Libero Mureddu

Improviser, pianist, composer, and music technologist based in Helsinki, Finland

Born in Milan in 1975 and based in Helsinki since 2003, Libero Mureddu is a versatile musician and researcher. He is a doctoral researcher in the Arts Study Programme at Uniarts Helsinki. His research focuses on the role of embodied knowledge in free improvisation performance.

bäckström wärnheim

[fin] Ruotsalainen alttosaksofonisti Marcus Wärnheim ja suomalainen kontrabasisti Jonathan Bäckström ovat soittaneet yhdessä vuodesta 2018. Duon musiikki tutkii ääntä spontaanin, ennalta suunnitellun ja sattumanvaraisen ilmaisun kautta, rikkoen intiimin duokokoonpanon rajoja.

Wärnheimin ja Bäckströmin musiikkia voisi luonnehtia, että se on yhtä intiimiä kuin luottamuksellinen keskustelu. Heidän huolellisesti rakennetut musiikilliset mikrouniversuminsa hyödyntävät instrumenttien laajoja äänipaletteja hengityksen, melun ja toisiinsa sulautuvien sävelten kautta ja kutsuvat intensiiviseen kuuntelukokemukseen. Duon debyyttialbumi Ett julkaistiin syksyllä 2025.

Jonathan Bäckström – kontrabasso

Marcus Wärnheim – saksofoni & klarinetti

[sve] Under lång tid har saxofonisten Marcus Wärnheim och kontrabasisten Jonathan Bäckström omsorgsfullt konstruerat sitt eget ljudande universum tillsammans. Likt ett förtroligt samtal vecklar deras musik ut sig med precision och närvaro i ett virrvarr av luft, brus och resonanser i utrymmet mellan ton och tystnad. De gav ut sitt debutalbum ‘ett’ under 2025, och presenterar denna turné nytt material.

Jonathan Bäckström – kontrabas

Marcus Wärnheim – altsaxofon & klarinett

[eng] bäckström wärnheim is the fruit of a long friendship and musical companionship. Their debut album ett was released in 2025. As intimate as a confidential conversation, their music unfolds with precision and presence while remaining in the spectrum between low and ultralow dynamics. Their carefully constructed musical microverses utilizes the extended sound palettes of their instruments though breath, noise and consonance and invites the listener to an intense listening experience.

Jonathan Bäckström – double bass

Marcus Wärnheim – alto saxophone

Album: https://backstromwarnheim.bandcamp.com/album/ett

(Photo: Jonathan Terlinden)

Saturday 13.09. at 19:00
Toinen Kerros
Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki
Free of charge

Nuo Nuohoojat is a free improvisation band consisting of singer and voice improviser Johanna Vahtola, shakuhachi and saxophone player Jaakko Kuikka, and synthesizer player Melik Turunen. The music of the Nuo Nuohoojat trio is created through free improvisation. Central to the band’s expression are small, delicate, and incomplete sounds. The small sounds are treated as if they were decimals of whole sounds. Thus, the whole sounds are the sum of their parts, the combined result of the musicians’ gestures and interaction. The Nuo Nuohoojat trio’s first performance was heard at the Kaekuu festival in Sammatti in July 2025.

Another act that will play in the event is duo by Vesa Lehko & Juha Rautio.

Welcome to the concert!

Nuo Nuohoojat on vapaaimprovisaatio-yhtye, johon kuuluvat laulaja Johanna Vahtola, shakuhachin ja alttosaksofonin soittaja Jaakko Kuikka sekä syntetisaattorin soittaja Melik Turunen. Trion musiikki syntyy esiintymishetkellä vapaasti improvisoiden. Yhtyeen ilmaisulle keskeistä ovat pienet ja herkät, keskeneräiset äänet. Pieniä ääniä käsitellään ikään kuin kokonaisten äänten desimaaleina. Kokonaiset äänet ovat näin osiensa summa, muusikoiden eleiden ja vuorovaikutuksen yhteenlaskettu tulos. Nuo Nuohoojat trion ensimmäinen esiintyminen kuultiin Kaekuu festivaalilla Sammatissa heinäkuussa 2025.

Myös duo Vesa Lehko & Juha Rautio esiintyy tapahtumassa!

Tervetuloa konserttiin!

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01.09. Monday, 19:00 – 21:00
Toinen kerros
Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki

Welcome to Mother’s Delight third encounter, at Toinen Kerros, Vallila, Helsinki!
Mother’s Delight combines Sjöström’s and Nikula’s legendary winds with electric and digital intrusions provided by Kääriäinen and Mureddu.
The concert will be recorded.

Harri Sjöström, soprano and sopranino saxophone
Heikki Nikula, bass clarinet
Jukka Kääriäinen, el. guitar
Libero Mureddu, physically modelled piano and effects

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Entrance: 5-15€ offer (MobilePay or cash)

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BIOS
Born in 1952 in Turku, Finland, Sjöström studied at Lone Mountain College and the San Francisco Art Institute. Studies with Hari Mann, Leo Wright and Steve Lacy. Participated in workshops by John Cage, George Russell and Bill Dixon. He lives in Berlin.
From 1978 he worked with Derek Bailey, Teppo Hauta-aho, Paul Lovens, John Russell, Paul Rutherford, among others. From 1990 to 2016 close collaboration with Cecil Taylor. Sjöström has founded numerous ensembles for contemporary improvised music, including Quintet Moderne, Sestetto Internazionale, MOVE Quintet, Flight Mode and he is the initiator and artistic director of the concert and festival series SoundScapes.
www.harrisjostrom.com
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Bass clarinetist Heikki Nikula (b. 1961) studied at the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, and gave his debut concert 1988. He has also attended master classes in England, Hungary, the Netherlands and Switzerland.
Nikula plays at Helsinki Filharmonia since 1991 and is an original – and still active – member of Avanti! chamber orchestra (founded in 1983). He performs frequently as a chamber musician and soloist, and has had a recital in several festivals including Helsinki Biennale and Viitasaari Time of Music. His repertoire consists of contemporary music as well as the classical works, and he has commissioned and premiered several new compositions. Nikula’s solo albums Hoepnadium and Piping Down the Valleys Wild were published 1996 and 2003.
Improvisation is also an important part of Nikula’s work – for ex. in Free Okapi ensemble. He teaches bass clarinet at the Sibelius Academy.
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Jukka Kääriäinen is a musician focused on experimental music. Depending on the situation, Jukka’s instruments of choice include an acoustic guitar with preparations or an electric guitar with a bag 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 bands and has collaborated with many leading European improvisers such as Teppo Hauta-Aho, Kalle Kalima, Harri Sjöström, Axel Dörner, Kriton Beyer, Rieko Okuda, Anil Eraslan, Mikko Innanen, and Joel Grip, premiering works by composers such as Riikka Talvitie, Sebastian Hilli, Sami Klemola, Clara de Asis, and Tytti Arola.
www.jukkakaariainen.com
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Libero Mureddu is a pianist, improvisor, composer and music technologist. He likes to design unconventional performative spaces to enable the unexpected and innovative. Active in the European improvised music scene, among his current projects are his artistic research ‘Embodied Algorithms’ and the murmur trio with Cristiano Calcagnile and Andrea Grossi. He teaches free and electroacoustic improvisation at the Sibelius Academy.
www.liberomureddu.net