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.
Yhdestoista jakso lähetetään 27.02.2025 kello: 13–15. // The eleventh episode airs on February 27th, 2025, at 13–15.
Join us for a special night of improvisation – and a celebration for Juho’s EP release!
Time: 21st of February, 2025 Place: Äänen Lumo – toinen kerros, Nokiantie 2-4, Vallila Helsinki Tickets: 5/10 e
Schedule:
Doors open 18:40 –
19:00 – Teea Aarnio (voice, electronics) and Wilson Tanner Smith (cello, voice, electronics)
20:00 – Juho Tuomainen (guitar, electronics)
JUHO TUOMAINEN
Juho Tuomainen is an ambient guitarist who creates improvised atmospheres as a vehicle for meditation. The event celebrates his latest work “Improv_Loops_Vol.1”, that will be published on 21st of February by Oneiric Tones.
The dreamy, live-ambient EP release features three unedited atmospheres, each improvised in a single take. As the first volume in an ongoing series that explores the electric guitar as a self-sufficient soundscaping tool, this work invites a calm and contemplative state of mind, making it a perfect complement to relaxed interior spaces or moments of deep reflection.
Tuomainen’s calm and contemplative sound reflects his feelings on the impermanence of the human condition, as well as his affection towards the delicate nature of Japanese aesthetics. With a creative use of a looper, he likes to build imaginary environments, while letting the music breathe and speak for itself. Through his music, he wants to bring us back to our innermost questions and remind us that we are here only for a short while.
On December 15th 2024 Tuomainen released his first single.
TEEA AARNIO & WILSON TANNER SMITH
Teea Aarnio and Wilson Tanner Smith represents a delicate meeting of many musical backgrounds across improvisation, electronics and interdisciplinary performance. The duo met during year 2024 at the same time that they played live together for the first time. They were introduced to each other during an improvised music performance, facilitated by Sergio Castrillon. On Friday they will again meet on the stage to share an improvised musical conversation.
Smith is a cellist, composer, and multi-instrumentalist from the contemporary and free jazz/free improvisation communities of Chicago, with a sensitive approach to sound and space, often creating work for site-specific performances drawing from the latent sound, historical, and cultural associations of a given place and moment.
Aarnio is a global-facing Helsinki based vocalist-composer, improviser, songwriter, activist and interdisciplinary artist. She combines voice and electronics with creative use of loopers, and her works draws inspiration from the various never-ending decolonial processes, tightly related to f. ex. musical aesthetics. Aarnio worked for ten years in a professional soundpainting improvisation orchestra and her trilingual folk fusion debut album ‘Väki’ was released 2023.
Welcome to the Finnish debut performance of the Berlin-based duo TRANSSONIC!
Date: Sunday 16.2.2025 Start time: 19:00 Venue: Äänen Lumo, Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki Tickets: 5-10€ (door)
Transsonic (Viola Yip and Nicola L. Hein) is a Berlin-based transmedia duo. Since 2018, they have been joining forces to develop new works at the intersection of instrument building, incorporating new technologies and developing embodied performance with sound and light. They create immersive site-specific performances and installations bridging the vibrations of light and sound. Trained as musicians, both look into the ontology of sound and how musical experience can be transformed beyond its common material—sound. For their artistic research project Transsonic, they explore light as an expanded musical material. They research and create performances, improvising between lights and sounds as equally essential but dialectical musical materials.
They have been commissioned by Next Festival Bratislava, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, Seanaps Festival Leipzig, and Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry at the University of Chicago. They have also presented at New York University, Experimental Intermedia (NYC), CCRMA at Stanford University, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Sonic Lab in SARC at Queen’s University Belfast, Huddersfield, Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester, AIMC Conference at Oxford University, New Interface and Musical Expression (NIME) conference in Shanghai and Utrecht, Gare du Nord and Academy of Music Basel, Academy of Music Luzern, Klex Festival in Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong Arts Center, De Tanker in Amsterdam, Musikhochschule Lübeck, Blurred Edges Festival in Hamburg, Alte Feuerwache in Köln, Experimentik Berlin and Radialsystem Berlin.
Join us for an exceptional concert at the Äänen Lumo, featuring an international line up of METRIC teachers together with members of the Finnish improvisation community.
METRIC is an international network of several leading European conservatoires, dedicated to advancing improvisation teaching in higher music education. While many of its members are active in the broader improvisation scene, this concert aims to connect with the Finnish creative community, especially those not affiliated with any institution, which is often the case in free improvisation communities. The Sibelius Academy is a member of the Metric network.
Äänen Lumo association promotes experimental sonic arts in Finland, and faciliates interaction, communality and exchange between artists, associations and collectives.
Äänen Lumo Space is a new community-driven, low threshold, DIY space for presenting, practicing, and encountering sound based art practices.
Further information: Anna Huuskonen-Kuhlefelt, anna.huuskonen-kuhlefelt@uniarts.fi
METRIC 2025 Helsinki
The Sibelius Academy, Uniarts Helsinki hosts the annual Intensive international improvisation week as member of the METRIC Improvisation Network. The programme features workshops in groups, masterclasses, discussion moments and concerts. Read more about the METRIC network: https://metricimpro.eu/
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.
Kymmenes jakso lähetetään 30.01.2025 kello: 13–15. // The tenth episode airs on January 30th, 2025, at 13–15.
Renzo Pajella – Wallnut (Tutti Frutti Bella Donna, Sumu Levyt 2025) Renzo Pajella – Forward (Tutti Frutti Bella Donna, Sumu Levyt 2025) Ville Savimaa – Hat hat (Hat hat, Sumu Levyt 2022)
Marie Takahashi & Jukka Kääriäinen (Live at Myymälä2 25.4.2024, excerpt) Beat Keller & Jukka Kääriäinen – Crane (Birds of All Kinds, julkaistaan 2025) Choi Joonyong/Hong Chulki/Kawaguchi Takahiro – 03 (aimless, painless, timeless, Balloon & Needle 2024) John Grinch – Great Amber: Movement (Climate Control Systems, maaheli editions 2024)
Kalle Hermanni Autio (esit. Orest Smovzh) – Call it anything (Kalle Hermanni Autio : Kootut teokset sooloviululle, 2025) Kalle Hermanni Autio (esit. Orest Smovzh) – Couch (Kalle Hermanni Autio : Kootut teokset sooloviululle, 2025) Kalle Hermanni Autio (esit. Orest Smovzh) – Maximum Yeah Yeah (Kalle Hermanni Autio : Kootut teokset sooloviululle, 2025)
Äänen Lumo warmly welcomes you to a Seijiro Murayama 2-day residence on Dec 7-8. The main focus is a collective improvisation workshop led by Murayama, open to anyone with an interest in improvisation. In addition, Murayama will perform solo on Sat Dec 7 and on Sun Dec 8 a public workshop performance takes place.
Workshop contents:
1. group improvisations – trying some methods only to share the space and time 2. physical exercises to activate our perceptions – working on breath, voice, walking – experiencing a dynamic way of listening 3. playing solos 4. trying some rules (based on permutations etc) to improvise collectively 5. improvising with no specific rules, then with participant initiatives
Schedule:
Sat Dec 7 15h-18h Workshop day 1 19h Seijiro Murayama solo performance
Sun Dec 8 12h-15h Workshop day 2 16h Workshop public performance
TICKETS (find them HERE) Workshop fee: 20 € Seijiro Murayama solo: 5 – 10 € Workshop public performance: free
Seijiro Murayama is a percussion-vocal improviser, born in 1957 in Nagasaki, Japan. He has been working within the field of improvisation since 1980. He toured the USA with Keiji Haino as part of the seminal psychedelic band Fushitsusha. Returning to Japan after a period in NYC he continued playing drums and electronics in K.K. Null‘s noise/rock band A.N.P. (Absolut Null Punkt), while further exploring free improvisation. A relocation to France in 1999 led to collaborations that extended into dance, theatre and performance as well as ongoing partnerships with musicians Jean-Luc Guionnet, Eric Cordier, Michel Doneda, Mattin, Lionel Marchetti, among many others. He uses voice and percussion and tries to apply his practice of improvisation to other fields of creative activities. Murayama is the co-author of the book “Idioms and idiots” (in English: http://www.mattin.org/recordings/IDIOMS_AND_IDIOTS.html; in Finnish: https://komeetta.info/2022/02/17/idiomit-ja-idiootit/)
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.
Yhdeksäs jakso lähetetään 05.12.2024 kello: 13–15. // The ninth episode airs on December 5th, 2024 at 13–15.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
