The mixtape nobody asked for — delivered on Orthodox Christmas. I’m gifting you this religious experience of noise: saturated sound for saturated minds, ambient, improv, experimental; the best possible way to make your ears bleed and find solace in that unruly spirit called SOUND.

15 of some of my favorite listens from the horrible year 2025 via @boomkat.com boomkat.com/charts/boomk...

Thrilled to welcome @marjaahti.bsky.social back to Stockholm on Sunday 23 November to conclude our concert series at Yeshin Norbu for 2025. For this occasion Marja will present new live works for quadraphonic speaker array.

"Fluctuating Streams was originally composed by Marja Ahti in 2020 as an electro-acoustic piece. In 2024, in collaboration with Blutwurst, the piece was 'translated' / re-arranged for acoustic instruments."

If you have the fortune of being anywhere near Pori, go see Sokeriovet by @kuorinki.bsky.social @essikausalainen.bsky.social @maijaluut.bsky.social and Olli Keränen at Pori Art Museum. Ace exhibition by dear friends and collaborators.

An extract from 'Fluctuating Streams' played by Florence based ensemble Blutwurst - one of two 'translations' of previously electronic works from our CD 'Visiting Cloud', which will be released on Another Timbre November 17th. Recorded in Florence, June 2024.

One of this years highlights was spending time at Korčula island with @manjaristic.bsky.social, making a record. Thanks to Jon Abbey for initiating this collaboration.

“active and engaging on all levels” www.musiquemachine.com/reviews/revi... @marjaahti.bsky.social

Looking much forward to playing in Stockholm next month in this intimate 4x concert series.

First presented by @marjaahti.bsky.social at the Festival for Other Music in Stockholm, "Touch This Fragrant Surface Of Earth" is now available on this album. Available on the label Fönstret, it blends contemporary and electro-acoustic music #contemporarymusic www.etherreal.com/spip.php?art...

Very nice words about Marja Ahti’s LP here: aktirecords.net/blogs/produc...

At the threshold towards winter, this year's Himera Festival brings two days of experimental music, presenting free jazz ensemble Oaagaada, composer and pianist Lisa Ullén, musician and artist Shakeeb Abu Hamdan, guitarist Finn Loxbo and sound artist and designer Piia Rinne.

Save the date: Himera Festival 2025 31/10-1/11 with Lisa Ullén, Oaagaada, Finn Loxbo, Shakeeb Abu Hamdan and Piia & Miia Rinne. Two days of performances at Contemporary Art Space Kutomo, Sibelius museum and Dynamo. Turku, Finland.

'Zooming out, September always feels like a point of intensifying energy when it comes to new music. The big distraction of festival season behind us, end of year listageddon looming into view on the horizon...' Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of September 2025 buff.ly/PjjYVm4

For @thequietus.com, I wrote about @marjaahti.bsky.social's new album of delicate yet voluminous electroacoustic explorations (out on @johnchantler.bsky.social's Fönstret). Gorgeous stuff.

Marja Ahti has an exquisite pair of electroacoustic compositions for you. Sharper high frequency tones move like fine linework, with their smooth curved gestures complimenting the paths taken by complex timbres opening up new dimensions of movement. It's phenomenal!

Sound artist-composer Marja Ahti offers enigmatic pieces that explore and enhance the elemental qualities of sound in nature, or by acoustic instruments, and how these sounds can create their own organic sonic ecosystem. My review for Percorsi Musicali: www.percorsimusicali.eu/2025/09/12/m...

My new album Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth is out today via Fönstret @edition-festival.com Massively happy and grateful for how this turned out, with the sincere efforts of everyone involved. The cover art is by Finnish artist Maija Luutonen. marjaahti.bandcamp.com/album/touch-...

Slightly later release date, but folks in the USA can order @marjaahti.bsky.social's 'Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth' from Clandestine Distribution or get your favourite local retailer to order it in from them. clandestinedistribution.com/products/ant...

Marja Ahti & Manja Ristić balance a rich soundworld atop a highwire, delicately distributing the motion so that it never tips, operating in a crystal clear air that hides nothing while also conveying the full weight of emptiness, honoring the majesty of the moves that carve into it with substance.

into year 27 of Erstwhile, I still love the feeling of releasing newly arrived titles into the wild. these two just arrived, looking and sounding gorgeous, both shipping now. Éric La Casa/Jérôme Noetinger - Off Tracks (Erstwhile 101) Marja Ahti/Manja Ristić- Transference (Erstwhile 103)

2nd week in residence at Contemporary Art Space Kutomo in Turku with percussionist Minna Koskenlahti and performance+butoh artist Tashi Iwaoka. We are presenting a new piece on Thursday at 18-20, come by and stay for the whole two hours or any duration you like.

