^ a b Vainio, Kalle (18 December 2017).'Sähkö 20 Years Anniversary Special Interview with Mika Vainio & Tommi Grönlund'. 'Mika Vainio's early Gagarin-Kombinaatti recordings get first ever release'. 'Tommi Grönlund of Sähkö Recordings remembers Mika Vainio'. 'Mika Vainio 1963–2017: Finland's great stone-faced sonic violator remembered by Rob Young'. ^ 'Mika Vainio | Discography & Songs'.^ a b Notice de personne 'Vainio, Mika (1963–2017)'.The exact circumstances of his death are unknown.

Vainio died on Apin Trouville-sur-Mer, France after falling six meters off of a cliff into the sea. Pan Sonic disbanded in December 2009, playing their final concert on December 18. In the mid-1990s, he formed the group Pan Sonic with Ilpo Väisänen and later Sami Salo (who would soon leave). Sähkö would release much of Vainio's music. It was here that he met Tommi Grönlund, who would later found Sähkö Recordings. In the late 1980s, Vainio began DJing and organizing parties, playing acid house. In the early 1980s he played in the group Gagarin-Kombinaatti while also working at a slaughterhouse. Mika Vainio was born on in Helsinki, but grew up in Turku. He has worked with artists such as Alan Vega, Barry Adamson, Charlemagne Palestine, Alva Noto, Peaches, Kevin Drumm, Björk, Stephen O'Malley, Keiji Haino, Michael Gira, Chicks on Speed, Merzbow, and many others.

In addition to his real name, he recorded under the aliases Ø, Kentolevi, Philus, and Tekonivel. He was best known as a member of Pan Sonic.

Mika Vainio: 50 Hz runs at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma on until 10 January 2021.Mika Tapio Vainio (– April 12, 2017) was a Finnish electronic musician. The exhibition catalogue includes articles by Pertti Grönholm, Tommi Grönlund, Kati Kivinen, Rikke Lundgreen, The Wire’s Anne Hilde Neset and Mika Taanila, plus an artist interview by Ute Meta Bauer and foreword by Museum Director Leevi Haapala. As part of the festival Kiasma Theatre are showing a series of films based on Vainio’s music. The show is co-produced with Helsinki Festival, which runs until 6 September.

Shortly after he died in 2017, Kiasma received a donation of a Vainio sound installation called x 540 kHz (2009). Vainio’s first solo exhibition was curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1997. “The exhibition project has also served as an important and groundbreaking research into Vainio’s sound art,” says chief curator Kati Kivinen. Called Mika Vainio: 50 Hz, it’s the first comprehensive survey of Vainio’s sound installations in the late musician's native country. A major retrospective of Mika Vainio's work is running at the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki until 10 January 2021.

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