Andrea Camporotondo (ITA) / Vongoiva / JanneKalewi

Sat 10.12.2016
Doors: 19.00
Voluntary 5 euro entry fee

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Robert Jürjendal and Kaido Kirikmäe
+ Vongoiva & Fell Hand

Wed 2.11.2016
Doors: 19.00
Voluntary 5 euro entry fee

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Kaido Kirikmäe – electroacoustical objects, live looping
Robert Jürjendal – guitar, electronics, bow

Special guest – Petri Kuljuntausta (FIN)

Kaido Kirikmäe & Robert Jürjendal

The collaboration between composer-guitarist Robert Jürjendal and ambient musician Kaido Kirikmäe is based primarily on spontaneity. It started last autumn with Arvo Pärt’s birthday week festival when they recorded a track for “Return of Navigator Pirx” compilation album and gave some improvisational concerts.

They meet same spontaneously on the stage where they generate organic and dynamic arrays of sounds – you will hear echoes of distant space’s wistful whoops and on top of all the audience will be misled into the looper’s rhythm maze.

In the near future, the cooperation between Jürjendal and Kirikmäe will reach to the international music field – in the autumn they perform at a new music festival “Iceland Airwaves”.

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Robert Jürjendal (1966-) has studied classical guitar and composition. In 1992-1997 he participated in various Robert Fripp Guitar Craft courses and toured with The Berlin Guitar Ensemble. Beside the solo- and guitar ensemble repertoire, he has written music for male choir and electric guitars, cembalo duo, string quartet, recorder trio. His composition style is influenced by minimalism, classical, prog rock, jazz and old church music. He has written music for documentary films, theatre productions and art exhibitions.
He has been working with wellknown Estonian rock artists Tõnis Mägi and Riho Sibul as well as with artists Toyah Willcox (UK), David Rothenberg (USA ), Petri Kuljuntausta (FIN), Markus Reuter (Austria), Jan Bang (Norway). As a guitarist/sideman/composer/arranger, Robert Jürjendal has appeared on more than 30 records and performed in USA, UK, Germany, France, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia.

Kaido Kirikmäe (1973-) is an Estonian composer of electronic and experimental music. Initially a psychedelic punk rock artist and a lyricist who began his musical activities in 1990. Since the mid-90’s, Kirikmäe has been focusing on electronic and experimental music and mostly creates organic soundscapes that is mainly built on loop structures.
His music composition can be described as nature-centered balancing with unrefined sound image between early morning sunrise and evening sunset. He presents his music with the help of acoustic / analogue instruments and loopers, creating newer and newer unique sound images which arise and disappear within few moments in real-time.

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Vongoiva & Fell Hand

Mental Alaska & Akusmata Proudly Presents:

ID M THEFT ABLE (USA)
ARTTU PARTINEN

Mon, October 3, 2016
Klo 19:00 – 21:00

Voluntary admission fee 5 euros to cover the costs.

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ID M THEFT ABLE

ID M THEFT ABLE (i’d m thfft able/i dmth efta ble) is an improvising vocalist and found objectist from Portland, Maine, USA. He has played in many galleries, reputable festivals, disreputable festivals, basements, bedrooms, mansions, art galleries, record stores, all over the eastern half of North America and western Europe. i’d vocalizes while accompanying himself on assemblages of found objects and electronics.

History: http://kraag.org/id/shows.htm
General: http://kraag.org
Blog: http://noisey.vice.com/blog/brain-melters-id-m-theftable
Audio samples: http://kraag.org/id/ears.htm

“Id M Theftable is perhaps the most insubordinate and virtuosic sound artist I’ve seen with my two eyes. Sure, dude can manipulate a bunch of knobs. But all he needs is his mouth and hands to produce a mind-blowingly far out noise set. The collage is so frantically paced, detailed and wide-ranging that there’s no doubt there’s a real master is behind the wheel—even if he’s steering the car off a cliff. – Nat Roe / Noisey

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ARTTU PARTINEN

ARTTU PARTINEN has been making music around 15 years now. Some of his projects (most visible being the long-lived band Avarus) were central in the international breakthrough of the “New Weird Finland”-genre around 2005-2006. Solo, he has been known as Amon Düde, but in recent times also under his own name.

In his performances, he combines noise dynamics with slapstick moves. He often seems to struggle with his gear, surprising himself as well as the audience. As sound sources he uses found tapes, his own recordings, world music cassettes, nature sounds, human voice, processed live percussion etc.
https://soundcloud.com/arttu-partinen

Akusmata ja Aural Ataraxia ylpeänä esittää modulaarisia ääniä ja muuta:

ELECTRONIC MADNESS
Wellenform / bin.exe / A Companion of Owls

Lauantai 17.9.2016, klo 19:00–22:00
Ovet klo 19:00 / Showtime klo 19:30
Äänigalleria Akusmata

– free entry –

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Wellenform

Wellenform on turkulainen elektronisen musiikin duo, jonka muodostavat Teppo Toivonen ja Jaakko Penttinen. He ovat tehneet tahoillansa musiikkia 90-luvulta alkaen eri kokoonpanoissa ja esiintyneet taidegallerioissa, elokuvateattereissa ja klubeilla.

