A first time meeting of electronics and strings and whatever else = Something Else #7. Strands of folk, noise, minimalism, and free improvisation cross once again and for the first time at Kallio's friendliest bar, Musta Kissa.

Free entry, suggested donation €5-€20 (mobilepay or cash)

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 communities, hosted at Kallio's Musta Kissa bar. New small-ensemble groupings are highlighted each time, with an emphasis on surprise, difference, curiosity, energy, and connection. Hosted by Wilson Tanner Smith.

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About:

SULO KOLEHMAINEN is an improviser and a sound artist based between Helsinki and Venezia. His work usually involves field recordings, nonlinear feedback systems and often some form of collaboration.
https://eevioittinen.com/

ESSI HIRVONEN is a double bass player, composer and a folk musician. Hirvonen's double bass music is a response to the fast- paced world of today. Her music is based on simplicity and minimalism, small and slow movements, strong presence and tranquility. Her creative approach to double bass playing and the thematic nature of her music create a whole that touches.
https://essihirvonen.bandcamp.com

WILSON TANNER SMITH is a cellist, composer, improviser, and music-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. He frequently collaborates across music, theatre, and dance projects, and is also a member of the improvising quartet Mad Myth Science, whose debut album was released August 2023 to acclaim from The Wire, the Quietus, Chicago Reader, and Stereogum.
www.wilsontannersmith.com