Vuosipäivä - A celebration of experimental music, performing arts and contemporary poetry.

Saturday 27.4.2024 at 17-22

Tickets: 12/15 euros (advance/at the door)

https://pertin-valinta.myshopify.com/…/vuosipaiva-paasylippu

Pertin Valinta, Hakaniemenkuja 2, 00530 Helsinki, Finland

performers:

OLLI AARNI / MIIO HOLOPAINEN / PAULIINA HAASJOKI / MINERVA JUOLAHTI / KOHO & KOSKENLAHTI / LAURA NEN /

LIN DA / ILPO NUMMINEN

A year (vuosi) became a decade

VUOSI was originally a project by four sound artists (Ilpo Numminen, J. Koho, Olli Aarni ja Tuukka Salonen). The idea was to release 12 cassettes in one year (2014–2015), one each month. However, after the project was done, we wanted to continue as a loose collective.

VUOSI has performed all around Finland and in Estonia, released several records and done different sound installations for Ars Auttoinen, Akusmata, Kiilan Äänipäivät & Sorbus among others.

VUOSIPÄIVÄ celebrates this (almost) 10-year journey with a diverse program. Welcome!

http://vuosikasetit.blogspot.com
https://vuosi.bandcamp.com

PERTSA GOES NOISE!

Live:
VIOLENT SHOGUN (FRA)
TYHJÄ PÄÄ
ANTOINE VERHAVERBEKE

Keskiviikko 10.4. klo 18-21
Liput: 12€ / 10€ pre sale tickets here:

https://pertin-valinta.myshopify.com/collections/paasyliput

)Rémi Dazet, the mastermind behind Violent Shogun, has been active lately also with other projects like Hattifnattar, Cryptofascisme and Mold.

Tyhjä Pää is a noise artist from Northern Finland who is known for fierce live show and a handful of tapes and split releases. Tyhjä Pää is also a long-time organizer in the noise underground.

Antoine Verhaverbeke uses an electric guitar to play live compositions stretching from minimal electronics to dense overtones.

PERTIN VALINTA FOLK-Monday
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Live:
Algis Fediajevas (LT)
Edgars Rubenis (LV)

Thu 21.3. at 6.00-9.00
Liput 12€ / 10€ (edullisempi hinta ennakkosta)

https://pertin-valinta.myshopify.com/collections/paasyliput

Pertin Valinta, Hakaniemenkuja 2

ALGIS FEDIAJEVAS is an actively touring Lithuanian underground guitarist and singer-songwriter who recently released his fourth album titled Po trejų metų (“After three years”). The album was recorded in England with local musicians.

“Po trejų metų“ is both an exploration of the new musical territories and continuation of his previous activities. Algis plays a unique and exotic variation of psychedelic folk and experimental folk music. His songs are based on dialogues. One part of the dialogue is the fingerstyle acoustic guitar played in an unorthodox way with a lot of buzzing, vibrating and waving. Another part is sometimes calm, sometimes aggressive vocals and Algis’ own poetry sung in Lithuanian.

Algis lets his music ramble: it wanders from calm folky melodies to meditative Eastern sounds, to dissonant explosions. All this creates a distinctive psychedelic style and shamanic atmosphere.

EDGARS RUBENIS is a Latvian guitarist and composer with a background in experimental rock and new music composition. ”Pains And Boogies”, his current three-album project, explores the vitality of fingerpicked steel-string guitar traditions as a source for bold and contemporary music.

Working particularly with the forms of early blues and ragtime, in ”Pains And Boogies” Rubenis writes seemingly old yet entirely new music that reveals him as an elaborate guitar player and
adventurous, stylistically accurate composer. Risking blunder in search for possible authenticity, this music investigates how various historical materials could meaningfully reemerge at the current point in time. In concerts this music creates a highly charged atmosphere in which the “sole musician with an acoustic guitar” configuration offers audiences a clearly perceivable and exciting listening experience.

