Contact Details
Shinji Kanki
email:kanki(at)silakka.fi
mobile phone: +358-40-7449267
skype: silakkaproductions
web site: http://silakka.fi
postal address:
Rannikkolaivurintie 17
00850 Helsinki
Finland
Work History:
2008 – SILAKKA Productions, managing director
2007- Finnish Academy of Fine Arts Part-time lecturer (Experimental music & sound art composition & performance. theory and practice)
1989 – 2006 Sibelius Academy
1998– 2006 Creative project researcher, Producer & Teacher at CM&T(Centre for Music & Technology)
1993 – 1997 Research technology adviser at DOCMUS (The doctoral study unit).
1991 – 92 Part-time research technology adviser at Music Research Institute.
1989 – 90 Part-time studio manager at Music Research Institute Studio.
1981 – 88 Involved in Computer venture business with friends, writing & translating computer books and manuals, in Tokyo and Helsinki. Involved in venture business in the field of telecommunications/LAN in Helsinki, Finland. 1983 Published MS-DOS TOKUHON (handbook) from ASCII Corp. (The first ever written book on the subject in Japan. It became the best seller in the category of computer operating system.)
Education:
Hiroshima University, Music composition / Music Education 1972-76.
Tokyo College of Music, Music composition 1975- 77
EMS(Elektron Musik Studion), Stockholm. Computer music composition 1977-81.
Tokyo University, Post Graduate Institute. Research study at The Super Computer Center 1982-83.
Kungliga Musikhögskolan, Stockholm. Guest Study in composition class1978-81.
STEIM (Studio voor Electro-Instrumental Musik), Amsterdam 1979.
Universität der Künste Berlin 1979.
IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique), Paris 1981
Grants:
Japan: SEIBU Department Stores, ltd. 1976
Sweden: Swedish Institute. Guest Scholarship.1978-81
Finland 1985-: Helsinki City Cultural Fund. Canon, inc. FUB (Finland Union Bank). Ateneum (The Finnish National Museum). CARTES (Centre for Arts and Technology in Espoo city). KIASMA (The Contemporary Art Museum Helsinki). Sibelius Academy.
Germany: ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie), Karlsruhe 2000, 2001 and 2010
Award:
SONAVERA International Tape Music Competition, New York. 1979
