AVARA x Oulu Sound Hack: Mutual Play welcomes you to experience showcases and outcomes of the 2025 edition of the Oulu Sound Hack event. What’s more, there are tailored performances by AGF and Sharemusic’s Elefantöra.

Oulu Sound Hack is an experimental playground for sonic artists to try out, play and explore sounds and create compositions with non-traditional instruments and sound sources. This happens in a multi-channel sound environment. The theme of the third Oulu Sound Hack is playing out and composing improvised sound art mutually with another person. In the Sound Hack the participants join together in a 2-4 day workshop which concludes to ending sound art performance / demo. The demo takes place in a 24 speaker system in Oamk campus.

This time we collaborate with Aalto university students, who have built their own sound devices / instruments, by forming duos to put up small performances. 

Oulu Sound Hack is a part of (and loves!) AVARA Art&Tech  event by OAMK.

The program of the showcase afternoon:

AGF (DE): Haltung (kannanotto)

Elefantöra (SWE): Two performances

1.    Asta Hyvärinen. INTERSTELLAR - live version for three musicians and immersive sound-dome.

2.    Post Hackaton impro for two musicians, guests, and immersive sound-dome. 

OSH participants (INT.)

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AGF
Haltung (kannanotto) - stance, position, principle, core strength
How to hold ones space, under attack, under compromise,
how to create a democratic space, what does it mean to participate?
Utilising the sound dome as a form of sonic parliament, a social sounding space 
where our bodies sound in dissonance, through voicing. listening, feedback and participation
a lucid space of possibility is unfolding
Performing as AGF, East German-now Hailuoto based poetess and media artist Antye Greie-Ripatti utilises language, music & explores the quantum within the depths of sound & listening on rec-on.org and @poemproducer

Elefantöra 

1.    Asta Hyvärinen. INTERSTELLAR - live version for three musicians and immersive sound-dome. 

2.    Post Hackaton impro for two musicians, guests, and immersive sound-dome. 

At Nordic Music Days in Glasgow 2024 Elefantöra met with the Finnish composer Asta Hyvärinen. During the spring 2025 this evolved into a collaboration starting out with a live interpretation including Elefantöra’s reaction to Asta’s 16-channel electronic work INTERSTELLAR.

OSH (Oulu Sound Hack) showcase

5 Short compositions as duos with self-built instruments and other sound sources / processing. 
Performers:
Eleni Kavouki
Markus Skraba
Jani Pietilä
Jussi Alaraasakka
Kalle Huttu-Hiltunen
Vilho Mällinen
Basti Kuhz
Sebastian Escamilla
Ariana Marta
Antero Huttunen

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An additional performance with a possibility to talk with artists will be held on Thursday 20.11. 18-20 @Lasaretti also as a part of the AVARA event. 

The Thursday event is free and no booking is required - just walk in!

Venue: Hotelli Lasaretti - conference hall

Kasarmintie 13b

90130 Oulu

The event is free. The seats are limited.

More information: 
Jussi Alaraasakka
jussiala@gmail.com