Greetings from Finland! (introduction)
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2025 2:04 pm
Hello everybody! My name is Pekka (43y) and I'm from the northern parts of Finland. Yes, it can get very cold here.
I'm a photographer but my dayjob is a very specific type of photography - ophthalmological imaging for health care. That's where the paycheck comes from but I also do portraits and especially weddings. I'm a father of two amazing sons (10y and 13y) and a husband to a beautiful woman. We live in a house with a view over the Oulujoki valley. Right now the birds are migrating and we can hear the swans through our chimney when they fly over our house. Life here is pretty peaceful and safe and we have lots of clean nature around us to explore. Today we were marveling at beaver eaten tree trunks. Music has been my greatest passion since I joined my first band when I was fourteen.
I first learned about sync licensing a few years ago and felt really intrigued but couldn't get myself to it. My band was finishing up a release, we had gigs and I wanted to start making a full length album. It all seemed enough and I thought I wanted to keep music as a passionate hobby. But lately I've realized that I don't want to work at the hospital for the rest of my life when I could do the thing I love the most - MUSIC. I just needed to learn more and make a plan. Knowing myself I knew that if I just joined Taxi I would have to start working on it so that's what I did a week ago. Now I've been through a dozen Taxi TV episodes, countless forum posts and FAQ's and I'm starting to get the big picture together. And oh, I've recorded 5-6 cues and submitted my first piece to one listing. I'm quite sure it will not get forwarded but I needed to make that first throw to get a feel of the ball.
These next cues I'm working on are much more the type of music I love (alt rock/shoegaze/indie rock/post rock) but I'm having some trouble keeping out of writing songs vs. writing a cue. It's probably also the genre which doesn't lend itself that well for the cue format when there are usually long massive themes being developed for many many minutes. It feels weird knowing that the stuff is actually good but it won't necessarily fit this purpose but I'm also hoping that the screeners understand the context. I wish there was a chance to add a little info when submitting. Or are the track comments for that? Anyway, I'll just need to submit as many tracks as I can and then learn from the feedback and push away the feelings of rejection.
I'm at the very beginning of a very long and slow road but I'm ready for any amount of steps it's gonna take. Luckily I have a lot of experience in many different genres of music and also in the audio engineering side of things. I just need to get my mindset right for sync.
It's getting very late here, time to go to bed now. Hope to hear from many of you and maybe one day we'll see at the Road Rally!
I'm a photographer but my dayjob is a very specific type of photography - ophthalmological imaging for health care. That's where the paycheck comes from but I also do portraits and especially weddings. I'm a father of two amazing sons (10y and 13y) and a husband to a beautiful woman. We live in a house with a view over the Oulujoki valley. Right now the birds are migrating and we can hear the swans through our chimney when they fly over our house. Life here is pretty peaceful and safe and we have lots of clean nature around us to explore. Today we were marveling at beaver eaten tree trunks. Music has been my greatest passion since I joined my first band when I was fourteen.
I first learned about sync licensing a few years ago and felt really intrigued but couldn't get myself to it. My band was finishing up a release, we had gigs and I wanted to start making a full length album. It all seemed enough and I thought I wanted to keep music as a passionate hobby. But lately I've realized that I don't want to work at the hospital for the rest of my life when I could do the thing I love the most - MUSIC. I just needed to learn more and make a plan. Knowing myself I knew that if I just joined Taxi I would have to start working on it so that's what I did a week ago. Now I've been through a dozen Taxi TV episodes, countless forum posts and FAQ's and I'm starting to get the big picture together. And oh, I've recorded 5-6 cues and submitted my first piece to one listing. I'm quite sure it will not get forwarded but I needed to make that first throw to get a feel of the ball.
These next cues I'm working on are much more the type of music I love (alt rock/shoegaze/indie rock/post rock) but I'm having some trouble keeping out of writing songs vs. writing a cue. It's probably also the genre which doesn't lend itself that well for the cue format when there are usually long massive themes being developed for many many minutes. It feels weird knowing that the stuff is actually good but it won't necessarily fit this purpose but I'm also hoping that the screeners understand the context. I wish there was a chance to add a little info when submitting. Or are the track comments for that? Anyway, I'll just need to submit as many tracks as I can and then learn from the feedback and push away the feelings of rejection.
I'm at the very beginning of a very long and slow road but I'm ready for any amount of steps it's gonna take. Luckily I have a lot of experience in many different genres of music and also in the audio engineering side of things. I just need to get my mindset right for sync.
It's getting very late here, time to go to bed now. Hope to hear from many of you and maybe one day we'll see at the Road Rally!
) where my mother grew up. I'd love to visit Finland some day. Welcome aboard!
