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Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · 15d

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...

Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · 23d

Playing in public this fall in Helsinki, Japan and Seoul.

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Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · Jul 30

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

Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · Jul 19

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

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Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · Jul 12

@AanenLumo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · Jul 12

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

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Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · May 16

Tonight #freeimprovisation @ Hökarängens Antikvariat, Stockholm.

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

19:00, 100kr

#improvisedmusic #experimentalmusic

Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · May 15

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

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Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · May 10

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

Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · May 6

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

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Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · May 2

’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...

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Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · May 1

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

Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · Apr 14

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

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Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · Mar 26

”[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

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

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Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · Mar 20

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

facebook.com

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Eyal Hareuveni @eyalh.bsky.social · Mar 16

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-...

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Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · Mar 5

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

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Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · Mar 5

www.myymala2.com?p=9500

Myymala2 » Blog Archive » Microtonal Music Studios Exhibition and Event week:  Microtonal Electric Guitar Quartet by Mark Reid Bulatović, Lauri Hyvärinen, Gon Muruaga and Timo Tuhkanen 05.03.25 at ...

www.myymala2.com

Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · Mar 5

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

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Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · Feb 28

@jukkka.bsky.social @lisastenberg.bsky.social @launau.bsky.social @fylkingen.bsky.social

Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · Feb 28

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

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Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · Feb 20

@annikaerdmuthe.bsky.social @nicolahein.bsky.social @jukkka.bsky.social @helihartikainen.bsky.social

Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · Feb 20

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

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Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · Feb 19

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

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Lauri Hyvärinen @laurihyvarinen.bsky.social · Feb 19

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

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