Ahtisaari

New Construction EP We're Great Thanks for Asking

Our new EP is out.

Construction - All the Time - Slow Shiver Rework (official music video)

Construction - Talk (official music video)

Construction - Never Fail (official music video)

Construction - Revisionist (official music video)

Construction - Talk (RinneRadio Remix)

 

 

 

Revisionist by Construction

Joining The Sync Project as CEO

I’m thrilled to be joining The Sync Project as CEO. I feel the things I’ve done and enjoyed in my life so far, as an entrepreneur, designer, and musician come together in this ambitious venture.

The Sync Project’s mission is to develop music as medicine. We are bringing together the scientists, technologists, clinicians and musicians of the world to accelerate the discovery of the clinical applications of music. We’re building a data platform that maps music characteristics to real time, objective measurements of physiology from a rapidly growing variety of sensors and devices.

Read more on The Sync Project Blog and in the press release.

Investments

I've been investing in and advising early stage companies. I work with teams on products that improve human expression, awareness and interaction. Here are a few examples: 

 

Thington, co-founded by former Dopplr CTO Matt Biddulph and designer Tom Coates, is building a better user interface and service layer for the Internet of Things. I was the first investor in Thington, and am very happy to have been joined by Ray Ozzie, Eric Wahlforss, Steward Butterfield and Joi Ito among others. 

 

Luup is a beautiful new take on mobile video. What Instagram did for photos - making everyone a better photographer - Luup is doing for video...with the power of music. I was the first investor in Luup and have been joined by Taavet Hinrikus and Indrek Kasela among others. Luup is launching during the summer 2015. 

 

Oura is a ring with unique algorithms that measure your activity and sleep, to help you recover and perform better. 

Indirectly, through an early stage fund I've also invested in Formlabs, littleBits, Path (exit) and Viki (exit) among others. 

I'm also an advisor to Kano and The Sync Project.

Construction

Nadya Peek and I started a band. We are Construction. Here we are with Joi Ito as our deckman. This photo was taken by David Kong aka DJ Kongo at 99 Fridays at the Media Lab.

Nadya plays the Roli Seaboard, and I am playing a Tobias 5-string bass. Together we also play a bunch of other things, including Teenage Engineering Pocket Operators and OP-1s, Korg Volca Beats, and the Mixtape Alpha.