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  • 15.9.-15.12. / Peer Performance Workshop

    15.9.-15.12. / Peer Performance Workshop

    This workshop aims to provide a laboratory for people who wish to develop their live performances. This first edition is hosted by Satu and M, two artists who wonder “how can I translate my music to a live setting?” Maybe you have a similar question and want to experiment about it within a structured timeline and with peer support? 

    Bring your own projects and questions to this teacherless-course! Each session 2-3 participants will present works in progress and have the opportunity to give and receive feedback. The finale will be a “real” performance (open to the public). 

    When: Tuesdays from 18:00-19:30

    (Mostly) biweekly from Sep 15th 2026 to Dec 15th 2026 

    (dates: 15.9., 29.9., 13.10., 27.10., 10.11., 24.11., 8.12., 15.12.) 

    Where: Toinen Kerros 

    Max participants: 10 (but if there are some people in bands/duos then the group itself would be considered as 1 participant)

    We’re filling up the workshop on a first come first serve basis

    To sign up email Satu & M : 

    kankkonen.satu

    m.lore.wingren

    Both ATgmail.com

  • 5.9. / De/composing

    5.9. / De/composing

    Konsertti-installaatio / Concert Installation
    La 5.9.2026. klo 18 / Sat 5th of September at 6 pm
    Äänen Lumo, Toinen Kerros
    Nokiantie 2-4
    vapaaehtoinen pääsymaksu / pay what you want

    Aaro Lehtovaara, fagotti, sävellys, yms. / bassoon, composition, etc.
    Sara Leppänen, viulu, sävellys, yms. / violin, composition, etc.
    Anna Kirvesniemi, viulu, sävellys, yms. / violin, composition, etc.

    De/composing is simultaneously an ensemble, a concept, collective (un)learning project and concert installation. First presentation will be held on the 5th of September in Toinen Kerros. The evening will include mostly instrumental, more or less improvised experimental compositions by the group.

    Lullaby—Ease—Post-Classical—Deconstruction
    For over one and a half a year performing artists Aaro Lehtovaara, Sara Leppänen and Anna Kirvesniemi have been reimagining music through workshops. Being all originally classically trained, the group shares an interest to create a new relationship with music and related conventions around it.
    By combining knowledge from their different artistic backgrounds in professional fields of theatre, classical music and pedagogy a practice for gentle, non-virtuoso music making started to form. A major part of their process is learning by doing co-created exercises for improvisation and composition in addition to a critical discussion about music institutions, genre or scene formations and other structures. In the near future the group wishes to open the process in a text format for further open discussion and perhaps even inspiration.

    Drone—Open-Form—violin—violin—bassoon

  • 1.9. / Heli Hartikainen: Interbody + Flux

    1.9. / Heli Hartikainen: Interbody + Flux

    Tuesday 1.9.2026 at 19.00 at Toinen Kerros, award-winning saxophonist, composer and sound artist Heli Hartikainen performs two works: Interbody (released as an EP in April 2026), and a pre-premiere of Flux, an upcoming commission for Oulu2026. 

    Cal Cashin from Loud and Quiet Magazine wrote: “Interbody is a delight in exploratory noise making. Hartikainen’s sax is meshed with the live electronics of an erratic sampler, with their playing percussive and rolling to match the barrage of scattergun electronics; a barbed and pointy exemplar of contemporary soundscape work.” 

    Flux, a work for tenor saxophone, electromechanical solenoids, sensor controlled electronics and speakers, is a commission for Oulu2026 European Capital of Culture and will be performed at Oulu Cathedral on 18.9.2026. 

  • 21.-28.8 / Latvieshi International

    21.-28.8 / Latvieshi International

    “Latvieshi International” is an international contemporary visual art pop-up exhibition and public event series taking place in Helsinki, Finland, from August 21 to 28, 2026.


    Information:
    – Venue: Toinen Kerros, Nokiantie 2-4, 00510 Helsinki
    – Exhibition opening: August 21 at 18:00
    – Exhibition dates: August 21–28
    – Exhibition tour for children and youth: August 25
    – Discussion and musical performance evening: August 26
    – Free admission
    – Further information: https://datuainavas.org/projekti

    The central theme of the exhibition is “background noise”—a phenomenon that six Latvian artists who live in Latvia, Finland, and Iceland (U. Albiņš, A. Bikše, J. Peters, M. Ratniks, S. Ruļuks, L. Zaneripa) explore as a defining feature of the contemporary Nordic-Baltic region. In an era of hyper-connectivity and geopolitical tension, the ability to distinguish the essential (signal) from the inessential (noise) has become an existential necessity. The artists’ new audiovisual works will deconstruct this phenomenon through various prisms, from electromagnetic interference and industrial sound pollution to digital surveillance mechanisms and the residues left by cultural displacement on memory and identity. The exhibition thus addresses the question: is noise merely a disturbance, or is it also fertile ground for new cultural forms?

    The exhibition is accompanied by a public program: opening and closing events, a moderated discussion on Nordic-Baltic cultural identity, an evening of sound performances, and artist-led tours for various age groups, including educational sessions for students of the Helsinki Latvian Diaspora School (Pikku Putni).

    The event is organized by the association “Datu ainavu kartogrāfi” (Jurģis and Džesika Peteri).

    Supported by: Culture Capital Foundation (VKKF), Culture Moves Europe, Embassy of the Republic of Latvia in Finland, Rozentāls Seura, Äänen Lumo, Toinen Kerros.

    Free admission to the exhibition and public program.

    The event will be photographed and filmed.

  • 6.8. / Boundary Collapse

    6.8. / Boundary Collapse

    An evening of abstract acoustic and/or electronic music.

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    Forces
    https://joonassiren.fi/
    https://ffforces.bandcamp.com/

    Devina Boughton & Orion Boughton
    https://devinaboughton.weebly.com/
    https://djjorts.bandcamp.com/

    Jonas Hammerer
    https://www.hammererer.net/

    Fabian Lanzmaier
    https://www.fabianlanzmaier.com/

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    Thurday 6th of August, 18.00 - 22.00
    Toinen Kerros (Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki)
    Äänen Lumo / Charm of Sound
    https://aanenlumo.com/
    5e-15e (pay what you can)

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    Jonas Hammerer
    Jonas Hammerer is a Vienna-based musician and sound artist working with 
    synthetic, process-oriented systems for live performances, sound 
    installations and collaborative works.
    In his artistic practice he uses analog and digital sound synthesis as 
    material and form-giving process, exploring instability and emergent 
    behavior in which form develops without fixed compositional structures. 
    He also realizes commissioned sound works and audio software for artists 
    and cultural institutions.
    He studied electroacoustic and experimental music at the University of 
    Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where he was working at the Artistic 
    Research Center as part of the AESR sound projection lab. He is a member 
    of kv.r., an independent venue and collective organizing experimental 
    music shows in Vienna.

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    Fabian Lanzmaier
    Fabian Lanzmaier is a musician and sound artist living in Vienna. He is 
    currently focusing on live performances that incorporate real-time audio 
    synthesis and multichannel speaker setups, as well as site-specific 
    audio installations, which often emerge from collaborative processes. He 
    is interested in the possibilities and surprises that arise when working 
    with systems and situations involving chance and unpredictability.

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    Orion Boughton
    Orion Boughton (they/them) aka DJ Jorts is a music producer, 
    saxophonist, and audio engineer based in Portland Oregon. They hold a 
    Bachelor of Arts from Portland State University in Sonic Arts and Music 
    Production. Orion has versatile musical experience, including large 
    ensemble wind band, contemporary chamber music, jazz, hyperpop, rap, 
    folk, live sound, and sound art. Fusing their skills of performance and 
    production, Orion bends the medium of sound to their artistic vision, 
    taking influence from the environment and world around them. They have 
    performed both independently and in ensembles across the US, in Finland, 
    and in Slovenia as part of the Etno Histeria World Orchestra.

