Erkki Kurenniemi

Erkki Kurenniemi (1941, Hämeenlinna, Finland) is a pioneer of electronic art in Finland, a former nuclear scientist who composed computer-based music and designed his own instruments at Helsinki University's Department of Music during in the early sixties.
He was a pioneer of industrial automation at Rosenlew in the seventies, an automation designer in Nokia's cable division in the early eighties, and as head of exhibition planning at the Heureka Science Centre in 1987-1999.
The exploratory search for new species of user interfaces for musical instruments and the semi-automatic generation of music have been among Kurenniemi's main goals his career.