New tape w/ percussionist Naoto Yamagishi out now on Bokashi Records. Recorded live at Hošek Contemporary, Berlin in April 2023. Limited edition cassette and digital download available through Bandcamp and locally in Helsinki and soon Japan. bokashirecords.bandcamp.com/album/live-a...

Playing in public this fall in Helsinki, Japan and Seoul.

Two new reviews of recent release w/ @musicworm.bsky.social on NUNC. It is either: ”a wonderful success” www.freejazzblog.org/2025/07/ilia... or ”jagged, monotonous and uninvolving” www.ondarock.it/recensioni/2... Decide for yourself: nunc-nunc.bandcamp.com/album/fix-it...

Tomorrow – Ben Bennett (USA) / Lauri Hyvärinen, improvised music at Musta Kissa, the best bar in Kallio! Sunday July 20 2025 Musta Kissa, Toinen linja 15 Start time 18:30 Free entry, suggested donation €5-€15 (mobilepay or cash) Ben Bennett - percussion Lauri Hyvärinen - guitar #improvisedmusic

UUDET TERÄSKIELET – New music for steel string acoustic guitars 16.7.2025, 19-21:30 Toinen Kerros, Nokiantie 2–4 Donation 5-10€ Works by Castilla-Ávila, Dupleix, Hyvärinen, Reid Bulatovič Performers: Lauri Hyvärinen, Gon Muruaga, Mark Reid Bulatovič, Haiyun Yu #contemporarymusic #justintonation

Tonight #freeimprovisation @ Hökarängens Antikvariat, Stockholm. Félicie Bazelaire, electronics Lauri Hyvärinen, electric guitar Girilal Baars, voice Jörgen Adolfsson, saxophone 19:00, 100kr #improvisedmusic #experimentalmusic

LUURANKOUNI TOUR continues today Félicie Bazelaire, electronics Lauri Hyvärinen, electric guitar 15.5. @suhinaklubi.bsky.social @ Myymälä2, Helsinki Start time 19:00 Tickets: 15/8€ 16.5. Hökarängens Antikvariat, Stockholm (w/ Girilal Baars, Jörgen Adolfsson) 17.5. Klang Konst, Uppsala

Luurankouni (Félicie Bazelaire, Lauri Hyvärinen) tour started yesterday @ Pethaus, Tampere. Next: 10.5. @himeraturku.bsky.social, Kutomo, Turku 11.5. Cabaret Volta, Tallinn 15.5 @suhinaklubi.bsky.social, Helsinki 16.5. Hökarängens Antikvariat, Stockholm 17.5. Klang Konst, Uppsala #experimentalmusic

LUURANKOUNI tour w/ Félicie Bazelaire coming up: 9/5 @pethaus.bsky.social, Tampere 10/5 @himeraturku.bsky.social @ Kutomo, Turku 11/5 Cabaret Volta, Tallinn 15/5 @suhinaklubi.bsky.social, Helsinki 16/5 Hökarängens Antikvariat, Stockholm 17/5 Klangkonst, Uppsala #improvisedmusic #experimentalmusic

’Harmonic Permutations’, new music with Daniel M Karlsson out now. Hope you’ll enjoy it. Daniel M Karlsson - composition, electronics Lauri Hyvärinen - electric guitar Recorded at EMS, Stockholm. Supported by Kulturfonden for Sverige och Finland. danielmkarlsson.bandcamp.com/album/harmon...

May 4: trio w/ jukka kääriäinen & girilal baars @ asbestos, Helsinki Luurankouni tour 9: @pethaus.bsky.social, Tampere 10: Springroll, @himeraturku.bsky.social @ Kutomo, Turku 11: Cabaret Volta, Tallinn 15: Suhina, Helsinki 16: Hökarängens antikvariat, Stockholm +guests 17: Klangkonst, Uppsala

Next gigs in HEL: Apr 17: Rahina, duo w/ Jaakko Kuikka + JP Kervinen & Vesa Lehko Apr 20: El Fant, duo w/ @jukkka.bsky.social + Tom Malmendier & Emilie Škrijelj May 4: Asbestos Art Space, trio w/ Girilal Baars & Jukka Kääriäinen #improvisedmusic

”[T]he five tracks here are shot through with freewheeling exuberance and malicious glee” Ben Harper reviews ’Pulled Apart by Horses’ w/ me and @jukkka.bsky.social among other interesting guitar music on Boring Like a Drill. #improvisedmusic #experimentalmusic #noisemusic #electricguitar

Recommending a few fantastic concerts this weekend in HEL: 21.3. Edgars Rubenis, Kalle Tikas, Kadonnut Manner @ Linna Bar 19-21h facebook.com/events/s/pe-... 23.3. Niko Karlsson, Merimaija Aalto, Hermanni Yli-Tepsa et al @ Äänen Lumo 17-19h experimentalsoundingfinland.github.io/2025/03/23/v...