This is out today on @erstwhile.bsky.social ✨💿

Thrilled to be releasing this gorgeous new solo record by Marja Ahti which has its roots in her performance for the edition vii grm festival last february.... Out Sept 12. marjaahti.bandcamp.com/album/touch-...

This is Fönstret—15. @marjaahti.bsky.social

Very excited to let you all know that my new record ’Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth’ will be released on Fönstret on September 12th.

and then in November we close out the series with a solo electro-acoustic set by Swedish-Finnish composer Marja Ahti. Ahti's next solo record 'Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth' will be out on Fönstret in September (i have copies here & it sounds incredible!) edition-festival.com/en/events/ma...

I'm hosting four sunday afternoon concerts at Yeshin Norbu Meditation Centre in Stockholm starting on 24 August with a solo performance by the extraordinary bassist composer Kansan 'Torbjörn' Zetterberg. Communal meal included. Tickets available now: edition-festival.com/en/events/ka...

Duo album with @manjaristic.bsky.social coming up on @erstwhile.bsky.social August 8th. Hope you enjoy! erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com/album/transf...

Happy to contribute with a text on composing with space for the latest Spectres issue. shelter-press.com/spectres-v/

very happy to announce that we have a title and a final front cover for this project, coming soon: Marja Ahti/Manja Ristić - Transference (Erstwhile 103)

We're proud and excited to invite the amazing Annea Lockwood to Turku July 26th. Lockwood will perform her 6-channel piece Jitterbug (2007), constructed from the sounds of water insects, a graphic score and three additional musicians, as well as two tape works, Buoyant (2023) and Dusk (2012).

Manja Ristić and Marja Ahti working on their upcoming Erst together today in Croatia. photo by Mark Vernon

The amazing @q-o2.bsky.social Oscillation festival starts on Thursday in Brussels. Can't wait!

This Saturday - our last night of Live-to-Air Performances Ahti & Ahti / Hexakaidecagon / Semay Wu & Juana Adcock / Ecka Mordecai Saturday, 19th April @ CIVIC HOUSE First act 7pm prompt. radiophrenia.scot/live-to-air-... Tickets available through Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/radiophren...

Me and Niko-Matti are heading to Glasgow this weekend to give a live-to-air performance for @radiophrenia.bsky.social on Saturday. Tune in / see you there!

Recording weekend in Reykjavik with John McCowen and a mean sopranissimo recorder.

Present (16mm Film, 24min., 2024) in Turku Art Museum ~ last year with contribution Emma Hammarén, Keiko Yamamoto, Pietari Peltola, Vanessa Billy, Anna Maria Häkkinen, Villa Ruscica, Antti Peltoranta, Sam Watson, Marja Ahti, Anne Tolkkinen

This Saturday in Reykjavik

Judith Hamann will perform their piece Desire Paths for cello and electronics at the Sibelius museum in Turku this Friday. This one is special!

Everybody’s got a hungry ghost

Spring dates FEBRUARY 22, 2025 solo, Vaahterasali, Lahti, FI MARCH 15, 2025 solo, Mengi, Reykjavik, IS APRIL 19, 2025 Ahti & Ahti, Radiophrenia, Glasgow, UK MAY 3, 2025 solo, Oscillation: The Weather, Brussels, BE

Ahti & Ahti, Reijo Pami, Tomutonttu @ Pethaus, Pispalan valtatie 47, Tampere. Fri 31 January 2025. 5-15€. 19:00-> www.pethaus.fi #AhtiEtAhti #ReijoPami #Tomutonttu #Pethaus #experimental #improvisation #minimalism #glitch #musiqueconcrete #soundart #PispalanValtatie #Pispala #Tampere #Finland

Beautiful, moving memorial for Catherine Christer Hennix in Stockholm yesterday with members of her ensemble performing her final work Kamigaku.

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

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Cheered up by hoarse duck laughter every day.

He is taking a great leap. Blessings 🤍

Can’t wait to hear Judith’s new album for Shelter Press.

A few records from 2024 that I very much enjoyed - Lisa Ullén: Heirloom, Ernst Karel & Bhob Rainey: 47 Gates, Marco Baldini: Maniera, crys cole: Making Conversation, Eden Lonsdale: Dawnings.