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  • 27.—28.11.26 / Dancensound improvisation festival

    27.—28.11.26 / Dancensound improvisation festival

    Dancensound is a new festival for music and dance improvisation with the first edition happening at late November ’26.

    Over two evenings, the festival will showcase a curated programme featuring twelve Helsinki-based performers, three dancers and three musicians each evening. The goal of the festival is to create a meeting place for the experimental music and dance communities in Helsinki, bringing together artists across generation, styles, and backgrounds.

    Dancensound is curated by Libero Mureddu and Giorgio Convertito.

    TICKETS (Mobilepay/cash): 20/10€

    • Reduced price for pensioners, unemployed, students + ages 15-17
    • Free entry for children under 15

    Programme


    Friday 27 November (19:00 – 20:45)

    Giorgio Convertito + Jukka Kääriäinen
    Linda Holma + Mamba Assefa
    Liisa Pentti + Livia Schweizer

    Saturday 28 November (19:00 – 20:45)

    Terhi Vaimala + Libero Mureddu
    Riikka Lakea + Josefiina Vannesluoma
    Vera Lapitskaya + Mikko Innanen

    The festival is supported by:
    Helsingin kaupunki / City of Helsinki

    WEB

  • 26.11. / Puhtain Aani

    26.11. / Puhtain Aani

    26.11. 

    Ovet 18.30

    Toinen Kerros (Nokiantie 2-4)

    Pääsymaksu 0-10€

    Esiintyjät: Metsälö, Yung Moe ja surina & rusina

    Metsälö-yhtyeen tilalla soittaa Manner&Kalliokoski. Duo esittää alkusoiton nukkeoopperalle, jota ei ole vielä edes kirjoitettu. Alkusoittomusiikki on puhallettu, hauska, rusennettu ja sisältää ainakin hakkuun, kontrabasson ja pienen imaisun.

    ”im not a rapper” 

    •  2hollis

    surina & rusina on Aarni Läärän ja Mio von Reichen yhtye, joka kutsuu tekemää ääntään noiseksi. Duon instrumentit – kitara, basso ja efektilaitteet – surisevat ja rutisevat monenkirjavasti. 

  • 15.11. / Impro at Five

    15.11. / Impro at Five

    15 November 2026 | Toinen Kerros, Helsinki
    Time: 17:00
    Entrance 0-20€

    Welcome to an evening of experimental music featuring an international quartet exploring the possibilities of sound through voice, flute, electric guitar, double bass and drums.

    Moving between shifting textures, intensity and silence, four distinct musical voices meet without a predetermined direction. Through collective listening and spontaneous interaction, the music takes shape and transforms in the moment.

    The concert is part of an ongoing series dedicated to free improvisation and experimental music in Helsinki.

    Line-up
    Heliä Mailiis Viirakivi — voice & flute
    Finnish vocalist, flutist, composer and improviser working with contemporary and experimental music, free improvisation and extended vocal techniques. Picture credit Roman Odjinud.

    Gon Muruaga — electric guitar
    Argentinian guitarist, composer and improviser based in Helsinki. His work moves between contemporary music, experimental jazz and free improvisation.

    Jonathan Bäckström — double bass
    Finnish bassist, composer and improviser based in Helsinki, active across Northern European jazz and experimental music. His work spans acoustic, electroacoustic and cross-disciplinary settings.

    Teemu Mustonen — drums & percussion
    Improvising drummer and percussionist working with a modified and prepared drum set, exploring its sonic possibilities in both solo and ensemble contexts.

    FIN
    15. marraskuuta 2026 | Toinen Kerros, Helsinki
    Aika: 17:00
    Sisäänpääsy 0-20 €

    Tervetuloa kokeellisen musiikin konserttiin, jossa kansainvälinen kvartetti tutkii äänen mahdollisuuksia laulun, huilun, sähkökitaran, kontrabasson ja rumpujen keinoin.

    Musiikki liikkuu vaihtuvien tekstuurien, intensiteetin ja hiljaisuuden välillä. Neljä erilaista musiikillista ääntä kohtaa ilman ennalta määrättyä suuntaa. Yhteisen kuuntelun ja spontaanin vuorovaikutuksen kautta musiikki rakentuu ja muuttaa muotoaan hetkessä.

    Konsertti on osa Helsingissä järjestettävää vapaan improvisaation ja kokeellisen musiikin konserttisarjaa.

    Kokoonpano
    Heliä Mailiis Viirakivi — laulu & huilu
    Suomalainen laulaja, huilisti, säveltäjä ja improvisoija, joka työskentelee nykymusiikin, kokeellisen musiikin, vapaan improvisaation ja laajennettujen laulutekniikoiden parissa. Kuvakrediitit Roman Odjinud.

    Gon Muruaga — sähkökitara
    Helsingissä asuva argentiinalainen kitaristi, säveltäjä ja improvisoija. Hänen työskentelynsä liikkuu nykymusiikin, kokeellisen jazzin ja vapaan improvisaation välillä.

    Jonathan Bäckström — kontrabasso
    Helsingissä asuva suomalainen basisti, säveltäjä ja improvisoija, joka toimii pohjoiseurooppalaisen jazzin ja kokeellisen musiikin kentällä. Hänen työskentelynsä ulottuu akustisesta ja elektroakustisesta musiikista poikkitaiteellisiin yhteyksiin.

    Teemu Mustonen — rummut & lyömäsoittimet
    Improvisoiva rumpali ja lyömäsoittaja, joka työskentelee muokatun ja preparoidun rumpusetin parissa ja tutkii sen soinnillisia mahdollisuuksia sekä soolo- että yhtyekokoonpanoissa.

  • 14.11. / Constellation Fall

    14.11. / Constellation Fall

    Expanded cinema performance — Marek Waldemar Pluciennik & Francesco Carella

    Marek Waldemar Pluciennik and Francesco Carella premiere their new piece, Constellation Fall, for 35mm film, a modified hand-cranked projector, electronics and guitar pedals. The duo has worked together for the past three years, performing across Europe.

    Francesco Carella began performing solo at 26, and in 1999, around the age of 30, founded Pasta Fissan. Since then he has worked across solo and collaborative projects, appearing at small festivals throughout Europe. His practice centres on the material research of sound, with the aim of transforming its very structure.

    Marek Waldemar Pluciennik is a Polish-Canadian filmmaker and cinema artist based in Helsinki. Through installations and expanded cinema performances, he explores the material and ephemeral nature of film. His work is a meditative study of the outer limits of how film reproduces movement.

    doors 19:00
    performance 20:30

    entry 5 – 15 euro

  • 8.11. / night sounds

    8.11. / night sounds

    lineup:

    -Timate Ynts
    -Ignata Elana + Emilia Liimatainen
    -Lfigenia

    Starts at 18:30 (Doors open at 18:00)
    Pay what you can (5€ recommended)

    Descriptions:

    Timate Ynts
    -“trio of uncompromising slackers”

    Ignata Elana + Emilia Liimatainen
    -Elana reaches imaginary scores, constantly trying to organize them. Fluctuating into layers of rhythmic patterns, distorted electro acoustics, and machine-driven memory lanes. Just a glimpse of a disappearing landscape.
    Born in Valparaíso. Helsinki-based.

    -Emilia Liimatainen is interested in subconscious and dreams in felt, moving body. She aims towards processes where practicing art facilitates healing and growth, and opens up pathways to become in touch with mystery.

    Liimatainen studies contemporary dance in Outokumpu and has previously worked with Ignata Elana.

    Lfigenia
    -Lfigenia sound collage project

  • 6.11. / Summer festival

    6.11. / Summer festival

    Messy, noisy, awkward, cool, intense musics to celebrate summer in November. 

    CONDENSED MUSIC – punk-inspired patchwork of 70+ experimental solo violin micropieces played non-stop. 

    Jarkko Hartikainen – input and no-input guitar and pedal improvisation.

    eee – indistinctive music that doesn’t become anything.

    Email on stage – two guys doing awkward stupid noisy rock n roll while improvising songs, or playing instruments, or maybe more. 

    Background music will be provided by Schranz123 – made by teenagers straight out of a Lidl carpark in Dresden.

    Starts 19:00.

