Description
Piia Rinne, a Pori-based sound artist and textile designer, operates at the intersection of sonic experimentation and tactile craftsmanship, weaving a profound connection between these two mediums. Her debut vinyl, River Eye, released under Artsy Records, presents an evocative foray into experimental music, one that defies traditional genre classifications. Artsy, known for its dedication to “the trve experimental music heads,” provides a fitting platform for Rinne’s boundary-pushing auditory visions.
The album, River Eye, is a radical exploration of sound, largely constructed from tape loops, rough cut-and-paste digital editing, and pitch shifting. These techniques evoke a tangible, almost sculptural relationship to sound, where the process of creation becomes an aesthetic and philosophical gesture. The raw, analog feel of the work resonates with a certain materiality—sound as fabric, woven through repetitions and mutations, distorting and elongating time. Her process becomes a metaphor for the textile artist’s craft: cutting, stitching, and layering materials, Rinne shapes sound in much the same way she might approach fabric, imbuing each element with texture and depth.
River Eye is, in many ways, psychedelic, but it eludes the trappings of the familiar, often commodified tropes of “psychedelia.” Instead, Rinne’s sound world confronts the listener with an intense, emancipatory psychism, one that refracts consciousness in ways that question the limits of perception, technology, and embodiment. Through her rough, fragmented editing techniques, she presents a fractured auditory reality, one that mirrors the discontinuities of lived experience. Her pitch-shifting manipulations dislodge sounds from their referential anchors, further unsettling the listener’s expectations. In this way, River Eye pushes against the normative frameworks that constrain both art and life, carving out a space of radical freedom.
Piia Rinne’s River Eye is not just music, nor is it just art—it is a deeply philosophical engagement with sound as a medium of resistance. The album serves as both a listening experience and an intellectual provocation, urging us to reconsider the ways in which we hear the drum of cosmos, experience time and relate to the materiality of the world. In Rinne’s hands, sound becomes a tool for emancipation, a way of unraveling the oppressive structures that govern both art and life and weaving together new possibilities for the future.
– Juho Toivonen
