Ilpo Väisänen
Ilpo Väisänen is a Finnish electronic musician, born in Kuopio in 1963. He studied art in Turku, and in 1993 he founded the duo Panasonic with Mika Vainio, later renamed Pan Sonic, whose first EP appeared on Sähkö Recordings in 1994. Since the duo was put on hold after the album Gravitoni in 2010, he has worked solo and in collaborations, often under aliases such as I-LP-O In Dub. With Vainio, Väisänen recorded Endless (1998) with Alan Vega of Suicide and Nine Suggestions (2005) with John Duncan. He also formed the duo Angel (later Die Angel) with Dirk Dresselhaus of Schneider TM.
Nine Suggestions (CD)
2005 CD-only release on Duncan's own Allquestions label of the seminal industrial/performance artist's collaboration with Pan Sonic.
Brainwave Music No. III
On October 30, 2021, Brainwave Music No. III was recorded live as part of a series of ten groundbreaking Brain Wave sound installation performances by Ilpo Väisänen and Dirk Dresselhaus (die Angel). The event took place in the evocative setting of the Life on a Leaf House in Turku, Finland.
At the core of this performance was an interactive system driven by brainwave interfaces. Harnessing the performers’ neural activity, the system enabled Väisänen and Dresselhaus to directly process and shap…
Asuma
Edition of 500 copies, incl. obi, incl. download. Editions Mego reissue the 2001 release Asuma by Finnish artist Ilpo Väisänen. Originally released on CD this is the first ever vinyl issue, remastered by Rashad Becker. 2001 is a landmark year for the artist following a wave of success from the notable outfit Väisänen formed alongside Mika Vanio, Pan Sonic (as they were now known then). Following a string of highly acclaimed and influential releases such as “Vakio”, “Kulma”, “A’ and “Aaltopiiri” …
Keskipäivän Hetken Sumea Vaillinaisuus
*Limited edition of 500 copies, 45 rpm, incl. download.* "Keskipäivän hetken sumea vaillinaisuus" collects new dark ambient & industrial leaning tracks by Finnish producer Ilpo Väisänen (Pan Sonic).
Tietoisen Siirtymän Oletettu Toiseus
Ilpo Väisänen (Pan Sonic), offers a deeply personal and emotional record that literally translates to “The Presumed Otherness Of The Conscious Transition”. An appropriate title for a very somber and serious listening.
Live In Austin
Performed & recorded live on June 25th 2019 at Barracuda Club via Antumbrae Intermedia Events + Installations, Austin, Texas / USA
Syntetisaattori Musiikkia Kuopiosta
**500 copies** Syntetisaattori Musiikkia Kuopiosta is the second solo work of Ilpo Väisänen under his own name since 2001’s Asuma. 180g black vinyl record inlayed into high quality 5-color printed heavy cardboard envelope with additional golden hot foil pressing. Finnish experimental producer Ilpo Väisänen, formerly of the legendary duo Pan Sonic, made Syntetisaattori Musiikkia Kuopiosta as the second album he's crafted under his own name, after 2001's Mego-issued Asuma. (He also released a full…
Yön Magneetti Sine
** Edition of 300 on blue vinyl ** Edition Telemark presents the ninth album by die ANGEL (pronounced [diː ˈaŋl̩], previously called Angel), an improvisational noise and electro-acoustic project founded in 1999 by Dirk Dresselhaus and Ilpo Väisänen (Pan Sonic). Dresselhaus, a.k.a. Schneider TM, is based in Berlin and has been active in electric and electronic music since the late 1980s in various bands and projects ranging from rock music to electro-acoustic improvisation. Väisänen has been play…
Entropien I
Pan Sonic's Ilpo Väisänen, Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM) and Oren Ambarchi break down to the soul of noise with a new album dedicated to Mika Vainio. If you’re into Vainio, KTL or Ilpo’s brilliant solo work under his own name or as Liima / Piiri, this one's a doozy. Collectively, die Angel model a complex physicality through raw, elemental inputs, exploring a flux of reactive feedback processes and mutating, unstructured sonic states generated from crackling fusions of electronics, drums, elec…
Composed Nature / Yokomono Pro
Composed Nature / Yokomono Pro documents the collaboration between Dutch collective Staalplaat Sound System and Lola Landscape Architects, merging site-specific sound art and environmental composition in the lineage of Christina Kubisch and Bill Fontana.
Nine suggestions
NINE SUGGESTIONS gathers collaborations over the past couple of years between sound installation artist John Duncan and the two members of Pan Sonic, Mika Vainio and Ilpo Väisänen. Duncan's previous collaborators have included Elliott Sharp, Bernhard Günter and Carl Michael von Hausswolff, and the album is on his own label. As Pan Sonic's reputation would lead you to expect, there's enormous confidence here in the handling of material, whether we're talking about distorted screeching like the st…
