# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/erkki-kurenniemi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:49:03.524Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/erkki-kurenniemi"
name: "Erkki Kurenniemi"
slug: "erkki-kurenniemi"
description: "Erkki Juhani Kurenniemi was a Finnish designer, philosopher and artist, best known for his electronic music compositions and the electronic instruments he has designed. He is considered to have been one of the leading early pioneers of electronic music in Finland. Kurenniemi was also a science populariser, a futurologist, a pioneer of media culture, and an experimental film-maker."
tagline: "Finnish designer, philosopher and artist, pionier of electronic music as designer of electronic instruments and composer (1941–2017)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Erkki-Kurenniemi-1965b.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1941-07-10"
deathDate: "2017-05-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.78
  momentum:             0.8695652173913043
  historical:           8.8072
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0475665/"
    handle:    "nm0475665"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/60504"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%83%D9%89_%D9%83%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%89"
    title: "اركى كورينيمى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erkki_Kurenniemi"
    title: "Erkki Kurenniemi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erkki_Kurenniemi"
    title: "Erkki Kurenniemi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erkki_Kurenniemi"
    title: "Erkki Kurenniemi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erkki_Kurenniemi"
    title: "Erkki Kurenniemi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erkki_Kurenniemi"
    title: "Erkki Kurenniemi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erkki_Kurenniemi"
    title: "Erkki Kurenniemi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erkki_Kurenniemi"
    title: "Erkki Kurenniemi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/996815b7-12e3-49f8-bccf-6fb70c3e9e2f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3056683"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1342731"
    title: "Erkki Kurenniemi"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump