@marjaahti.bsky.social
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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.
11.11.2025 12:53 — 👍 10 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
"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."
28.10.2025 19:43 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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.
28.10.2025 07:30 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Blutwurst are: Cristina Abati, viola Marco Baldini, trumpet Maurizio Costantini, double bass Daniela Fantechi, accordion Michele Lanzini, cello Edoardo Ricci, bass clarinet Luisa Santacesaria, harmonium.
Cover photo by Appu Jasu, with thanks!
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.
27.10.2025 15:24 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0One 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.
27.10.2025 08:48 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
“active and engaging on all levels”
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@marjaahti.bsky.social
Looking much forward to playing in Stockholm next month in this intimate 4x concert series.
14.10.2025 18:48 — 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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
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Very nice words about Marja Ahti’s LP here: aktirecords.net/blogs/produc...
28.09.2025 22:34 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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.
01.10.2025 10:41 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Save 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.
Quietus Music of the Month composite graphic made up of several albums' artwork.
'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
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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.
16.09.2025 09:00 — 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 0
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!
12.09.2025 18:02 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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...
12.09.2025 06:28 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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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...
10.09.2025 15:54 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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.
08.08.2025 17:05 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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.
11.08.2025 15:23 — 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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
31.07.2025 12:04 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
You can now pre-order the record and listen to the title track. This is a music that I’ve lived with for a long time and I’m delighted to finally let it out in the world dressed in Maija Luutonen’s amazing artwork.
With special thanks to John Chantler and Andrew Fenchel.
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.
31.07.2025 13:13 — 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
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!)
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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:
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Duo album with @manjaristic.bsky.social coming up on @erstwhile.bsky.social August 8th. Hope you enjoy!
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My text is more about the poetics of spatial composition, but I wouldn't be surprised if some of the other essays cover acoustics more in-depth. We'll see when the book arrives.
27.06.2025 15:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