  • 5.11. / NAOTO YAMAGISHI + EDITH STEYER, JAKUB ŠVEJNAR & JUKKA KÄÄRIÄINEN

    5.11. / NAOTO YAMAGISHI + EDITH STEYER, JAKUB ŠVEJNAR & JUKKA KÄÄRIÄINEN

    NAOTO YAMAGISHI + EDITH STEYER, JAKUB ŠVEJNAR & JUKKA KÄÄRIÄINEN
    Toinen Kerros | Nokiantie 2–4, Helsinki
    THU 5.11.26 | 19:00
    Entry 15/8€
    • Reduced price: pensioners, unemployed, students + ages 15-17
    • Free entry: ages under 15

    We welcome you all to another Suhina Klubi on the first week of November — read more on what to expect from our next event!
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    𝗡𝗮𝗼𝘁𝗼 𝗬𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶 is in search of music before its word and concept were formally defined. A music free from formal constraints, travelling between places with flowing motions and sounds initiating from daily life – its rhythms, sonority and space. Naoto started playing drums at the age of 13 and studied under Takuya Abe in Japan. In 2011, he moved to Rennes, France, and returned to Japan in 2014 collaborating with various artists regardless of genres – from Japan and overseas.
    📸: Yoshiyuki Oki

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    𝗘𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘆𝗲𝗿 is an improvising and composing clarinetist/saxophonist working with preparations and elements like drum skins, water and wind along with electronics and feedback. She is inspired by the technical possibilities of the “old fashioned“ German clarinet system and frequently makes use of the space as an element in her work. She’s been supported by the Senate of Berlin (2016, 2020, 2025), the German Musikfond (2020), Goethe Institut (2024) and as a member of the music theatre group 𝘔𝘢𝘯𝘯 𝘢𝘶𝘴 𝘖𝘣𝘴𝘵 by the Initiative 𝘕𝘦𝘶𝘦 𝘔𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘬.

    📸: Oswald Schechtner

    𝗝𝗮𝗸𝘂𝗯 Š𝘃𝗲𝗷𝗻𝗮𝗿 is a drummer, percussionist and improviser from Czechia. Apart from the drumset, Jakub uses percussion, objects, no-input mixer and voice. He’s active in the Prague improvisation and jazz scene and a member of 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘴, 𝘗𝘶𝘥𝘭𝘢𝘹, 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘍𝘢𝘷𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘦, 𝘕𝘢č𝘦𝘷𝘢, 𝘈𝘪𝘥 𝘒𝘪𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 and 𝘓𝘶𝘣𝘰š 𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘬𝘶𝘱 𝘘𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘵 among others. He’s premiered compositions by Michal Wróblewski, Anthony Braxton, Petr Hora, Elia Morreti, Timotheé Quost and collaborated with performance and dance theater ensembles Š𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘯é 𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘰, 𝘔𝘦-𝘚𝘢 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘺 and 𝘋𝘪𝘷𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘰 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘶𝘰.

    📸: Pavlina Jachimova

    Suhina Klubi’s 𝗝𝘂𝗸𝗸𝗮 𝗞ää𝗿𝗶ä𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗻 is a musician focused on experimental music, who’s working with preparedacoustic guitar or electric guitar and effects. He has performed widely across Europe and at international festivals in the UK, Spain, and France.

    📸: Juliane Schütz
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    Suhina Klubi: A platform for improvised and experimental music and sound art from Finland and abroad.
    Supported by: Koneen Säätiö – Kone Foundation Näytä vähemmä

  • 4.11. / Manipulation Charm

    4.11. / Manipulation Charm

    Edgy Palates & Mike McCormick + Forces + Koho/Koskenlahti

    Tickets from 5-15 euros according to your ability to pay.
    Doors open at 18:00, music starts at 18:30!

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    Edgy Palates & Mike McCormick

    A delicate and meticulous mix of subtle melodies and unexpected vocal sounds is gently and carefully captured on stage, created here and now by Dainora Aleksaitė, Ieva Parnarauskaitė, and Jūra Elena Šedytė, and transformed by Mike McCormick’s software system written in the SuperCollider programming language. Mike, like a modern alchemist, processes the music created by Edgy Palates by passing it through a matrix of modules. What was a natural and lively voice becomes something strangely and interestingly different.

    Edgy Palates is a Lithuanian experimental vocal trio featuring composers Dainora Aleksaitė, Jūra Elena Šedytė, and Ieva Parnarauskaitė. Known for their bold approach to vocal expression, they create and perform original compositions and free improvisation programs. With a fearless dedication to experimentation, Edgy Palates continuously pushes the boundaries of vocal music, challenging traditions and redefining the power of the human voice.

    Mike McCormick (he/him) is an artist and programmer working with sound, text, and visual media. Equally inspired by the constrained writing techniques of the Oulipo and the technomaterialism espoused by Xenofeminism, his work combines custom algorithms with human performers and autobiographical material to explore human intimacy, male vulnerability, and our relationship with emerging technologies. He grew up in Canada’s subarctic, lived nomadically for a decade, and has been based in Oslo since 2017.

