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  • 08.05.2025 / SPACE TALK – First year of Toinen Kerros

    08.05.2025 / SPACE TALK – First year of Toinen Kerros

    Welcome on the 8th of May to discuss the past year, and the future of our common sonic art space in Vallila.

    This May marks one year since Äänen Lumo started renting the space which is now known as Toinen Kerros.

    After the renovation and preparations of the space, now it has been seven months since the activities started, and there have been more than 30 different events, including concerts, exhibitions, discussions, workshops, rehearsals and more informal gatherings in Toinen Kerros. These have been organised by over 20 organisers, both associations and individuals.

    In the meantime we, as volunteers, have been working hard to make the space what it is now, and to support and facilitate its activities. We learned a lot and we feel it is time for a moment of shared reflection and discussion on these past months and future possibilities.

    We would like to invite you to participate to an open discussion on this first season and share some ideas for the future of this space! We welcome all organisers, artists and audience alike, who have been contributing to Toinen Kerros’ existence, as well as those who are just interested in the topic.

    We will offer coffee and some refreshments. Welcome!

    Thursday, the 8th of May at 17:00
    Toinen Kerros, Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki

    Toinen Kerros is a fully volunteer-led, low treshold, DIY space for presenting, practicing, and encountering sonic art practices. Toinen kerros is founded and currently facilitated by the association Äänen Lumo, and it aims to function as a community space. Most of the rent and running expenses are covered by grant from Kone Foundation for three years, and during this time we aim to experiment ways to operate and plan for a possible future.

    Photo: Roman Odjinud

  • 07.05.2025 / Cobble Stone Salon nro. 4: Worldbuilding

    07.05.2025 / Cobble Stone Salon nro. 4: Worldbuilding

    Cobble Stone Salon no. 4: Worldbuilding

    In the salon’s fourth edition, we will discuss the potential of worldbuilding as an approach to organising. The evening will be facilitated by @villetikka, and we will draw on “Three Eras of World Generation: Worldbuilding, Worlding, World-Weaving” by GVN and Arb (in Guy Mackinnon-Little, Autonomous Worlds N1 (2023)):

    https://autonomousworlds.metalabel.com/aw01

    Since the salon is about how to organise collectively and differently, we have been thinking how it could itself be a means to connect with and between spaces in the city, and whether gathering elsewhere each time could be a fun way to try doing this. In this spirit, we will this time be among the sweet people of @aanenlumo, convening at the Sonic Arts Library at Toinen kerros, their experimentation and performance space. And since the evening just after will mark Toinen kerros’s first anniversary with an open space to think together about its past and future, we’ll take the Salon as a lead-in and support to this.

    Open to all ‒ no prior knowledge needed.

    Cobble Stone Salon is an open monthly gathering that supports explorative approaches to the cultivation of other economies and sustainable societal arrangements.

    http://cobble.stone.salon

    Cobble Stone Salon no. 4: Worldbuilding

    Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 18:00

    Sonic Arts Library at Toinen kerros

    Nokiantie 2-4 (2nd floor), 00510 Helsinki

    Image in part from Ian Cheng, “Emissary’s Guide to Worlding” (2018)

  • 06.05.2025 / murmur trio – Finnish debut

    06.05.2025 / murmur trio – Finnish debut

    Libero Mureddu, physically modelled piano and effects – Andrea Grossi, double bass – Cristiano Calcagnile, drums and objects

    For the first time in Finland!

    Tuesday 6.5.
    Doors open at 18:30, concert at 19:00
    Tickets: offer what you can, between 8 and 15 € (MobilePay)
    Toinen kerros
    Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki

    About murmur trio: https://liberomureddu.github.io/murmurtrio/

    murmur Trio was founded in 2023 during a typically hot summer in Milan. The trio includes longstanding friend, collaborator, and wonderful drummer Cristiano Calcagnile (https://www.cristianocalcagnile.eu/)) and the upcoming Italian double bass star Andrea Grossi (https://andreagrossiofficial.com/)..)

    The trio was born out of the idea of experimenting with the format of a jazz piano trio but using a physically-modelled piano instead of an acoustic one. We liked the music and decided to continue playing together! Thanks to a fortunate alignment of geography, time, and stars the three of us will be in Finland at the same time, and we decided to have a concert at (my) home.

    murmur trio investigates the space where purely and intentionally electronic practices intersect with the long shadow of the jazz piano trio. How do we react to this potential friction? How do the acoustic and electronic worlds influence each other? What (im)possibilities lie ahead of us? murmur is a laboratory of sounds and real-time approaches, an experiment in continuous evolution, a journey that attempts to drive the listener off the beaten path, even venturing into the impassable ones. murmur trio’s debut album is almost ready and will be released during the next months.

