On the 9th of September at 7 pm

Album release concert ‘Treasure Hunt’
Livia Schweizer, flutes and conceptAdriano Adewale, berimbau and voiceNathan Riki Thomson, prepared double bass Simone Spampinato, live electronics

This concert marks the release of Treasure Hunt, an album bridging Helsinki and Northeast Brazil, recorded last December at Toinen Kerros. Blending flutes, berimbau, double bass, and live electronics, the ensemble brings to life open scores created during deep listening workshops at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) in Natal.

Inspired by Pauline Oliveros and Paulo Freire, the project explores how rethinking the nature of musical scores can dismantle traditional hierarchies, foster deep social connection, and enable global cross-pollination. The performance features graphic scores developed in the UFRN Botanical Garden by Luisa Caroline de Andrade Kirschner, Aurigena da Silva Lourenço, Bárbara Costa e Silva, Pamella Carneiro Silva, Ana Claudia de Melo Siqueira, Mariana Araújo da Silva, and Livia Schweizer.

A companion booklet documenting the creative journey between Natal and Helsinki will be available at the event for a pay-what-you-wish donation!!!

What is the treasure?!Sometimes the treasure is finding a seed, shaped like a monkey’s ear, hidden in the dirt. Sometimes it is hearing a story that wakes what has been sleeping
inside you.
Sometimes it is a small object or a word that pulls a childhood memory back into the light, or finding yourself in a hidden park only because your plans fell apart.
The treasure is realizing it is enough to sit in an empty room and see that the sky is plenty. It is enough to write a line that makes someone else sing.
The treasure is creating that sound where you meet with the other,
realizing that we are more than the sum of our parts.
The treasure is a listening ear, and the person beside you who begins to resonate, too.
The treasure is knowing that a whole world of meaning can be carried by a single tiny seed, a word, or a sound. It is the way we walk into that world together, learning how we belong to one another. The treasure is cultivating curiosity and an open mind, keeping the path ahead of us open and fertile.

PERFORMERS:

Livia Schweizer is a Helsinki-based flutist, improviser, and artistic researcher dedicated to the intersection of contemporary performance, community engagement and intercultural dialogue. Originally from Italy, Livia was attracted by the Finnish music scene after graduating from the Conservatory of Livorno she moved to Helsinki to study at the Sibelius Academy with Mikael Helasvuo.

A versatile collaborator, Livia has been to play as flutist with Finland’s leading orchestras and in addition she is one of the founding members of the Earth Ears Ensemble, a group focused on contemporary music written by lesser-known composers and environmental themes.

Livia’s work is characterized by a deep curiosity for non-conventional notation, and her artistic research moves around the exploration of what can be defined as a score. As a doctoral candidate at the Sibelius Academy, she researches how graphic and alternative scores can facilitate collaboration between artists from different cultural and disciplinary backgrounds. This quest for new sonic languages has led her to participate in interdisciplinary and intercultural projects across Benin, Brazil, Aotearoa / New Zealand, the US, and throughout Europe, exploring how sound can transcend traditional boundaries.

For her seashells, hummingbirds and trees are somehow a never ending source of inspiration. 

Adriano Adewale Itaúna

Adriano Adewale, a master percussionist and composer, embarks on a rhythmic odyssey that resonates with cultural richness and artistic innovation. Born with a deep-rooted passion for music, Adriano has sculpted a career that transcends borders and genres.

Rooted in the music of his home country Brazil and with a profound connection to Global music traditions, Adriano Adewale has become a celebrated figure in the global music scene. His percussive prowess encompasses an array of instruments, from the traditional pandeiro to the mesmerizing sounds of tuned PVC tubes, crafting a unique sonic palette that defies convention.

Adriano’s musical journey is marked by collaboration and exploration. His compositions are a tapestry of diverse influences, blending samba’s infectious rhythms, the improvisational spirit of jazz, and haunting beautiful melodies. Through his work, he invites audiences to embark on a cultural voyage, where music serves as a universal language that bridges gaps and fosters unity.

Beyond the stage, Adriano Adewale’s dedication to music education and community engagement shines brightly. His commitment to sharing the transformative power of music with younger generations is a testament to his belief in its capacity to inspire and uplift.

He has been featured in over 30 albums and collaborated with Benjamim Taubkin, Joanna McGregor to mention but a few. Adriano’s career, spanning decades, has left an indelible mark on the global music landscape. His unwavering authenticity and innovative spirit ensure that his rhythmic journey continues to captivate and enchant audiences around the world.