Wellenformin musiikillinen kieli pohjaa varhaiseen industrialiin, teknoon ja konreettiseen musiikkiin. Äänilähteinä he käyttävät muun muassa modulaarisia ja analogisia syntetisaattoreita, samplereita ja konkreettisia ääniä.

Wellenform is a Turku-based electronic music duo, formed by Teppo Toivonen and Jaakko Penttinen. They have made music in various lineups since the 90’s and have performed in a wide range of venues.

Wellenform’s musical direction is based on early industrial and techno music as well as musique concrete. The utilized sound sources are Modular and Analogue synthesizers, samples, among others.

soundcloud.com/ambientwelt/sets/wellenform-berlin-die-sinfonie-der-grosstadt

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bin.exe

bin.exe a.k.a Ossi Hätönen on turkulainen elektronisen musiikin säveltäjä. Hänen teoksissaan yhdistyvät ambient- ja drone-henkiset maalailevat äänimaisemat, yksinkertaistetut melodiat ja satunnaiset rytmiset elementit. Live-improvisaatio on vahvasti läsnä hänen musiikissaan. Ossi on myös 1/3 Konekonekone-yhtyettä.

bin.exe a.k.a Ossi Hätönen is a Turku-based composer of electronic music. He combines ambient and drone soundscapes in his compositions, but also simplified melodies and some sporadic rhythmic elements. Live improvisation is also strongly present in his music. Ossi is also 1/3 of the electronic band Konekonekone.

binexe.bandcamp.com/releases

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A Companion of Owls

Stephen Christopher Stamper on helsinkiläistynyt brittiläinen taiteilija.

Esiintyessään nimellä A Companion of Owls, Stephen yrittää (jälleen) yhdistellä kokoelmalla pieniä muovilaatikoita ja tietokoneellaan drone-fuzzia, magneettista pulsaatiota, ääni-leikkeitä, valveunia… ja muuta.

The only non-modular performer of the evening will be Stephen Christopher Stamper, a British-born artist living and working in Helsinki.

Performing under the name A Companion of Owls, Stephen will (once again) attempt to conjure the following from a collection of small plastic boxes and a laptop: “drone-fuzz, magnetic pulsation, vocal snippets, waking dreams, the surf’s steady pound and the hum of utility poles”

acompanionofowls.bandcamp.com
soundcloud.com/a-companion-of-owls

Aural Ataraxia & Akusmata presents:

LIVE: Mesak / Hannu Ikola / Henri Lindström

Wednesday 29.6.2016
Doors 19, showtime 19:30

Meilahden kesäilta sähköistyy keskiviikkona 29.6. kun Äänigalleria Akusmata täyttyy Suomalaisista elektronisen musiikin taitajista.

Henri Lindström / https://soundcloud.com/henri-lindstr-m
Hannu Ikola / https://soundcloud.com/hannuikola
Mesak / https://soundcloud.com/mesak

Vapaa pääsy!
Tapahtumassa kerätään kolehti artisteille.

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Mesak

Mesak (Tatu Metsätähti) on turkulaislähtöinen elektronisen musiikin moniottelija. Sooloprojektinsa ohella hänet saatetaan muistaa mm Harmönia-levymerkin puuhamiehenä tai Mr Velcro Fastener elektroduosta. Akusmatassa Mesak on luvannut esittää improvisoidun teoksen modulaarisyntetisattorilla.
https://soundcloud.com/mesak/yumurta-hommage-forum-cass-2015

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Hannu Ikola

Hannu Ikolan musiikin paras kuvaus saattaa olla moderni tekno terästettynä kitaraefekteillä. Äänimaisemat ovat tummia ja intensiivisiä.
Olipa tila ja tapahtuma mikä tahansa niin voit olla varma että hänen tarjoama musiikillinen matka on aina tinkimätön ja liikuttava.

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Henri Lindström

“Henri Lindström, syntynyt 1983 Laukaassa, harrastaa kestävyysjuoksua.”

Soololevyjä julkaissut Lindström säveltää ja soittaa rumpuja ja elektroniikkaa. Henri kiertää Jaakko Eino Kalevin kanssa ja on säestänyt Sami van Ingenin live-elokuvia. Luvassa on uutta ja odottamatonta, todennäköisesti elektroninen keikka minisyntikoilla.

Aural Ataraxia ja Akusmata järjestävät:

LIVE: Utu Lautturi / Kolmiotaajuus / [ówt krì]
Lau 4.6. klo 19:00

https://www.facebook.com/events/1545316819098516/
Kesäkuun alkamisen kunniaksi Ambient-tapahtumat jatkuvat Akusmatassa.

