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EXPERIMENTAL ART AT FLOW

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RIITTA KOPRA: MONOCEROS 1

Monoceros 1, a piece by Artist of the Year Riitta Koprais located near the entrance; this piece was commissioned by Flow and created using materials from previous festivals.

ART LABORATORY

The Art Laboratory exhibition space captures the experi-mental nature of art. In addition to the exhibition, the space features a stage for concerts and performance art acts.

VOIMALA

The Voimala building houses an interactive VJ installation by the Excerpt group and a video installation by the Pink Twins.

IHMEBUSSI X

On Family Sunday, Ihmebussi X brings together music, theatre and dance pedagogy students from the University of the Arts Helsinki to lead a series of workshops for the little ones.

THE OTHER SOUND

For the first time ever, contemporary classical music is featured at Flow Festival! University of the Arts Helsinki’s NYKY Ensemble and defunensemble are added to Flow’s lineup as part of its experimental music series.

EXPERIMENTAL ART

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In collaboration with the University of the Arts Helsinki,Flow Festival presents a broader-than-ever multidisciplinary arts programme!

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FLOW FESTIVAL’S VISUAL ARTIST OF THE YEARMONOCEROS 1

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ART LABORATORY EXHIBITION

Friday 14.8. 16:30-00:30Saturday 15.8. 14:00-00:30

Sunday 16.8. 14:00-22:00

ART LABORATORY PERFORMANCE ART

NUSSIVAT PÄÄSKYSET: WET GRAVE Saturday 15.8. at 14:30, Resident Advisor Backyard

REACT! – ACTIONS MOVING: CROWD CONTROLSunday 16.8. at 17:30, around the festival area

ART LABORATORY CONCERTS

See concert schedule p. 30

VOIMALA

EXCERPT Friday 14.8. 16:30-22:30

Saturday 15.8. 14:30-22:30Sunday 16.8. 14:30-22:00

DEFUNENSEMBLESaturday 15.8. at 16:00, The Other Sound

NYKY ENSEMBLESunday 16.8. at 16:40, The Other Sound

PINK TWINS

IHMEBUSSI X

Family Sunday 16.8., Resident Advisor Backyard and its surrounding area

STOMP WORKSHOP14:15-15:0015:15-16:0016:15-17:00

RAP & BEATBOX WORKSHOP14:15-15:15, show at 15.20 (5 min)15:45-16:30, show at 16.35 (5 min)

HAHMO WORKSHOP14:15-15:0015:15-16:0016:15-17:00

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Riitta Kopra

MONOCEROS 1 MONOCEROS 1 IS LOCATED OUTSIDE, NEAR THE ENTRANCE.

Flow Festival’s visual artist of the year, Riitta Kopra, is a sculpture artist and a fifth-year student at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki. For Flow Festival she is creating a moon rocket called Monoceros 1. In her work Kopra experiments and searches for innovation. She wants to reflect on her environment by creating a dialogue between her works and the rest of the world. Her works can have multiple meanings, and she doesn’t want to limit

FLOW FESTIVAL’S VISUAL ARTIST OF THE YEAR

the audience by explaining her work too much. A given work can be serious and light-hearted at the same time. Kopra enjoys working with different materials and conque-ring new fields. She thinks that being excited about what you are doing is most important.

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ART LABORATORY // EXHIBITION

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Aarni Vaarnamo

SHINGISHIKI - THE NEW RITUAL

Aarni Vaarnamo is at home with camera-based media, including photography, videos, and “less moving images,” a hybrid of still and moving images with low frame rates. His latest interests include the Far East, a region shaped by dollar imperialism and Western influence, and the concepts of city and home there. One of the focal points in his artistic research is “a space where you can spend your whole life.” Vaarnamo will include a video montage of the world’s largest metropole, Tokyo, as a part of the hybrid video installation at the exhibition’s back room.

Alexei Gordin

THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL PAINTING

Alexei Gordin is a multidisciplinary artist who was born in 1989 in Tomsk, Russia. His art is mostly characterized by an ironic mode of expression, which is inspired by the conditions of contemporary liberal society. Since 2010 he has been participating in numerous group shows in Estonia and Finland and has organised seven solo shows.

“I collected random pieces of plywood from public spaces and repainted the surface with bright, psychedelic colours so that the original wooden pattern became playful and visible. It was some kind of parody of contemporary abst-ract painting. While creating the sound, I was analyzing my own abstraction, trying to achieve different platforms and create a holistic installation, where each of the different elements would give more information about the other,” he says about his installation at Flow.