Edgars Rubenis first emerged on the underground music scene in mid-2000’s as the member of Riga’s experimental rock band Mona de Bo. Since his 2020 shift to working with acoustic guitar, Rubenis’ music has been featured on London's Resonance FM radio, in concerts along with the Welsh guitarist Gwenifer Raymond, Kadonnut Manner from Finland, and on various festivals and tours in France, Sweden, Belgium, The Netherlands and the Baltics

SOUND OF PERTTI vol.4

Live:
MARJA AHTI
ATTE ELIAS KANTONEN
AZIS FUNCK

Pertin Valinta, Hakaniemenkuja 2 HKI

Thursday 14.3.2024 klo 18-21

Liput 12/10€ https://pertin-valinta.myshopify.com/collections/paasyliput

Marja Ahti (b. 1981) is a Swedish-Finnish composer and sound artist based in Turku, Finland. Ahti works with field recordings and other acoustic sound material combined with synthesizers and electronic feedback in order to find the space where these sounds start to communicate.

Atte Elias Kantonen is a sound laborer working in the fields of experimental music and performing arts. In his works, Kantonen explores the potential of elastic synthesis and extremely processed sound as vessels for abstract, phantasmagorical storytelling.

Azis Funck will perform free violin music from his upcoming album. Beautiful chaos, ecstatic noise and rain. Azis Funck is the solo project of Tuomas Alatalo (Cats of Transnistria, Stinkbird among others).

INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY MATINEE
Live:
WILL GUTHRIE (AUS)
SIMULTANELI
Sunday 25.2. 3.00-5.00 PM

Tickets: 12/10€ https://pertin-valinta.myshopify.com/collections/paasyliput

WILL GUTHRIE (AUS)

Will Guthrie is an Australian drummer / percussionist living in France. He plays solo using different combinations of drums, percussion, amplification and electronics, and leads the contemporary hybrid percussion / gamelan group ENSEMBLE NIST-NAH. His music has been released on labels such as Black Truffle, Editions Mego, Erstwhile, Clean Feed, Gaffer Records, Hasana Editions, 23five, iDEAL and his own label Antboy Music.

Guthrie first made a name for himself within the Australian jazz scene, establishing himself at a young age as a major presence by winning the Wangaratta National Jazz Awards for drums in 1997. In the new millennium, his work took a long detour away from the drum kit through junk electronics, extreme amplification and electro-acoustic techniques, documented on a series of solo and collaborative recordings from these years.
Alongside continuing his electro-acoustic work, in the last decade, Guthrie has returned to the drums with a vengeance, developing a series of solo works marked by a radical single-mindedness, from relentless rhythmic workouts to earth-quaking explorations of the bass frequencies of gongs and other metal percussion instruments.

In the crowded world of free jazz/improv percussion, Guthrie’s work is distinguished from the delicately pointillist approach of much European improvisation by its rhythmic sophistication, unashamed virtuosity and undeniable physicality, touching on aspects of world musics from Javanese gamelan to South Indian Carnatic music.

Guthrie has released over 50 Albums, as both soloist and in collaboration and is also a dedicated grassroots and DIY concert organiser. His numerous collaborators past and present include among others Orn Ambarchi, Sarah Hennies, Mark Fell, Roscoe Mitchell, Jérôme Noetinger and Keith Rowe.

SIMULTANELI

Taneli Viitahuhta is known as an energetic free saxophonist. In addition to this he is also interested in wind instruments as sounding tubes. In his solo project Simultaneli, he explores the layering and spreading of various sound sources.

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17.2. klo 18.00

Tickets:

https://pertin-valinta.myshopify.com/collections/paasyliput

KULTAPALMUT

Kultapalmut combine visual and sonic dimensions into a magical, modern day magic lantern performance, like an experimental Laterna Magica. Living picture and living sound are present simultaneously. In a way, the duo makes a movie in real time, a kind of expanded cinema. The shows include experiments and coincidence: a performance can never be replicated.

Pauliina Mäkelä and Topias Tiheäsalo utilize old analogue technology. Images reflected with overhead proectors are accompanied by the sounds of electric guitar, transistor radio and the camera flash. The Kultapalmut performances are direct and tangible experiences.

Mäkelä and TIhesäslo live together in Turku, both working with image and sound respectively. Mäkelä is an award-winning illustrator who works in the fields of visual art and comics. Tiheäsalo is a guitarist focusing on improvised and experimental music, while also making music programs for YLE Radio 1.

