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  • 30.11.2024 / ääneen: Carlo Sampaolesi – Space is only noise + Convertito Mureddu Schweizer

    30.11.2024 / ääneen: Carlo Sampaolesi – Space is only noise + Convertito Mureddu Schweizer

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    ääneen: Carlo Sampaolesi – Space is only noise + Convertito Mureddu Schweizer
    30.11.24
    18:30 doors
    19:00 concert
    5 – 10 €
    Nokiantie 2 – 4
    2nd floor

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    Space is only noise is a performance for accordion, visuals and live electronics.

    Carlo Sampaolesi: Accordion.

    Music created in collaboration with: Tommaso Settimi, Maurizio Azzan, Giulia Lorusso, Carlo Elia Praderio.

    °fashion designer: Francesca Pisano
    °visuals by: Matteo Castiglioni
    °choreographer: Jacob Storer
    °art director: Yuri Falcioni

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    Impro set

    Giorgio Convertito – dance
    Libero Mureddu – harmonium
    Livia Schweizer – flute

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    Space is only noise

    Sound is space
    and this performance is about spaces and the people who have inhabited them.
    All the spaces we have built and forgotten, occupied, lived in and changed.

    Sound is time in space
    and this performance speaks of the time we have compressed and distorted. All that time that we did not observe because we were too focused on something else or that we just never saw pass by.

    All these spaces, all these times and all these silences have a sound,
    a sound image that echoes in our heads.
    It is elongated, rippling and impalpable.
    It breathes and twists, it struggles and rests, but never leaves us.

    The performance is conceived as a single act,
    an uninterrupted sound event that has no beginning or end.
    It’s an event, an experience of vibrations that fill space in an orderly, non-random manner. They are signs that actively express content, they signify something other than themselves.
    They appear mute to us, without knowing their true meaning. At a certain point, when time runs out, we shed these contents and leave, as if the door is closed.

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    Carlo Sampaolesi (*1997, IT) is an accordionist and performer resident in Brussels. His interest in sound and its relationship with space and time have led him to deepen the timbral and spectral research of his instrument, undertaking a series of collaborations and commissions with composers such as: Francesca Verunelli, Stefano Gervasoni, Dmitri Kourliandski, Gavin Bryars, Giulia Lorusso, Maurizio Azzan, Carlo Elia Praderio, Mattia Clera, and many others. He has performed at numerous festivals including the TransArt Festival, Klarafestival (Bozar), Darmstadt Ferienkurse Festival, Festival ArteScienza, iMAL Brussels, Miry Conzertsaal, Festival Traiettorie, Festival Pontino, Festival Orizzonti, Le Strade del Suono Festival, Premio Internazionale della Fisarmonica città di Castelfidardo (PIF), and many others, giving concerts in Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, Holland and Albania. He has performed with important ensembles and orchestras such as the Neue Vocalsolisten, mdi ensemble, FontanaMIX Ensemble, Opificio Sonoro, Orchestra del Teatro “La Fenice” in Venice, Eutopia Ensemble, Dedalus Ensemble and others, also working with artists such as Claron McFadden, Lucy Railton, Jessie Cox, Catherine Lamb and others. He also works as organiser and artistic director of the PNE.UMA – Contemporary Accordion Festival.

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    Giorgio Convertito. I am an italian dancer and dance maker based in Helsinki, Finland. I hold a BA in dance and choreography, from the School for New Dance Development, a department of the Amsterdam Theaterschool and have worked since 1993 as a dancer and a choreographer around Europe.
    Improvisation has been my main interest and influence in my work and it has been part of many of the projects I have been involved throughout my career, making me one of the leading figure in the improvisation scene in Helsinki.

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    Libero Mureddu. Born in Milan in 1975 and based in Helsinki since 2003, he has studied composition at the Conservatory “G. Verdi” of Milan and music technology at the Centre for Music and Technology, Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki. He is currently doing his artistic doctorate at the MuTri Doctoral School at the Sibelius Academy. In his research, Libero Mureddu investigates the role of embodied knowledge in a free improvisation performance, and how this knowledge can be observed, analysed, and used to develop free improvisation languages. Libero Mureddu’s doctorate is generously supported by the Kone Foundation.

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    Livia Schweizer (b.1994) is a flutist, improvisor, educator and artistic researcher based in Helsinki. She is known for her interest in improvisation and non-conventional music notation as a tool of bringing together creative souls from different backgrounds, ages and cultures.

