Microtonal Music Studios Exhibition and Event week: “Microtonal contrabass” by Lassi Kari 28.02.25 at 18:00
Microtonal Music Studios Exhibition and Events Weeks
21.02-09.03.2025
28.02. Friday
Concert 18.00 – 20.00
Lassi Kari, microtonal contrabass, featuring compositions and improvisation in 22EDO.
Pieces by Angus Barnacle, Devina Boughton, and Timo Tuhkanen.
Relating to music as a pseudo-language, composer Angus Barnacle is influenced by music history in addition to popular contemporary vernaculars such as microtonality, noise and extended performance technique. His compositions include work for soloists, ensembles, orchestras and electronic mediums, drawing inspiration from ongoing research into tuning, noise and the techniques associated with sound production.
He has a masters (microtonality in contemporary music practice) from the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, and a PhD from Sydney Conservatory (Harnessing The Musicality of Noise: Formal Grammar in Music Composition). Among other prizes, most recently, his 2023 microtonal soundtrack to the Orchid of Redemption game “Joon Shining” won the Dreamhack composition of the year prize. In addition to digital media work, his music has been performed in venues including the Muziekgebouw Amsterdam, St John’s London, November Muziek Festival in Den Bosch, Korzo Theatre in the Hague and the Barossa Music Festival South Australia. Ensembles he has worked with include Bang on a Can, Nieuwe Ensemble, New European Ensemble, the Gelders Orchestra, Zephyr Quartet, Asko-Schönberg Ensemble and Southbank Sinfonia. Current projects include pitching an inter-dimensional dystopian adventure game at Sony, composing a microtonal flute concerto for flautist Frederico Paixão, sitting principal flautist at the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, and setting a collection of childhood themed poetry by the English poet James Greene (1938 – 2023).
Dr Timo S. Tuhkanen (b. 1983) is an artist-composer, curator, and writer, whose work intersects between contemporary art, music, and research into the cultural and historical aspects of touch. Their work is concerned with designing and creating direct actions and socio-political interventions as an artistic practice through collective intelligence, relational aesthetics, and operational realism, and their subject matters often adapt inside an occupied environment of urban landscapes, digital platforms, and hydrosocial-spaces. Tuhkanen likes to describe their work as lived-through narrative fiction and mythopoetics, and they are interested in the psychological conflict between what is imaginable and what is realistically achievable and how this conflict materialises in the resources we construct. Tuhkanen received their BA and MMus from Brunel University of West London where their work focused on algorithmic music and non-narrative stage craft, focusing on opera. They received their PhD from the University of Leeds where their research focused on the aesthetics of touch in the philosophy and practice of musical composition. As well as currently being the director of the artist-run gallery Myymälä2 in Helsinki, they are an Affiliate Researcher of the Department of Musicology at the University of Turku, an artistic-researcher in the Atlas Project at Angewadnt University of Arts, Crafts, and Design Vienna and has been, among others visiting researcher at IRCAM Sound Music Movement Interaction lab and visiting lecturer at University of the Arts Helsinki and the Sibelius Academy.