ARVID VAN DER RIJT

Arvid van der Rijt (b. Soltau, Germany, 1976) is an audiovisual artist whose work explores the potential of the senses.

Making use of multiple media and materials, he brings together the bricolage of everyday trash, colonial knickknacks and Western kitsch, building a symbiosis of the imaginable, the visible and the invisible. His immersive performances deal with the concepts of belonging and identity and build new constellations and labyrinths to help us find new ways of being lost, if nothing else.

His work has been shown in Finland and abroad including the Ann Arbor Film Festival, USA (2016), the Congo Biennale (2019), the AAVE Festival, Helsinki (2014) and Pixelache Festival, Helsinki (2021).

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10.2.2024 At 18.00 Pertin Valinta

Tickets here:

https://pertin-valinta.myshopify.com/collections/paasyliput

Live:

Valma

Valma is a Helsinki-based rap artist with a warm and rolling 90-sound. In her lyrics, the artist, who has also appeared in the TV show Vain Elämää, reflects on the intricacies of human relationships and the mental landscape of a young woman from Kalliola: from imposter syndrome to lifestyle reform."

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1ihObRKW6VPnFqCbZ3kBzi?si=qapeU4AQQeSgkhxG-ogxCg

Phunky Mr. Olavi

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5RWzMlx3QTIdBv6ESxcbjw?si=Na0KSTY9QjOR3w2HIc4C1g

Lossi T & Jhrzn ( Disastermode:Off EP celebrities )

Longtime rapper Lossi T and producer J hrzn j Disastermode: off EP release party at Petin Valinta Sound of Pertti Rap Blast.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0xKWuE1k301djovPVdV6Ve?si=4jAv1QWTRAK9kRmHrL7Xmw

SOUND OF PERTTI:

WESTON OLENCKI (USA)
PIIA RINNE
EILIEN

Saturday 9.12. at 18-21
Tickets 10e

https://pertin-valinta.myshopify.com/collections/paasyliput

WESTON OLENCKI (USA)
”a vine that grew over the city and no one noticed" is precision machined Americana heard through the ears of the electromechanical banjo. It is performed on a mechanically prepared banjo with magnetic resonators, solenoid motors, AM radio transmitters, handheld radio, railroad spikes, carriage bolts, Markov-driven three-finger banjo picking, and a neural net generated resynthesis of The Carter Family's Will the Circle Be Unbroken (1935) as "performed" by the reanimated & digitized models of Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Hank Williams, Charley Pride, and many other singers long since departed to "the by and by".

EILIEN
emotional audio synthesis ~ SuperCollider pop music ~ digital daydreaming

Eilien produces genre-bending ambient music combining text-based coding, field recordings and their own voice. Their debut album Digital Lovers, was released 2021 by Prague based label Genot Centre, collaborating together with Eero Pulkkinen. DJ Mag described the album as a "10-track trip through glowing ambience, mesmerising dream pop, musique concrète and deconstructed trance".

PIIA RINNE
In the collage-based music of Piia Rinne, stretching and collapsing cassette samples are becoming ghostly new lofi layers of sound. By cutting, pasting and adding new instruments in the mix, RInne creates overflowing, sticky and sprained beats that operate with tthe logic of coincidences and limitations. Chocolate brownie meets Thai Cube. Video projections by Miia Rinne.

MENTAL ALASKA
klo 18-21

liput 10e

Live:
PASSEPARTOUT DUO (US/IT)
FORCES
HETA BILALETDINPASSEPARTOUT DUO (US/IT)

Tickets: : https://pertin-valinta.myshopify.com/collections/paasyliput

PASSEPARTOUT DUO

Passepartout Duo is formed by pianist Nicoletta Favari (IT) and percussionist Christopher Salvito (US/IT).
They have been on a nearly continuous world tour ever since they began collaborating in 2015, and their experiences traveling have heavily influenced their unconventional creative process. They keep looking for ways of sustaining an independent musical career and shaping an international network of artists and musicians. Continually reassessing the tools they use to create their music, the group is continually developing a specialized and evolving ecosystem of handmade musical instruments that have ranged from analog electronic circuits and conventional percussion, to room-size textile installations and found objects. The centerpiece of their live set is the Chromaplane, a new electronic instrument the Duo has created over the past year.

