Photo: Klaudia Weber
Written by Tommi Salomaa (Tomas Sjöblom, ed.)
Translated by Matthew Billington
Sound Production and Programming
I mainly work on various projects involving music and sound production. These include video games and online language courses as well as collaboration with other artists and bands. This can be the composition, production, recording and arrangement of music, for instance piano and string arrangements for a band, sound effects, recorded singing and musicians, and recording and editing dialogue and vocabulary for a language course.
Depending on the situation, I also do some programming, or more often data processing, such as developing online services, scripting, or inserting sound effects into video games.
No two days are ever alike. Sometimes I write a song or edit speech on a computer into the small hours of the morning, sometimes I am at the airport scripting exercises for an online language course. At other times I am at a café with pen and paper, writing music notation for the violin.
I also occasionally perform live, playing the piano and/or keyboard. One example is Time Flux Invaders, a cover band playing video game music. We have performed at video game industry events and seminars.
Of my current artistic projects, the closest to my heart is the 100-Piano Quest: a challenge to play a composition of mine one bar at a time on a hundred different pianos around the world. I keep a video blog on my progress, and the goal is to travel to as many countries as possible. At the end I will put the hundred bars together as a complete piece of music.
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Written by Tommi Salomaa (Tomas Sjöblom ed.), translated by Tomi Setälä, revised by Matthew Billington
Tommi Salomaa
Tommi Juhana Salomaa
Born November 5, 1979, Lahti
Bachelor of arts (musicology), University of Helsinki
Music and sound production and programming 2012–, Saloma Sounds