Arto Rusi
Emotive Electronica
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Dance of The Midnight Fairy

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Himalaya

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Arto was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 1977. In his early childhood, due to his father's profession for the Finnish Embassy, Arto had the opportunity to visit many places including New York where he grew up as a child and began learning the piano.
After returning to Finland at the age of 13, Arto began composing music. Although he had played the piano for sometime, he quickly recognized the possibilities of modern technology and began using the synthesizer to produce his music. Today Arto uses various electronic instruments and an acoustic guitar to create his unique style of sound.
"...I guess it is because of my Finnish roots that I am naturally fascinated with nature and technology. It forms a huge basis into my music. It seems I'm always trying to find a peaceful harmony between these two forces in everything I do."
INTERVIEW
"The music of Arto Rusi is an exotique combination of electronic, film, pop, and new age music. Yet Arto likes to use the term "cinematic pop..."
"Like cinema, I try to convey eternity and infinity to audiences by giving them an opportunity to picture and feel "moments" while listening to my music."
"You've said this process of "image simulation" in our minds can unlock our spiritual doors."
"Our imagination can guide us to an external world where our inner beings can be found. I simply want to realize in music what a lot of popular poets of the romantic era managed to accomplish with literature - open up the world of our imagination and make us see and feel images of natural beauty."
"Your music has a notion of combining itself with a visual experience. Can you explain this..."
"By adding music to visuals we normally get film. By adding visuals to music we get music video. But if we combine the two in the form of one or the other, well then we get visual music, or musical visuals. It's almost like perceptive science..."
Band/artist history
WORKS
1990 It Seems To Be Electricity
1990 Fear For War
1990 Voyage
1991 Return of The UFO
1991 Voyage Part 2
1992 The Endless Journey
1992 The Dying Star
1992 Metamorphosis
1993 Visual Images
1993 555 is For LA
1993 Illusions of Heaven
1994 Revelations For The 21st Century
1995 Dance of The Midnight Fairy
1996 Trance 2000
1997 Experiments & Phases
1997 Do Me
1998 Moments
1998 Nostalgia
1998 Orion's Blues
1999 King Rocky
1999 Himalaya
2000 Whip Machine
2001 Roadrunner
2001 Wave
2002 From
2002 Orion's Blues
2002 Atmospheres
2003 Tundra
2003 Saskatchewan
2003 Steady
2003 Once In A Blue Moon
2003 The Drifter Soundtrack
2003 TTT / Stage
2004 Joj
2004 Whip Machine
2007 Canterbury
2011 Canterbury
2011 Star of Bethlehem
2021 Himalaya '21 - New Version
2023 TTT
2023 Russian Boy
Your musical influences
James Last, Ed Starink, Yanni, Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Brian Eno, Enya, Mike Oldfield, Gnomusy, Enigma
What equipment do you use?
Yamaha PSR 12, Yamaha PSR 48, Roland E20, Korg M1, Roland JW50 Music workstation, Boss DR660, Korg05R/W, Akai SG01v, Roland XP10, Yamaha DJX, Roland RS-9, Roland JUNODS, Korg EX Music Workstation
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