    Photo: Gianni Grossi

  • 30.04.2025 / MELTING HEARTS // HUR HUR // alya grad // MATHIEU SYLVESTRE

    30.04.2025 / MELTING HEARTS // HUR HUR // alya grad // MATHIEU SYLVESTRE

    Maynight for sound in the Äänen Lumo (Charm of Sound) space Toinen Kerros.

    Playing live:

    Melting Hearts, Hur Hur, alya grad and Mathieu Sylvestre (FR/Berlin)

    Wednesday 30.4.
    Doors: 19.30
    First act starts 20.00
    Tickets 5-15e. mobilepay or cash
    Place: Toinen Kerros, Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki

    MELTING HEARTS

    https://meltingheartsmusic.tumblr.com/

    alya grad

    The sonic signature of alya grad embraces raw aesthetics and an experimental approach. Touched by industrial tones, it blends digital textures, noise, and rhythm into layered contrasts — where softness meets rough sonic edges.

    https://alyagrad.bandcamp.com/

    HUR HUR

    Hur Hur is a solo music project started in 2012 by multidisciplinary artists Timo Viialainen (FIN). It is based on the experimental use of an electroacoustic alto hurdy gurdy. Hurdy gurdy is drone based instrument mostly used in folk music but here it is used to create an immersive droney wall of sound that also contains hints of melodic repetative parts and rythms that come and go. Live gigs are very intense mix of improvisation and musically meaninful dramaturgy that slowly builds up to cathartic heights.

    Hur Hur has played live in different festivals and events in Europe and North America.

    Hur Hur Soundcloud

    MATHIEU SYLVESTRE

    Field recordings and analog synthesizers are the main sources of sound processed by Mathieu Sylvestre. Noises and natural sounds are interwoven and articulated in electrified sound narratives between aural synesthesia and spatial vibrations.

    The sound performance is based on the contribution of tape recorded sounds and analogue modules, arranged by improvised motifs that evolve from show to show.

    In this way, the treatment of sound focuses on a plastic and physical approach to highlight the materiality of the boundaries between analogue acoustic textures and synthetic sources.

    https://alrealonmusique.bandcamp.com/album/happy-among-the-nuts-alrn157

  • 24.04.2025 / äänes @ IDA Helsinki

    24.04.2025 / äänes @ IDA Helsinki

    äänes on äänitaiteeseen sekä kokeelliseen musiikkiin ja nykymusiikkiin keskittyvä kuukausittainen ja yhteisöllisesti toteutettu moniääninen asia- ja ajankohtaisohjelma osana IDA Helsinki -radion ohjelmistoa. // äänes is a collaborative and polyphonic programme concentrated on sound art and experimental and contemporary music airing on IDA Helsinki radio monthly.

    Kolmastoista jakso ilmaantuu 24.04.2025 kello: 13–15. // The thirteenth episode airs on April 24th, 2025, at 13–15.

    https://idaidaida.net/shows/aanes

    Haastateltavat // Interviewees: 

    Judith Hamann

    Soittolista // Playlist:

    Judith Hamann – Live @ Äänen lumo 13.4.2025 (excerpt)

    Judith Hamann – Seventeen Fabrics Of Measure (Aunes, Shelter Press 2024)

    Miio Holopainen – Fly, Flying (Stil I’m Not, 2023)

    Essi Hirvonen – Kolme pyhää nuorukaista (Pyhät, 2024)

    Heli Hartikainen – IV (CHRONOVARIATIONS, 2024)

    AINON – Grannies & Seagulls (Drought, We Jazz 2024)

    Minna Koskenlahti – Viimeinen (Toinen/Other, 2021)

    Felisha Ledesma – Golden Mirror (Fringe, Ecstatic 2021)

    Project_Vainiolla – ZZz (Undulate, Shimmering Moods Records 2024)

    Olli Aarni – Kun tulee hämärää (Tuokioita, Ultraääni 2023)

    Renzo Pajella – Down (Tutti Frutti Bella Donna, Sumu Levyt 2025)

    Rock Siltanen – Hammas puhkeaa (Moog-Musiikkia Taaperoille… Ja Miksei Muillekin, 2025)

    Rock Siltanen – Iltapuuro (Moog-Musiikkia Taaperoille… Ja Miksei Muillekin, 2025)

    Islaja – Urvogel (Angel Tape, Other Power 2023) 

    C. Lavender – Emptiness Itself (Rupture In The Eternal Realm, iDEAL Recordings 2024)

    Kari Väkevä – Void iv (Void, KV2 Computer Music 2024)

  • 13.04.2025 / Judith Hamann

    13.04.2025 / Judith Hamann

    Welcome to the concert of Judith Hamann at Äänen Lumo´s Toinen kerros!