    Supported by Kone foundation and City of Helsinki.

  • 24.11.2024 / Ääneen : Electronics Synth Building Workshop by Isnt’ses

    24.11.2024 / Ääneen : Electronics Synth Building Workshop by Isnt’ses

    Isnt’ses workshop at Crux Festival 2024 – photo by Guy Smallman

    Electronics Synth Building Workshop and presentation, hosted by Tim Drage and Lisa McKendrick (Isn’tses)

    NOTE: Tim and Lisa will have their separate performances as Disgusting Cathedral (Tim Drage) / NNJA RIOT (Lisa McKendrick) on 22nd of November from 19.30 as part of Ääneen Festival organized by Äänen Lumo. See details here.

    Workshop on Sunday 24th November

    Confirm workshop entry by the 18th November 2024.

    To book your place please fill in the required details and select the synth you want to assemble by 18th November from the form linked below.

    Please fill in the Event Registration Form from this link.

    If you only want to watch the initial presentation please donate at the door on the event date.

    Location Nokiantie 2-4

    Times: 12noon – 5pm

    12 -12:30pm – Presentation

    12:30-5pm – Workshop

    Description
    Our workshop will give the participants the opportunity to build and solder their own noise synthesiser from one of our synth kits which includes all components, Printed Circuit Board (PCB) and Build of Materials (BOM) instructions. The workshop will begin with a 30 minute presentation about the development of our noise synths The Fort Processor, Chernobylizer and 567 Piezo contact mic synth. We will cover the inspirations behind the electronics and sound as well as the psychogeographic aspects of the design and artwork. During the presentation the basics of electronics will be introduced, including identifying components, how to populate a PCB correctly, and reliable soldering techniques. (It’s advisable that you attend the presentation as it will include some instructions on building the synths)

    All materials and equipment are provided and participants may keep what they create. Usually participants leave the workshop with a working synthesizer, we can help with trouble-shooting and assist with any problems you encounter during the building of the synth. Basic soldering equipment is provided but we encourage people to bring their own soldering iron if they have one.

    All three circuits have 3.5mm output jacks suitable for connecting to an amplifier, mixer or
    recorder/sound card.

    The synths all run on 9v DC power. (Power supplies / batteries are not included, we will have some for testing during the workshop but you will need to get your own for future use, we can advise what type is best)


    Suitable for:
    Suitable for anyone with an interest in experimental music and sound arts. No previous experience in electronics is necessary. Some soldering experience is useful but we also can teach those with no soldering experience.


    Workshop Hosts:


    Tim Drage
    Lisa McKendrick
    The hosts of the workshop are from the live noise duo Isn’tses (United Kingdom)
    Times:
    Presentation and workshop will run from 12 noon – 5pm
    (some people may finish earlier depending on the synth chosen)


    We have 3 different synth builds to choose from:

    1. Light-controlled piezo contact mic noise synth

    This is a small battery-powered PCB with a contact microphone and oscillator controlled by a light sensor and flashing LEDs. It’s suitable for beginners as it doesn’t have many parts. We supply all electronic components and PCB.

    Build time: 1-2 hours

    To see a brief demo of the circuit:

    Price: €42 per person

    2. Fort Processor

    A psychogeographic noise synth and distortion/effect unit, controlled by knobs, light and touch.
    We provide a complete kit of parts including PCB. It’s suitable for beginners/intermediate. Build
    time 3-4 hours.

    To hear the Fort Processor:

    Price: €65 per person

    3. Chernobylizer


    A psychogeographic noise synth controlled by knobs, touch and power-drain switch. We provide
    a complete kit of parts including PCB. It’s suitable for beginners/intermediate but has more
    components than the Fort Processor. Build time 3-4.5 hours.

    To hear the Chernobylizer:

    Price: €95 per person

    Kits may be reserved in advance through the form or website, this will secure your place in the
    workshop. Numbers limited to 10-12 people.


    Note: Kits are at a discount from our normal prices on our Etsy store.

  • 23.11.2024 / BOOK LAUNCH – Waves: Radio as Collective Imagination

    23.11.2024 / BOOK LAUNCH – Waves: Radio as Collective Imagination

    The digital commoning platform Station of Commons wants to welcome all to the Helsinki book launch of the WAVES: Radio as Collective Imagination publication!