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    Devina Boughton
    Devina Boughton (they/them) is a versatile performer hailing from rainy 
    Portland, OR, based in Helsinki, Finland. With a Bachelors degree from 
    Berklee College of Music, Devina moved to Helsinki as a 2021-22 
    Fulbright Grant recipient, and graduated from Sibelius Academy's Global 
    Music department with a Masters degree in 2025. They were a 2024-25 
    Microtonal Music Studios Resident, and received Finlandia Foundation 
    funding in Summer 2025. Devina serves as artistic director of Symbioosi 
    Choir (2023-present), and works as a freelancer in Helsinki and beyond, 
    as a performer, composer, artistic researcher, and pedagogue. Devina 
    explores and intertwines sound worlds, often blurring improvisation and 
    composition together. They are inspired by timbre, tuning, melody, 
    groove, nature, human experiences, words, and are passionate about 
    interdisciplinary collaboration. Their art-science Flagellate 
    Collective´s project Playing with Algae, combining micro- and macro 
    algae with Nordic shepherd´s horns, is supported by the KONE Foundation 
    in 2026. You may find them drinking coffee or tea, exploring nature, 
    practicing Finnish, baking, or reading.

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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 (they/them). Different live-coding 
    and processing techniques are used to make dense atomized swirls; 
    electronic and sometimes chaotic abstract oceans of sound. Forces’ music 
    has been released on Biodiversità Records, evo-natura, mappa,  Infinite 
    Machine, Gin & Platonic, Genot Centre, Conditional and Bio Future 
    Laboratory, and has also been played in DJ mixes by experimental 
    producers like Aphex Twin, Daniel Ruane and ZULI.
  • 3.8. / Bloom & Gloom # 3

    3.8. / Bloom & Gloom # 3

    Bloom & Gloom is here again, this time for the 3rd and quite possibly for the last time!

    Lauren Sarah Hayes (UK/SL)
    Lauri Hyvärinen / Sulo Kolehmainen
    Matti Luokkanen / Heliä Mailis Viirakivi

    3.8.2026, doors 19:00
    5 – 15 € (pay what you can) (NOTAFLOF)

    In the 3rd of August, we will present performances from Lauren Sarah Hayes, a Scottish improviser and a sound artist, who has gained recognition for her embodied approach to computer music. Her music is a mix of experimental pop/live electronics/techno/noise/free improvisation and has been described as ‘voracious’ and ‘exhilarating’.

    Additionally 2 duos will perform, both of them playing together for the very first time.

    Lauri Hyvärinen & Sulo Kolehmainen have been aware of each other for a number of years, and despite the occasional aesthetic overlap, they have never played together. Whether the encounter will be an austere but an awkward train wreck, an assault of tiny needle pricks to the eardrums or a pile of flaming garbage inside a zen monastery, remains to be seen. Mostly likely the result will include all of the above.

    As the second duo of the evening we will experience an intriguing encounter of the wind player Matti Luokkanen and the vocalist/flutist Heliä Mailis Viirakivi. The prior has a strong background playing free jazz with various people for more than a decade, including in the band Fogelbörs. The latter is well versed in classical but folk influenced extended vocal and instrumental techniques, and has performed in various interdisciplinary and contemporary productions all over Europe. What brings the duo together is a strong backbone in improvisation and their love for playful spontaneity.

  • 1.8. / AXE CONCERT

    1.8. / AXE CONCERT

    Thomas Mellan, Los Angeles-based contemporary music organist and electronic musician known for his experimental bass/cinematic synth project DeKapital, will make his first appearance in Finland. 

    Thomas Mellan and Orest Smovzh will join for some ambient, noisy, and unpredictable improvisations using electronics, recordings, harmoniums, sampled crumhorns, and stuff

    Time: Saturday 1.8. starting at 20.00

    Entrance by donation (0-10€) to support the venue.

  • 26.6. / valittu.kaduta

    26.6. / valittu.kaduta

    valittu.kaduta

    for solo violin and pre-recorded violin
    Violin and pre-recorded violin: Orest Smovzh
    Composition and amplification: Simone Spampinato

    “You will have mutilated your own gaze until you can count within it three hundred and forty-three tears; it will be a useful grid for judging the outcome of the game at a single glance. As soon as you unseal your eyelids, you will know that you have once again lost against chance. The total number of birds may perhaps approach an ideal, elegant figure, but you will have lost all the same.”

    — Antoine Volodine, Our Loved Animals

    On the day of the concert, the violinist makes nine recordings across nine specific places and moments in time, beginning in the early hours of the morning. That evening, these fragments are played back. The live performance unfolds as a negotiation between what has already happened and what is happening now.

