The most commonly referred form of yoik is a direct, vocal musical expression of anything at the yoiker’s perception at the given moment, therefore emotions, landscapes, animals, birds and other people are yoiked . Yoik often accompanies daily living and moods continuously similar to a “sonic painting” of the yoiker’s mind. Or as Buljo  writes: “The Sami yoik everything that belongs to human life”. According to yoikers you do not yoik about something, you yoik the thing itself . Therefore yoik can be seen as a kind of “act of creation” as well as self-expression. It can be a way of recalling something or someone or of giving a musical name to something or someone. When missing a person or a place, yoiking the yoik belonging to the missed object or person gives the yoiker the feeling of it . Therefore, unlike tone-painting, yoikers regard yoiking as a direct communication with the innermost being of the object/subject being yoiked .