FORCES
Constantly mutating rhythms and sharp digital textures shape the sound of Forces. Forces is the electronic music project of Finnish interdisciplinary artist Joonas Siren. Different live-coding and processing techniques are used to make dense atomized swirls; electronic and sometimes chaotic abstract oceans of sound. For the Pertin Valinta concert they will make a special MIDI themed performance. An 80s Casio MIDI saxophone will act as a centerpiece triggering dozens of sounds with random logic.

HETA BILALETDIN
Heta Bilaletdin (Myttys, Olimpia Splendid) collects sounds at home and out in the fields, using them to create dusty beats, underwater visions, mumbling songs, concrete music and deconstructed dub.

JOOSE KESKITALO (English duo set)

MIKKO JUVONEN

From 19:00

Tickets €10

Joose Keskitalo releases a new album called Oh, Our Slow Designs and the album's releases are celebrated at Pertin Valinta.

Joose Keskitalo plays an English-language set as a duo with Ville Linna.

The evening will be opened by Savonlinna songwriter Mikko Juvonen, who is preparing his debut album together with Keskitalo.

Tickets: https://pertin-valinta.myshopify.com/collections/paasyliput

 https://helmilevyt.com/keikkamyynti/joose-keskitalo

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Pertin Valinta is honoured to host world-famous Pakistani musician Ustad Noor Bakhsh. He performed at this year’s Roskilde Festival and will head to the Le Guess Who? Festival in Utrecht after the shows in Finland. There have been extensive articles about Noor Bakhsh recently for example in The Guardian and in The Wire.

79-year old Ustad Noor Bakhsh, from near Pasni, Balochistan, is a maestro of the Balochi Benju (a keyed zither), which he has played since he was a child. The Benju was once a Japanese children’s toy called the taishōkoto before it was adopted by Balochi musicians and made into the refined folk instrument that it is today.

Noor Bakhsh plays an electric Benju, getting his sound through an old pickup and small Phillips amp he bought from Karachi 2 decades ago. He carries forward the legacy of his teachers, combining this with influences from several directions. His repertoire includes Persian, Kurdish, Arab and even Bollywood music. Noor Baksh’s tone, melodic ornamentations and polyrhythms are also at times reminiscent of the music of West as well as East Africa. He has several original compositions too, including one inspired by bird songs.

Noor Bakhsh is well known as a legendary instrumentalist throughout the Makran Coast, but only garnered wider attention after his most recent recordings and videos. His debut album, 'Jingul‘, was released digitally in September 2022, and will be out on vinyl in September.

Doors 19.00, Showtime 20.00
Liput: 15e

Tickets:
https://pertin-valinta.myshopify.com/collections/paasyliput

Photograph: Khaula Jamil

The opening event of the new concert series at Pertti's Choice includes a hefty load of diverse electronic music. ATUG provides bubbly experimental autotune rap. Maiju Jouppi's synthesizer music combines the nostalgia of Sunday morning cartoons with adventure game atmospheres. Taneli Viljanen performs a unique live set based on his latest book "Pimeä Kuu", combining sound art, experimental music and poetry.

The concert series has been funded by Musiikinedistämissäätiö and ELMU ry.

21.10. klo 18-21
Pertin Valinta, Hakaniemenkuja 2
Tickets 10e from webshop:
https://pertin-valinta.myshopify.com/collections/paasyliput

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(Taneli Viljanen photo: Kimmo Kallio)

At Helsinki Day  Espan Lava will be taken over by a diverse group of outsider art artists. OAF Stage is a coverage of outsider art, artists, music shows and performances curated by Pertin Valinta. Beetween the performances, the audience will be entertained by the host of the radio program Pertin Valinnat, Miika Turunen, Dj Alex and Dj Old Crank.

The driving force behind this year's OAF Stage is literature art and its many genres. Artists from the mentor program of WSOY`s  and Pertin  Valinta`s literature program,  stage poets and rappers will be seen on stage.