    Supported by MES

    26.06.26, Friday, 19:00 – 20:00
    Toinen Kerros
    Nokiantie 2–4

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  • 14.6. / Bloom & Gloom # 2

    14.6. / Bloom & Gloom # 2

    Welcome to the second edition of Bloom & Gloom, an Äänen Lumo organised event that brings interesting sonic acts with various approaches to your ears from near and far. Once again; come bask in the gloom and smell the flowers!

    Time 14.6.26, doors at 17:30

    Price: 5-10-15 €, pay what you can

    Place: Toinen Kerros, Nokiantie 2-4 Helsinki

    Ellen Phan (US)

    Ruby Louise Rose

    Antoine Verhaverbeke & Sulo Kolehmainen

    Petri Kuljuntausta

    Ellen Phan (US)
    Ellen Phan is an artist working primarily in the field of computer music. Therapy-specific methodologies are employed as source material, modulated autonomously by para-sympathetic activity through a variety of processing and synthesis, with an aim to gather insight into cognitive and emotional states on a subconscious level. Hers is a distinctly hallucinatory psychoacoustic sound world aimed directly, with intent and focus, at the subconscious mind. She is based in Los Angeles.

    Ruby Louise Rose
    Ruby Louise Rose’s performance will probably involve setting some processes in motion and poking them every now and then. Visually, it might look like she is checking her email.

    Antoine Verhaverbeke & Sulo Kolehmainen
    A first time duo performance from 2 people with deep interest in finding the stimulating in the boring. AV: Sustainer guitar, SK: Clarinet & electronics.

    Petri Kuljuntausta
    A forerunner of the generation of Finnish electronica artists that emerged in the 1990s, Petri Kuljuntausta manoeuvres smoothly around the relatively peripheral sphere that makes up Finland’s experimental electronic music scene, always maintaining a broad international outlook be that as an artist, or as a keen observer.

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    Bloom & Gloom on Äänen lumon järjestämä tapahtuma joka tuo kuultavaksi mielenkiintoisia äänen parissa toimivia tekijöitä läheltä ja kaukaa.

    Tällä kertaa esiintymässä on Los Angelesilainen tietokonemusiikin taituri, myös hypnotisoijana työskenellyt Ellen Phan, joka saapuu ensimmäiselle Suomen keikalleen.

    Esiintymässä myös suomalaisen äänitaiteen uranuurtaja Petri Kuljuntausta, Turussa tällä hetkellä asuva Ruby Louise Rose jonka tiukat mikroskooppisen tarkat generatiiviset biitti-ilottelut eivät jätä ketään kylmäksi, sekä Antoine Verhaverbeken ja Sulo Kolehmaisen muodostama duo, joka tutkii yksitoikkoisuuden stimuloivia ominaisuuksia.

  • 12.6. / Another Layer #3 – BRYAN EUBANKS & JOE FOSTER

    12.6. / Another Layer #3 – BRYAN EUBANKS & JOE FOSTER

    BRYAN EUBANKS (b. 1977, US) develops his music through solo work and collaboration. Since 1999 he has participated in many short and long term projects, and regularly presents his work internationally. Continually active in a variety of contexts: improvisation; composing electronic and acoustic works for small ensembles, solo instruments, computers, and electronics; organizing and curating concerts for other artists; building electronic instruments. He currently lives in Berlin.

    JOE FOSTER (b. 1972, California) has lived in Seoul since 2002, where he was a founding member of the 403, Relay, Dotolim, and Bulgasari scenes, following several years in Portland Oregon. He has played music with against JP Jenkins, Bryan Eubanks, Kevin Parks, Bonnie Jones, Ryu Hankil, Choi Joonyong, Hong Chulki, Jin Sangtae, Otomo Yoshihide, Andrea Ermke, Sachiko M, Anais Tuerlinckx, Toshimaru Nakamura, Dave Quam, Taku Unami, Andrew Lafkas among many others. He is in the groups Stateside and The Mighty Cloud, was in the groups English and Super Unity, and has been working with Dan Reynolds’ musical and extra-musical Old Music since 2002. You can hear Joe’s music on releases from sacred realism, erstwhile, the manual, balloon&needle, homophoni, and rasbliutto, among others.

    Wednesday 12.6. 19-21
    Price: 5-10€
    Toinen Kerros, Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki

    Support: Helsingin kaupunki

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