Monday, October 6

I have come to Stoa to return the last thing I have to return to the library before we go to India: a very uninspiring Flo and Eddie album.

I look in the gallery and see the exhibition called When a tree falls in the forest, does anyone hear it?, an installation consisting of part of a tree, tape, audio, posters and two lit signs.

I photograph one of the signs that reminds me very much of the work of Jani Leinonen. However, the signs, posters, soundtrack and crime scene tape are all the work of Jari Tamminen & Mikko Virmajoki. The sign, incidentally, says “troublemakers”.

They ask the important question: “if a tree falls at a crime scene, what kind of sound do we hear? The soundscape of this work may sound like a sudden night in a stormy forest. In fact, you hear the roar of a chainsaw. The roar has been slowed down and modified, it has been layered.

When a tree falls, the roar of a chainsaw is often heard.”

I take this in and then walk to Itis in search of a new phone: a OnePlus that I failed to get last yesterday. I end up with a OnePlus Nord CE5 at a price even cheaper than I would have paid yesterday, and it includes a bumper in the price which yesterday’s didn’t.

I go home happy.