Something Else Vol. 3 features the first duo evening of the series - Lauri Hyvärinen (electric guitar) and Wilson Tanner Smith (acoustic/amplified cello) meet for the first time for two sets of music across experimental improvisation and minimalist soundscapes.
Free entry, suggested donation €5-€20 (mobilepay or cash)
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SOMETHING ELSE is a concert series for improvised music focused on new meetings of musicians from across Helsinki’s free improv, experimental, jazz, electronic, and global music communities, hosted at Kallio’s Musta Kissa bar. New small-ensemble groupings are highlighted each time, with an emphasis on surprise, difference, curiosity, energy, and connection. Hosted by Wilson Tanner Smith.
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About:
LAURI HYVÄRINEN(b. 1986, Helsinki) uses guitar as his main sound source. His sound and music related activities are of theoretical and practical nature, of which improvisation remains as his primary medium and interest. Hyvärinen utilises the possibilities of improvisation, compositional and minimalist structures in search for shared and intensified social and spatial constructions.
https://laurihyvarinen.com/
WILSON TANNER SMITH is a cellist, composer, improviser, and music-theatre artist currently based in Helsinki, originally from Chicago/Philadelphia. He frequently collaborates across music, theatre, and dance projects, and has performed at venues such as the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Estonia Kontserdisaal, the Ragdale Foundation (Chicago), Deutsches SchauspielHaus (Hamburg), Narva Art Center/Kreenholm Factory, Le Périscope (Lyon), and the Mullbau (Lucerne). He is also a member of the improvising quartet Mad Myth Science, whose debut album was released August 2023 to acclaim from The Wire, the Quietus, Chicago Reader, and Stereogum.
www.wilsontannersmith.com

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