Auri Annina Antinranta is a music producer, futurist, and artist who uses sound and performance art to make alternative futures present. She is also a founder and creative force behind the audio art label New Narratives Finland.

Antinranta has written and produced several albums, ranging from instrumental classical music to experiential biodata sonification projects. Her signature style is Nordic noir, melancholy, and unconventionally beautiful compositions and soundscapes.

Antinranta has written songs for various artists and also performed herself. She is known for being a lead singer and lyricist for the Finnish progressive rock quartet Tuvalu (2003-2010), serving a blend of hardcore aggression and robust rhythm structures.

Artistic Practice: Resonance in the Future

Resonance is at the heart of this artistic practice as an acoustic phenomenon and an existential, affective, and formative principle. Resonance is a two-way movement in which people and the world tune into each other in different ways.

Resonance can mean many things; the most familiar is emotional synchrony - something, a message, a brand, or an experience that feels personal or speaks to them.

Resonance is:

• In music, the physical vibration and emotional impact of sound

• In visual arts, the emotional response between an artwork and the person experiencing it

• In performing arts, the collective experiential connection between the audience and the performer

• In cultural traditions, the sound and presence of the past in the present (resonance across time)

• In ecosocial thinking: the interactive connection between people and nature

• In sustainability policy: the resonance of decisions with the values ​​and experiences of communities.

• A collective emotional response in society that inspires action.

My practice examines future possibilities from the perspective of sound, senses, and artifacts: How do futures sound? What do they feel like? And how can they be built in the form of prototypes?

Future prototypes – speculative materiality

A future prototype is the concrete output of this practice: a model of a future object. This affective and aesthetic artifact brings visible and audible resonance of some possible future.

It can be:

• It is a sound work in which the future landscape tunes into the listener. Such is the case, for example, with my scenario sound work Soiva Tuleva - a future forest (2024)

• An object that “resonates” with the user’s emotions or environment. Such is the case, for example, with the alarm belss that I made for my Soiva Tuleva installation.

• An installation that invites experiential future thinking. Such as the Soiva Tuleva installation.

The goal is to evoke emotions, memories, and different associations about the possibilities of the future. What is the resonance of the unborn world?

Resonance toolkit

My practice combines sound, design, and future thinking into an experimental, participatory, and multisensory process. I invite participants to a bodily and sensory future design, where resonance acts as an internal compass and the structure of the artistic form.

I have developed resonance toolkit to support my artistic futures work. It is a practical and speculative tool within this practice, acting as sensory and intellectual stimuli that trigger new kinds of future thinking and artistic expression – It opens pathways to multisensory and multidimensional futures.

With the help of the toolkit, the participant

• Tunes into alternative worldviews

• Receives a sensory-based impulse

• Encounters an unexpected affect or idea

• Builds a resonant relationship with the future

For more information, please get in touch with me using the form below. (Contact us)

I also create music for various purposes, including TV, film, art, and for my enjoyment, as well as for other artists.