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Keijo Virtanen (1951–2022)

September 2022

The veteran Finnish DIY musician has died aged 71. Read Matthew Wuethrich's 2007 interview with the artist via our digital archive.

“My music starts out as something very personal, but then I release control of it. It makes me very small. I am just a mediator.” The veteran Finnish DIY musician and artist Keijo Virtanen died on 16 July aged 71. In July 2007, Matthew Wuethrich interviewed him in The Wire 281. That issue is sold out, but we have made the article free to read in our online archive for one month:

Worlds Within Worlds, The Wire 281, July 2007. NB free access expires 15 October 2022.

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