Äänen Lumo

Category: toinen kerros – COMMUNITY EVENT

sonic arts community events organised at the toinen kerros sonic arts space facilitated by Äänen Lumo

  • 10.05.2025 / Kääriäinen/Wärnheim/Bäckström/Ospovat

    An ad hoc concert where two working duos unite as four. As separate resonating bodies, the quartet explores the present moment through spontaneity and dialogue.

    Jukka Kääriäinen -guitar, Marcus Wärnheim – saxophone, Jonathan Bäckström – double bass and Sam Ospovat – drums

    In Äänen Lumo’s Toinen Kerros (Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki) on 10.5. starting at 14.00 Price 15€/8€
    Event on Facebook.

    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.

    Marcus Wärnheim is a Swedish alto saxophonist and improviser, currently based in Amsterdam. His artistic output is primarily based in a genuine curiosity of sound, which he works with through intense listening and a thorough research of the physical possibilities of his instrument. In recent years he has been preoccupied with acoustic solo performances, improvisational meetings, interpretation of other’s compositions as a sideman, as well as trans-disciplinary collaborations with dancers and circus artists.

    Jonathan Bäckström is a Finnish bassist, improviser, and composer currently based in Stockholm. With a foundation in (electro)acoustic exploration, his musical expression is characterized by a curiosity for acoustic details, timbre, preparations pand subtle textures. As an actively touring musician, he has performed in countries including Finland, Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, France, Denmark, Estonia, Romania, Réunion and more.

    Sam Ospovat Currently resideces in Brooklyn, USA. Originally from Lincoln, Nebraska, Ospovat played piano and sang in boys’ choir before picking up his first pair of drumsticks in 5th grade. Late nights spent improvising in friends’ parents’ basements eventually revealed to him the wisdom of moving to the Bay Area, where he studied percussion with William Winant, drum set with Peter Magadini, George Marsh and Eddie Marshall, and Haitian Vodou drumming with master drummer Daniel Brevil. Other projects he’s involved in represent a trenchant cross-section of the Brooklyn/NYC scene. They include the Flying Luttenbachers, Angelica Sanchez’ Nonet, Brandon Seabrook’s Die Trommel Fatal and Epic Proportions, Ava Mendoza’s avant-garde rock trio Unnatural Ways, and legendary underground post-rock spoken-word group Enablers. Ospovat has toured extensively throughout North America and Europe.

    Photo credits (left to right): Private, David Laskowski, Jonathan Terlinden, Juliane Schütz

  • 09.05.2025 / Flute-xpansion – Lotz, Schweizer, Inkilä, Halme

    09.5. 7 pm at Toinen Kerros of Äänen Lumo (Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki)

    Flute-xpansion is an evening where four flutists, with different improvisatory and musical styles meet to explore the sonic possibilities of different flutes and electronics coming together. 

    Flutists Heikki “Hepa” Halme, Livia Schweizer, and Turkka Inkilä will have the wonderful opportunity to play with an international guest, the improviser, flutist and composer Mark Alban Lotz, known for his cross-genre explorations.

    Join for a sound travel with many flutes, and much more!

    Mark Lotz

    Mark Lotz is a flutist, soloist, improviser, and composer who is blending the vitality of jazz with the refinement of classical music. His performances draws listeners in, taking them on a journey of discovery and often seek out surprising and original settings, challenging conventions and expectations.

    Praised as “one of the world’s top jazz flute players” (Los Angeles Jazz Scene Magazine, USA), and prominent member of the Dutch jazz scene for 30 years and a global performing artist with projects, recordings, and teaching engagements spanning the world.

    As a bandleader, Lotz has released 21 albums. His music has received significant industry attention, with extensive radio play and features worldwide. A dedicated educator, teaching at two conservatories and giving masterclasses at all over the globe.

    Lotz has collaborated with: Conga legend Miguel ‘Angá’ Diaz, Indian Underground star Najma Akthar, Soloists from Conjunto Folklorico Nacional de Cuba, Moldovan viola virtuoso Anatol Steffanet, Romanian accordion icon Petar Ralchev, Tibetan songbird Namgyal Lhamo, Senegalese Fula vocalist Omar Ka.

