This year’s Himera festival starts on Friday 31/10, opening with Finnish free jazz quartet Oaagaada at Dynamo’s attic in Turku. Tero Kemppainen, double bass Simo Laihonen, drums Sami Pekkola, saxophone Tuure Tammi, trumpet

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.

Kiilan Äänipäivät Music / performaces 5th july 2025 in Kiila about 14:00-21:00. LINE UP: Rie Nakajima (JP/UK) Julia Eckhardt (BE) Roi Vaara (FI) Rättö ja Lehtisalo (FI) Koho/Koskenlahti (FI) aanipaivat.com

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).

I will be performing in Helsinki on Monday 19 May at the new Äänen Lumo space Toinen Kerros alongside Andrea Mancianti // aanenlumo.com/2025/05/06/1...

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

Luurankouni (‘skeleton dream’) is the duo of electronic musician and double bassist Félicie Bazelaire (FR) and electric guitarist Lauri Hyvärinen (FI). Concert Saturday May 10th as part of Spring Roll Festival in Turku.

Finnish pals & mutuals. I'm psyched to be coming over for some solo shows next week. Also with solo sets by Willie Stewart. Would really appreciate any help spreading the word! Kittos! 23/4 PUBLICS, HELSINKI 24/4 B-GALLERIA, TURKU 25/4 ONE FOR THE ROAD, PORI 26/4 PETHAUS, TAMPERE

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

Published on my feeble Weebly page an essay I wrote about improvised music of AMM, for their latest record, Aura. Scroll down for the photos, made with my cell phone, of the actual printed booklet that comes with the CD. "Cuckoo or quirky", as K'naan song lyrics have it, I don't know either.

Coming up at the Sibelius museum in Turku 14.3. Judith Hamann will perform their piece Desire paths for cello and four channel tape, as well as an acoustic set. Not to be missed!

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

Coming up: Judith Hamann at Sibeliusmuseum, Turku, 14.3.2025.