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Andrey Bogush

ON PROPOSALS

Andrey Bogush’s video, “On Proposals,” is presented in the video installation room of the Art Laboratory. Bogush re-ceived his Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Saint Pe-tersburg State University and currently studies Time and Space Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki. His works have been shown at Offprint Lon-don (Tate Modern, 2015), Unseen Photo Fair (Amsterdam, 2014) and l’Atelier Néerlandais (Paris, 2014) among other venues. Recently, Bogush was commissioned to produce a series of works for a Prada SS15 advertising campaign.

Antti Kytömäki

UNTITLED

Antti Kytömäki is a Helsinki-based artist. He is interested in sound and movement as the elements of sculptures. At Flow Festival, he will present a sculpture called “Untitled,” a piano prepared with DC motors which, when triggered by the presence of the viewer, fill the space with intervening resonance. The piece playfully comments on the tradition of Western avant-garde compositions, automatic music and even the saloons of western films, and it extends the auditory possibilities of traditional instruments anchored to the 12-tone harmonic system.

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Erno-Erik Raitanen

FINLANDIA

Artist and photographer Erno-Erik Raitanen works with sounds, installations, sculptures and radios. He was born in Lahti and studied in the UK and USA before entering the Master’s programme in Time and Space Arts at the University of the Arts Helsinki. “Finlandia” is a radio- transmitted (FM 98.0) sound collage consisting of recor-dings of the Finlandia Hymn collected online and from flea-market vinyl records.

INTERNATIONAL ORANGE

This exhibit includes found footage from films where the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge is destroyed. The bridge is destroyed in numerous films, but what do the more frequent depictions over recent years tell us? Where does the western entertainment industry’s, and maybe even society’s, interest in these kinds of destruction fantasies originate? “International Orange” is a part of a hybrid video installation at the exhibition’s back room.

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Ilkka Pitkänen

NAUSEA

Ilkka Pitkänen participates in the video installation room with his work, “Nausea.” He is a Helsinki-based multidiscip-linary artist working with various media, including moving images, photography, installation and performance. Thema-tically, his artworks deal with personal space, integrity and the perception of reality. His works have been presented publicly at many exhibitions in Finland and internationally.

Emma Jääskeläinen

CHEEKS

Emma Jääskeläinen studies in the Sculpture programme at the University of the Arts Helsinki. Her work can be descri-bed as playful, physical and to-the-point. Her love of music and the shapes seen on the streets and in music videos serve as inspiration for the work she has prepared for Flow Festival. “Cheeks” innovatively unites different materials into an elegant composition of forms. Its electronically prepared butt visualises the physical force of sound and reminds the spectator where the groove is supposed to hit. Shake that thing!

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Jana Slaby

ALL DAY EVERYDAY / MINI VIDEOS

Jana Slaby is a photographer and media artist who was born in 1987 in East Berlin, Germany. Currently, she is living in Helsinki and studying at the Academy of Fine Arts. In her artistic practice Slaby is interested in examining subjects through not only photography but also other media, mixing deeply personal themes by questioning and relating them to postmodern society, anthropology and na-ture. Her goal is to appropriate new techniques in moving image, sound, installation, performance and text in her projects.

Josefina Nelimarkka

MACROSCAPES

Josefina Nelimarkka is an artist from Helsinki working across the media of painting, writing and performance. Her work in the video installation room, “Macroscapes,” deals with the alchemy of colour, fleeting moments and a mixture of elemental magic. “Macroscapes” is also a space and a pigment-level landscape. With an on/off structure, the video records a meditative journey through active colour—sometimes resting and sometimes flowing.

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Kristina Sedlerova

ZERO OK

“ZERO OK” is a musical composition consisting of Styrox and LED lights, which form a physical counterpoint in the exhibition space. Kristina Sedlerova was inspired by the multiple meanings of zero and this number in relation to our values and standards. She is interested in the incon-sistency of human nature, humanity’s attraction towards creating systems and concepts and the need to believe in these concepts. She is studying in the Sculpture MFA programme at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki.

Laura Könönen

THE ONLY ONE AND ALL

In her works, Laura Könönen studies the shapes of everyday elements by carving them in stone. Könönen, an Ars Fennica candidate in 2015, is a conceptually oriented sculptor. At Flow Festival, she introduces her work, “The Only One and All,” a profound study of culture saturated by music, with reference points to Cagean silence, meditative music and the nostalgic atmosphere created by a musical medium. A disc carved out of stone revolving endlessly beneath a diamond needle from an old vinyl record player gives concrete form to the continuous struggle between humanity and nature in the form of sound: the diorite dust snaps, crackles and pops.

