@laurihyvarinen.bsky.social
Helsinki-based guitar player working in improvised and experimental music. #guitar #improvisedmusic #experimentalmusic #contemporarymusic #noisemusic #improvisation #records #concerts
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.
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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
@AanenLumo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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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-...
16.03.2025 06:13 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0This 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
@jukkka.bsky.social @lisastenberg.bsky.social @launau.bsky.social @fylkingen.bsky.social
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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...
@annikaerdmuthe.bsky.social @nicolahein.bsky.social @jukkka.bsky.social @helihartikainen.bsky.social
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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
Although maybe they could implement something like that on their social media page @expsoundingfinland.bsky.social
15.02.2025 10:05 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Not subscribable, but simply listing events, although someone needs to send the event information there: experimentalsoundingfinland.github.io
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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
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