Formatik is a new music club held in Bar Om’pu, focusing on improvised music. The club, hosted by Melik Turunen, presents early encounters of small groups composed of local improvising musicians. 17 August’s club lineup will be complemented by electroacoustic music wind players Turkka Inkilä and Panu Luukkonen.

Turkka Inkilä is a Helsinki-based musician, composer, and sound designer. He performs with the ensembles Ánnámáret, Tölöläb, and 3rd Encounter, and also gives concerts on the Japanese shakuhachi flute. He has created sound design for works by Akse Pettersson, as well as video works by Saana Wang, Sasha Huber, and Petri Saarikko, and for Riikka Vuorenmaa’s conceptual work Pienet Pimeät. Inkilä graduated as a flutist from Metropolia University of Applied Sciences and studied composition at the Sibelius Academy under Juhani Nuorvala. He has studied Kinko school shakuhachi music privately with Gunnar Jinmei Linder of Stockholm University and with Jone Takamäki.

Panu Luukkonen is a sound designer and improvising musician who has performed with ensembles including Sointi Jazz Orchestra and Frankosun and the Family. His trademark is creating immersive soundscapes that blend nature and the urban environment, ranging from rain gutters gurgling in storm winds to the delicate rustling of tiny pine cones.