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Minna Kallinen

CIRCLE

Minna Kallinen is interested in time, language and repeti-tion. She is fascinated by the ability of sound—especially the recorded sound—to bring the listener and the maker, in its own peculiar way, into a shared time and space. Her works are laconic scenes based on personal experiences. She wishes to create a visual image in the listener’s mind with repetition of words as well as narration.

“I don’t seem to get rid of the circle. I find myself returning to certain parts of this work over and over again. I modify, I change, I rotate, and I repeat. But isn’t that what life is about — repetition, choices, and brilliance of imagination? I have shot this work with a pinhole camera,” Kallinen explains. “Circle” participates in the hybrid video installation at the back room of Art Laboratory.

Otto Byström

RANDOM LETTERS FOUND FROM A DUMPSTER

Emptiness, insignificance, decorativeness, hoax, self- deception, ponderous words… This work is a solid and sound composi-tion made out of iron and light. Latin letters can, after all, be understood, continuing the Phoenician tradition of notating sound, speech, and in Byström’s case, a silent exclamation of a young contemporary artist in the spirit of Munch and others. Otto Byström is an artist studying in the MFA programme at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki. In his own words, his works “tingle the outstretched and frag-mented bubble bobble where you and I unconsciously fumble.”

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Ristomatti Myllylahti

EX TV (FLOW EDIT)

Video installation Ex TV (Flow Edit) creates a dreamy picture of the essence of the artwork and presents it in an art exhibition. It balances seriousness and humour, fuelled by the perplexity and the associations of the viewer. The setup changes according to the situation and place. The things you see in the art piece are from the real and fictional worlds around us.

Ristomatti Myllylahti is a visual artist working with diffe-rent techniques from video to sculpture and from painting to sounds and performances. Usually the works connect together with installations and happenings where you can find dreamy and poetic alternatives to existing reality.“Ex Tv (Flow Edit)” participates in the hybrid video instal-lation at the exhibition’s back room.

Tero Niskanen & Jani Purhonen

OPTICAL LOOP

Tero Niskanen, an artist and experimental musician, and Jani Purhonen, an artist focusing on sound and new media, realized they might share a small part of their brain and began working on installations using uncontrollable film loops. In the “Optical Loop” installation, a 35mm film loop rotates as it hangs freely from the ceiling. There is no visual projection of the film except for a direct translation of the visual information into sound, using an analogue technique called optical sound. Film frames, perforations, optical soundtracks, scratches and dust all take equal part in crea-ting a changing soundscape.

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Ville Vainio

ENDS

Ville Vainio is a Helsinki-based visual artist whose video works examine the ever-changing relations between frac-tured memories and identity formation. ENDS is a music video for the Helsinki-based producer Long-Sam and it isa part of the video installation at the back roomof Art Laboratory.

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ART LABORATORY // CONCERTS

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16:30–17:30SOUNDWORKS FROM KUVA

18:00–19:00JUHO

LAITINEN

19:45–20:45MANIALOG

21:45–22:45HOHKA

23:30–00:30TÖLÖLÄB

14:00-15:00SOUNDWORKS FROM KUVA

15:30-16:30AKKAJEE

17:30-18:30NEW WEAVE

19:30-20:30TÖLÖLÄB

21:30-22:30KORVAT AUKIENSEMBLE

23:30-00:30IKIHEVONEN

14.00-15:30ACOUSMATICA

17:00-18:00TIMO

VIIALAINEN

19:00-20:00VOHM

21:00-22:00SIGNE

SATURDAY SUNDAYFRIDAY

ACOUSMATICA

Acousmatica brings the powerful sound experience of acousmatic music to a whole new audience. The concert will present an exciting programme of acousmatic works, from the new and local to the classic and international. The show will be performed over a loudspeaker orchestra, with mixing and spatializing conducted live by the perfor-mers. The hall is perfect for those festival visitors looking for a new experience or hoping to get away to the dark and powerful soundscape of Acousmatica.

CONCERT SCHEDULE

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AKKAJEE

Akkajee is a folk music duo formed by Meriheini Luoto and Iida Savolainen. It gives its audience speed and danger through acoustic trance music. The group’s unique sound is created as viola, nyckelharpa, clinkers, clunkers and vocals merge with the organic roots of traditional Finnish music. Droning Karelian themes and electronic basement music mix with contemporary arts to inspire Akkajee to create music that is strongest in the moment. The group’s first album, ”Akkajee”, was released in the spring of 2013.