Program

14.00 Jim Dahl & Rubberduck Jones

15.00 Eeva Lusenius

15.30 Julius Kuusisaari

16.00 Oona Kapari

17.00 Harri Hertell & Mikko Haapoja 

18.00 Valma

19.00 Cepan maailma

www.pertinvalinta.fi

www.outsiderart.fi

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MENTAL ALASKA EASTER EXTRAVAGANZA

Live:

MÅLGRUPP (SWE)

SINDRE BJERGA (NOR)

HÅKON LIE (NOR)

TYTTI AROLA

SAMULI TANNER

Sat 8.4. at 15-20 Tickets: 10e

Mental Alaska's concert series in Pertin Valinna continues with a full range of international experimental music. This time the sound is produced e.g. with cassette players, reel-to-reel recorders, record players, modified electronic devices and accessories consisting of musical instruments

In Jonna Karanka's textile works, ancient rag knots are combined with more unorthodox thread techniques and psychophysical entities built on the terms of materials. Tapestry, rugs and textile collages are constructed using different thread techniques: knotting, threading, coiling and sewing. Working is slow and often physical.

Karanka graduated with a Master of Arts from Aalto University's College of Arts and Design in 2012. Previous solo exhibitions have included e.g. Das kosmische Schachspiel (KOUTA gallery, Kouvola, 2022) and We might feel the groove (HAM gallery, Helsinki, 2018). In addition to visual arts, he makes music solo under the name Kuupuu and in ensembles such as Olimpia Splendid, Hertta Lussu Ässä, Hockey Night and Kukkiva Poliisi.

 Open We-fri 14-18, sat 11-15

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https://jonnakaranka.com/

Pertin Valinta

Hakaniemenkuja 2, Helsinki

From 6:30 p.m

Tickets: 10e

Japanese Ryosuke Kiyasu has been performing as a solo snare drummer since 2003. He has performed in 55 different countries. Kiyasu is also known for the irrepressible band Sete Star Sept, the Kiyasu Orchestra, and The Endless Blockade, which he founded.

In addition, Kiyasu has been the drummer for Keiji Haino's Fushitsusha for over ten years. He has been involved in more than 200 publications worldwide. In 2018, the video of Kiyasu's concert in Berlin was viewed 23 million times.

 www.kiyasu.com

https://www.facebook.com/dr.kiyasu

BROMP TREB (USA)
KUUPUU
RENE KITA
Liput: 10e

BROMP TREB (USA)

Bromp Treb is the solo noise/music performance and recording project of artist Neil Young aka Neil ‘Cloaca’ Young. Since 2002 Bromp Treb has put many recordings in circulation and has performed at fancy-pants places like ICA Boston and the High Zero Festival as well as countless basements, bars, lofts, living rooms, closets and art spaces all around North America and Europe. Bromp Treb is onomatopoeia, it is the sputterings of refined dysfunction and eager uncertainty. An improvised maze of crooked rhythms and tangled textures made with voice, synthesis, percussion and movement, maybe a little physical comedy. (photo by Susanna Bolle)

Kuupuu is Jonna Karanka's super buzz project, whose first releases hit the world 20 years ago. The sound fabric that combines strange frequencies, loops, underwater incantation and twisted free folk has attracted attention from all over the world, and Kuupuu's records have been released in addition to Finland, e.g. in the United States and Japan.

RENE KITA Rene Kita is a one-person improvising chamber choir. Everything possible for the human voice is driven into the repeater pedals until the hall is filled with a polyrhythmic fabric that changes all the time.

Here we go again, Pertsa's legendary record sellers in October!

A couple of times the event is a small-scale and warm-spirited musical for music and records. Industry enthusiasts bring treasures from their private collections to offer, so you can really make discoveries!

Do you ahave a secret artist who wait his moment to came out from the closet?

It may not be easy to reconize him. During the day and a daily basis he can be a coder, a psychoterapist, a customer advisor or even an engineer and behave completely normal. But there`s another side of him. He can be a musician a stand up- comedian or poet or…

Come and hear a secret artists on 28.10. from 18.00. at Pertin Valinta.

This FIRST My moment evening will feature four secret musicians/band.