    In jazz and world music, he has worked with international luminaries such as Chris Potter, Don Byron, David Tronzo, Claudio Puntin, Matthew Ostrowski, Thomas Strønen, Carlos Zingaro, Johannes Bauer, NYC Latin legend Eddie Martinez, and Istanbul’s avant-garde group Islak Köpek. In the Netherlands, his collaborations include Theo Loevendie, Ernst Reijseger, Han Bennink, Zuco 103, Jesse van Ruller.

    Livia Schweizer (b.1994) is an Italian-swiss freelancer and flutist based in Helsinki. After graduating from the conservatory in Livorno she moved to Finland in 2014 to study with Mikael Helasvuo, and since then she has been a versatile and active freelancer. She is member of the new music ensemble Earth Ears Ensemble, and she is now doing her artistic doctorate in MuTri Doctoral school within the Global Music Department, with the aim to explore how text scores and graphic scores can be used to foster intercultural collaborations in contemporary music. 

    Turkka Inkilä (1989) is a Helsinki based composer and improviser. He works broadly in the field of electroacoustic music. In his artistic practice he explores the terrain between musical genres and traditions. His output ranges from performing japanese honkyoku music, and working with Sàmi musician Ánnámáret, to sound design and writing chamber music. 

    Woodwind player Hepa Halme has been active in the Helsinki improv/experimental scene since early 1980 ́s. He studied musicology in The University of Helsinki and started his exploration on the “other sounds” in the electronic music studio there guided by the late Juuso Ruohomäki. His work as a freelancer includes all kinds of regular musical settings but his commitment and interest in expanding the limits of his expression has been going on all through his career. 

  • 07.05.2025 / Cobble Stone Salon nro. 4: Worldbuilding

    Cobble Stone Salon no. 4: Worldbuilding

    In the salon’s fourth edition, we will discuss the potential of worldbuilding as an approach to organising. The evening will be facilitated by @villetikka, and we will draw on “Three Eras of World Generation: Worldbuilding, Worlding, World-Weaving” by GVN and Arb (in Guy Mackinnon-Little, Autonomous Worlds N1 (2023)):

    https://autonomousworlds.metalabel.com/aw01

    Since the salon is about how to organise collectively and differently, we have been thinking how it could itself be a means to connect with and between spaces in the city, and whether gathering elsewhere each time could be a fun way to try doing this. In this spirit, we will this time be among the sweet people of @aanenlumo, convening at the Sonic Arts Library at Toinen kerros, their experimentation and performance space. And since the evening just after will mark Toinen kerros’s first anniversary with an open space to think together about its past and future, we’ll take the Salon as a lead-in and support to this.

    Open to all ‒ no prior knowledge needed.

    Cobble Stone Salon is an open monthly gathering that supports explorative approaches to the cultivation of other economies and sustainable societal arrangements.

    http://cobble.stone.salon

    Cobble Stone Salon no. 4: Worldbuilding

    Wednesday, 7 May 2025, 18:00

    Sonic Arts Library at Toinen kerros

    Nokiantie 2-4 (2nd floor), 00510 Helsinki

    Image in part from Ian Cheng, “Emissary’s Guide to Worlding” (2018)

  • 06.05.2025 / murmur trio – Finnish debut

    Libero Mureddu, physically modelled piano and effects – Andrea Grossi, double bass – Cristiano Calcagnile, drums and objects

    For the first time in Finland!

    Tuesday 6.5.
    Doors open at 18:30, concert at 19:00
    Tickets: offer what you can, between 8 and 15 € (MobilePay)
    Toinen kerros
    Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki

    About murmur trio: https://liberomureddu.github.io/murmurtrio/

    murmur Trio was founded in 2023 during a typically hot summer in Milan. The trio includes longstanding friend, collaborator, and wonderful drummer Cristiano Calcagnile (https://www.cristianocalcagnile.eu/)) and the upcoming Italian double bass star Andrea Grossi (https://andreagrossiofficial.com/)..)

