HelsinkiXperiment: Norðvegr ed.

An Experimental and Improvised Music Event

 Friday 12 Dec 2025
 19:00–23:00 (doors 18:00)
 Äänenlumo, Nokiantie 2–4, Helsinki
 Free Entry

HelsinkiXperiment is an ongoing performance series dedicated to bringing visiting artists into dialogue with Helsinki’s experimental scene. Each edition invites traveling performers to collaborate with locally based artists through experimentalinterdisciplinary improvisation that blends sound, movement, and audiovisual practices.

For its second edition, HelsinkiXperiment focuses on Nordic and cross-border artistic exchange. The program features two traveling musicians, one from Norway and one from Iran, who will collaborate with Helsinki-based experimental artists in a shared improvisational encounter. Rooted in a Norwegian approach to improvisation characterized by spaciousness, interaction, and a dramaturgical sensibility, this edition enters into conversation with Helsinki’s experimental scene.

Program

19:00 – 19:30 Miio Holopainen & Olli
19:45 – 20:15 Astrid Helena Frej Møller
20:30 – 21:00 Pajuh
21:15 – 21:45 Audun Aschim & Mahan Mohammadi
22:00 – TBC

A production by Flux Cultural Association

Curator: Hamidreza Keshvarpajuh (Pajuh)
Poster and Motion Design: Otso Kauniskangas

Supported by:
The Norwegian-Finnish Cultural Foundation
Finnish Cultural Foundation

English below!

Suhina Klubi on Helsingissä järjestettävä tapahtumasarja, joka tarjoaa improvisoitua ja kokeellista musiikkia sekä äänitaidetta. Vuoden 2025 aikana kuullaan improvisoidun musiikin ulkomaisia ja kotimaisia kokoonpanoja.

Syksyn 2025 viidennessä konsertissa esiintyvät Antti Lötjönen & Katariin Raska. Konserttipaikkana on Toinen Kerros Vallilassa.

Antti Lötjönen on suomalaisen jazzin keskeisimpiä tekijöitä – monipuolinen basisti ja säveltäjä, joka on yli kahden vuosikymmenen ajan ollut näkyvästi esillä suomalaisen jazzin terävimmässä kärjessä. Hän on esiintynyt yli 30 maassa ja soittanut yli sadalla levyllä, muun muassa yhtyeissä Ilmiliekki Quartet, The Five Corners Quintet, Verneri Pohjola Quartet, Aki Rissanen Trio, Mikko Innanen Autonomus, Timo Lassy Band ja 3TM. Lötjönen johtaa omaa yhtyettään Antti Lötjönen Quintet East.

Hänen työnsä on huomioitu muun muassa Yrjö-palkinnolla (2024) ja Pori Jazzin Vuoden taiteilija -tunnustuksella (2015). Lötjönen on myös osa valtionpalkittua Hietsu is Happening! -kollektiivia.
Kansainvälisesti Lötjönen on kiertänyt Eurooppaa muun muassa Jeff “Tain” Watts Trion jäsenenä ja esiintynyt mm. Blue Note -klubeilla New Yorkissa, Tokiossa ja Milanossa sekä merkittävillä festivaaleilla Euroopassa, Yhdysvalloissa, Kanadassa ja Australiassa.

Vuonna 2025 hän julkaisi kitaristi Kalle Kaliman kanssa duolevyn Stings, Bites and Scratches, jonka myötä duo kiersi laajasti konsertoimassa.

Katariin Raska on monipuolinen muusikko ja improvisoija, joka asuu Tallinnassa, Virossa. Häntä kiehtovat soittimiensa estetiikka ja soittomahdollisuudet, ja hänen projekteillaan on usein yhteys perinnemusiikkiin ja vapaaseen improvisaatioon.

Hän on suorittanut kansanmusiikin kandidaatin tutkinnon Tarton yliopiston Viljandin kulttuuriakatemiassa (2010) sekä kandidaatin ja maisterin tutkinnot Norjan musiikkiakatemiassa (2012, 2016).
Katariin tekee yhteistyötä eri alojen taiteilijoiden, kuten kirjailijoiden, runoilijoiden, kansanmuusikoiden ja vapaaimprovisoijien kanssa.

Katariin on yksi virolaisen munniharppumusiikin keskeisistä hahmoista ja improvisoidun säkkipillimusiikin uranuurtaja Virossa.

Tapahtumaa tukee: Koneen Säätiö & Helsingin kaupunki
Konsertti alkaa klo 19.00
Liput 15€/8€

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ENGLISH

Suhina Klubi serves as a platform for improvised and experimental music and sound art within Helsinki. During the year 2025 we present improvised music ensembles from Finland and abroad.

In the fourth edition of Suhina Klubi for the fall 2025, we are
proud to host Antti Lötjönen & Katariin Raska. Concert venue is Toinen Kerros in Vallila.

Antti Lötjönen is one of the central figures in Finnish jazz – a versatile bassist and composer who has been a prominent presence at the forefront of Finnish jazz for over two decades. He has performed in more than 30 countries and played on over a hundred recordings, including with groups such as Ilmiliekki Quartet, The Five Corners Quintet, Verneri Pohjola Quartet, Aki Rissanen Trio, Mikko Innanen Autonomus, Timo Lassy Band, and 3TM. Lötjönen also leads his own ensemble, Antti Lötjönen Quintet East.

His work has been recognized with awards such as the Yrjö Award (2024) and Pori Jazz Artist of the Year (2015). Lötjönen is also part of the state-awarded collective Hietsu is Happening!
Internationally, Lötjönen has toured Europe as a member of Jeff “Tain” Watts Trio and has performed at Blue Note clubs in New York, Tokyo, and Milan, as well as at major festivals across Europe, the United States, Canada, and Australia.

In 2025, he released a duo album titled Stings, Bites and Scratches with guitarist Kalle Kalima, followed by an extensive concert tour.

Media
“…a prime mover in the current renaissance of Finnish jazz…”
— Jazz Journal (UK)

“Antti Lötjönen shines both as a bass player and as a composer.”�— France Musique (FR)

“It is the full, round and reliable bass by Antti Lötjönen that holds the pieces together, drives and structures them.”�— Der Spiegel (GER)

“Ilta meni todellakin täysin euforian puolelle!”�— Jussi Niemi, Soundi (ALQE, Tampereen G Livelab, 1.2.2023)

Katariin Raska is a multi-instrumentalist and improviser based in Tallinn, Estonia. Intrigued by the esthetics of her instruments and their playing possibilities, her projects often have a common link
with traditional music and free improvisation.

She holds a BA in traditional music from University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy (2010) and BA and MA from Norwegian Academy of Music (2012, 2016). Katariin collaborates with artists from various disciplines like writers, poets, folk musicians and
free improvisers.

She is one of the front figures in Estonian jaws harp music and the pioneer of improvisational music on Estonian bagpipes.

Suhina Klubi is supported by Kone foundation and city of Helsinki
Concert starts at 7pm
Tickets: 15€/8

PERUTTU / CANCELLED

Kuihtuminen ja kuolema on kolmas ja viimeinen osa Just a Gardener -esitystrilogiasta. Esitys on vuoden 2025 Höyhentämön pääohjelmistossa. Butotanssia sekä videotaidetta yhdistävän teoksen koollekutsujana, koreografina ja tanssijana toimii Minja Mertanen. (English below.)

Kolmiosainen teossarja etenee luonnon kiertokulun mukaan. Teossarjan ensimmäinen osa Kaipuu esitettiin Galleria Kasvihuoneen avajaisissa Helsingissä kesällä 2021 sekä Ekata Teatren Blendi-tapahtumassa Bottalla Helsingissä syksyllä 2021. Kaipuu kuvasi kevään ensimmäisiä tapahtumia luonnossa ja puutarhurissa: Kuinka kasvin siemenet heräävät eloon pitkän talven jälkeen. Miltä tuntuu puutarhurin pakottava tarve upottaa sormet multaan ja tuntea yhteys juuri tähän maahan, tähän paikkaan ja aikaan; kuinka maa ravitsee myös ihmistä.

Teossarjan toinen osa Kasvu ja kukoistus sai ensi-iltansa Performance Sirkuksella Helsingissä kesäkuussa 2023 ja sitä esitettiin Jyväskylän kesä -festivaalilla heinäkuussa 2023 ja sen tuotti Höyhentämö. Teossarjan toinen osa sijoittui luonnon kiertokulussa keskikesään, aikaan jolloin luonto on kukkeimmillaan. Samalla esitys oli ylistys eri tavoin ja eri ikäkausina kukkivalle, monimuotoiselle naisluonnolle.

Nyt tekeillä oleva kolmas osa, Kuihtuminen ja kuolema etenee luonnon syyskauteen ja talvehtimiseen: lakastumiseen, mätänemiseen, käpertymiseen ja hiljaiseen kuoleman prosessiin. Samalla esitys juhlistaa elämää, luonnon kiertokulkua ja syklisyyttä; vain loppuminen voi mahdollistaa uuden alkamisen. Kuolema tapahtumana on yhteiskunnassamme vaiettu ja piilotettu. Esitys tuo kuolemaan johtavan prosessin näyttämölliseen tarkasteluun ja haastaa meidät kohtaamaan oman rajallisuutemme ja haavoittuvaisuutemme.

Esitys lähestyy ei-inhimillistä maailmaa luonnon prosessien kautta. Esitys kehollistaa syksyn ja talven prosesseja toisten kasvien kuollessa ja toisten vetäytyessä lepotilaan. Esityksessä käsitellään paitsi ihmisen kuolevaisuutta niin myös luonnon kuihtumista ja syklisyyttä, ihmiselämää suurempia ajallisia kaaria.

Kuolema on yksi harvoista asioista joka koskettaa meitä kaikkia sukupuoleen, alkuperään, luokkaan, etuoikeuksiin, taitoihin ja lajiin katsomatta. Näin se tasa-arvoistaa meitä paitsi muiden ihmisten, myös muiden eliölajien kesken.

Minja Mertanen on pitkän linjan butôtaiteilija joka on työskennellyt butôn parissa 20 vuoden ajan. Hän on koulutukseltaan tanssinopettaja, tanssi-liiketerapeutti, joogaohjaaja ja opiskelee parhaillaan somaattista liiketerapiaa. Mertanen työskentelee tanssijana, esitystentekijänä sekä esitystaiteilijana Todellisuuden tutkimuskeskuksella, Toisissa tiloissa ryhmässä sekä Höyhentämössä. Mertanen työskentelee butôtaiteilijana ja -opettajana Suomessa ja ulkomailla, viime vuosina lähinnä Espanjassa ja Ranskassa. Mertanen on perustanut Be(a)ware Butoh Festivaalin Helsinkiin.

Koreografia:Minja Mertanen
Taiteellinen työryhmä ja esiintyminen: Minja Mertanen, Giorgio Convertito,
Juha Sääski, Aarni Korpela ja Teemu Päivinen
Valot ja videot: Henrik Miettinen
Musiikki: Tatu Rönkkö
Puvut: Suvi Hänninen
Tuotanto: Höyhentämö
Hinta: 25€/15€

Esitykset 8/9/10 Joulukuuta
Toinen kerros, Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki

Withering and Death is the third and final part of the Just a Gardener performance trilogy. The performance will be in the main program of Höyhentämö in 2025. Minja Mertanen is the convener, choreographer and dancer of the work, which combines buto dance and video art.

The three-part series of works progresses according to the cycle of nature. The first part of the series, Kaipuu, was performed at the opening of Galleria Kasvihuone in Helsinki in the summer of 2021 and at Ekata Teatre’s Blendi event at Botta in Helsinki in the fall of 2021. Kaipuu depicted the first events of spring in nature and in the gardener: How the seeds of a plant come to life after a long winter. What does it feel like for a gardener to sink their fingers into the soil and feel a connection to this very land, this place and time; how the land also nourishes people.

The second part of the series, Growth and Blossoming, premiered at Performance Sirkus in Helsinki in June 2023 and was performed at the Jyväskylä Summer Festival in July 2023 and was produced by Höyhentämö. The second part of the series was set in the cycle of nature in midsummer, a time when nature is at its most blossoming. At the same time, the performance was a praise for the diverse, feminine nature that blooms in different ways and at different ages.

The third part, Withering and Death, currently in progress, progresses to the autumn season and wintering of nature: wilting, rotting, curling up and the silent process of death. At the same time, the performance celebrates life, the cycle and cyclicity of nature; only an end can enable a new beginning. Death as an event is silenced and hidden in our society. The performance brings the process leading to death into dramatic examination and challenges us to face our own limitations and vulnerability.

The performance approaches the non-human world through natural processes. The performance embodies the processes of autumn and winter as some plants die and others retreat into dormancy. The performance deals not only with human mortality but also with the withering and cyclicity of nature, temporal arcs larger than human life.

Death is one of the few things that touches us all, regardless of gender, origin, class, privilege, skills, or species. In this way, it equalizes us not only with other people, but also with other species.

Minja Mertanen is a long-time butoh artist who has worked with butoh for 20 years. She is a trained dance teacher, dance movement therapist, yoga instructor and is currently studying somatic movement therapy. Mertanen works as a dancer, performer and performance artist at the Research Center for Reality, the Other Spaces group and Höyhentämö. Mertanen works as a butoh artist and teacher in Finland and abroad, in recent years mainly in Spain and France. Mertanen is the founder of Be(a)ware Butoh Festival. 

