Doc (Finnish ambient/electronica composer/producer)

Doc is an ambient/electronica composer/producer from Finland.

Doc debuted on netlabel Musictrade's Sola Muusika 2005 compilation (MT001) containing material from the Sola Muusika event that took place in Tallinn, Estonia, in February 2005. This was followed by a full album release Distant Transmissions - Ambient Reflections on Bach (MT002) in co-operation with the Russian pianist Lena Selyanina. In July 2005 Doc performed in Norberg 2005 electronic music festival in a Musictrade showcase together with artists Electroteque (Australia) and Unknown Forces (Scotland), contributing two tracks to Musictrade's Norberg 2005 Field Mixes album (MT003).

In November 2005 Doc released his second ambient co-creation with Lena Selyanina: An Island of Joy (In a Sea of Electronic Dreams) (MT004), containing three ambient meditations on Claude Debussy's 'water music'. Later same month he contributed two tracks to Musictrade's New Orleans tribute album 'Requiems for a Submerged City' (MT005). Doc finished his productive year 2005 with a lighthearted dance album 'Nein Absolut Nicht' (MT006) based on the soundworld from a single episode of the German police series 'Der Alte'.

In March 2006 Doc and Lena Selyanina released already their third neoclassical ambient album together: "Noble, Sentimental and Ambient Waltzes" (MT008), a dark, cinematic work inspired by Maurice Ravel’s series of waltzes for the piano. The fourth album ‘Echoes from an Engulfed Cathedral’ (MT011) came out in January 2007; this impressionistic ambient work was again inspired by Claude Debussy’s music. Their fifth artistic co-creation, Nangilima (MT015) was released in December 2007. This album, inspired by Dmitri Shostakovich’s piano music, focused on the theme of childhood: its joys, fears and fantasies. In January 2008 came out Cosmic Lullabies (MT018), a calm, cosmic and meditative work.