules to make rhythmic sounds which
we
are using with an 808.Pan sonic now use also samplers and a computer based sequencer, MPC2000.He is very much into sounds felt by
the body and the effect of frequencies on the brain.As to Pan sonic's live presentation, they opt to stay true to their harsh,
minimalist nature.On stage the band is illuminated by blue light and stand
behind their equipment, intently tweaking knobs and levels.It's just a simple
white line on a black background behind us which reacts to our frequencies
and the sounds that we are making.That's the only visual thing but I think
it works really well."Pan sonic thinks they usually have their best gigs in Germany,
because of the electronic music tradition there from the 1950's
onwards.Europe being automatically of very high quality,
since this continent is regarded there as a kind of "cradle of culture".Pan sonic's performance with David Crawford and
Hayley Newman at Rude Mechanic event took place at
South London art space Beaconsfield during November 1996.Pan sonic, that would be augmented with
extra sound input from a series of invited guests, like
Jimi Tenor, Bruce Gilbert or Scanner.CD was released of the highlights of Rude Mechanic.Furthermore, Pan sonic has created music for some avantgarde fashion shows
and participated in with some installation projects in Japan, France
and North America.Pan Sonic's sessions with Vega, Endless, was out early July on
Blast First, Vega being very happy with the end result.British
multimedia artist Jeremy Deller (known also for his Acid Brass
album
and ***K The Millennium project of former KLF members).Neubauten) is expected during this year.Mika Vainio provided another sound installation for the art gallery
Titanik's ten year celebration in Turku, after which Pan sonic toured
the US West Coast, starting in San Francisco at the end of May, and
continuing during early summer.Pan sonic also created a test tone
specially for experimental London radio station
Resonance 107.FM,
which was broadcast on 10 June, 1998.Jarru
("Brake") project on Turku's Mind Records label.DJ'd at Turku's Funky Kitchen club as DJ
Leggo Fat, thus having a rare appearance in his home country, where
Pan sonic was not going to be seen before September 1999, at least.Raster Music's
and Noton's "20' To 2000" project, where a CD of 20 minutes is released
every month
from such electronic artists as Thomas Brinkmann and Scanner.Mika and Ilpo said about the name
of the album: "We had to drop the letter 'a' from our name, so
that's where the album title came from.Panasonic sent a
legal letter to Blast First.But the letter was from
Panasonic in the USA, we never heard anything
from Europe or Japan.It did take a lot longer than
we thought it would, we were expecting it would
happen really quickly."In February 1999 Pan sonic also had a show in
London
with the Japanese noise artist Masonna.European tour was planned from
March onwards in France, Switzerland,
Germany, Italy and Belgium.The last gigs of the tour were cancelled,
though, since Mika suffered from a very bad case of tour exhaustion.Early 2000, Pan sonic were actively working on the new album in Barcelona.As Ilpo had
now
also moved from Finland to Barcelona, things were moving along a bit
quicker these days.The second in their collaboration series (No 1 was V.Expected out for
late 2001.There were supposed to be V.Pan sonic supported Suicide for two nights at Knitting Factory, New York,
on January 20 and 21, 2000.They also recorded a session
for WMFU during this visit too.Also, plans were
laid for V.Mika released a new solo album
for TOUCH, called Kajo ("Glow), in April.Pan sonic sound art has also been heard at the Walker Art Center of
Minneapolis, Chicago's Museum of Modern Art and Foundation Cartier
of Paris.The ensuing infernal noise made at least the fourth of
audience flee
in horror.Pan sonic performed as an opener for the Wire at Irving
Plaza, NYC on May 15, 2000.DJed with Jeff Mills on May 19th.Sonar festival on 16 June.FM Einheit's
additional stage show with a piece of scrap metal with microphones and
rocks made
blood run from the hands and forehead of the artist as the rocks hurled
around uncontrollably.Pan sonic
documentary of 50 minutes, Kuvaputki ("Cathode ray tube"), directed
by Ed
Quist, also had its premiere at Sonar.Critics compared the black
and white film to early rock'n'roll documentaries.August
2000
saw Pan sonic gigging in their former hometown Turku in Finland, at
Koneisto festival where the astonished journalists of The Wire
witnessed the audience clapping their hands to Pan sonic's beats and Mika
smiling(!Finnish gigs coming in November, at
Helsinki's Avanto festival
and Tampere's Club Telex (Mika Vainio together
with Mego's Fennesz).There was a new Pan sonic album out on Blast First!They were still
looking
for exotic and different places to perform at, instead of the usual rock