    Judith Hamann is performer/composer from Naarm/Melbourne who has long been recognized one of Australia’s foremost contemporary cellists, and as a composer who “destroys the fiction of the musician who lives and works outside conventional parameters”. Their performance spans through various genres, including elements of contemporary classical, improvised and even pop music.

    In their recent research, Judith examines the acts of shaking and humming as formal and intimate encounters. They look at collapse as a generative imaginary surface; and explore the de-mastering of bodies, both human and non-human, in settler-colonial heritage instrumental practice and pedagogy.

    Judith enjoys thinking and working with other artists which including Marja Ahti, Charles Curtis, Sarah Hennies, Anike Joyce Sadiq, Éliane Radigue, and La Monte Young. Judith has released their music on labels such as Blank Forms, Black Truffle, Longform Editions, SUPERPANG and Another Timbre.

    + Marloes van Son
    Marloes van Son creates atmospheric soundscapes with synths, clarinet, vocals, field recordings and occasional crude beats. She is inspired by interactions between humans and technology, which she explores through everyday sounds, objects and situations. www.marloesvanson.nl

    Time: Sunday 13.04. at 15.00
    Place: Toinen kerros, Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki
    Price: 7-10-15 e

  • 06.04.2025 / Workshop: Fleeting moments, fleeting instruments

    06.04.2025 / Workshop: Fleeting moments, fleeting instruments

    Come and explore different sound sources, build temporary musical instruments, and improvise together.

    The workshop is run by Henna Tahvanainen, who is a researcher, lecturer, and amateur luthier of musical instruments. www.kantelista.wordpress.com

    Free of charge. Max 10 participants. Register by email: tahvanainen.henna AT gmail.com

    Time: Sunday 6.4, from 13.00 to 17.00

    Place: Toinen kerros, Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki

  • 01.–04.04.2025 / Exhibition: Waves of Digital Sculpture

    01.–04.04.2025 / Exhibition: Waves of Digital Sculpture

    1.–4.4. at 3 to 5 pm

    Opening on 31.1. from 5 to 9 pm

    toinen kerros, Nokiantie 2–4, Helsinki

    The exhibition departs from the course “Digital Sculpture 2” in Aalto University. The artworks produced during the workshops develop a research on the materiality of movements, duration and sensible perception. These concepts find form in sound but also in movements of motors and lights. The artworks investigate together how Waves can materialise at the intersection of art, design, sound and sculpture. As mentioned in the description, sound is a wave. The exhibition proposes producing a space where the wave is sound and also movements at large.

    Students: Aizawa Chihiro, Peng Chengcheng, Zhuang Shuqian, Lehtisalo Markus, Roy Mreethmandir, Adan Cristina, Yan Pu, Bulteel Kathleen, Anttila Olivia, Youn Yejin, Liu Mengqiao, Todosijević Ana, Kentala Petri, Suvisaari Adrian, Otsamo Veeti, Seppä Aleksi, Veräjänkorva Hanna, Mo Yakun, Hokkanen Mari.

  • 30.03.2025 / ARTSY AFTERNOON II

    30.03.2025 / ARTSY AFTERNOON II

    Live:
    C. LAVENDER (USA)
    ANNIKA FUHRMANN & TOM LÖNNQVIST
    PIIA RINNE & ARTTU PARTINEN

    Sunnuntaina / On Sunday March 30th, 2025
    Äänen Lumo – toinen kerros, Nokiantie 2-4
    Klo / At 18-21 / Liput / Tickets: 10e

    (see below for English)


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    C. LAVENDER

    C. Lavender (Lavender Suarez) on äänitaiteilija, ääniparantaja ja kouluttaja, jonka työ käsittää live-esityksiä, äänityksiä, installaatioita, sävellyksiä, videoita ja työpajoja. Hän luo immersiivisiä äänimaisemia, jotka ovat intensiivisen fyysisiä, emotionaalisia ja lopulta katarttisia kokemuksia. Lavenderin kirja ”Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives” (Anthology Editions) käsittelee kuuntelemista voimakkaana inspiraation lähteenä luovassa työssä. Hänen musiikkiaan ovat julkaisseet mm. Editions Mego, Ecstatic Peace! ja RVNG Intl. Viimeisin kokopitkä albumi ”Rupture in the Eternal Realm” (iDEAL Recordings) tutkii meditatiivisia käytäntöjä Buchla-syntetisaattorin, gongien ja kenttä-äänitteiden avulla.

