St. Petersburg metro announcements with Omnisphere’s granular synthesis and a lot of reverb

http://ift.tt/2ciP0Lx A friend of mine was in St. Petersburg, Russia, earlier this year and recorded the metro announcements with his phone. I ran the recording through #Spectrasonics #Omnisphere’s granular synthesis and added a lot of reverb in it 🙂 via IFTTT

The new choral arrangement of my “Hymn”

Hi everybody! Well… This song of mine will have lyrics and I’m in the process of arranging it for a SATB choir with piano accompaniment… https://open.spotify.com/track/5gK2E6Is1YQINl1hLwHuD0 It’s going to be a great song! -Mikey A

Happy Midsummer Day!

Hello everybody! I just want to wish you all a Happy Midsummer Day! I hope you all have a beautiful summer ? Best regards, Mikey A

The Orlando shooting

My deepest condolences for the families and friends of those who got killed and injured in the shooting in Orlando, Florida, US… Terrorism should be prevented and stopped.

Kensington Expert Mouse

Interesting summer ahead

Hi everybody! And sorry for not writing anything in a long time! The summer has come… Finally. The sun is shining and the birds are singing… One of the best things in Northern Europe is that we have four seasons… and EACH one of them is different… I’ll have an interesting music summer too… I

Website down, now back online

My website was down for a brief moment. Sorry for that… Now it is back up again! -Mikey

Happy Mothers’ Day!

Hi there everybody! I just want to wish you all a Happy Mothers’ Day! Best regards, Mikey A

Lyrics for one of my songs

Hi there everybody! Exciting news here… This song of mine is going to have lyrics! https://open.spotify.com/track/5gK2E6Is1YQINl1hLwHuD0 And trust me, those lyrics are GREAT! An arrangement for a full choir and piano is also on it’s way… Stay tuned for more news! 🙂

Happy Easter!

Hi everybody! I want to wish you all a happy Easter! Here’s a very beautiful Swedish Easter hymn for you to enjoy! (Sung in Finnish though) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwRik_uMdkE The hymn tells about what pains Jesus went through during his final days and that He endured all that because of us. Enjoy!

Some photos from my trip to Spain

Hi everybody! Here are some photos from my recent trip to Spain! These are mostly from around the town of Torrevieja… Enjoy! Best regards, Mikey A Tel.: +358 40 8279563 Email: mikeya at mikeya.net Website: www.mikeya.net Listen to my music: iTunes: http://geni.us/2Ap9 CD Baby: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/mikaaijalainen Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/7nH3fQ97a0Ybk996mlx3xz Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Mikey_A_Anthem?id=Btdkxlldj3ygfpocqr2ho27x3gm Rdio: http://www.rdio.com/artist/Mikey_A/album/Anthem/ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/mikey-a/

Hello world!

Hello everybody! And sorry for not writing anything in a loooooong time… I just want to let you know that I’m still here, breathing, living and playing the piano! Sincerely yours, Mikey A

Happy New Year 2016!

Hi everybody! And sorry for not writing for you in a looooong time… I try to write more stuff here and keep you updated 🙂 I just want to wish you all a Happy New Year 2016! -Mikey

The terrorist attacks in Paris

I saw the terrible news about the terrorist attacks in Paris in early Saturday morning… and I was shocked. These kind of attacks are TOTALLY uncalled for and NOT needed. Many innocent lives were lost that night… My deepest condolences for the families, friends and relatives of those who were killed. Terrorism should be put

Vancouver, BC, Canada

I made this video about my recent visit to Vancouver, BC, Canada… It’s quite a beautiful city, isn’t it? 🙂 Watch the video Beautiful, isn’t it? I like the view to the city from the Alex Fraser bridge…

Iceland

Some photos

Some photos here… Enjoy!

Lenny Pickett at the Crusell Music Festival

I’ve had my doze of jazzy woodwind music today 🙂 Lenny Pickett, one of the founding members of the band Tower of Power and the musical director of the TV show “Saturday Night Live“, was here at my tiny little town of Uusikaupunki and played some great music with top-quality Finnish musicians (saxophonists Jouni Järvelä

Apple Music

Yayy, testin blogging on my quite newly acquired laptop… Seems to be working great. Anyway, just to let you guys know – my music is on Apple Music! geni.us/2Cls is the link that leads you right there to check it out… Enjoy!

15 minutes of great pipe organ music

Yesterday I listened to about 15 minutes of great organ music in the main local Lutheran church… Man, that Marcussen organ sounded beautiful again! It’s the oldest Marcussen in Finland by the way…