Faculty of Arts University of Helsinki Finland User Stories of Erkki Kurenniemi’s Electronic Musical Instruments, 1961–1978 Mikko Ojanen DOCTORAL DISSERTATION Doctoral dissertation to be presented for public discussion with the permission of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Helsinki, in Porthania III, on the 18th of December 2020 at 16 o’clock. Helsinki 2020 Author: Mikko Ojanen;
[email protected] ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-7833-9659. I wrote this dissertation as a PhD Candidate in the Doctoral Programme for Philosophy, Arts and Society / Musicology / University of Helsinki and in the Finnish Doctoral Programme for Music Research Supervisors: Dr. Kai Lassfolk and Dr. Alfonso Padilla Pre-examiners: Dr. Andrew Bentley and Dr. Trevor Pinch (opponent) Language reviser: Joan Nordlund, MA. Layout: Mikko Ojanen Printed by Unigrafia, Helsinki 2020 The Faculty of Arts uses the Urkund system (plagiarism recognition) to ex- amine all doctoral dissertations. © 2020 by Mikko Ojanen and the copyright holders listed on pages viii–xi; see List of Illustrations and Tables. CC-BY Mikko Ojanen. This work is li- censed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license – excluding the copyrighted photographic content listed on pages viii–xi, if not specifically mentioned otherwise. To view a copy of the license; see: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 1st Edition – version: 20201127_01 Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Ojanen, Mikko, 1974- author, respondent. User stories of Erkki Kurenniemi’s electronic musical instruments, 1961-1978 / Mikko Ojanen. – Helsinki, 2020 (Helsinki : Unigrafia, 2020). – xxvi, 293 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Thesis (Ph.D.) – University of Helsinki, 2020.