Tällä kertaa leijailemme tummanpuhuvien sävyjen maalaamassa maisemassa jonka keskiössä todellisuus ja mielikuvitus nivoutuvat yhteen. Liikumme äänien mukana rytmisessä, soljuvassa ja ennalta arvaamattomassa virrassa missä kaikki on mahdollista.

Lauantaina 4.6. klo 19

Aura Shining Greenista tuttu Joonatan Elokuu avaa lauantai-illan yhdessä Utu Lautturin kanssa. Kaksikko duetoi ennen Utu Lautturin varsinaista invokaatiota.

Utu Lautturi / 19:30

Utu Lautturin käsissä orgaaniset äänet muotoutuvat uuteen muotoon ja pääsevät elämään omaa unelmaansa. Lopputuloksena on rituaalinen kokemus, missä todellisuus menettää otettaan sinusta mikäli olet valmis luovuttamaan hallinnan. Rytmiset elementit, joiden inspiraatio piilee villissä luonnossa ja mystikassa, luovat mielentilan missä rauha saattaa odottaa sinua.

[ówt krì] / 20:15

On olemassa ääniä jotka herättävät mielikuvituksesi. On olemassa aika ja paikka missä mielikuvitus ottaa vallan. On olemassa musiikkia jota kuunnellessa pystyt visualisoimaan äänen omaksi sisäiseksi elokuvaksi. [ówt krì] luo kerroksia ja kontrasteja äänistä jotka yhteen nivottuina pyrkivät avaamaan mielikuvituksesi kahleet.

Kolmiotaajuus / 20:45

Kolmen pisteen muodostama geometrin muoto tunnistetaan usein kolmiona,
tämä kyseinen kolmio on niinikään kolmen pisteen, entiteetin, hahmon, ihmisen(?) muodostama kolmio jonka rajojen sisällä mahdoton muodostuu mahdolliseksi. Kolmion käsissä sähköimpulssit muodostuvat ääneksi joka muovautuu heidän käsittelyssään harvinaislaatuiseksi elektroniseksi musiikiksi.

Ilmainen sisäänpääsy!

Tapahtumassa kerätään vapaaehtoinen kolehti esiintyjille.

Aural Ataraxia presents:

Live ambient electronic music from Russia, Hungary and Finland at Akusmata Sound Art Gallery

Saturday April 23, 2016

Doors at 19:00, Showtime at 20:00
Tukholmankatu 7 K, 00270 Helsinki, Finland

Free entry with a voluntary donation.

Timetable / Aikataulu 23.4.2016

19:00 Doors open / Ovet auki

19:00 Kenneth Kovasin / [ówt krì]: ‘Urban Evolution’ (soundscape)

20:00 Re-Drum (Russia) / link

20:30 Rovar17 (Hungary). [ówt krì]

21:00 sarana / link

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Re-Drum
Vital Weekly: Re-Drum from Russia is one of Emerge’s steady touring buddies and sometimes (or maybe most of the times) they also end up playing together, such as on this recording from two years ago. It was recorded in a concert series called ‘Noise Angriff’, which translates best as ‘noise attack’, so the result is also a bit louder than one would expect. Using lots of electronics, loop devices, sound effects (delay, reverb), and the two create a rich palette of sounds and it stays never anywhere long, giving the music quite some vibrancy. There isn’t much noise to be found on this work, but I found it all rather spacious and slowly meandering about, with occasional small sounds popping up in the mix. Head trip music!

http://re-dr-um.bandcamp.com/

Rovar17
The Rovar17 (Insect17 in English) is basically Kálmán Pongrácz’s solo project, but different kinds of collaboration often occur with musicians, visual artists, performers as well as theater. The music is made by audio collage technique, which rejects the traditional sound system, harmony, melody, even rhythm, and creates compositions from inconsistent and untempered sounds, noises, natural or electronic – but mostly human voices.

https://soundcloud.com/rovar17

sarana
‘Spectral ambient music’. On the new album:
Melancholy Paradox will be out in 2016 on vinyl and digital. It’s a compilation of old and new material. Unlike the live sets it’ll be a collection of carefully composed single tracks. The album will be released by Erototox Decodings from the USA. Harmonic music is an exception in the world of sounds. Still, any sound except noise is not a random collection of frequencies, but a certain set of harmonics, resonances and fundamentals. This in turn makes the resulting music also not random, but a contained space of frequencies, which never quite repeat themselves and which are in constant change.

http://www.sarana.biz/

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Kenneth Kovasin / [ówt krì]: ‘Urban Evolution’

On saturday from 19:00 until showtime you will have a chance to listen to the Soundscape of Kenneth Kovasin / [ówt krì] titled “Urban Evolution”. “Urban Evolution is a soundscape that dives deep into our modern reality that is tainted with urgency and technology. Every moment in the soundscape is a unique mixture of noise, ethereal ambience and environmental sounds. The sounds are tied together in an ever-changing flow of textures and contrasts that open your soul to harsh industrial landscapes.”

http://owtkri.bandcamp.com/

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