User:Gwaur

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Pauli "Gwaur" Marttinen (b. August 15, 1989) is a Finnish high school student, who goes in for computers and entertainment. His hometown is Kouvola.

More accurately, my computer hobby mainly contains hanging out on IRC, and surfing around the Internet. Into entertainment I include video and computer games, music and movies. Of games, I'm more interested in old classics, such as the Super Mario Bros. games. I listen to modern classical music and produce electronic music myself, and my favourite composer is Koji Kondo. My favourite genre of movies is family fantasy, and the one movie I love the most is Hayao Miyazaki's My Neighbour Totoro.

[edit] Music

Music is most possibly my biggest interest. It should be no surprise, since my family is flooded with musicians:

My dad has been a clarinetist in Kymi Sinfonietta, a local symphony orchestra, ever since it was founded in 1999. Before that, he played the bassoon in Kouvola Town Orchestra probably even before I was born.
My mother has been teaching violinism for decades.
My grandfather was a trumpeteer.
My older big brother has played the electric guitar for 13 years now.
My younger big brother started his days as a drummer 10 years ago.
My grandmother owns a Hammond organ.
According to my other grandmother, my other grandfather sang and played the violin simultaneously.

[edit] I play

I like performing really much, and I prefer doing it with a piano or simple percussion instruments such as a drum kit or tambourine. I also own a flute and a kantele and know some simle things about them. I actually "unofficially" studied playing the flute in private teaching for a year. I know how a guitar and similar string instruments work, but I have never got the hang of them.

[edit] I create

I compose. Mostly, I have been a "first performer" of songs and other pieces of music by me by taking some sounds and samples, putting them nicely in order and publishing the already implemented song. I had always done these ready-to-listen with Impulse Tracker from 1997 to 2006. Then I realized that I could combine the tracker and Audacity. The style of my Impulse Tracker songs has varied between rock and techno. The first piece I made with the software was Yhden tuhman pojan elämä (The Life of a Naughty Boy) and it was rock. My latest ones have been techno. "Musically" the best work of mine has apparently been the 2004 techno song Robottikaaos (Robotic Chaos), which I'm going to revise a little soon. Many high-level musicians (higher than me) have said that its chord patterns and melodies are somewhat unique. You'll be able to hear it when I get the renewals done.

My dad dated my first ever composition back to 1992. It was written as notation which I as a 3-year-old neo-Mozart wanted to be kept safe. Recently it was found safe and sound on its original sheet of paper. I don't remember anything except the notation software, but my dad seems to remember everything. Lately, I have fallen back to composing music by notating it and then expecting someone to perform it. So far it has been successful only once, when I composed a swinging violin song for the computer game Bloboats and made my mother play it. Actually, it has so far been the only time I've ever tried to get anyone to play a song by me. Right now I'm working on a little concerto for an orchestra which I'm planning to participate in a composition competition with. The best works will be played by the orchestra whose clarinetist my dad is.

[edit] I work

My dad is not the only one being employed by the orchestra. I'm a ticket checker at the orchestra's concerts in Kouvola (the orchestra performs regularly in Kouvola and Kotka), and I also attach advertisement posters of upcoming concerts on the downtown walls of the town. I get to listen to good classical music for free. It's not even taken away from my monthly salary. :)

My future plans for post-high school is to either join the Finnish Army in the musically weighted line or go to civilian service instead. Anyway, after accomplishing the duty, I would like to go to a university where they teach music technology. A sound engineer or something would be a nice job.

[edit] I listen to

I enjoy different kinds of classical music very much. Although I'm most interested in entertaining light orchestral music such as video game music – both rearrangements of old digitally generated creations and new originally orchestral music – and film music, I have been addicted to such classics as Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto and Mozart's 40^th Symphony for the past few weeks. I also like symphonic power metal, of which the best example to my liking would be Oceanborn by Nightwish.

I usually stand any music except mainstream hip hop. Still, I have noticed that whenever music accompanied by a symphonic orchestra, I don't hate it. In extreme cases, such as Yeah! Yeah! Die! Die! Death Metal Symphony in Deep C which contains a rap song with an orchestra, I even like it. The Death Metal Symphony is also a fine example of my taste for metal. Comedy music is also one category that I normally dislike. I don't count pieces like old Super Mario music by Koji Kondo or the Orpheus in the Underworld finale as comedy music even though they are very fun, because their enterainingness is based on hyperactive and superhappy moods instead of strange yodeling-like noices by humans, mistakes on purpose, or silly (read: stupid) lyrics. Exceptions for humoristic music exist, notably being I'm My Own Grandpa and the overworld theme from The Legend of Zelda allegedly covered by System of a Down (fix me if I'm wrong).

When it comes to the sound world of music, I like two kinds of worlds of sound: those with minimal or intentionally a very little amount of different sounds, and those with so many different sounds that finding them all is near impossible. Not much in the middle grounds. For example, music on old computers and entertainment devices has just a little different sounds. That's why I enjoy old game classics. Also, music on a classical style orchestra has many kinds of sounds. That's why I enjoy that, too. The best example of the "techno pop" category is the ending theme of My Neighbour Totoro. I almost always cry my eyes away for all those fresh, beautiful and unbelievaly fitting combinations of sounds!

[edit] Emotional

Music is an important source of emotion and pleasure to me. I may suddenly burst into tears when I hear majestetic and heroic music for I have much respect and value towards brave, great, fine, noble people, places, events, things and stuff. I may suddenly burst into tears when I hear quiet and gradually growing music. This almost happened in a concert where the orchestra was exceptionally large, the largest one I've ever heard live, 47 (yes, it is a sinfonietta orchestra, so it's not very large), and it played Sibelius' Violin Concerto that begins with a mourning feeling and ends like it was the original soundtrack of a humble fantasy film.

[edit] At Wikipedia

My first edit at the English Wikipedia was a change in the article Kouvola in June 2004. I have not yet created any new articles, and my activity mainly concerns polishing up the language at the Finnish Wikipedia.

My first article at Wikipedia in general was Näkymätön ystävä (My Neighbor Totoro) at the Finnish Wikipedia. Since then, I have been planning on creating new articles by mainly translating articles about Studio Ghibli movies into Finnish, but they have never got any further than that, mainly because of the great number of links.