"On the 16th of December, the Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship will celebrate and choose our new official Christmas Jingle as a part of “The Next Christmas” Event."
Aural Night's piece, inspired by the moon landing, won the first prize and is now the official Christmas jingle for ACE - Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship. You can listen to the song here:
Aural Night scoops first prize in a soundlogo contest. - November 23, 2011
Held online by Audiodraft.com, the task was to create a 5 second sound logo for an upstart investment company - GeisterZähmer. The winner was entry "Gamen v6", which you can check out below.
Banksy (Have You Reached a Verdict?) - February 23, 2011
A new killer audio-visual approach to the British graffiti artist's, Banksy's, street art. Photos courtesy of banksy.co.uk
New song out: My Lai - February 6, 2011
This piece was inspired by The My Lai Massacre. A mass murder conducted by a unit of the U.S. Army on March 16, 1968 of 347–504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam, all of whom were civilians and a majority of whom were women, children (including babies) and elderly people.
Music licensed for theater / live performance - January 20, 2011
Jessica Stuart, from Long Story Short Media at Washington, D.C., licensed Aural Night's track "Tender Kiss on the Cheek" as a background music for Elizabeth Glazer Pediatric AIDS Foundation's performance "Florence".
Running from Me - November 12, 2010
This is a 22min psychological thriller written and directed by Ian Sanders. Music by Miika Warsell aka Aural Night. Enjoy!
A killer 20 min short film thriller, Running from Me, by a British director Ian Sanders, will be out in a couple of weeks. Aural Night has composed the score and is also assisting with the sound fx and the final mix.
Cheers!
"Voyage" now on Youtube. - July 26, 2010
Aural Night participating in a comics project - July 26, 2010
Romantically Apocalyptic is a witty post-apocalyptic comic with superb artwork by Vitaly S. Alexius. Aural Night is participating on the project - making the comic to a live action series - as the composer / soundtrack guy. Below is a crude storyboard rendering of the first episode - music and sounds by Aural Night.
"Avian Dreams" now on Youtube! - July 26, 2010
"Dawn at Sea" slide show on Youtube - July 26, 2010
The song features a high-caliber slide show - beautiful art and photos from deviantart.com.
A small summer present to all of you! - July 9, 2010
As Aural Night joins the site Jamendo, all his music will become free downloads under the Creative Commons license. This basically means that you can download and share his music, but not alter it or use it for commercial purposes. If you want to use it for commercial purposes, contact the artist.
A new film score coming out! - May 11, 2010
Aural Night has commenced writing a score for a 20 minute film by a British director Ian Sanders. The film, or clips from it, will be available for viewing later this year.
Cheers!
More film music coming! - March 20, 2010
Aural Night has commenced writing a score for a 20 minute film by a British director Ian Sanders. The film, or clips from it, will be available for viewing later this year.
Cheers!
Aural Night shows he can make a trance track! - November 18, 2009
Here's the proof. Enjoy!
New Single Soon Out! - November 8, 2009
Aural Night is about to release a new single, taking his music to new vistas, new world, new dimensions.
Aural Night composes background music to an online game - June 4, 2009
The artist has finished composing music to an online game. The sweet little game can be found at
The music in the game was very much applauded for its peaceful feeling.
Aural Night finishes writing a short film score - June 4, 2009
Aural Night has finished writing a score for the short film "Jäätynyt Tähti" - (A Frozen Star). The film was a student production, a drama with some fantastic elements.
"Dawn at Sea" licensed to a documentary - October 1, 2008
Australian director, who works for HD Media, has licensed Aural Night's piece "Dawn at Sea" to be used in a nature documentary called "Kenya Safari".
Licensing - July 7, 2007
Aural Night has joined with three online music licensing companies, Jetset Sound, PumpAudio and YouLicense.
This enables his music to be at the hands of producers and music directors of TV and Film companies.
"Voyage" live at Gagliarchives.com - November 7, 2006
Gagliarchives, a radio show playing progressive rock and derivatives, aired cuts from the album "Voyage" on Nov 4 (and rerun on Nov 7).
This respectable show broadcasts both terrestrially from south Jersey, U.S., and on the internet via Auralmoon.com.
Aural Night Releases a Solo Piano Album - September 13, 2006
The artist has released a new album titled 'Avian Dreams'. The music is peaceful, beautiful solo piano music. A new website has been dedicated to the solo piano music by Aural Night.