1.–4.4. at 3 to 5 pm

Opening on 31.1. from 5 to 9 pm

toinen kerros, Nokiantie 2–4, Helsinki

The exhibition departs from the course “Digital Sculpture 2” in Aalto University. The artworks produced during the workshops develop a research on the materiality of movements, duration and sensible perception. These concepts find form in sound but also in movements of motors and lights. The artworks investigate together how Waves can materialise at the intersection of art, design, sound and sculpture. As mentioned in the description, sound is a wave. The exhibition proposes producing a space where the wave is sound and also movements at large.

Students: Aizawa Chihiro, Peng Chengcheng, Zhuang Shuqian, Lehtisalo Markus, Roy Mreethmandir, Adan Cristina, Yan Pu, Bulteel Kathleen, Anttila Olivia, Youn Yejin, Liu Mengqiao, Todosijević Ana, Kentala Petri, Suvisaari Adrian, Otsamo Veeti, Seppä Aleksi, Veräjänkorva Hanna, Mo Yakun, Hokkanen Mari.

Live:
C. LAVENDER (USA)
ANNIKA FUHRMANN & TOM LÖNNQVIST
PIIA RINNE & ARTTU PARTINEN

Sunnuntaina / On Sunday March 30th, 2025
Äänen Lumo – toinen kerros, Nokiantie 2-4
Klo / At 18-21 / Liput / Tickets: 10e

(see below for English)

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C. LAVENDER

C. Lavender (Lavender Suarez) on äänitaiteilija, ääniparantaja ja kouluttaja, jonka työ käsittää live-esityksiä, äänityksiä, installaatioita, sävellyksiä, videoita ja työpajoja. Hän luo immersiivisiä äänimaisemia, jotka ovat intensiivisen fyysisiä, emotionaalisia ja lopulta katarttisia kokemuksia. Lavenderin kirja ”Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives” (Anthology Editions) käsittelee kuuntelemista voimakkaana inspiraation lähteenä luovassa työssä. Hänen musiikkiaan ovat julkaisseet mm. Editions Mego, Ecstatic Peace! ja RVNG Intl. Viimeisin kokopitkä albumi ”Rupture in the Eternal Realm” (iDEAL Recordings) tutkii meditatiivisia käytäntöjä Buchla-syntetisaattorin, gongien ja kenttä-äänitteiden avulla.

ANNIKA FUHRMANN & TOM LÖNNQVIST

Annika Fuhrmann on laulaja, muusikko ja äänitaiteilija, joka on kotonaan kokeellisen musiikkiteatterin, äänitaiteen, improvisaation ja nykymusiikin aloilla. Tom Lönnqvist on ääni-, tila- ja performanssitaiteilija sekä äänitaiteen maisteri, joka on ollut mukana useissa kiitetyissä tanssi- ja teatterituotannoissa. Hänen taiteelliseen työnsä sisältää työskentelyä kehon, modulaarisynteesin, videon, installaation, maalauksen, rumpujen ja ambisonisten kenttääänitteiden kanssa. Tämä yhteistyö on syntynyt kiinnostuksesta tutkia ihmisäänen moduloinnin mahdollisuuksia osana elektronisella modulaarisella synteesillä tehtyä spontaania säveltämistä. Saksalainen Mille Plateaux on julkaissut Annikan ja Tomin debyyttiesiintymisen “Live at Asbestos Art Space”.

PIIA RINNE & ARTTU PARTINEN

Piia Rinne on äänitaiteilija ja tekstiilisuunnittelija, jonka musiikki yhdistää äänikokeiluja ja käsinkosketeltavaa, konkreettisempaa käsityöläisyyttä. Rinne hyödyntää musiikissaan suvereenin taitavasti hienovaraisia ja tarkkuutta vaativia nauhalooppeja.
Arttu Partinen käyttää äänilähteinään luhistuvia kasettisoittimia ja efektilaitteita. Hänen esityksissään on keskeistä fyysisyys, sillä jokainen kehon värähdys vaikuttaa musiikkiin. Näin syntyneet äänet puolestaan ohjaavat kehon liikkeitä, muodostaen eteenpäin vyöryvän silmukan. Sattumalla on myös aina oma roolinsa Partisen esiintymisissä.
Tämä on duon toinen esiintyminen, ensimmäinen koettiin Artsyfest-tapahtumassa tammikuussa 2025.

