Nature Talks To Us
If nature could talk to us, we believe it would talk in a slow pace. It would talk through the subtle nuances that often escape our notice, and we could hear its words in the vast elements that surround us.
In this piece Tapani and Joona Toivanen have weaved together their observations and encounters in nature with insights from the rich amount of research data curated by the Finnish Environment Institute and the Finnish Ecosystem Observatory. The focal point has been the landscapes of Finnish Lapland, particularly the marshes and mountain areas.
The Toivanen brothers’ shared passion for spending time in nature, hiking, fly fishing and photographing, is combined with Tapani's work as a visual artist and programmer and Joona’s as a composer and pianist.
Both the research and the music video consist of two worlds. Firstly, the nature itself, the target of the research, is echoed through acoustic instrumentation, organic resonances, and field recordings together with aerial drone footage, close-up videography, and time-lapse sequences from the of Finnish Lapland. Secondly, the digital domain, where satellite-derived metrics, digital datasets, and visual modeling techniques intersect with synthesized melodies and granular audio manipulations. The resulting video, ”Nature Talks To Us”, is a visionary piece of how science and research can be expressed through art.
Film, programming & animation: Tapani Toivanen
Music: Joona Toivanen
Additional footage by Maija Lassila & Petri Luukkainen
Trumpet: Johan Holmberg
In collaboration with Finnish Ecosystem Observatory (FEO)
Data sources:
• Drone data by Timo Kumpula & the Drone Lab of University of Eastern Finland, Department of Geographical and Historical Studies,
• Sentinel-2 satellite image mosaics 2022- (S2GM) by Syke/ Original data from ESA Copernicus Sentinel Program, processing by Syke and FMI (CC BY 4.0),
• LiDAR data by FEO & IBC-Carbon,
• Luonnontila biodiversity indicators www.luonnontila.fi,
• Aapa mire data by Tytti Jussila, based on Jussila, T., Heikkinen, R.K., Anttila, S., Aapala, K., Kervinen, M., Aalto, J. and Vihervaara, P. (2024), Quantifying wetness variability in aapa mires with Sentinel-2: towards improved monitoring of an EU priority habitat. Remote Sens Ecol Conserv. doi.org/10.100...,
• Mire ditching data by Janne Mäyrä, based on the Finnish land cover maps from 1965 and 1984/1985
More nature data available at the Finnish Nature Information Platform (Luontotieto) by FEO & Syke.
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All rights reserved: Finnish Environment Institute, Joona Toivanen & Tapani Toivanen.
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