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.
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
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.
Kahdestoista jakso ilmaantuu 27.03.2025 kello: 13–15. // The twelfth episode airs on March 27th, 2025, at 13–15.
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.
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.