Modular synth explorer Ilia Belorukov's 2 free improvised duos with Finnish guitarist and electronics player Lauri Hyvärinen + Vienna-based flutist Sara Zlanabitnig. My review for Salt Peanuts: salt-peanuts.eu/record/ilia-...

This week w/ not one but two electric gtr quartets: Wed Mar 5: Microtonal Electric Guitar Quartet @ Myymälä2, Helsinki. Graphic scores & improvisation in polymicrotonal systems: 19, 21 & 32 EDO. Fri Mar 7: Sähkökitarakvartetti @ Fylkingen, Stockholm. Stenberg, Hyvärinen, Naukkarinen, Clara de Asís

Next week’s Friday Sähkökitarakvartetti returns! Split bill with Lisa Stenberg @ Fylkingen, Stockholm. Lisa Stenberg: new piece (2025) Lauri Hyvärinen: Necrotrophs (2025) Laura Naukkarinen: Lfolfolfos (2022) Clara de Asís: everyday less, less everyday (2017) www.fylkingen.se/en/events/li...

Sat 22.2. 19-21:30 @ Äänen Lumo Corinna Eikmeier Annika Fuhrmann Pedro Fernández Heli Hartikainen Gerardo Gozzi LH Nicola Hein Sirpa Jokinen Charlotte Hug Jukka Kääriäinen Diego Kohn Vesa Lehko Alistair MacDonald Gon Muruaga Arnas Mikalkenas Teemu Mustonen Liudas Mockūnas Juha Rautio Melik Turunen

Latest duo album w/ @musicworm.bsky.social released in January on NUNC. reviewed in Spontaneous Music Tribune — Thanks Andrzej Nowak! ”A dense, muscular and loudly tuned album.” spontaneousmusictribune.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-... #freeimprovisation #noisemusic #experimentalmusic

Feb-April 2025 Feb 22: Äämetric, Äänen Lumo, Helsinki Mar 5: Microtonal Guitar Quartet, Myymälä2, Helsinki Mar 7: Sähkökitarakvartetti, Fylkingen, Stockholm (premiere pieces from Lisa Stenberg & me) Apr 17: w/ Jone Takamäki, Rahina, Helsinki Apr 20: w/ Jukka Kääriäinen, El Fant, Helsinki

Two very interesting concerts tomorrow Sunday in Helsinki - don’t worry, I am not playing! 14:00 Otto Eskelinen & Jaakko Kuikka: Shakuhachi music @ Winter Garden, Töölö, free entrance 19:00 Transsonic (Viola Yip & @nicolahein.bsky.social), Äänen Lumo, Vallila, 5-10€ #äänenlumo #talvipuutarha

Experimental Sounding Finland – a new calendar for sound-related concerts and events in Finland! Check out and make the best of this great new resource. experimentalsoundingfinland.github.io #improvisedmusic #experimentalmusic #soundart #contemporarymusic

Ääni elää is an event calendar for sound art, experimental music and contemporary music in Finland. I hope we can keep it alive and use it: elaa.fi/aani

Cool to be part of this fantastic programme in May, as part of our duo tour with Félicie Bazelaire! More dates soon. #feliciebazelaire #improvisedmusic #experimentalmusic #contemporarymusic #gigsinhelsinki

Recent concert with @jukkka.bsky.social @ Telakka Jazz reviewed in @allaboutjazz.bsky.social by Rob Garratt. "[T]he pair intuitively conjured dense drones and ethereal shivers, demented shredding and holy feedback." www.allaboutjazz.com/telakka-jazz... #freeimprovisation #experimentalmusic

New release on Falt, ’Koodi’ w/ Juha Rautio. 

Three sound collages from 4 hours of improvisations in the natural locations of Seurasaari, Helsinki.
 Sound, text, duration, repetition and environment. 

falt.bandcamp.com/album/koodi #juharautio #laurihyvärinen #improvisation #fieldrecordings

🍔Fix it if it ain't Broken🍕 Seems we still like to eat street food in the parks! Seems like we exchanged eyeglasses? 2013 in Helsinki / 2023 in Novi Sad Our new album is on bandcamp now🎧 @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social nunc-nunc.bandcamp.com/album/fix-it...

About last Thursday. Photos by @odjinud.bsky.social from a gig with Jukka Kääriäinen at the legendary Musta Kissa bar in Helsinki. 'Twas a blast. #improvisedmusic #experimentalmusic #music #guitar