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C. LAVENDER (USA)

C. Lavender (Lavender Suarez) is a sound artist, sound practitioner and educator whose work includes live performances, recordings, installations, compositions, videos and workshops. She creates immersive soundscapes that are intensely physical, emotional and ultimately cathartic experiences. Lavender’s book “Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives” (Anthology Editions) explores listening as a powerful source of inspiration in creative work. Her music has been published among others by Editions Mego, Ecstatic Peace! and RVNG Intl. Her latest album “Rupture in the Eternal Realm” (iDEAL Recordings) explores meditative practices utilizing a Buchla synthesizer, gongs and field recordings.

ANNIKA FUHRMANN & TOM LÖNNQVIST

Annika Fuhrmann is a singer, musician and sound artist who is most at home in the fields of experimental music theatre, sound art, improvisation and contemporary music. Tom Lönnqvist is a sound, space and performance artist with a master’s degree in sound art who has been involved in several acclaimed dance and theatre productions. His artistic work includes working with the body, modular synthesis, video, installation, painting, drums and ambisonic field recordings. This collaboration emerged from an interest in exploring the potential of modulating the human voice as part of instantaneous composition made with electronic modular synthesis. German label Mille Plateaux has released Annika and Tom’s debut performance “Live at Asbestos Art Space”.

PIIA RINNE & ARTTU PARTINEN

Piia Rinne is a sound artist and textile designer whose music combines sound experiments with tangible, concrete craftsmanship. In her music, Rinne masterfully handles tape loops that require subtlety and precision. Arttu Partinen uses collapsing cassette players and effect devices as his sound sources. Physicality is essential in his performances, as every vibration of the body affects the music. The resulting sounds in turn guide the body’s movements, forming a loop that trundles forward. The element of chance also always plays a big role in Partinen’s performances. This is the duo’s second performance, the first being at Artsyfest in January 2025. 

3.3.2025 19:00

Äänen Lumo – toinen kerros, Nokiantie 2-4, Vallila Helsinki

Tickets: 5-15 €

Shafeeq Alsadi & Jano Doe

Shafeeq Alsadi is a Palestinian singer, qanun player, and composer from Bethlehem. His improvised sets are deeply rooted in the Arabic musical tradition. His collaboration with Slovak musician Jano Doe, an experimental player of DIY modular synthesizers, creates unexpected musical landscapes filled with shared restlessness, anger, and sorrow over the reality of a crumbling world.

For this concert the duo will be joined by Saku Liimatainen, a musician from Helsinki focused on electronic composition, music production, and piano pedagogy.

negatiiviviiva

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negatiiviviiva is an alter ego of sound and performance artist minerva juolahti

www.minervajuolahti.com

Timo Tuhkanen

Timo Tuhkanen is an artist-composer, curator, and writer, whose work intersects between contemporary art, music, and research into the cultural and historical aspects of touch. Their work is concerned with designing and creating direct actions and socio-political interventions as an artistic practice through collective intelligence, relational aesthetics, and operational realism, and their subject matters often adapt inside an occupied environment of urban landscapes, digital platforms, and hydrosocial-spaces. Tuhkanen likes to describe their work as lived-through narrative fiction and mythopoetics, and they are interested in the psychological conflict between what is imaginable and what is realistically achievable and how this conflict materialises in the resources we construct.

www.timotuhkanen.com

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)

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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.

LINKS

https://juhotuomainen.bandcamp.com/track/improv-0159
https://teeaaarnio.com
https://wilsontannersmith.com

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INFO

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