HOHKA

Hohka was founded in 2006. Since then, the group has performed a large variety of shows in venues ranging from intimate clubs to festival arenas and from concert halls to public trams. Their style is modern and influenced by folk music. Their music has been described as playful, up-tem-po, joyful and intense, even containing a disco-like quality. Their latest album, “mailla/halmeilla,” was released in spring 2015, adding some dream-like tones to a mix flavou-red with memories and echoes. Hohka’s key characteristics, a warm atmosphere and sturdy musicianship, remain central to its music.

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IKIHEVONEN

IKIHEVONEN is an improvisational psychedelic post-rock band. The group focuses on its very free and reactive playing; it has roots in blues and expands its musical approach towards the infinite possibilities of psychedelic atavism. The group started as a free-form jamming session following the rule “You can’t do wrong in IKIHEVONEN.” The players regard the group as a spaceship of sorts, in which participation and devotion are the fuel, and the ride itself is the goal.

The members of IKIHEVONEN are Anders Bergman, Kalle Leino, Tuomas Niemi and Antti Ruuhela.

JUHO LAITINEN

Emphasising a psychological and corporal here-and-now, magnifying sonic phenomena and surpassing the limits of both mechanical and electronic equipment, multi-instru-mentalist Juho Laitinen presents a selection of experimental compositions by himself and others. Laitinen teaches at Sibelius Academy and curates the locally oriented Kallio New Music Days festival. Juho’s compositional work focuses on ambiguous characteristics in the physicality of sound; an open-minded approach to new sounds made by new instruments; and the promotion of a non-hierarchical, freely associative art experience.

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KORVAT AUKI ENSEMBLE

Korvat Auki Ensemble is a group of 5 to 12 musicians, composers, and friends of new music. The group was formed in spring 2013, mainly to perform improvised music. All featured performers hail from the ranks of the legen-dary Ears Open organisation which was initiated by new music activists in the 70’s.

The ensemble will improvise using the already existing sound material of Flow Festival as its main inspiration, taking advantage of both the sound leaking from the main stage and the background noise produced by the audience. An interesting interaction between the ensemble and the crowd is created through chamber music, contemporary sound and the massive sonic booming from the festival stages.

MANIALOG

Manialog, an analogue trio, will perform a set of electronic/experimental music. The trio’s music unveils influences from the classical electronic music of the 1960s and the digital era of the 2020s. The set consists of original com-positions using improvisational techniques and open-form concepts. The audience will be taken to electroacoustic territories to rediscover instruments and aesthetics that once lay deep down at the heart of electronic music.

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NEW WEAVE

New Weave is an interactive sound performance created by Sébastien Piquemal and Miki Brunou in which the audience can connect to a local website with their mobile devices and is invited through a simple interface to record and send audio samples. As the performance starts, the piece is nothing but a blank setup; only when the first samples are sent by participants can the musicians start to play, improvising with electronics and trying to organize the flow of sounds.

SIGNE

Signe communicates with the performance space, creating tales about the people present. Four vocalists play with onomatopoetic figures which become refined, surprising textures. The sensitivity of organic human voices creates a tension with the ambient sounds of the antechamber and the live electronics. The strong soloists meet as one voice but are at times driven into a world of contrasts. Signe’s repertoire consists of free improvisation and its own com-positions, where the musical and emotional exploration is done through strong melodies and intriguing harmonies.

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SOUNDWORKS FROM KUVA

This is a one-hour audio slot played on Friday and Satur-day, consisting of artworks using sound as their medium, from students Minna Kallinen, Ristomatti Myllylahti, Tuukka Salonen & Tuukka Tammisaari from the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki. It includes abstract sound, noise, collages and radio plays!

TIMO VIIALAINEN

Viialainen is a performance and sound artist who explores the field of conceptual arts, our way of experiencing the im-mediate and the conflict between the senses and the intel-lect. His mission is a performance which combines opening, magic, realism and love. The performance situation and expectations will crumble. Fragments create light, and light creates flames. The tools of the work are frequency, rage, reflection and hands. Viialainen performs with timpani, bell plates and mirrors.