    Following the launch at HKW Berlin for the Miss Read Berlin Art Book Fair in October 2024, Station of Commons now presents and celebrates the book in Helsinki. Beginning at 17:00 the panel discussion will introduce the publication and reflect on radio and audio practices – their infrastructures, modes of collaboration and situated knowledges – in written, visual and sonic form. Departing from the documenta fifteen context, the book develops on radio practice as form of radical collective organization. The book is the first volume of Journal of Contemporary Audio Practices that views radio and the sonic as political forms of collective organisation, focusing on the different practices of international artists and groups, many of them members of the lumbung radio community. The book launch takes place in the new space for sonic arts in Helsinki coordinated by Äänen Lumo ry.

    Waves: Radio as Collective Imagination published by MISS READ Berlin. The publication is supported by Kone Foundation and FRAME Contemporary Art Finland.

    Helsinki book launch realised in collaboration with Äänen Lumo ry.

    Buy the book online with MISS READ!

    17:00 book presentation

    19:00 Live acts

    ALOES

    Juan Duarte

    Samuli Tanner

    poa annua

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    Featured In Waves: Radio as collective Imagination:

    AFRIKADAA
    africanartbookfair.com

    Cashmere Radio
    cashmereradio.com

    firefly frequencies
    fireflyfrequencies.org

    Fugitive Radio
    fugitive-Radio.net

    lumbung radio
    lumbungradio.org

    Miss Read
    missread.com/radio

    Pan African Space Station
    panafricanspacestation.org.za

    Radio Cocina Colaboratorio
    colaboratorykitchen.com

    Radio Nopal
    radionopal.com

    Radio Tropiezo
    radiotropiezo.org

    ruangrupa

    Ruru Radio
    rururadio.org

    Shared Frequencies
    sharedfrequencies.live

    Station of Commons
    stationofcommons.org

    There There

    Ultra-Red
    ultrared.org

  • 22.11.2024 / Ääneen : NNJA RIOT + Disgusting Cathedral

    22.11.2024 / Ääneen : NNJA RIOT + Disgusting Cathedral

    Lisa McKendrick and Tim Drage present an evening of music which pushes the boundaries of noise songwriting and fringe genres such as Avant Pop and Dungeon Synth. Both approach music as an arena to explore ideas relating to electronics, circuit bending and uncouth approaches to sound exploration. They do this by creating and designing their own synths, making field recordings and integrating open source technology. They share a somewhat rebellious nature when it comes to music/noise and also perform together under the project Isn’tses. They each have a solo project where they take quite a different approach to music.


    They will perform a solo set each from the projects NNJA RIOT and Disgusting Cathedral.

    (Note: They will also hold an electronics workshop, 24th November) (link)


    7:30pm – doors open
    Performances:
    8pm – Disgusting Cathedral
    9pm – NNJA RIOT

    Get tickets here:

    NNJA RIOT


    NNJA RIOT is the solo project of New Zealand-born artist and composer Lisa McKendrick, now living in the UK. Based in London, she is a multidisciplinary creator, working as a graphic designer, painter, musician, and synth designer. Her creative drive is to push against established norms and to celebrate music which is visceral, intense and energetic.

    Her music is a journey into the potential of electronic beats and song composition using musical instruments recorded as samples, modular synthesis, auditory fragments, and vocals. Her live performances incorporate an amalgamation of textures, beats, melody and noise. On stage, she likes to approach the concept of art as a ritual, employing custom-made costumes and headdresses. When playing live she likes to allow the music to take on a new life for each performance, while maintaining a framework to create and improvise with. She incorporates visuals into her performance which are her own footage of forests, stone circles and land art performance.

    She has recently released a new studio album “Violet Fields” in February 2024 with Cruel Nature Records. Using her skills as a songwriter and her love for noise she has crafted seven new tracks which hint at the shamanistic disharmony inherent in human evolution, the futility of war and the disconcerting horror of current global events. She explores these themes amongst disparate and poetic lyrics where she conveys her own feelings of being a human struggling to make sense of a fast changing world intent on its own destruction. As if a scholar of sound she records her memoirs through beats, field recordings, noises, rhythms of the city and nature. As if viewing the contemporary world through the eyes of an alien she observes and dismantles, then rebuilds through the fullness of sound, creating a story that can only be told within the realm of music.

