presented in collaboration with KROCH.
door tickets: 50 SEK
festival pass: 550 SEK (sold out!)
Ahti & Ahti are Marja Ahti and Niko-Matti Ahti. The duo combines field recordings and electronic sound into their own blend of musique concrète. Recordings of rooms, outdoor events, creatures and objects are carefully aligned in an associative way. On stage Ahti & Ahti spin multiple threads of electronic and acoustic sound utilizing different objects, effects and modular synthesizer.
They have both made music for a long time in different constellations, but this is their first work as a duo. Apart from making sound, they are part of the Himera work group organizing shows and a yearly festival in Turku on the Finnish west coast. Ahti & Ahti's first album will be released in 2018.
Marja Ahti (b. 1981, Luleå) is a Swedish-Finnish sound artist working in composition, installation and cross-disciplinary performance. Working with field recordings, sounds of everyday objects and materials, analog synthesis, digital processing and acoustic instrumentation she creates precise musical narratives with organically unfolding sequences of details and textures. Her patiently evolving electro-acoustic constructions suggest a poetic realm between the acousmatic and the documentaristic, between abstraction and the deeply familiar.
Ahti is currently based in Turku, Finland. She is active in the duo Ahti & Ahti with her partner Niko-Matti Ahti, in the artist/organizer collective Himera and in collaborative projects with Judith Hamann, John McCowen, Manja Ristić and Mikko Kuorinki.