    The trio was born out of the idea of experimenting with the format of a jazz piano trio but using a physically-modelled piano instead of an acoustic one. We liked the music and decided to continue playing together! Thanks to a fortunate alignment of geography, time, and stars the three of us will be in Finland at the same time, and we decided to have a concert at (my) home.

    murmur trio investigates the space where purely and intentionally electronic practices intersect with the long shadow of the jazz piano trio. How do we react to this potential friction? How do the acoustic and electronic worlds influence each other? What (im)possibilities lie ahead of us? murmur is a laboratory of sounds and real-time approaches, an experiment in continuous evolution, a journey that attempts to drive the listener off the beaten path, even venturing into the impassable ones. murmur trio’s debut album is almost ready and will be released during the next months.

    Photo: Gianni Grossi

  • 30.04.2025 / MELTING HEARTS // HUR HUR // alya grad // MATHIEU SYLVESTRE

    Maynight for sound in the Äänen Lumo (Charm of Sound) space Toinen Kerros.

    Playing live:

    Melting Hearts, Hur Hur, alya grad and Mathieu Sylvestre (FR/Berlin)

    Wednesday 30.4.
    Doors: 19.30
    First act starts 20.00
    Tickets 5-15e. mobilepay or cash
    Place: Toinen Kerros, Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki

    MELTING HEARTS

    https://meltingheartsmusic.tumblr.com/

    alya grad

    The sonic signature of alya grad embraces raw aesthetics and an experimental approach. Touched by industrial tones, it blends digital textures, noise, and rhythm into layered contrasts — where softness meets rough sonic edges.

    https://alyagrad.bandcamp.com/

    HUR HUR

    Hur Hur is a solo music project started in 2012 by multidisciplinary artists Timo Viialainen (FIN). It is based on the experimental use of an electroacoustic alto hurdy gurdy. Hurdy gurdy is drone based instrument mostly used in folk music but here it is used to create an immersive droney wall of sound that also contains hints of melodic repetative parts and rythms that come and go. Live gigs are very intense mix of improvisation and musically meaninful dramaturgy that slowly builds up to cathartic heights.

    Hur Hur has played live in different festivals and events in Europe and North America.

    Hur Hur Soundcloud

    MATHIEU SYLVESTRE

    Field recordings and analog synthesizers are the main sources of sound processed by Mathieu Sylvestre. Noises and natural sounds are interwoven and articulated in electrified sound narratives between aural synesthesia and spatial vibrations.

    The sound performance is based on the contribution of tape recorded sounds and analogue modules, arranged by improvised motifs that evolve from show to show.

    In this way, the treatment of sound focuses on a plastic and physical approach to highlight the materiality of the boundaries between analogue acoustic textures and synthetic sources.

    https://alrealonmusique.bandcamp.com/album/happy-among-the-nuts-alrn157

  • 06.04.2025 / Workshop: Fleeting moments, fleeting instruments

    Come and explore different sound sources, build temporary musical instruments, and improvise together.

    The workshop is run by Henna Tahvanainen, who is a researcher, lecturer, and amateur luthier of musical instruments. www.kantelista.wordpress.com

    Free of charge. Max 10 participants. Register by email: tahvanainen.henna AT gmail.com

    Time: Sunday 6.4, from 13.00 to 17.00

    Place: Toinen kerros, Nokiantie 2-4, Helsinki

  • 01.–04.04.2025 / Exhibition: Waves of Digital Sculpture

    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.

  • 30.03.2025 / ARTSY AFTERNOON II

    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. 

  • 29.03.2025 / Usnea: Theodor Kentros (SWE), Joseph Baader (GER), Anna-Sofia Anttonen & Viktor Toikkanen

    LIVE:
    THEODOR KENTROS (SWE)
    JOSEPH BAADER (GER)
    ANNA-SOFIA ANTTONEN
    VIKTOR TOIKKANEN

    Tickets: 5-15€ at the door

    THEODOR KENTROS (SWE)
    Theodor Kentros is a composer and musician based in Stockholm mostly working with the combination of electronic and acoustic instruments as well as tape loops, sample manipulation and Supercollider.

    He’s been a member of the Fylkingen Production group (2021-2024), a member of Fyrec (2021-2023), runs the tape label Kalkatraz Cassettes since 2017 and has been a member of XKatedral since 2016.