    Recent performances were at: Expanded Music, Until We Catch Fire, Baba Yaga’s Hut, Berlin Modular Society, Tides/Gossamer Fog, Chaos Theory, Sharp Noodle Bristol, Weird Garden Lincoln, EVTV, Hot Freaks, Ealing Extranormal, IKLECTIKA, Plastic Infinite, Nosiemas, Earworm Presents, Skronktronic, Exit Points Canada, Corpora Aliena, Piksel Festival Norway, It’s Her Factory, Dronica Festival.
    She was featured/reviewed in Plastic Mag, The Quietus, Sun 13, Fighting Boredom, Resonance FM – Hello Goodbye Show/Bad Punk, Independent Music Podcast, Uptown Transmission, Loose Lips blog, MusicTech magazine, Noods Radio, Dronica Podcast, Female Pressure Radio Podcast and ZRadio.


    Links
    https://nnjariot.weebly.com/
    https://www.instagram.com/lisa_mckendrick/
    https://youtu.be/cNYcoTR2C1s

    Disgusting Cathedral


    Disgusting Cathedral is the dungeon synth project of UK-based electronic musician, animator and circuit-bender Tim Drage, who has been prolific in the UK and international noise scene. His projects have an absurdist approach rebelling against the often dour aesthetic of noise music and he makes extensive use of modified and home-made instruments.

    Taking the most lo-fi and disjointed aspects of ‘dungeon synth’ to their extremes, Disgusting Cathedral mutates the genre’s traditional black metal and videogame music influences with elements of harsh noise and doom. Ominous and disturbing fantasy soundscapes are created using handcrafted electronics, Casio keyboards, eurorack and Nord modular synthesisers, magnetic tape, open source hardware such as Monome Norns Shield, and obscure, esoteric music software on obsolete devices including Nintendo DS, Game Boy and Macintosh Plus.

    Disgusting Cathedral has performed live at IKLECTIK, Earworm and Noise Shed events in London, and at Sharp Noodle events in Newport and Bristol. As well as a number of self-published albums the project’s debut “Adventurers Despised and Rejected” was released on cassette by vaporwave label Rei Records.


    Links
    Bandcamp: https://disgustingcathedral.bandcamp.com/
    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/timdragenoise/
    https://youtu.be/qcZ1K8Q_BUU

  • 21.11.2024 / ääneen: Marja Ahti, mevlido, Sulo Kolehmainen

    21.11.2024 / ääneen: Marja Ahti, mevlido, Sulo Kolehmainen

    This instance of ääneen brings Marja Ahti to the new space. She will perform her piece “Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth” for four-channel tape, live electronics, and amplified objects. The piece was premiered last year in Chicago, and has since been performed in Edition Festival VII and Sanitarium of Sound. Now Äänen Lumo brings the piece to Finland, where it has never been publicly performed before.

    As the opening act of the evening we will have a duo formed  by mevlido and Sulo Kolehmainen. They will perform an improvised set which examines the relationship of silence and noise with a Serge synthesizer, amplified objects and a computer carrying Max/MSP.

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    ääneen
    21.11.24
    19:00
    5 – 10 €
    Nokiantie 2 – 4
    2nd floor

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    Marja Ahti (b. 1981) is a Swedish-Finnish composer and sound artist based in Turku, Finland. Ahti works with field recordings and other acoustic sound material combined with synthesizers and electronic feedback in order to find the space where these sounds start to communicate. She makes music that rides on waves of slowly warping harmonies and mutating textures – rough edged, yet precise compositions, rich in detail.

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    mevlido is a practitioner of sonic arts dedicated to reinterpreting nature as an expressive medium. His work explores a state of listening that shifts between the real and the ineffable, his practice invites audiences to reconsider their relationship between sound and the environment.

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    Sulo Kolehmainen is an improviser and a sound artist currently based between Helsinki and Venezia who usually works with nonlinear feedback systems, field recordings and sonic material often categorised as “unwanted”. His engagement with sound often deals with memory, agency and inquiries about how the human condition and the so called natural world wrap around each other.

  • 07.11.2024 / äänes @ IDA Helsinki

    07.11.2024 / 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.

