Something Else is turning 1 year old this month – join us for an expansive night of improvised music and performance featuring Finnish and international including Lumi Mannermaa (cello, electronics), Viktor Toikkanen (electronics), Wilson Tanner Smith (cello) and performance artist Katia Skylar.
Limited quantities of birthday cake and party hats may be on offer…

Suggested donation €10-25 (mobilepay or cash)
2 sets
7pm

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 scenes, hosted on the 4th Thursday of each month at Kallio’s Musta Kissa bar. New small-ensemble groupings–often first-time meetings–are highlighted each time, with an emphasis on surprise, difference, curiosity, energy, and connection. Curated/hosted by Wilson Tanner Smith.

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About:

KATIA SKYLAR is a Helsinki-based performance maker, butoh dancer, and actor working internationally. Her work moves across stage, screen, and immersive formats, blending physicality, voice, and multilingual performance. She is especially drawn to structured improvisation and collaborative encounters across disciplines.
https://www.katiaskylar.com/

LUMI MANNERMAA is a sound artist based in Helsinki who works between the realms of failure and success, using absurdity as a medium for communication. In her practice she uses augmented toy instruments, free improvisation, experimental instrument building, pataphysical conceptuality and modern day nuisances, such as social media content streams, covering subjects such as mistake, the subconscious, and the ugly and humorous, to name a few.
https://soundcloud.com/lumi-mannermaa
Instagram: @lu__ae

VIKTOR TOIKKANEN is a composer, sound engineer and multimedia artist from Helsinki, Finland. Navigating between electronic music, multimedia, contemporary classical, free improvisation, and performance art, Toikkanen refuses to adhere to a single style, constantly seeking new ways of self-expression.
https://linktr.ee/viktortoikkanen

WILSON TANNER SMITH is a cellist, composer, improviser, and theatre artist currently based in Helsinki. His musical sensibility is informed by free improvisation/free jazz, ambient, DIY and found sounds, and by many cross-cultural/-genre collaborations in his former hometown, Chicago, and more recently across northern/western Europe.
www.wilsontannersmith.com