Marja Ahti
banner
marjaahti.bsky.social
Marja Ahti
@marjaahti.bsky.social
Sound 〰 marjaahti.com
Pinned
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.

marjaahti.bandcamp.com/album/touch-...
Touch This Fragrant Surface Of Earth, by Marja Ahti
2 track album
marjaahti.bandcamp.com
Reposted by Marja Ahti
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.
November 11, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Reposted by Marja Ahti
"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."
Marja Ahti 'Fluctuating Streams' extract, played by Blutwurst
YouTube video by Anothertimbre
www.youtube.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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.
October 28, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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.
Marja Ahti 'Fluctuating Streams' extract, played by Blutwurst
YouTube video by Anothertimbre
www.youtube.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
One 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.
October 27, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Looking much forward to playing in Stockholm next month in this intimate 4x concert series.
Sunday 23 November is the next and final concert in our series at Yeshin Norbu Meditation Centre. Swedish-Finnish composer Marja Ahti @marjaahti.bsky.social performs. Food (included in ticket price) will be a tofu/winter vegetable hotpot, rice, pickles.

Tickets: www.nortic.se/ticket/event...
October 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Reposted by Marja Ahti
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
www.etherreal.com/spip.php?art...
Chronique disque - Marja Ahti : Touch This Fragrant Surface Of Earth
Festival actif de 2016 à 2024, le « Festival for Other Music » était géré par John Chantler et pouvait être vu comme un cousin de Présences (…)
www.etherreal.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Reposted by Marja Ahti
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.
October 1, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Reposted by Marja Ahti
Save 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.
September 30, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Reposted by Marja Ahti
'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

buff.ly/PjjYVm4
September 26, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Reposted by Marja Ahti
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.
Marja Ahti – Touch This Fragrant Surface Of Earth | The Quietus
Developed at Stockholm's EMS studios and first presented at the Seventh Edition Festival for Other Music in February 2024, the Swedish sound artist's latest is filled with an expansive sense of explor...
thequietus.com
September 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Reposted by Marja Ahti
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!
Touch This Fragrant Surface Of Earth, by Marja Ahti
2 track album
marjaahti.bandcamp.com
September 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Reposted by Marja Ahti
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...
September 12, 2025 at 6:28 AM
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.

marjaahti.bandcamp.com/album/touch-...
Touch This Fragrant Surface Of Earth, by Marja Ahti
2 track album
marjaahti.bandcamp.com
September 12, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Reposted by Marja Ahti
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...
Marja Ahti - Touch This Fragrant Surface of Earth LP
Marja Ahti is a Swedish artist living in Turku, Finland. She works with found sounds, objects and electronics, creating auditory assemblages that reveal a profound sensitivity to sound’s tactile poten...
clandestinedistribution.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Reposted by Marja Ahti
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.
Transference, by Marja Ahti/Manja Ristić
5 track album
erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Reposted by Marja Ahti
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)
August 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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.
August 11, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is out today on @erstwhile.bsky.social ✨💿
Transference, by Marja Ahti/Manja Ristić
5 track album
erstwhilerecords.bandcamp.com
August 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Reposted by Marja Ahti
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-...
Touch This Fragrant Surface Of Earth, by Marja Ahti
2 track album
marjaahti.bandcamp.com
July 31, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Reposted by Marja Ahti
This is Fönstret—15. @marjaahti.bsky.social
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-...
Touch This Fragrant Surface Of Earth, by Marja Ahti
2 track album
marjaahti.bandcamp.com
July 31, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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.
July 31, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Reposted by Marja Ahti
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!)

edition-festival.com/en/events/ma...
Marja Ahti: Solo
Solo performance of new electro-acoustic works by Swedish-Finnish composer Marja Ahti. \
edition-festival.com
July 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM