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 present Brad Henkel & Jukka Kääriäinen

Brad Henkel is an American trumpeter and composer currently living in Berlin, Germany. He focuses primarily on improvisation, utilizing a wide palette of timbres from both composed and non-composed sounds. He creates and performs music based on a blend of jazz, contemporary music, and Echtzeitmusik traditions. He is a member of the KIM collective.

Jukka Kääriäinen is a musician focused on experimental music. Depending on the situation, Jukka’s instruments include a prepared acoustic guitar or an electric guitar with a backpack full of effects. Kääriäinen has performed in many European countries and at international festivals in the United Kingdom, Spain, and France. In addition to solo concerts, he regularly performs in ensembles and has collaborated with musicians such as Teppo Hauta-Aho, Kalle Kalima, Harri Sjöström, Axel Dörner, Kriton Beyer, Rieko Okuda, Anil Eraslan, Mikko Innanen, and Joel Grip. He has also premiered works by composers such as Riikka Talvitie, Sebastian Hilli, Sami Klemola, Clara de Asís, and Tytti Arola.

DATE AND TIME:
25.10.25 klo 19:00
PLACE:
Toinen Kerros (Nokiantie 2-4), Helsinki

Libero Mureddu – physically modelled piano and effects; Eevi Oittinen – performative drawing.

Their collaborative project, Fragments (active since 2024), explores through improvisation the space where visuals and sound share equal importance.

Tickets: donation between 5 and 15€ via MobilePay or cash.

The concert will be recorded.

BIOS

Libero Mureddu is an Italian-Finnish pianist, improviser, composer, and researcher based in Helsinki. Active in the Finnish and European improvised music scene, he currently leads the ‘murmur trio’ with bassist Andrea Grossi and drummer Cristiano Calcagnile. In his research projects he combines improvisation, composition, digital audiovisual projections, and algorithmic scores to create unpredictable performative scenarios. He teaches free and electroacoustic improvisation at the Sibelius Academy.

Eevi Oittinen is a visual artist fascinated by the interaction of the visual and the sonic arts. Her work includes traditional painting in mixed media as well as interdisciplinary collaborations that bring together painting and contemporary music. With an analogue overhead projector, Oittinen’s drawing becomes a (mute) musical instrument. In direct dialogue with improvised music, free from the hierarchy of one illustrating the other, focus is on presence and communication.

Unfortunately the event is cancelled! / Tapahtuma peruttu

A night of improvisation blending strings, voices and flute with the acoustics of the spacious Äänen Lumo. 

Performers:
Biliana Voutchkova – violin/voice (Bulgaria/Germany)
Heliä Mailiis Viirakivi – voice/flute (Finland)
Kristjan Kannukene – viola/voice (Estonia)

Biliana Voutchkova is a dynamic, thoroughly engaged interdisciplinary artist, violinist, composer-performer, improvisor and curator with highly individual, unconventional artistic language. Based between Berlin and her rural residency on the black sea coast of Bulgaria, Biliana works internationally as a soloist, in group and collaborative projects with renowned artists and with ensembles. She is the founder and curator of the DARA String Festival and member of the faculty at the Academy of Arts Bern/HKB Bern.

Kristjan Kannukene is an Estonian violist-vocalist, electric guitarist, improviser-composer and intermedia artist, researching the symbiosis of viola and voice and leading the festival of improvised arts – HETKfEST.

Heliä Mailiis Viirakivi is a versatile Finnish vocalist-flutist, performer, improviser, and composer working across innovative new music, experimental music, improvisation, and interdisciplinary concepts.

Free entrance, we suggest a 5–15 € donation to the musicians (MobilePay or cash)

Cassette release party by Giant Corn and friends!
16.10. at 19.00 in Toinen Kerros

“A shed is a place where rarely used objects get stored and eventually forgotten. However the objects in a shed hold enough importance to keep, as there might be memories connected to them. It’s a place for semi-useful objects, too useful to get rid of, but unnecessary in daily life. What can these objects tell us, what kind of life have they had?”

An evening of performances and films, presented inside an actual shed!

Line-up:

19:00 doors open

19:20 Juan Duarte

20:00 Film by Shubhangi Singh

20:20 Kanttoripoika

21:00 Film by Hanan and Saara Mahbouba

21:20 Giant Corn

22:00 DJ Midnight Mangonada

Be there or be □

Saturday 4.10. at 18 / lauantai 4.10. klo 18

Kaleva – A journey into the folklore of the Baltic Sea through improvised music and movement

Kaleva is a performance inspired by Finno-Ugric folklore. The performance awakens ancient symbols through sound and movement, offering the audience a timeless journey into the heritage of the Baltic Sea region. The performance intertwines peoples and traditions – Estonian and Finnish cultural roots find common ground and artistic expression together with artists from Japan and South Korea.

Matka Itämeren kansanperinteeseen improvisoidun musiikin ja liikkeen kautta.

Kaleva on musiikillinen esitys, joka ammentaa inspiraationsa suomalais-ugrilaisesta kansanperinteestä. Esitys herättää muinaiset symbolit eloon musiikin ja liikkeen kautta ja tarjoaa yleisölle ajattoman matkan Itämeren alueen kansanperinteeseen. Esityksessä kansat ja perinteet kietoutuvat yhteen – virolaiset ja suomalaiset kulttuurijuuret löytävät yhteisen perustan ja taiteellisen ilmaisun yhdessä japanilaisten ja eteläkorealaisten taiteilijoiden kanssa.

Performers / Esiintyjät
Annika Johanna Sirkiä (FI), tuba / tuuba
Kristjan Kannukene (EE), viola / alttoviulu
Sakiko Ishii (JP), kantele
Dongbin Lee (KR), dance / tanssi

Free entrance, we suggest a 5–15 € donation to the musicians (MobilePay or cash)
Vapaa pääsy, vapaaehtoinen tukimaksu 5–15 € esiintyjille (MobilePay tai käteinen)

Come join us for an evening satiated with lush sounds from a variety of sonic territories. Four artists, four distinct approaches to the craft of ambient, drone, and electronica, with four distinct outcomes.

Kernal (SWI)
Edward Trethowan (UK/FIN)
Resonant House (FIN)
Odeur (FIN)

3.10. in Toinen Kerros (Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki)
Doors at 19, shows at 19:30-22.
Free entry, suggested fee of 5-15€ (cash or Mobilepay)

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Welcome to an evening of improvisational music, where every sound is created in the moment. Expect experimental, playful, and surprising pieces that unfold through spontaneous interaction between the performers and the space. The result is a unique concert experience full of unexpected twists, lively energy, and shared discovery—an evening that spices up your night with bold creativity and exciting improvisations.

2.10 at Toinen Kerros
Doors 6 pm
Showtime 7 pm
Free entry! Suggested donation 5-15 €.

Performers:
Si Paton, bass
Gon Muruaga, electric guitar
Teemu Mustonen, drums
Heliä Mailiis Viirakivi, voice, flutes

About the performers
Si Paton is a composer, improviser, bassist, academic, event curator, noisemaker, smart mouth and general antagonist. He has completed his PhD at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire and previously studied electric bass and jazz composition at University of West London. As an improviser, he has played with many well known figures, and was previously the bassist and bandleader in the math-jazz group Selectric. His solo performances, the trans-Atlantic no wave duo Phame, as well as a duo with drummer Rob Nettleship are currently his most prominent projects. He was previously the founder and curator of Thinking/Not Thinking Fest, and currently runs the concert series Don’t Mind Control. Picture credits John Convery.

Gonzalo Muruaga Olguin is an Argentinian electric guitar player, improviser and composer. His musical approach combines elements of jazz, free improvisation, contemporary music, experimental music, sound investigation, and interdisciplinary cooperation. He is active in the Nordic and Baltic experimental music scenes and holds a degree of Contemporary Improvisation from the Estonian Academy of Music and Theater. In his artistic work he focuses on pushing the limits of deep listening with electroacoustic music and sound design.

Teemu Mustonen is an improvising percussionist from Helsinki. He explores the possibilities of the drum kit and its preparation in solo and ensemble contexts, and performs widely in various ensembles and projects.

Heliä Mailiis Viirakivi is a versatile Finnish MMus vocalist-flutist, performer, improviser, and composer working across innovative new music, experimental music, improvisation, and interdisciplinary concepts. In her art she blends extended vocal and instrumental techniques with folk melodies, and strong classical singing to shape her unique artistic voice.

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