“I have two different types of sets usually, The other one is based on rhythmics and beats and [tonight’s] is more droney, more slowly moving, perhaps. This is because I want to be flexible – depending on the situation I can also play something between those two.”
Mika Vainio

“I usually have a certain kind of feeling or certain kind of atmosphere I want to express and create with sounds and then I start looking, first thinking what kind of sounds would be suitable and then I start looking for them, trying different things. If you have too strict an idea beforehand it can become quite painstaking and frustrating to find that kind of thing so it’s like half and half, it’s good to maybe sometimes just let go and let the sounds themselves lead you to where they seem to be taking the whole thing.”
Mika Vainio

“I like to use the whole spectrum of frequencies which are audible for humans, to have strong dynamics that way.”
Mika Vainio

“…for me music is about emotions, for me the so-called absolute music doesn’t exist, it’s always connected to emotions and that’s what matters to me. When I listen to music what is important is what is evoked in me, what I feel.”
Mika Vainio

“…music is a way of expressing feelings and a very important way to altogether examine my own feelings. Music is ultimately, for me kind of a method to understand or examine myself and the world around me. It’s very difficult for me to think life without music. But then again, it seems to be that the line between what is music or not music, becomes more obscure and hard to determine where the line can be drawn. I don’t think that the actual sound, the changes in air pressure, is the only thing we can call music. Music can be also visual and also based on other things, physical things. For example….deaf people enjoying physical music by feeling the music through their bodies.”
Mika Vainio

“My favourite frequency is 50 hz – the frequency of the electric grid, ground noise.”
Mika Vainio