Adriano loves food, herbal medicine and loves spending time in nature.Simone Spampinato is a sonic arts and field recording practitioner focusing on the relationship between music and the epiphenome of musicality.His works have been performed, installed, and exhibited at various European festivals, including Musica Nova Festival (FI), SipoonÄânet (FI), Optižūns (LV), Jauna Muzika (LT), FOG Festival (CH) Musikschule Basel Akut (CH), Tempio Festival (DE), Fondazione Merz (ITA), MilanOltre (ITA), Spazio Murka (ITA), and AAmod Festival (ITA).
Nathan Riki Thomson is professor of Global Music and Community Engagement at Sibelius Academy, University of the Arts Helsinki. He is a double bass player, multi-instrumentalist, composer, researcher, and educator with a core focus on intercultural dialogue and collaboration. Nathan was born to parents from Aotearoa / New Zealand and raised in Australia on the traditional unceded lands of the Yugambeh and Bundjalung peoples. Nathan has collaborated and performed internationally with musicians from many parts of the world during the past 35 years, including a 5-year period living and working with musicians and dancers in Tanzania and Zambia. After 10 years teaching at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, Finland is now his new home, where he has been instrumental in establishing the Global Music programme and leads intercultural arts, research, and community based initiatives at the University of the Arts, Helsinki. 

Exactly one year since our last performance in Helsinki, Mother’s Delight is back at Toinen kerros for another concert!

Mother’s Delight first performed in 2023, and after that initial concert it was immediately clear that the project should continue as a stable, working ensemble. The quartet’s unusual instrumentation brings together two wind instruments — soprano saxophone and bass clarinet — with two electric polyphonic voices: electric guitar and physically modelled piano. This distinctive setup gives rise to a wide and constantly shifting sonic palette: from Sjöström’s complex yet deeply expressive melodic language, to Nikula’s command of Western contemporary music and extended techniques; from Mureddu’s deconstructed and morphing piano textures, to Kääriäinen’s unique ability to merge distorted noise with fragile microsounds.

Aesthetically, the music synthesises the overlapping yet distinct backgrounds of the four musicians. The sonic radicalism of Kääriäinen and Sjöström intertwines with resonances of Western contemporary music shaped by Nikula and Mureddu. Beyond stylistic categories, the core of Mother’s Delight lies in its commitment to depth, openness, and a sense of joyful, unpredictable musical discovery.

https://www.liberomureddu.net/mothersdelight

Starts 19:00.

free donation, suggested 5-15 €

HATKA (Gray, Tuomi, Wilkinson)

Toinen Kerros | Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki

thu 3.9.26 | Concert starts: 7pm

Entry 15/8€

• Reduced price for pensioners, unemployed, students + ages 15-17

• Free entry for children under 15

Hatka is a transatlantic free-jazz meeting point where three improvisers operate: Darin Gray (upright bass, preparations, electronics), Janne Tuomi (drums, percussion), and Alan Wilkinson (alto saxophone, bass clarinet, voice).

Hatka performed at Telakka Jazz (Tampere, Finland) on the first Friday night of January 2025. The following Sunday the trio visited a studio to record a session – music captured in the festival afterglow, fuelled by a shared commitment to free expression.

The album is titled Quartet for a reason. A fourth voice, saxophonist Jone Takamäki, was originally meant to join the group for both the live performance and the studio recording. Quartet is what was planned and what remains. Jone couldn’t make it, so he never played under the name Hatka. His absence became especially poignant after his passing in summer 2025, and Quartet inevitably became a memory piece: a way to honour a deeply valued fellow musician, his sound, and his life.

Alan Wilkinson: UK saxophonist/clarinettist with a fiercely individual voice; a major presence in British free improvisation with decades of uncompromising work and collaborations.

Darin Gray: US-born bassist/composer, now based in Finland, a long-time figure in creative improvised music with wide international collaborations.

Janne Tuomi: Tampere-based drummer/percussionist known for detailed, textural playing and high-energy improvisation; active across Finnish creative music incl. Hot Heros, Tahmela Six (Mustik Motel’s first release!).

📷 (Gray & Wilkinson): Antti Kujala

📷 (Tuomi): Roman Odjinud

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Suhina Klubi: A platform for improvised and experimental music and sound art from Finland and abroad.

