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Lauri Hyvärinen
@laurihyvarinen.bsky.social
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Helsinki-based guitar player working in improvised and experimental music.

#guitar #improvisedmusic #experimentalmusic #contemporarymusic #noisemusic #improvisation #records #concerts
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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...
September 26, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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Playing in public this fall in Helsinki, Japan and Seoul.
September 18, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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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...
Ilia Belorukov & Lauri Hyvärinen - Fix It If It Ain't Broken: Quando la microtonalità diventa noia :: Le Recensioni di OndaRock
Una collaborazione per l'avanguardia noise che fatica a prendere il volo
www.ondarock.it
July 30, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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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
July 19, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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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
July 12, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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Tonight #freeimprovisation @ Hökarängens Antikvariat, Stockholm.

Félicie Bazelaire, electronics
Lauri Hyvärinen, electric guitar
Girilal Baars, voice
Jörgen Adolfsson, saxophone

19:00, 100kr

#improvisedmusic #experimentalmusic
May 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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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
May 15, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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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
May 10, 2025 at 9:40 AM
laurihyvarinen.bsky.social
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
May 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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’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 2, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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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
May 1, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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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
April 14, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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”[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
cookylamoo.bsky.social Ben Harper @cookylamoo.bsky.social · Mar 26
"Inspired by the virgin martyrs of the early Christian church”. Big glob of new music for mostly electric guitars right here. www.cookylamoo.com/boringlikead...
Catching up on guitars, mostly
Jules Reidy: Instants & Their Echoes
www.cookylamoo.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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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...
Pe 21.3. Linna Barissa soolokitarakonsertti: Edgars Rubenis (LV), Kalle Tikas (EE), Kadonnut Manner
Event in Helsinki, Finland by Kadonnut Manner and 2 others on Friday, March 21 2025
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March 20, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Reposted by Lauri Hyvärinen
eyalh.bsky.social
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-...
March 16, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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This 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
March 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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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...
Lisa Stenberg + Sähökitarakvartetti
Double bill with Stockholm-based Lisa Stenberg and Helsinki-based electric guitar quartet Sähkökitarakvartetti, premiering new works by Lisa Stenberg and Lauri Hyvärinen. The quartet will also perform...
www.fylkingen.se
February 28, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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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
ÄäMETRIC | Taideyliopisto
Join us for an exceptional concert at the Äänen Lumo space in Vallila, featuring an international line up of METRIC teachers together with members of the Finnish improvisation community…
www.uniarts.fi
February 20, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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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
The February’ Round-up: Saarbrücken! Hémisphère! Confidence of One! Corps et Biens! Binus! Fix it! Just Friends! Krew! Świtanie! Other Worlds!
muzyka improwizowana, freely improvised music
spontaneousmusictribune.blogspot.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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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
February 19, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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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
February 15, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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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
January 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Reposted by Lauri Hyvärinen
marjaahti.bsky.social
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
Ääni Elää
Äänitaiteen, kokeellisen musiikin ja nykymusiikin tapahtumakalenteri.
elaa.fi
January 25, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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Cool to be part of this fantastic programme in May, as part of our duo tour with Félicie Bazelaire! More dates soon.

#feliciebazelaire #improvisedmusic #experimentalmusic #contemporarymusic #gigsinhelsinki
suhinaklubi.bsky.social suhinaklubi.bsky.social @suhinaklubi.bsky.social · Jan 22
We are happy to announce the Suhina Klubi's programme for spring 2025! Events start already in two days with one and only Livia Schweizer!

Events are supported by:
@koneensaatio.fi and Helsingin city.
January 22, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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Recent concert with @jukkka.bsky.social @ Telakka Jazz reviewed in @allaboutjazz.bsky.social by Rob Garratt.

"[T]he pair intuitively conjured dense drones and ethereal shivers, demented shredding and holy feedback."

www.allaboutjazz.com/telakka-jazz...

#freeimprovisation #experimentalmusic
Telakka Jazz 2025: Finland’s Second City Gets Spiritual article @ All About Jazz
Telakka Jazz 2025: Finland’s Second City Gets Spiritual article by Rob Garratt, published on January 22, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more Live Review articles
www.allaboutjazz.com
January 22, 2025 at 12:14 PM