clubs, galleries or
festivals, such as the Easter Islands or Ilpo's
favourite, Tijuana.Late 2001 saw Pan sonic's collaboration album with
British composer Barry Adamson (known for his film soundtrack) on
Iceland's Kitchen Motors label.In 2002 Pan sonic performed among all with Chicks on Speed in London and
Peaches at Barcelona's Sonar.They also played at Helsinki's Avanto
festival, November 2002, on instruments built by Finnish electronic whiz
Erkki
Kurenniemi in the late 1960s and early 1970s.Pan Sonic
also completed a new collaboration with Suicide's Alan Vega.Pan sonic played in Moscow, Russia.Pan sonic's 2002 appearance with Erkki
Kurenniemi appeared on Mika Taanila's DVD The Dawn of DIMI.It also was announced that Pan sonic was going to perform at the
industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle's reunion event in May 2004."You've just had a baby boy.What will it be like growing up in the Home
household?""I'm playing him a lot of Pan Sonic.An American guy called Dr Al Ackerman
has been doing a lot of research into music and how it effects a child's
development.The traditional view is that Mozart increases a baby's
intelligence but, from what I understand of Dr Ackerman's research,
although
it may take them forward a bit it makes them conformist.There is no theory for PAN SONIC.We have no
plan.PAN SONIC (Mika Vainio and Ilpo
Vaisanen) available only as one complete set.The Wire music magazine.Aires, Tijuana, Mexico City, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Edmonton,
Calgary, Winnipeg, Princeton University, and Reykjavik.Eastern Bloc section to be cancelled.Francis Bacon and his
use of the triptych (a format Bacon used a number of times in his lifetime).Always pushing the boundaries, PAN SONIC were inspired to go on to record
a fourth part.The sounds within are complemented by the award winning
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Other memorable Pan sonic prank was, of course, the group's original name nicked from the famous electronics manufacturer, which must have caused many frustrations to their record label.As Toshiba, the Panasonic Electronics' biggest competitor in Japan had plans to licence the group's music from Blast First, the change of name seemed to become more probable all the time.The latest news tell that after having been contacted by the lawyers of Panasonic USA, who threatened the act and their record label with legal actions, from spring 1998 onwards the duo is officially to be called Pan Sonic.Thus were also crushed Ilpo's hopes that the band would have been sponsored by their electronics giant namesake...Was the above review useful to you?Update Information: Click this button to correct information, submit new information or submit images.My Discogs
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more...Kesto (234:48:4)' is a brand new quartet of compact discs from Pan Sonic (Mika Vainio and Ilpo Vaisanen) available only as one complete set and highly limited.Always pushing the boundaries, Pan Sonic were inspired to go on to record ...This album contains the sort of
tracks that noise artists these days can't even dream about containing the
kind of oscillator upset only rarel...You probably know we're a bit more than partial to Pan Sonic here and it doesn't really get much better than their early classic material.Probably my favourite of all the Pan Sonic albums, this showed a slight departure from their previous efforts.Instead of focussing mainly on distorted technoid beats and extreme sounds, Altopiiri interspersed the hypnotic analogue techno mainstays with gorgeous atmospheric compositions reflecting influences from early electronic composers such as Pierre Schaeffer and Todd Dockstader.Pan Sonic (previously Panasonic, the 'a' dropped for obvious reasons) and showed a marked movement away from the intense barrage of noise of the first album Vaiko.Instead we are treated to a peerless connection of analogue techno stormers, probably closest to Aphex Twin's milestone Analogue Bubblebath releases than anything else on the scene.The Osasto EP was Pan Sonic's precursor to the seminal Kulma album, and also happens to feature some of their most unmissable tracks.The result is akin to having your stomach pumped by an army of ghostly...Back In Stock* Probably my favourite of all the Pan Sonic albums, this showed a slight departure from their previous efforts.Instead of focussing mainly on distorted technoid beats and extreme sounds, Altopiiri interspersed the hypnotic analogue techno mainstays with gorgeous atmospheric compositions reflecting influences from early electronic composers such as Pierre Schaeffer and Todd Dockstader.Originally released in 1993 and out of press almost immediately, i...Finnish duo Pan Sonic.Web Design and Engineering by Default, business intelligence by SpringBolt."This page requires AC_RunActiveContent.Pan Sonic (previously Panasonic, the 'a' dropped for obvious reasons) and showed a marked movement away from the intense barrage of noise of the first album Vaiko.Instead we are treated to a peerless connection of analogue techno stormers, probably closest to Aphex Twin's milestone Analogue Bubblebath releases than anything else on the scene.From beginning to end Kulma showcases Pan Sonic at their absolute best, the album's opener 'Teurastamo' is a barrage of machinegun beats and beautifully grimy sounds (try mixing this with some heavy dubstep...The main questions