Supported by: Koneen Säätiö / Kone Foundation

WIP – Work in Progress is a new – and hopefully recurring – event concept for artists and audiences interested in experimental music, sound art, music theatre, and interdisciplinary performance. It offers a chance to encounter new works and ideas while they are still taking shape. Come listen, join the conversation, and get a glimpse behind the scenes of the artistic process!

The evening features three works at different stages of development. WIP creates a space where unfinished work is seen as an opportunity – a space where many directions are still open and where artistic risks can be taken. The aim is to make the creative process visible and to offer audiences a unique insight into how new works are conceived and developed.

Each presentation is followed by an open discussion, inviting artists and audiences to exchange ideas, share feedback, and reflect on the works together.

WIP aims to pilot a new event format that gives artists the opportunity to test ideas, build collaborations, and take the first steps towards larger productions. In the long term, the goal is to establish a regular meeting place for the independent experimental music, music theatre, and sound art communities, as well as for anyone interested in experiencing how new art comes into being.

Project 1:

[Labyrinth] is an idea of an immersive music theatre performance-installation that explores the power of collective vocal rituals in contemporary society. The working group aims to explore how collective voices can empower, persuade, and mobilize. The core of the piece is going to be a physical labyrinth built within the space, functioning as an installation outside of performance times. 

The piece is co-created by composer-performer Miika Hyytiäinen, vocalist-performers Sarah Albu and Annika Fuhrmann, sound designer-guitarist Jukka Kääriäinen, costume designer-visual artist Karoliina Korhonen, and librettist-dramaturg Susanne Kass.

During WIP #1 the working group will demonstrate and test out the structure of the labyrinth as well as some musical ideas and interaction with the audience.

Project 2:

[Survey] is a disjointed mix of scenes and fragments in different directions: an imagined hymn for ghosts of past labor movements, an exploration of breath and whisper and light, synthesized and acoustic voices… all in the broad veins of sound and story-telling. Are these from the same project? No. Will they be part of larger future projects? Maybe. Will they be interesting and entertaining? Probably, I think so.

Wilson Tanner Smith (USA/FI) is a composer, improviser, cellist, and theatre artist currently based in Helsinki, whose work at the edges of music and multimedia theatre often explores the alienations and ordinary absurdities we face in the world around us, and what they say about the people, systems, and structures we live with.

Project 3: 

“kalama musi lili” — translated from the Toki Pona language, for example, as “Little Art Music,” “A Playful Hint of Noise,” or “The Little Joy of Noise” — sets things in motion [from play: what kind of song cycle emerges from a collaboration with artificial intelligence, combining a minimalist language with a maximalist sensibility]. 

Developed in 2001, toki pona strips language down to its bare bones. Its vocabulary of 123 words covers the entire range of human experience—which is why each word carries multiple meanings and can function as a noun or a verb. For example, “kalama” is a sound, to make a sound, a song, to sing, to rumble, to drum, to clap, to laugh, to beep, etc. [The 31-EDO tuning used in this song series] divides an octave into 31 equal parts [instead of the more familiar] 12. [That’s quite a lot!] These rules are [pretty much unknown even] to artificial intelligence—and it is precisely that ignorance[that is] the driving force behind the work.

Lyrics: Miika Hyytiäinen and AI
Composition: Miika Hyytiäinen
Recording: Miika Hyytiäinen (editing and sound design) and AI
Vocals: Iida Hirvola

ANOTHER LAYER #4
30.8.2026
18:00-20:00

MARIJA KOVAČEVIĆ (RS/US)

VIKTOR TOIKKANEN

Entrance: 5-15€ (pay what you can)

MARIJA KOVAČEVIĆ

Serbian born, New York City based violinist Marija Kovačević works in classical, experimental and improvised music. Her project “Music for Broken Violins” is an exploration of sonic textures with broken violins, bows and their fragments. In addition to four albums of solo work, broken violins also appear on “Rainy Afternoon near Paris” album with Thierry Müller, “Push Broken Duet” album with Romain Perrot (available on Chocolate Monk), “Bez Vremena” album with Paul Collins and Quentin Rollet (available on Astres d’Or), “Playable Litter” album with Theo Gowans (available on Scatter Archive) and most recently “Unstringed” album with Leandro Barzabal (available on Liquid Library). Marija’s fifth solo album is set for release this year on Relative Pitch Records. The project has traveled internationally to the UK, Europe and USA.