    An excerpt from a live performance at Garažas ART, an independent art project space in Šiauliai, 2024: https://youtu.be/NEH5E4BPnaU?si=97gr6cYARxisKHBJ

    https://www.instagram.com/edgypalates

    https://mccrmck.com

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    Forces

    Constantly mutating rhythms and sharp digital textures shape the sound of Forces. Forces is the electronic music project of Finnish interdisciplinary artist Joonas Siren. Different live-coding and processing techniques are used to make dense atomized swirls – electronic and chaotic abstract oceans of sound. Their music has been released on eight international labels like Biodiversità Records, mappa, Infinite Machine and Gin Platonic, and has also been played in DJ mixes by experimental producers like Aphex Twin and ZULI.

    For the November concert Forces will prepare a special performance exploring concatenative synthesis with the programming language SuperCollider.

    https://linktr.ee/fffforces

    https://joonassiren.fi

    https://ffforces.bandcamp.com

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    Koho/Koskenlahti

    Koho/Koskenlahti is a Helsinki-based duo founded by J. Koho and Minna Koskenlahti in 2024. The duo is interested in undulating at the interfaces of music and sound, exploring the sonic possibilities inherent in conventional instruments and atypical sound sources, as well as looking for different ways to unleash the sonic potential hidden in them.

    The duo has performed their context-adapted repertoire at various events and festivals. One of these performances has been released as an audio recording by Isthmus Recordings. It can be listened to behind the following link: https://isthmusrec.bandcamp.com/album/kes-n-korvalla

  • 3.11. / MOI OSCURITÁ

    3.11. / MOI OSCURITÁ

    3.11.2026 at 7 pm


    Moi Darkness! An Evening of improvised music to welcome the dark November. Join us to honor the arrival of the dark season through sound and improvisation.


    In the first set Libero Mureddu will open the evening with his stellar solo set. After that Livia & Luciana will dig into an immersive duo journey that starts from closed eyes and dimmed lights. Closed eyes, dark nights, black. After all, what is black? Isn’t it the absorption of all the colors?
    Come with us, let’s make the best of these darkening evenings, and let’s see If we find all the colors hidden within.

    Libero Mureddu, keyboard and electronics
    Luciana G.Álvarez, piano and more
    Livia Schweizer, flute and more
    Join us, Pay what you can, There will be hot tea!!


    Libero Mureddu is an Italian and Finnish pianist, improviser, composer, and educator based in Helsinki. With thirty years of experience across the European music scene, his artistic practice explores the intersection of free improvisation, algorithmic processes, and music technology. Currently, he leads the murmur trio with Andrea Grossi and Cristiano Calcagnile, and performs with the quartet Mother’s Delight, with Jukka Kääriäinen, Harri Sjöström, and Heikki Nikula. He also maintains regular duo collaborations with artists such as Charlotte Hug and Corinna Eikmeier. Alongside performing, Mureddu teaches contemporary free and electroacoustic improvisation and is a doctoral researcher at the Sibelius Academy.


    luciana garcía is a pianist, visionary composer, improviser, and doctoral researcher from Santiago de Chile, based in Helsinki. luciana’s work brings together music and commitment to social justice, creating spaces that reimagine new possibilities of existence towards a queer flourishing

    Livia Schweizer is a Helsinki-based flutist, improviser, and artistic researcher dedicated to the intersection of contemporary performance, community engagement, and intercultural dialogue. Originally from Italy, she moved to Helsinki following her graduation from the Conservatory of Livorno to study at the Sibelius Academy with Mikael Helasvuo. Currently a doctoral researcher at Uniarts’ Sibelius Academy, Livia is driven by a deep curiosity for non-conventional notation and alternative definitions of the musical score. She is an active improviser and she is one of the co-founder of the Helsinki based new music ensemble Earth Ears Ensemble 

  • 31.10. / Kryptidi-yhdistyksen äänihavaintoja

    31.10. / Kryptidi-yhdistyksen äänihavaintoja

    Kryptidi-yhdistyksen äänihavaintoja, 31.10.2026


    LIVE SETS – Gushing, Kaukovaikutus, Leo Mokkala: Orgonilataaja

    Ticket; 5-10-15e

    Time TBA

    Event starts 19:00.