Musa Ullakolla Archives is a collection of live concert recordings from experimental music fest series organised in a virtual squat during the first pandemic year. The programme was curated by Finnish sound artists Samuli Tanner and Heta Bilaletdin, some events in collaboration with other underground organisers KRAAK (BE) and Kutikuti (FI). Musa Ullakolla Archives will be broadcasted during Documenta Fifteen as part of Lumbung Radio, an inter-local online community radio project. It is coordinated by Station of Commons.
During the first lockdown in early 2020 we visited an online rave in a virtual venue called Swggbo, a hacked version of a well known virtual world platform from the Y2K era. It was hosted by friends from Tampere, a local long term electronic music collective SWÄG.
They had built an online version of their huge industrial club and sound system and had big parties where people could attend as avatars. They agreed to our idea of using the platform for experimental concerts as well. Station of Commons let us use their channels for the audio stream.
We started to build our own “rooms”: virtual gardens, attics and swamps inside Swgbbo and invited artists to perform in these imaginary landscapes. It was the highlight of the era of staying at home for months. This was the way to continue our practices, to be in touch with the community, dance & discuss & hear the sound pieces everyone continued doing in their bedroom studios.
Though it looked like old school fantasy game world & not realistic at all, those parties felt more real than video stream concerts, people actually being together, chatting and feeling each others presence in a shared space.
Musa Ullakolla events became surprisingly big & international too, hundreds of people gathered there: artists and visitors from all around Europe, Japan, US, New Zealand and South America - in the shapes of gnomes, human-animal hybrids and blue skinned witches.
As part of the Lumbung Radio project of Documenta Fifteen we are happy to share a selection of sonic magic that happened in the virtual sphere around that time.
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List of all artists who performed in MUSA ULLAKOLLA events:
Accou
Antti Tolvi
Arttu Partinen
Aylu
Bear Bones, Lay Low
Beat Detectives
Disrupt
Draama-helmi
Dsr Lines
Earkus
Elatu Nessa
Embassador Dulgoon
Foodman
Fyoelk
Galaxy Express 555
Gaute Granli
Giant Claw
Goldblum
Goldscammer
Goto80
Guilhem All
Heta Bilaletdin
Hiele
Ilpo Numminen
Incidental Music for Invasion
Jaakko Tolvi
Jukka Herva
Ka Baird
Keränen
Kraus
Kuupuu
Lau Nau
Lazer Zebras
Manoir Molle
Marjatta
Mshr
Myttys
Målgrupp
Nuslux
Olimpia Splendid
Olli Aarni
Orphan Fairytale
Pahat Kengät
Quanta Qualia
Radio Hito
Ray Manta
Regis Turner
Roxane Métayer
Sami Pekkola
Samuli Tanner
Sun Araw
Sushi Jugend
Tom Lönnqvist
Tomutonttu
Toon
Tulips
Uton
Vica Pacheco
Yor
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