Jokinen, Sirpa | Artist Register – Artists’ Association of Finland

Basic information

b. 1962, Espoo

visual artist

Residence: Helsinki

Contact information

Email: sirjokin@gmail.com

Artist's Statement

Sirpa Jokinen's works are taking their form and content from the presently surrounding space. Occurrence taking place somewhere or human behavior connected to certain space is often starting points for the works. The media she uses varies between sound, objects, photographs and drawings. The technology of the latest works, sound performances has been based on finding alternative ways to reproduce sound and in this way listening to the space.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Hyster Tapes will publish solo sound art cd 2026

Mangneettiset hedelmät will publish sound art cd compilation 2026

19.4.2025 Lake Transmissions, solo sound performance, Äänen Lumo, Helsinki

Pethaus 18.1.2025 Tampere:

Duo with Sara Milazzo, self built electronic instruments:

New album, Brutou Dou:Deep Tunnel

https://artsyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/deep-tunnel

Brutou Dou, electronic music , Itäkeskus library (25.2)

Brutou Dou, electronic music, Maunula Electronics festival (18.3)

Sonic Arts,sound installation and performance, Oksasenkatu Gallery, Helsinki

2.10 Pertin valinta Record Shop, Hakanimenkuja 2

Artsy Afternoon Happening

https://www.facebook.com/events/647773303038324/?ref=newsfeed

11.9 Wirta Art Center in Voikkaa

Soul wash - Sound & Performance Art happening & exhibition

Brutou Dou, Mental Alaska concert, Vapaa Kaupunki Kalasatama, 9.4.2022

Solo Sound Performance, Palsternart vol.4, Herttoniemen palstapuutarha, 21.8.2022

Artsy Records published the album Windy Why in October 2021. It can be listened/ordered in the link below:

https://artsyrecords.bandcamp.com/album/windy-why

The Cartridge Music of John Cage performed part of the Nyky Ensemble, Flow Festival, Other Sound Stage, Aug. 10th 2019 at 2.30pm

Bio

The past fifteen years Sirpa Jokinen has as a visual artist mainly used sound connecting it to images and also used video and installation as her medium.

In her art images are directly related to sound and are connected to certain location that they describe.

There were two video projections and an object installation at the last exhibition at the HIAP Gallery Augusta in November 2025 in Helsinki. The Lake Light video projection consists of landscape scenes at the bottom of a lake filmed using chance operation. The sound is recorded with equipment built by herself.

As a sound artist she has made solo performances but also performed with various line-ups that improvise. Sirpa Jokinen uses as her sound source a sequencer, electronic instruments she has built herself, objects amplified with contact microphones, traditional instruments, field-recordings and vocals. The performances are based on experiments with timbre and rhythm with layered polyphony. They belong to the genre of experimental music and sound art.

She has played among others with the Helsinki Improvisers Orchestra (2023-), Synthestra the synthesizer orchestra led by Jimi Tenor (live performance of the Cantus Arcticus by Rautavaara at the YLE TV1 2021),with a quartet at the Other Stage at the Flow festival (2019) and as the Brutou Dou duo with Katja Lamberg (2022-). She has performed with Aleksei Borisov at the Noise and Fury Festival in Moscow and in a trio at the Music of the present festival in St. Petersburg (2015).

Albums: Deep Tunnel, Brutou Dou (Artsy records 2023), Windy Why (Artsy Records 2021), Motor Stories (self-published 2015), NO-GO-ZONE, influence 100, sound art compilation DVD (2008, Englanti), Sounds of Dripping Water, sound art compilation (Alan Dunn 2008), Arts Council England

The composition for flute, clarinet, piano and cello: Matkakertomuksia, Ruostesiipiperhosentoukka ja Nelitäpläpirkko, (performed by Defunensemble at the Musiikkitalo March 4th. 2024) contains videos of the movements of the insects and its sound. The quartet improvise imitating these movement sounds.

In the installation Sounds Of The Frozen Lake 2010 at the Sinerbrychoff Art Museum in Helsinki the visual elements created the timbre of its sound. The voice coils attached to these elements made them resonate according to their material nature (large glass plate, wooden panel, subwoofer) as sound was supplied to them.

Take A Winter Walk In The Garden With Jean Jacques Rousseau 2009 was a soundwalk piece. The visitor got to listen when walking at the outside area of the Kaisaniemi Botanical Gardens in Helsinki direction instructions and field recordings from that place but also excerpts from Rousseau's book Reveries Of A Solitary Walker. The field recordings for the piece were recorded in January including sounds among other things from an ice rink, dripping water from icicles and foot steps on snow. The sound walk was available for participation in August the following summer.

The Places, Sounds, Words project in 2005 at the Mission 17 Gallery in San Francisco presented 25 places with soundscape chosen by participating people in Moscow and San Francisco. The visitor to the exhibition got to listen to these soundscapes with the person chosen it describing what was happening there at the moment. There were also photograph enlargements of the person at her chosen place. The work aimed to show intimate relationships people have to certain places meaningful to them.