    ANNIKA FUHRMANN & TOM LÖNNQVIST

    Annika Fuhrmann on laulaja, muusikko ja äänitaiteilija, joka on kotonaan kokeellisen musiikkiteatterin, äänitaiteen, improvisaation ja nykymusiikin aloilla. Tom Lönnqvist on ääni-, tila- ja performanssitaiteilija sekä äänitaiteen maisteri, joka on ollut mukana useissa kiitetyissä tanssi- ja teatterituotannoissa. Hänen taiteelliseen työnsä sisältää työskentelyä kehon, modulaarisynteesin, videon, installaation, maalauksen, rumpujen ja ambisonisten kenttääänitteiden kanssa. Tämä yhteistyö on syntynyt kiinnostuksesta tutkia ihmisäänen moduloinnin mahdollisuuksia osana elektronisella modulaarisella synteesillä tehtyä spontaania säveltämistä. Saksalainen Mille Plateaux on julkaissut Annikan ja Tomin debyyttiesiintymisen “Live at Asbestos Art Space”.

    PIIA RINNE & ARTTU PARTINEN

    Piia Rinne on äänitaiteilija ja tekstiilisuunnittelija, jonka musiikki yhdistää äänikokeiluja ja käsinkosketeltavaa, konkreettisempaa käsityöläisyyttä. Rinne hyödyntää musiikissaan suvereenin taitavasti hienovaraisia ja tarkkuutta vaativia nauhalooppeja.
    Arttu Partinen käyttää äänilähteinään luhistuvia kasettisoittimia ja efektilaitteita. Hänen esityksissään on keskeistä fyysisyys, sillä jokainen kehon värähdys vaikuttaa musiikkiin. Näin syntyneet äänet puolestaan ohjaavat kehon liikkeitä, muodostaen eteenpäin vyöryvän silmukan. Sattumalla on myös aina oma roolinsa Partisen esiintymisissä.
    Tämä on duon toinen esiintyminen, ensimmäinen koettiin Artsyfest-tapahtumassa tammikuussa 2025.

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    C. LAVENDER (USA)

    C. Lavender (Lavender Suarez) is a sound artist, sound practitioner and educator whose work includes live performances, recordings, installations, compositions, videos and workshops. She creates immersive soundscapes that are intensely physical, emotional and ultimately cathartic experiences. Lavender’s book “Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives” (Anthology Editions) explores listening as a powerful source of inspiration in creative work. Her music has been published among others by Editions Mego, Ecstatic Peace! and RVNG Intl. Her latest album “Rupture in the Eternal Realm” (iDEAL Recordings) explores meditative practices utilizing a Buchla synthesizer, gongs and field recordings.

    ANNIKA FUHRMANN & TOM LÖNNQVIST

    Annika Fuhrmann is a singer, musician and sound artist who is most at home in the fields of experimental music theatre, sound art, improvisation and contemporary music. Tom Lönnqvist is a sound, space and performance artist with a master’s degree in sound art who has been involved in several acclaimed dance and theatre productions. His artistic work includes working with the body, modular synthesis, video, installation, painting, drums and ambisonic field recordings. This collaboration emerged from an interest in exploring the potential of modulating the human voice as part of instantaneous composition made with electronic modular synthesis. German label Mille Plateaux has released Annika and Tom’s debut performance “Live at Asbestos Art Space”.

    PIIA RINNE & ARTTU PARTINEN

    Piia Rinne is a sound artist and textile designer whose music combines sound experiments with tangible, concrete craftsmanship. In her music, Rinne masterfully handles tape loops that require subtlety and precision. Arttu Partinen uses collapsing cassette players and effect devices as his sound sources. Physicality is essential in his performances, as every vibration of the body affects the music. The resulting sounds in turn guide the body’s movements, forming a loop that trundles forward. The element of chance also always plays a big role in Partinen’s performances. This is the duo’s second performance, the first being at Artsyfest in January 2025. 