What is Pan Sonic?What is Pan Sonic?Pan Sonic means roughly "all sound" or "sound everywhere".What is Pan Sonic?Pan Sonic create precise, minimalist works of sound using primarily homemade tone generators and analogue machinery.What is Pan Sonic?Pan Sonic are a paradox.Scholars and amateurs alike are divided amongst themselves as to what Pan Sonic actually do.One main school of thought emphasises the duo's affinity with classic industrial music, noting in Pan Sonic's approach to sound a kind of perverted scientific method.Mika Vainio gave some credibility to this attempt of labelling Pan Sonic as essentially industrial when referring the background of the band, but didn't completely endorse it.When acid house began, that obviously heavily influenced us, but we haven't been following that scene either for several years now.The second school of thought, of course, deals with acid house and techno.These musical styles have also been known for scientific iconography, and the followers of this theory describe Pan Sonic's sounds as Detroit techno stripped to its bare essentials, and then some.But still, this school of thought stresses, in all its minimalism and surgical precision, it remains essentially funky.Vainio himself insists that Pan Sonic's sound should create positive reactions in it's audience, which is a stance more typical for electronic dance music than hard line industrial.This is as of yet the only Pan Sonic project featuring vocals.At the end of this tour, we are going to record something with a classical choir in Iceland.Neubauten, F M Einheit due out in the summer of 2001.Vainio says Japanese noisemakers Merzbow and Masonna are possible future collaborators.Is it funky, is it art, is it music?Pan Sonic seem equally at home on stage as in modern art galleries around the world.The year 2000 saw them working an installation in musician and legendary The Wire journalist David Toop's sound art exhibition "Sonic Boom", and through the years, they have participated in many similar projects.While behind them a white oscilloscope line vibrated in reaction to the sounds.Still, it seems Pan Sonic want to stay in the world of popular music, despite their ventures into the highbrow art world.They have been known to refer to their music as "horsemeat rockabilly" and other cryptic things, implying that they are aiming at organic music rather than unlistenable sound experiments.We have always been interested in lots of things.I'm happy with trying all kinds of experiments.The sounds of Pan Sonic have changed in time, veering between threatening static and warm ambience.Dub effects, metallic techno rhythms and harsh power electronics are playing musical chairs on the albums, making all kinds of labelling difficult.It starts out sounding a bit like Autechre and similar brain dance acts, but gets a lot noisier toward the end, closing in on Japanese sound territory."Asuma" on the other hand, is even more minimal than anything I'm used to hearing from Pan Sonic.To quote the editor of this magazine, "it sounds a lot like half of Pan Sonic".The cosmopolitan Pan Sonic and the Finnish scene
Several years before the Finnish music business had their big break, thanks to watered down euro dance act Bomfunk MC's and glam goth rockers Him, the difficult and uncompromising Pan Sonic was already a phenomenon in the UK.Jimi Tenor, live in Barcelona today.And they are quite able to support themselves with their music.The language used to be a big barrier, but in our kind of music that's not a problem.Salovaara has since gone on to become the hidden mastermind of Bomfunk MC's.Plenty of these bands have acquired international fame, but Pan Sonic were first.My studies have not enabled me to understand how Pan Sonic successfully managed to popularise this traditionally considered very uncommercial form of machine music.Perhaps it has something to do with the strange analogue monstrosities built especially for the band by their friend Jari Lehtinen for use as instruments.Somewhere inside the boxes of oscillators, along the wiring of the cross connection boards I swear that sometimes the cold static turns subtly into a tribal dance, a slow blues and the faint echoes of dub. |
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