    Kahdeksas jakso lähetetään 07.11.2024 kello: 13–15. // The eight episode airs on November 7th, 2024 at 13–15.

    https://idaidaida.net/fi/ohjelmat/aanes

    Haastatellut / Interviewees: 

    Essi Hirvonen

    Vesa Lehko

    Kalle Vainio

    Soittolista / Playlist: 

    Lappländer – Dancing on Water Lillies (Wingspan, 2024)
    Tomutonttu – Uusi aamu (Halki pilvien, 2024)
    Vesa Lehko – Viikko34_bassoklara
    Essi Hirvonen – Sydänäänet (Pyhät, 2024)
    Essi Hirvonen – Elisabet ja Varvara (Pyhät, 2024)
    Oaagaada – Seagull Shapes (Music Of, 2024)
    Kalle Vainio – Listen, It’s Raining (The Land Where It Always Rains, 2024)
    Kalle Vainio – Music For Rainy Days (The Land Where It Always Rains, 2024)

  • 26.10.2024 / Ääneen: Gaudenz Badrutt, Ilia Belorukov & Jonas Kocher

    26.10.2024 / Ääneen: Gaudenz Badrutt, Ilia Belorukov & Jonas Kocher

    Äänen Lumo presents an evening of improvised music as a part of Ääneen-festival, which will take place as a series of events inaugurating the new space.

    Nokiantie 2 – 4, 2nd floor

    18:00 Doors
    18:15 Mancianti, Fonseca, Kolehmainen
    19:00 Gaudenz Badrutt, Ilia Belorukov, Jonas Kocher

    Performing in the first event an electroacoustic chamber music trio consisting of Gaudenz Badrutt (electronics), Ilia Belorukov (alto saxophone) and Jonas Kocher (accordion). The groups music is characterized by huge dynamic contrasts and a strong feeling for long improvisational developments.
    The trio has performed since 2014 in Russia, France, Switzerland and Serbia.

    As another act, another trio formed by Andrea Mancianti (electric guitar), Miguel Fonseca (electric violin, objects) and Sulo Kolehmainen (electronics, clarinet). This is their first performance together.

  • 25.10.2024 / Leyya Tawil / Atheer Soot

    25.10.2024 / Leyya Tawil / Atheer Soot

    Nokiantie 2-4 @ 6:00 PM

    Leyya Mona Tawil
    [also, Lime Rickey International] is an artist working with sound, dance, and hybrid transmissions. Tawil is a Syrian, Palestinian, American engaged in the world as such. Her performance and social practice works have been commissioned throughout Europe, the Arab world, and the states. She is the founding director of Arab.AMP – a platform for experimental music, live art, and ideas from the SWANA diaspora and allied communities.

    https://www.instagram.com/leyyamona/

    Atheer Soot
    Is a sound project by Helsinki-based visual/sound artist and performer Moe Mustafa.
    Atheer Soot, an Arabic phrase meaning “a sound that resonates in the void,” It focuses on the interconnection between memories and sound, taking listeners on a journey back in time to explore Moe’s childhood and translate those memories into atmospheric and drone soundscapes. For Moe, the process of sculpting sound is therapeutic, involving a deep dive into the subconscious where mind and intuition are free to wander.
    The sound of Atheer Soot shifts from soothing to melancholic, creating sonic worlds that comment on the age of social media, glitched subjectivities, and emotional detachment. This project invites listeners to experience the resonance of memory through carefully crafted sound design, offering a meditative escape into Moe Mustafa’s reflective auditory landscapes.

    https://www.instagram.com/atheersoot/

    The concert is followed by a conversation between Leyya and Moe about the current political situation in Gaza and the region.

  • 10.10.2024 / äänes @ IDA Helsinki

    10.10.2024 / 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.

    Seitsemäs jakso lähetetään 10.10.2024 kello: 13–15. // The seventh episode airs on October 10th, 2024 at 13–15.

    https://idaidaida.net/fi/ohjelmat/aanes

    Haastatellut / Interviewees: 

    Marc Reid Bulatovic

    Fredrik Rasten

    Soittolista / Playlist: 

    TULOSSA PIAN! / COMING SOON!

  • 20.09.2024 / Improvised event #1 

    20.09.2024 / Improvised event #1 

    Improvised event #1

    20.09.2024 at 18

    Nokiantie 2–4

    A new event series for collective improvisation sessions.

    The first event will feature three live sets after which the stage is open – bring your instrument!

    Voluntary entrance fee 3 – 10 €

    Acts

    Lauri Hyvärinen & Jukka Kääriäinen DUO (electric guitar x 2)

    Miio Holopainen SOLO (violin)

    Natalia Castrillón & Diogo Fernandes DUO (harp & saxophone)

    Schedule

    18:00 Open

    18:30 1st set

    19:15 2nd set

    20:00 3rd set

    21:00 Open stage

    22:00 End

    photograph by Henri Antikainen