    JOSEPH BAADER (GER)
    Joseph Baader is a sound artist and composer based in Düsseldorf. He studied Music and Media (2014-2021, B.Mus)) and Sound and Reality (2021-2024, M.Mus.)) at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf as well as Electroacoustic Composition at the Sibelius Academy Helsinki (2018-2019). In Finland he initiated together with local artists the Potential Difference Collective (2018-2019), which organised and played several open jams and performances in the Helsinki area (Asbestos Art Space, Helsinki Music Centre). As a media artist, he is part of the Cologne based theatre collective KRUX, which has won the Kunstsalon Theaterpreis 2019. He plays electronics in various ensembles and is part of the duo honey washed and the underwater sound project Trio Wellenbad. Since 2017 he erratically exhibits his sound installations at the Cologne sound art space LTK4 – Klangbasierte Künste Köln. His radio pieces and electroacoustic compositions have been played at ARD Hörspieltage, Sentralen Oslo, Sonic Matter Festival Zürich, Ensemblia Mönchengladbach, Neuer Kunstraum Düsseldorf, Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf and Deutschlandfunk Kultur. He was composer in residence at Elektronmusikstudion Stockholm and Cité Internationale des Arts Paris.

    ANNA-SOFIA ANTTONEN
    Anna-Sofia Anttonen is a curious and versatile saxophonist and musician based in Helsinki, Finland. She is especially interested in contemporary music and interdisciplinary projects, collaborating with composers in ensemble and solo settings. Anna-Sofia holds a master’s degree in Sibelius Academy from classical saxophone performance. At the moment she is also working as a composer in a project combining instrument building and ceramic art together with artist Armi Teva.

    Anna-Sofia is an experienced and requested chamber and orchestra musician, theater musician, performance artist, soloist, pedagogue, arranger, and artistic director of projects. She has collaborated with such institutions as the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Finnish National Opera and Ballet, Uusinta Ensemble, Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Helsinki Police Band, The Finnish Navy Band, NYKY Ensemble, Tampere Worker’s Theater and so on. She has performed internationally at festivals like Musica nova, rainy days, Flow, Time of Music and Helsinki Festival. Anna-Sofia was the co-artistic director of the Ostrobothnian Contemporary Music Festival 2023–2024.

    Anna-Sofia is one of the founding members of Saxtronauts, a saxophone quartet on a mission to bring music to different kind of audiences and spaces. Anna-Sofia also plays in Kaaos Ensemble, a
    group formed of flute, saxophone, guitar and percussion. The group is specialized in contemporary music performance and collaboration with composers. Anna-Sofia is also a member of Uusinta Ensemble since 2023. Her newest project, Trio WAS+ is a formation of saxophone, accordion (Frin Wolter), double bass (Aida Salakka) and electronics (Tuukka Tervo).

    VIKTOR TOIKKANEN
    Viktor Toikkanen is a composer, musician, and multimedia artist from Helsinki, Finland, with over a decade of experience in the city’s electronic and experimental music scene. He holds a Master of Music from the Department of Music and Technology at Sibelius Academy and has studied multimedia composition at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. His work spans film, electronic music, multimedia art, computer-assisted chamber music, and performance. A former drummer, Toikkanen has recently reconnected with the instrument.

    Navigating naturally 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. He has collaborated with various ensembles, and his music has been released and performed internationally. Toikkanen has also worked as an event organizer, curator, sound engineer, and workshop leader. He views his art as a diary—an ongoing reflection of a specific time and place, shaped by the interests and resonances that move him in the moment.

    Links:
    https://www.theodorkentros.com/
    https://josephbaader.de/bio/
    https://annasofiaanttonen.com/
    https://linktr.ee/viktortoikkanen

  • 28.03.2025 / Auguri!

    28.3. at 19.00

    “Auguri! (Agouro)”
    [From the Italian – Congratulations
    From the Portuguese – Omen],
    Is a ritualistic and cathartic performance open to the spectator. It was designed to
    celebrate error, failure. Based on the Japanese philosophy of wabi-sabi (acceptance of
    imperfection), the performance uses Kintsugi (the Japanese tradition of repairing ceramic
    pieces with gold) to, with it, celebrate all the differences that unite us.

    Artistic Direction: Daniela Morganiça (performer, PT)
    Artistic Collaboration: Aino Säävälä (singer, FI) and Tonya Björkbom (performer, FI)
    Performers: Aino Säävälä, Daniela Morganiça, Tonya Björkbom