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TÖLÖLÄB

Tölöläb has spent the summer gathering an IDM-charge, drawing power from unfulfilled human dreams, trouper’s energy, and mediocre emotional problems. This charge is released, mangled, crumpled and mystically timed for a performance in Art Laboratory’s supervised environment. The Läb is ready. Tölöläb is an improvisation-based group that combines electronics and woodwind instruments. The group can perform anywhere from churches to lighthou-ses, trams to theatres or festival stages. Its music varies as it ranges from grandmother-friendly chill to explosively dance-worthy death lo-fi.

The group members are:Turkka Inkilä: flute and electronicsSaku Mattila: oboeAntti Salovaara: bassoonTaavi Oramo: clarinet and electronics

VOHM

Vohm combines 1970s minimalism with 2010s electronic music, creating repetitive, growing sound walls and textu-res. The music is in constant motion but not in a rush to get somewhere. The harmonious and repetitive materialis perfect for immersive listening and letting yourthoughts wander.

Vohm is the solo project of Helsinki-based composer, musi-cian and sound designer Ville Aalto. Aalto has worked as a composer, producer and musician for such groups as Rev and K!NG. K!NG released its debut album in October 2014.

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ART LABORATORY // PERFORMANCE ART

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Nussivat Pääskyset

WET GRAVE

Nussivat Pääskyset is a feminist performance art group formed in 2009. The group is a visually, politically and ide-ologically polyphonic rapid-reaction force defending beauty, love, truth and spring. Nussivat Pääskyset has been turning water to vodka and spreading their carnivalesque gospel in different kinds of venues, from festivals to private and pub-lic spaces. The group is a ruthless pop song, toasting to love with disco, glitter and mud. “Wet Grave” includes celebrati-on, water and death – in reference to feminine pop-culture imagery and some recent news.

SATURDAY 15.8. AT 14:30, RESIDENT ADVISOR BACKYARD

ReAct! – Actions moving

CROWD CONTROL

ReAct! – Actions moving is a Stockholm-based company that mixes dance, movement, theatre and circus in playful performances in public spaces. Since 2011, it has developed actions for places such as libraries, squares, escalators and subways, and it has performed at several festivals and events throughout Europe. At Flow it will present for the first time “Crowd Control” – a festival Action full of sur-prises and question marks. What are the social norms of a music festival? What happens when you break them? Can you find love while queuing for the toilet?

SUNDAY 16.8. AT 17:30 , AROUND THE FESTIVAL AREA

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VOIMALA

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EXCERPT

Excerpt is a real-time video-manipulating software that allows experimental vjaying and playing of video files. Excerpt does not only work as a video mixer that merges video streams into a single channel but also intends to gather several video streams onto screens and work as a platform for connecting united images generated in real time. The Excerpt team consists of Gregoire Rousseau, Joakim Pusenius, Monika Czyzyk and Jarkko Räsänen. The working team consists of programmers and artists who started collaborating at the Academy of Fine Arts, University of the Arts Helsinki. Excerpt is supported by TAIKE (Art Council of Finland) and AVEK.

FRIDAY 14.8. 16:30-22:30 SATURDAY 15.8. 14:30-22:30 SUNDAY 16.8. 14:30-22:00

PINK TWINS

There are things known, and there are things unknown, and in between the two are the Pink Twins, a Helsinki- based duo of electronic musicians and brothers, Juha and Vesa Vehviläinen. Their video installation works at the crossing of visual art, music and computer-treated imagery, focusing on the functionality and limits of human percep-tion. The brothers work from the fragments of images, sounds and sensations which we are subjected to in our daily lives and breaks them down into small particles to reunite them once again in audacious and chaotic constructions.

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IHMEBUSSI X // FAMILY SUNDAY 16.8.

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IHMEBUSSI X

University of the Arts Helsinki’s Ihmebussi X is a pedagogical project that invites children and teens to experience the joy of making art together in myriad ways. In the Ihmebussi X workshops, kids are encouraged to be creative and coura-geous and to express themselves through combinations of music, drama and theatre. The workshops are led by music education students and dance and theatre pedagogy students from the University of the Arts Helsinki.

RESIDENT ADVISOR BACKYARD AND ITS SURROUNDING AREA

STOMP WORKSHOP14:15–15:0015:15–16:0016:15–17:00

RAP & BEATBOX WORKSHOP14:15–15:15,SHOW AT 15:20 (5 MIN)

15:45–16:30,SHOW AT 16:35 (5 MIN)

HAHMO WORKSHOP14:15–15:0015:15–16:0016:15–17:00

THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS HELSINKI HOSTS OVER 800 CONCERTS, EXHIBITIONS AND THEATRE AND DANCE

PERFORMANCES EACH YEAR.

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