VIKTOR TOIKKANEN

Viktor Toikkanen is a composer, sound engineer and multimedia artist from Helsinki, Finland. Navigating between electronic music, multimedia, contemporary classical, free improvisation, and performance art, Toikkanen refuses to adhere to a single style, constantly seeking new ways of self-expression.

Marija Kovacevic photo by Natalie Kolowiecki.

An evening of abstract acoustic and/or electronic music.

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Forces
https://joonassiren.fi/
https://ffforces.bandcamp.com/

Devina Boughton & Orion Boughton
https://devinaboughton.weebly.com/
https://djjorts.bandcamp.com/

Jonas Hammerer
https://www.hammererer.net/

Fabian Lanzmaier
https://www.fabianlanzmaier.com/

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Thurday 6th of August, 18.00 - 22.00
Toinen Kerros (Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki)
Äänen Lumo / Charm of Sound
https://aanenlumo.com/
5e-15e (pay what you can)

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Jonas Hammerer
Jonas Hammerer is a Vienna-based musician and sound artist working with 
synthetic, process-oriented systems for live performances, sound 
installations and collaborative works.
In his artistic practice he uses analog and digital sound synthesis as 
material and form-giving process, exploring instability and emergent 
behavior in which form develops without fixed compositional structures. 
He also realizes commissioned sound works and audio software for artists 
and cultural institutions.
He studied electroacoustic and experimental music at the University of 
Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where he was working at the Artistic 
Research Center as part of the AESR sound projection lab. He is a member 
of kv.r., an independent venue and collective organizing experimental 
music shows in Vienna.

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Fabian Lanzmaier
Fabian Lanzmaier is a musician and sound artist living in Vienna. He is 
currently focusing on live performances that incorporate real-time audio 
synthesis and multichannel speaker setups, as well as site-specific 
audio installations, which often emerge from collaborative processes. He 
is interested in the possibilities and surprises that arise when working 
with systems and situations involving chance and unpredictability.

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Orion Boughton
Orion Boughton (they/them) aka DJ Jorts is a music producer, 
saxophonist, and audio engineer based in Portland Oregon. They hold a 
Bachelor of Arts from Portland State University in Sonic Arts and Music 
Production. Orion has versatile musical experience, including large 
ensemble wind band, contemporary chamber music, jazz, hyperpop, rap, 
folk, live sound, and sound art. Fusing their skills of performance and 
production, Orion bends the medium of sound to their artistic vision, 
taking influence from the environment and world around them. They have 
performed both independently and in ensembles across the US, in Finland, 
and in Slovenia as part of the Etno Histeria World Orchestra.

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Devina Boughton
Devina Boughton (they/them) is a versatile performer hailing from rainy 
Portland, OR, based in Helsinki, Finland. With a Bachelors degree from 
Berklee College of Music, Devina moved to Helsinki as a 2021-22 
Fulbright Grant recipient, and graduated from Sibelius Academy's Global 
Music department with a Masters degree in 2025. They were a 2024-25 
Microtonal Music Studios Resident, and received Finlandia Foundation 
funding in Summer 2025. Devina serves as artistic director of Symbioosi 
Choir (2023-present), and works as a freelancer in Helsinki and beyond, 
as a performer, composer, artistic researcher, and pedagogue. Devina 
explores and intertwines sound worlds, often blurring improvisation and 
composition together. They are inspired by timbre, tuning, melody, 
groove, nature, human experiences, words, and are passionate about 
interdisciplinary collaboration. Their art-science Flagellate 
Collective´s project Playing with Algae, combining micro- and macro 
algae with Nordic shepherd´s horns, is supported by the KONE Foundation 
in 2026. You may find them drinking coffee or tea, exploring nature, 
practicing Finnish, baking, or reading.

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Forces
Constantly mutating rhythms and sharp digital textures shape the sound 
of Forces. Forces is the electronic music project of Finnish 
interdisciplinary artist Joonas Siren (they/them). Different live-coding 
and processing techniques are used to make dense atomized swirls; 
electronic and sometimes chaotic abstract oceans of sound. Forces’ music 
has been released on Biodiversità Records, evo-natura, mappa,  Infinite 
Machine, Gin & Platonic, Genot Centre, Conditional and Bio Future 
Laboratory, and has also been played in DJ mixes by experimental 
producers like Aphex Twin, Daniel Ruane and ZULI.