Erkki Kurenniemi
(born 1941) is one of the most important characters in the history of Finnish electronic music. Alongside working on media art, happenings and short films of his own, Kurenniemi built several electronic instruments. The most ambitious of Erkki Kurenniemi's projects was the series of digital synthesizers, called DIMI, in the early 1970s. For example, Kurenniemi's video synthesizer
DIMI-O (1970-1971) converted any movements recorded by the video camera into real-time sounds and music.
DIMI-S (also known as the "Sexophone") was able to generate sound and light by contact with the skin, reacting to the emotional state of the performers. Kurenniemi created the first commercially manufactured and marketed microcomputer in 1973, two years before the American MITS Altair 8800.
In 2002 Finnish film director Mika Taanila made a documentary film on Erkki Kurenniemi, called
The Future Is Not What It Used To Be .
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