  • 29.03.2025 / Usnea: Theodor Kentros (SWE), Joseph Baader (GER), Anna-Sofia Anttonen & Viktor Toikkanen

    29.03.2025 / Usnea: Theodor Kentros (SWE), Joseph Baader (GER), Anna-Sofia Anttonen & Viktor Toikkanen

    LIVE:
    THEODOR KENTROS (SWE)
    JOSEPH BAADER (GER)
    ANNA-SOFIA ANTTONEN
    VIKTOR TOIKKANEN

    Tickets: 5-15€ at the door

    THEODOR KENTROS (SWE)
    Theodor Kentros is a composer and musician based in Stockholm mostly working with the combination of electronic and acoustic instruments as well as tape loops, sample manipulation and Supercollider.

    He’s been a member of the Fylkingen Production group (2021-2024), a member of Fyrec (2021-2023), runs the tape label Kalkatraz Cassettes since 2017 and has been a member of XKatedral since 2016.

    JOSEPH BAADER (GER)
    Joseph Baader is a sound artist and composer based in Düsseldorf. He studied Music and Media (2014-2021, B.Mus)) and Sound and Reality (2021-2024, M.Mus.)) at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf as well as Electroacoustic Composition at the Sibelius Academy Helsinki (2018-2019). In Finland he initiated together with local artists the Potential Difference Collective (2018-2019), which organised and played several open jams and performances in the Helsinki area (Asbestos Art Space, Helsinki Music Centre). As a media artist, he is part of the Cologne based theatre collective KRUX, which has won the Kunstsalon Theaterpreis 2019. He plays electronics in various ensembles and is part of the duo honey washed and the underwater sound project Trio Wellenbad. Since 2017 he erratically exhibits his sound installations at the Cologne sound art space LTK4 – Klangbasierte Künste Köln. His radio pieces and electroacoustic compositions have been played at ARD Hörspieltage, Sentralen Oslo, Sonic Matter Festival Zürich, Ensemblia Mönchengladbach, Neuer Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf and Deutschlandfunk Kultur. He was composer in residence at Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm and Cité Internationale des Arts Paris.

    ANNA-SOFIA ANTTONEN
    Anna-Sofia Anttonen is a curious and versatile saxophonist and musician based in Helsinki, Finland. She is especially interested in contemporary music and interdisciplinary projects, collaborating with composers in ensemble and solo settings. Anna-Sofia holds a master’s degree in Sibelius Academy from classical saxophone performance. At the moment she is also working as a composer in a project combining instrument building and ceramic art together with artist Armi Teva.

    Anna-Sofia is an experienced and requested chamber and orchestra musician, theater musician, performance artist, soloist, pedagogue, arranger, and artistic director of projects. She has collaborated with such institutions as the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Finnish National Opera and Ballet, Uusinta Ensemble, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Helsinki Police Band, The Finnish Navy Band, NYKY Ensemble, Tampere Worker’s Theater and so on. She has performed internationally at festivals like Musica nova, rainy days, Flow, Time of Music and Helsinki Festival. Anna-Sofia was the co-artistic director of the Ostrobothnian Contemporary Music Festival 2023–2024.

    Anna-Sofia is one of the founding members of Saxtronauts, a saxophone quartet on a mission to bring music to different kind of audiences and spaces. Anna-Sofia also plays in Kaaos Ensemble, a
    group formed of flute, saxophone, guitar and percussion. The group is specialized in contemporary music performance and collaboration with composers. Anna-Sofia is also a member of Uusinta Ensemble since 2023. Her newest project, Trio WAS+ is a formation of saxophone, accordion (Frin Wolter), double bass (Aida Salakka) and electronics (Tuukka Tervo).

    VIKTOR TOIKKANEN
    Viktor Toikkanen is a composer, musician, and multimedia artist from Helsinki, Finland, with over a decade of experience in the city’s electronic and experimental music scene. He holds a Master of Music from the Department of Music and Technology at Sibelius Academy and has studied multimedia composition at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. His work spans film, electronic music, multimedia art, computer-assisted chamber music, and performance. A former drummer, Toikkanen has recently reconnected with the instrument.

    Navigating naturally between electronic music, multimedia, contemporary classical, free improvisation, and performance art, Toikkanen refuses to adhere to a single style, constantly seeking new ways of self-expression. He has collaborated with various ensembles, and his music has been released and performed internationally. Toikkanen has also worked as an event organizer, curator, sound engineer, and workshop leader. He views his art as a diary—an ongoing reflection of a specific time and place, shaped by the interests and resonances that move him in the moment.

    Links:
    https://www.theodorkentros.com/
    https://josephbaader.de/bio/
    https://annasofiaanttonen.com/
    https://linktr.ee/viktortoikkanen