Ilpo Kärkkäinen
I'm a Finnish electronic music producer and mastering engineer. I live with my family on an old homestead in Kiuruvesi, Eastern Finland.
I make music as Resound and release it on Rhytual. I master records for other people through Resoundsound Mastering. I write, too. Notes is where I think out loud about music and mastering.
I was born here in the countryside. Music took me away for a long time. I spent years DJing internationally: from prime-time at Fabric, to festivals, and a long run of underground rooms. I came back to find solitude, to be closer to nature, and to raise a family.
The solitude creates space for the work. I make music and build my own software for it. When a tool I need doesn't exist, I make it.
I keep bees and chickens, and we grow some of our own food. The short summers are full of outdoor work, and winters open up for music. I like the rhythm. The countryside here still lives with the seasons, the way it has for thousands of years. Four kids, animals, crops, buildings that always need something: the day is usually full before the music starts.
I also work in fire and rescue on the side. It keeps me fit, keeps me useful to the community, and the income doesn't depend on music. Calls run the full range.
Slow work with long feedback loops suits me. Music, mastering, the homestead, the tools: all of it pays out on a timescale that most things don't.