An evening of music made from unconventional playing techniques, DIY instruments and feedback loops.
> Lauri Hyvärinen: electric guitar and electronics
> Zherbin: handmade electronic circuits, tape loops and found objects
> Andrea Mancianti, Ruben Mattia Santorsa, Federico Tramontana: Autophagy II – trio for DIY actuated table top electric guitars, actuated Tam and live electronics
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The evening has been made possible with the contribution of Niilo Helanderin Säätio, SKR and Kone Foundation.
26th of July 19:00
MUU HELSINKI
Contemporary Art Centre
Tallberginkatu 1 C
00180 Helsinki
free entrance
The evening will also be streamed. The link will be provided later.
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Lauri Hyvärinen
Lauri Hyvärinen (b. 1986, Helsinki) uses guitar as a sound source. His sound and music related activities are of theoretical and practical nature and improvisation remains his primary medium and interest. He has performed in Europe, Japan, USA and Russia. Hyvärinen collaborates with Sähkökitarakvartetti, Ilia Belorukov, Clara de Asís, Preerioiden pääelinkeino and others.
Zherbin
Zherbin is a noise artist and an experimental instrument builder based in Helsinki, known to some as a guitarist of a noise rock band Fate Vs Free Willy. Zherbin’s solo work is a way of dealing with anxieties caused by eco-collapse, emerging totalitarianism and personal mental health issues through submerging oneself in noise produced by handmade electronic circuits, tape loops and found objects.
Mancianti Santorsa Tramontana – Autophagy II
Autophagy II, a piece for DIY augmented Tam and electric guitars, is written around two instruments whose sound production happens via acoustic means (the resonance of the Tam and the vibration of strings in two electric guitars), but which are profoundly modified by an electro-mechanic augmentation. This augmentation not only radically transforms the instruments’ sound, but also the ways to interact with them, rendering many of the known performing techniques unusable.
The score is thought of as a map to explore this ever-changing sound-world. It provides strategies and hints at creating given sonic situations, but it’s closer to a recipe than to a traditional music score, in that it sets conditions, but does not prescribe outcomes. Every new combination of performers, physical instruments and performing space will produce a radically new result. The piece is a ritualistic trip in the territory between performative, compositional and material agencies and, like in every trip, actual or metaphoric, the journey is never without surprises.
The trio presents the outcomes of the second chapter of the residency program that Andrea Mancianti together with Äänen Lumo and MUU Helsinki Contemporary Art Centre have organised in the past year.
The residency program, made possible thanks to support from Suomen Kulttuurirahasto, was developed to bring to Finland the collaboration between the composer and two young Italian musicians: Ruben Mattia Santorsa and Federico Tramontana. With their practice the three are engaged in an attempt to investigate and rethink the relationship between composer/performer and technology.