ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN
SOUNDSCAPES
SPATIAL SOUND
SOUND DESIGN
ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN SOUNDSCAPES SPATIAL SOUND SOUND DESIGN
About
Tuomas Norvio is at once an electronic musician, composer, creator of electronic soundscapes and sound designer.
Often creating in multidisciplinary collaboration, his strengths lie equally in the creation of music and soundscapes as well as in technological mastery of immersive audio. By combining the creative and the technical, he crafts unique sonic worlds — spatial, physical, and emotionally resonant experiences, where sound can be felt as well as heard.
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Tuomas Norvio (b. 1978) is Helsinki-based composer, electronic musician and sound designer. Having worked across various music genres and art forms since 2007, with collaborations in contemporary dance, opera, classical music and interdisciplinary productions, Norvio’s role is often to craft not just music but an entire sound atmosphere.
Norvio has worked with leading Finnish and international artists, with recent collaborators including Tero Saarinen (Study for Life, 2025), Esa-Pekka Salonen (Khovanshchina; Salzburg Easter Festival, 2025 & Laila; Finnish National Opera, 2020), John Paul Jones, Vasco Mendonça, Simon McBurney (Khovanshchina) and Emily Howard.
During his career, Norvio has recorded, mixed and produced more than 20 records. Recently, he has released music with his duo with Hildá Länsman (debut album Dajan), and with his solo project. In Norvio’s solo release, Efter Sol (2025), he deepens his exploration of sound masses through electronics and acoustic instrumentals. In live performance, the solo offers a spatial experience, often complimented by a durational sound installation.
Norvio has been awarded the Äänisäde Prize (2018), the Teosto Prize (2011) and the Prix Italia (2011).
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Hildá Länsman & Tuomas Norvio
electronic musician, composer, producer
touring actively, duo's debut album 'Dajan', 2025
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Study for Life
spatial sound design, electronic soundscapes, sound installation
Tero Saarinen Company & Het Muziek, 2025
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Spatial variations for a Hank drum (from the IJ)
durational and spatial live sound installation
Kaija Saariaho Festival, Muziekgebouw, 2025
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Solo project 'Efter Sol'
composer, electronic musician, producer
album 'Efter Sol', live performances with spatial sound
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Empathy for the Fish and Others
durational and spatial live sound installation
Helsinki Biennial & Helsinki Festival, 2021
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Khovanshchina
spatial sound design, soundscapes
dir. Simon McBurney, cond. Esa-Pekka Salonen, Salzburg Easter Festival, 2025
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Hallowed Lungs
live electronics and spatial sound design
Kimmo Pohjonen w/ Mikko Helenius and Tuomas Norvio, 2026
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FLOS
electronic musician, sound design
EnsembleGamut! & visual artist Vappu Rossi, 2025
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Domino
composer, electronic musician, sound designer
Skånes Dansteater, 2024 (chor. Erika Silgoner)
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Sound massage/ Mosaic
installation - live concert concept
haptic audio cushions, spatial sound, live concert w/ Jutta Seppinen, Musica Nova/ TSC, 2023
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Transit
spatial sound design, electronic music
Tero Saarinen Company/ Skånes Dansteater, chor. Tero Saarinen, 2020
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Skin Hunger
binaural headphones sound design, composer
chor. Johanna Nuutinen, JoNuCo, 2023
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Mosaic installation/ wood chip - sound table
spatial audio, installation - live concert w/ Jutta Seppinen
Musica Nova/ TSC, 2023
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Tuomas Norvio solo (From the IJ) feat. John Paul Jones
electronics, improvising, spatial sound
Kaija Saariaho Festival, Muziekgebouw, 2025
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HZ
composer, spatial sound design
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Hyöky/ Surge
spatial sound design and electronic music
chor. Johanna Nuutinen, Finnish National Ballet, 2022
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Composition, production and performance of electronic music
Norvio composes, records, mixes and produces music for selected bands as well as for his solo project. He also performs live electronics.
Grounded in electronic music, Norvio works through electronic manipulation of organic and acoustic sources – natural sounds, instrumental material and the human voice.Current main projects include duo Hildá Länsman & Tuomas Norvio and the solo project Efter Sol. Previous and long-term collaborators and bands include Ensemble Gamut!, RinneRadio and Kimmo Pohjonen among others.
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Composition of electronic soundscapes and technical, spatial sound design
Norvio creates complete electronic soundscapes and music integrated with spatial sound design for staged works.
He moves fluidly from music composition to sound design, creating multi-sensory sound design in close collaboration with both artistic and technical teams.
Norvio has collaborated widely across the performing arts, from contemporary dance to opera and circus, with partners such as Tero Saarinen Company, Osterfestspiele Salzburg, Skånes Dansteater and Finnish National Opera and Ballet.
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Durational and spatial sound installations
Norvio develops and creates sound installations experienced autonomously or in connection with concerts and performances, in settings ranging from open foyers and public spaces to intimate environments.
He draws and transforms sound material from surrounding nature through electronic processing; from wind and solar data to underwater sounds. The durational, spatial format of installations invites each listener to engage at their own pace.
Recent installations include Spatial variations for a Hank drum (Kaija Saariaho Festival, Muziekgebouw), To Water as part of Study for Life (Tero Saarinen Company & Het Muziek), Etiäisiä / Premonitions (Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra), and Empathy for the Fish and Others (Helsinki Biennial & Helsinki Festival).
Efter Sol - Album
Solo album released by Rockadillo Records, 7 March 2025
“The album's theme and inspiration were the sounds of the sun, which NASA has created from the data it has collected on the movement of the sun through sonification. For me, it acted as a reminder of the movement and change of all living things, as well as a timeline longer than humans – the wonder of what might be left behind when we leave.”
– Tuomas Norvio
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The album's starting point and its first materials were born from the beginning moments of Tero Saarinen Company's Transit choreography in 2019. The artist duo IC-98's first attempt at the piece was a short animation that brought to mind a black sun. Based on the image, I began composing various electronic sound worlds for the performance.
Soon after I composed music for Johanna Nuutinen's Hz piece, choreographed for TSC, specifically about the origins of underwater noise, but on the other hand, the same sound, transcending the scale of man, still remained in the material and in my mind. Some of the songs also ended up on the album as reconstructed parts from these blanks. Having composed exclusively electronic blanks for the works, I felt the need to bring human sound alongside the electronics. I asked the Akademiska Damkören Lyra choir, with the help of conductor Jutta Seppinen, and the violinist Eriikka Maalismaa to join the pieces. The human voices of the choir and Maalismaa’s delicate voice on the violin brought a human layer to the pieces, a touch that would have been impossible to achieve otherwise.
In order to reflect on the pieces as just audible music and sound, without the thematic framework of a stage work and the spatial sound, I asked for comments from a few artists I respect: composer-musicians Kimmo Pohjonen and Tapani Rinne, and researcher, critic, curator Mika Hannula. Thank you very much to them, without their comments I would not have been able to continue and complete the process.
Many thanks also to Carita Weissenfelt for all the comments and belief in the process over the years.
Thank you Tero Saarinen for the personal discussions about worldviews and the opportunities of TSC Studio to create sound and music.
Thank you Pauli Saastamoinen for opening up the tones of my sound, Oscar Zepeda Arias for the trust, Hildá Länsman for the liberating duo, Tapio Korjus/ Rockadillo for publishing this album, Alice Jektevik for moving images and Taike for supporting my music making.
Without all of your support, I would not have dared and been able to continue my own musical journey.
The album is dedicated to Eriikka Maalismaa.
In March 2025,
Tuomas