Choreography: Minja Mertanen
Artistic team and performance: Minja Mertanen, Giorgio Convertito, Juha Sääski, Aarni Korpela and Teemu Päivinen
Lights and videos: Henrik Miettinen
Music: Tatu Rönkkö
Costumes: Suvi Hänninen
Production: Höyhentämö
Price: 25€/15€

Performances 8/9/10 of December at Toinen kerros, Nokiantie 2-4.

Brusnika, or lingonberry in English, offers a sonic vitamin portion in the middle of darkness. Through the use of analog and digital music technology in their practice, six artists will share with the audience their soft, sharp, energizing, calm and playful sets. Brusnika is organized by Helsinki-based artist and sound designer Alya Grad. 

Sasha Wilde & Joni Judén

Sasha Wilde is a Lithuanian-born artist whose journey has taken them from a small-town childhood to 15 formative years in London, and now to a home in Helsinki. Sasha’s ritualistic sound & performance practice moves between alt-pop songwriting, electronic experimental music & sound art. Their soaring, visceral voice anchors the performance, shifting between tender melodic lines, extended vocal techniques with raw, guttural exclamations & spoken samples. It’s live audio essay meets avant-pop gig meets queer surreal avantgarde.

Artist collaboration has enabled Sasha’s practice to span a variety of mediums, leading to international performances and residencies, composing sound for films, and publishing their writing and translations. Their work has been featured and presented internationally at the ICA, Somerset House, Glastonbury Festival, GirlsInFilm, Promo TV, Iklectik, Strangers Press (UK), OUT magazine (USA), IRCAM forum Centre Pompidou (FR), Lithuanian National TV, Kaunas Artists’ House, Kreivės film festival, Sapfo festival, Opus Radio (LT), and others.

At Brusnika, Sasha will be joined by Joni Judén 

Joni Judén  (he/him b.2.9.1980) is an artist, musician & producer, an AiR coordinator and host. Joni is the co-founder of TUO TUO, an artist-led project space & residency, as well as the head of its affiliate record label, True Aether. Over the past 20+years under different aliases (Celestial Trax, Visions of Trees, Sisilisko, Linnuissa, et al.) Joni has explored the intersection of electronic music and human(e) expression, delving deep into collage-like textural soundscapes and sonic storytelling. Between 2000-2017 Joni resided in London and New York, where he worked in collaboration with contemporary artists  and collectives, including Rinse (UK), PTP (USA), Quay Dash (NYC), On The Sly (USA), Amniote Editions (DK) and DisFig (Berlin). Joni has performed and toured widely, including performances at MoMA PS1 (NYC), Glastonbury festival (UK), Roundhouse (London), Berghain (Berlin) and SXSW (USA). Joni’s music has been featured and reviewed by the likes of Pitchfork, The Wire, Resident Advisor, NPR Music and BBC Radio 6 (UK). Joni is one half of Death by Landscape, an experimental music group with Victor Gogly.

EILIEN

Experimental ambient pop with coded sounds and ethereal vocals. It’s been a while since the release of Eilien’s debut album Digital Lovers  (2021): a 10-track trip through glowing ambience, mesmerising dream pop, musique concrète and deconstructed trance as described by DJ MAG. In 2025 there is less digital daydreaming and more contemplation over the darkness and fragility of our time.

Vili Aarre

Vili Aarre is an artist who makes music, sound and sound designs. At the core of Vili’s practice is combining swag and nerdy. With a background in electric guitar -music and dramaturgically coherent stage art Vili combines the affects of multiple genres to a visceral mass aiming to puncture the fabric of everyday with a little transcendence. Vili’s current music consists of sound beings as pompous melodies, distortion, uncanny colors and collapsing tremolos. It feeds on the sun, the hyperreal, the dum and the ancient.

Lumi Mannermaa 

Lumi Mannermaa is a sound artist based in Helsinki who works between the realms of failure and success, using absurdity as a medium for communication. In her practice she uses augmented toy instruments, free improvisation, pataphysical conceptuality and modern day nuisances, such as social media content streams, covering subjects such as mistake, the subconscious, and the ugly and humorous, to name few.
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Alya Grad

Alya Grad is Helsinki-based sound designer and electronic music artist. Touched by industrial tones, the sonic signature of Alya Grad unifies softness and sharpness, blending noises and rhythms into layered dreamlike stories. Alya is currently working on her first upcoming album. She will open the evening with an introduction set specially designed for Brusnika. 
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Warmly welcome to Brusnika! Come alone, come with your friends and loved ones. Come to escape the coldness, come to enjoy electronic experiments and give us your support! 

Time:
21.11.2025
At 19, Doors 18.30

Place:
Toinen Kerros (Äänen Lumo), Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki

Price:
Pay what you can 5-10-15€, extra support 20€+  via Mobile Pay or PayPal  
(The instruction will be provided at the entrance) 

Give us your support! 

Practical information: 

• Brusnika and the Äänen Lumo space follow the safer space guidelines. Please read: https://todellisuus.fi/turvallisemmantilanperiaatteet/
• Children are welcome with adults, please use the noise-cancelling headphones/ earmuffs for children 
• Regular earplugs for adults will be provided by Brusnika
• Doors 18.30. The event starts at 19, with a short breaks between sets. 
• Payment instruction will be provided at the entrance, all money will be distributed to the artists
• The address is: Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki, 2nd floor. Once you are in the space, go past the Playhouse bar, and follow the Äänen Lumo signs on the walls & doors. 
• Unfortunately the space is currently not fully accessible. There is a possibility for accessible entrance via the elevator from the backyard door, but there are no accessible toilets. For more details please see the information about the space or contact Äänen Lumo: https://aanenlumo.com/toinen-kerros/new-space/

Other event details: 

• Brusnika will try to serve some tea/ non-alcoholic drinks. You’re welcome to bring your own beverages. Please, stay responsible, take care of yourself and others around you 

Climara Forte

Footwork experiment blessed by sacred plastic pieces,,, climara forte makes a comeback with new rythms
Link: Bandcamp

Semot Semot Posa

Semot semot posa is a dream band by two lovers. Theater makers and performers Minne Mäki and Io Pettersson utilise their bodies to dream big in sound, music and performance, at the same time being radically honest and amateur. They play softly with hardware, hardly with software and everything in between to find places to connect and grow.

Ján Števuliak

ján is a composer, organist and multidisciplinary artist. they like contrast very much (perhaps because their main identities of a catholic organist and a wannabe ballroom-voguing diva are set to be at odds), and through its use they try to synthesise the weird feeling of incongruity when its standalone components are composed next to each other.

be it mixing high art with low art, mess with clarity, kellotapuli with a kirkkovene (kippis xD), or ugly chords with pretty chords; they try to play with the confusion, look for the sense of it all and suggest that diversity is indeed beautiful and the dialogue is necessary

on being comforted, on loving and being loved. on changing together, slowly, peacefully, but irreversibly.
sense of time passing, yet offering timelessness at the same time.
a set with its own rules resembling a game.
a transformation from innocent, silly and light-hearted state of being to one with deeply profound but melancholic, realistic and heartbreaking quality
Link: Bandcamp
Link: A performance with cellist Rebecca Burden, for TIDES at SET Woolwich, 12/22.

Richard Hronský

Richard Hronský (2002) is a Western Carpathian transdisciplinary artist, musician, and “ambient shepherd” – he plays the traditional overtone bass wind instrument, the fujara. In his live performances, he focuses on decomposing the sound of the fujara through electronic processing, denationalizing it, and together with compositional harmonies and collected field recordings, shaping them into boundless dreamscapes. These landscapes mourn the sorrows of the world, reveal intimacy through nostalgia and frozen memory, yet at the same time invite contemplation and silence. He has been active in music production since the age of thirteen.

He has released three albums, the most recent, Pohreb (Funeral), published in September 2025 by mappa editions (Slovakia – international). In 2024–2025 he studied in Athens, where he actively participated in the experimental music events ATD held in the city’s underground sewer system.

Hronský also organizes DIY events – collective exhibitions and concerts in abandoned buildings or natural environments. He initiated/curated the exhibition Rozptyl (Dispersion, 2023) in Bratislava, which brought together more than 150 artists from over ten EU countries and was realized with almost no financial support.

Through his approaches, he continuously stimulates free creativity, questions competitiveness, and reminds us of the encouragement – and above all the kindness – that remain in artistic creation.
Link: Bandcamp

Time:
17. November 2025, 18:00 (doors),
Voluntary entrance/donation

Place
Toinen Kerros (Äänen Lumo)
Nokiantie 2-4, 00510 Helsinki

Performances combining live music and videogames by:

/ kashyyk_culture
/ Aatos Ketvel & Santtu Kauppila
/ Bakery
/ November Rain x June Midsummer

@ Toinen kerros, Nokiantie 2-4

Doors: 18:00
Performances: 18:30 ->

Entrance 0e – 10e, 5e recommendation

See you there! 

Facebook event here

MUSA ULLAKOLLA 10

MSHR  Network Entity AV set (US)
LAU NAU  Quadraphonic
OLIMPIA SPLENDID
KOMUGI ANDO (JP/FI)
DJ MLÄMLÄ in-between the shows

7.11. 2025 Toinen kerros

doors 19.30
live music starts at 20.00 ->

tickets 5-10-15 €