Marja Ahti

MARJA AHTI

DATES

MAY 3, 2025
solo
Oscillation: The Weather
Brussels, BE

JUNE 11, 2025
solo
Untempo
Helsinki, FI

AUGUST 30, 2025
solo
Maja Ambient / Amos Rex
Helsinki, FI

SEPTEMBER 12, 2025
solo
Shimmer
Rotterdam, NL

NEWS

SPECTRES V ‘Diffusion’ features my essay ‘A Way In’ reflecting on working with spatialising sound.

Performing Annea Lockwood’s Jitterbug together with Lockwood (tape, mixing), Livia Schweizer (flute) and Mark Reid Bulatovič (guitar) at Sibeliusmuseum in Turku 26.7.2025

Mikko Kuorinki & Marja Ahti: Tulppaaniresitaatio – An assemblage of sounds from two exhibitions: Tulppaaniantenni (Ahti & Kuorinki, K17, Sipoo, 2022) and Resitaatio (Kuorinki, Sinne, Helsinki, 2023). Released as part of the radio show Untempo’s Postcards series.

Ahti & Ahti at Öres residency October 2024.

Residency at Hamuro, Fukui in September 2024.

Florence, June 14, 2024. Tuscany based Blutwurst ensemble will present their acoustic adaptations of two works of mine, Fluctuating Streams and Chora. I’ll have the pleasure of hearing this live and do a solo performance on the same night. Curated and produced by GADA Playhouse, Nub Project Space and Affektenlehre. Many thanks to Goethe Institut and Culture Moves Europe for the support

CONTACT

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SOLO RECORDINGS

Tender Membranes (Black Truffle, 2023)

Still Lives (Students of Decay, 2021)

The Current Inside (Hallow Ground, 2020)

Vegetal Negatives (Hallow Ground, 2019)

Entering A Cloud (Longform Editions, 2018)

Tender Membranes (Black Truffle, 2023)
Cover art by Sini Pelkki

Still Lives (Students of Decay, 2021)
Cover art by Mikko Kuorinki

COLLABORATIVE RECORDINGS

Mikko Kuorinki & Marja Ahti: Tulppaaniresitaatio (Untempo, 2024)

Ahti & Ahti: Nokivesi (More Mars, 2023)

Marja Ahti & Judith Hamann: A coincidence is perfect, intimate attunement (Second Editions, 2022)

Ahti & Ahti: Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear? (Ouidah, 2020)

Marja Ahti & Judith Hamann: Portals (TakuRoku, 2020)

Thousand Times Yes
Ahti / Kausalainen / Kalliokulju

Experimental chamber opera for soprano, cello, harp, chamber choir and tape.
70 min

Performances:
Inkonst in collaboration with IAC, Malmö (October 2021)
Kunsthal Rønnebæksholm, Naestved (May 2022)
Kiasma Theater, Helsinki (August 2022)

Tulppaaniantenni / Tulpanantenn / Tulip Antenna
Exhibition with Mikko Kuorinki at K17 - Space for Art and Ecology, Sipoo, November 2022

Notes for the Shy, text by Anna Tomi

PAST DATES

2025

19.4.2025 AHTI & AHTI, RADIOPHRENIA, GLASGOW

15.3.2025 SOLO, MENGI, REYKJAVIK

22.2.2025 SOLO, VAAHTERASALI, LAHTI

2024

6.12.2024 AHTI & AHTI, SACRED REALISM FESTIVAL, BERLIN

21.11.2024 SOLO, ÄÄNEN LUMO, HELSINKI

17.9.2024 SOLO, TSUKIMI MOON-VIEWING EVENT, AWARA

15.9.2024 SOLO, LISTENING ROOM CAPO, KANAZAWA

14.9.2024 SOLO, SETTING AND RISING, YOKOKAN GARDEN, FUKUI

2.8.2024 SOLO, SANATORIUM OF SOUND, SOKOLOWSKO

16.6.2024 SOLO + BLUTWURST ENSEMBLE, GADA PLAYHOUSE / NUB PROJECTS SPACE, FLORENCE

5.6.2024 SOLO, BLAUES RAUSCHEN FESTIVAL, BOCHUM

10.5.2024 SOLO, TAMPEREEN KONSERVATORION PYYNIKKISALI

14.3.2024 SOLO, PERTIN VALINTA, HELSINKI

25.2.2024 WITH ISAK HEDTJÄRN; MY HELLGREN & RYAN PACKARD, SEVENTH EDITION FESTIVAL FOR OTHER MUSIC, STOCKHOLM

2023

21.10.2023 SOLO, LAMPO, CHICAGO

18.10.2023 SOLO, AKOUSMA, MONTREAL

6.6.2023 SOLO, PARKEN, VIENNA

11.5.2023 SOLO, YÖ FEST VOL 3.5: KIILAN ÄÄNIPÄIVÄT, HELSINKI

1.4.2023 SOLO, SPRING ROLL FESTIVAL, KUTOMO, TURKU

4.3.2023 SOLO, FYLKINGEN, STOCKHOLM

2022

19.8.2022 SOLO, ZiMMT, LEIPZIG

13.8.2022 SOLO, FLOW FESTIVAL, HELSINKI

24.7.2022 SOLO, ODYSSEUS FESTIVAL, LONNA ISLAND, HELSINKI

28.6.2022 AHTI & AHTI, SODAS 2123, VILNIUS

30.4.2022 SOLO, TECTONICS, GLASGOW

6.2.2022 SOLO, CAFE OTO, LONDON

3.2.2022 SOLO, WABE, BERLIN

27.1.2022 SOLO, AZKUNA ZENTROA, BILBAO

2021

5.12.2021 SOLO, MADEIRADIG

3.11.2021 SOLO, REIHE-M, COLOGNE

2.11.2021 SOLO, ANCIENNE BELGIQUE, BRUSSELS

30.10.2021 SOLO, PRÉSENCES ÉLECTRONIQUE, PARIS

5.9.2021 SOLO, HEART OF NOISE, INNSBRUCK

INTERVIEWS

Navel-Gazers
December 14th, 2022

15 Questions with Marja Ahti & Judith Hamann
December 3rd, 2022

Otoliths in Flux
November 6th, 2022

15 Questions: Sound
October 8, 2021

15 Questions
May 18, 2021

Variables
Conversation with Leah Beeferman 2020-2021

Four questions | located sound
April 11, 2020

Digital in Berlin: 11+3
April 3, 2020

GRM Distances
March 30, 2020

Musica Elettronica
March 10, 2020

Sonic Acts Academy Magazine
February 2020

The Avant-Guardian
November 2019

Soundest Zine
Issue 4, August 2019

Tone Glow
May 15, 2019

ABOUT

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.