I guess it is hard to even to try to think that how much your surroundings affect to art you make. I'd guess that art is the construction that is surroundings absorbed plus the filtration effect of one's thoughts and views. So it's something like:
Surroundings Absorbed + Artist's Thoughts & Views = Construction of Art.
There are two fundamental views on surroundings. One is the physical aspect, all that you see and all that you can touch. I guess that these surroundings don't have the most prominent effect on artist. Another point of view, that is far more prominent, is kind of feeling of the surroundings in one's head. Kind of state of mind. This feeling is constructed through perceived surroundings but it is strongly affected by all the connections in artist's mind.
Pori State of Mind
As I live in Pori (picture is taken from Bridge of Pori) it certainly has a strong influence on the music I construct. Old industrial milieu and multiple islets that dominate the landscape, most prominently beautiful Kirjurinluoto (something like Islet of Courier if translated directly) put their marks on my works. Those works capture the before lived me perceiving something new in a Pori surroundings. They capture the new connections and highlights of mind that come up.
It could be said that those musical constructions are then very deeply Pori influenced as this rendezvous with surroundings cannot be eluded. Then again can you in any way state that your music is global? It is always local, born and cultivated from local incredients, local surroundings, local state of mind.
