Name: Hemlös by Barlast
Duration: 5 min
Description: Live at Vapaan taiteen tila, Helsinki, July 8th 2016.

(Rough Mix) A set of two jigs and a reel. Wallaby on the Moor written by Robbie Sherratt followed by Lizzie's Grand Day Out and Shavings in the Handbag by Tommie Black-Roff.

Fiddle - Robbie Sherratt
Accordion - Tommie Black-Roff
Guitar - Michael Ferrie
Drums - Oskari Lehtonen

Wallaby on the Moor/ Lizzie's Grand Day Out/ Shavings in the Handbag

A waltz written by Robbie Sherratt.
Robbie Sherratt - fiddle
Tommie Black-Roff - accordion
Michael Ferrie - guitar
Oskari Lehtonen - percussion

Waltz

Major of Randolph and Eilidh's written by Michael Ferrie.
Robbie Sherratt - fiddle
Tommie Black-Roff - accordion
Michael Ferrie - guitar
Oskari Lehtonen - percussion

Major of Randolph / Eilidh's

In these live recordings from Roihuvuoren Rio in Helsinki, Finland, September 2025, Hartikainen presents new music built around a specially customized sampler software. This active and polyphonic live sampler, controlled by Hartikainen’s tenor saxophone, responds in real time to various performance parameters, such as pitch and volume. A degree of randomness is integral to the sampler’s design, allowing Hartikainen’s improvisation and algorithmic aleatoricism – the human and the machine-organism – to merge organically.

Interbody I

Unessa, lumessa

Heli Hartikainen (Finland) is an award-winning saxophonist, composer, and sound artist whose music merges experimental sonic textures with hypnotic, evolving soundscapes. As a saxophonist, Hartikainen is a passionate instrumentalist who, in each performance, continually pushes the limits of their instrument, themself, and the possibilities of sound technology ever further.

"Interbody" examines time from the perspective of the human body: geological, atmospheric, corporeal, and technological time as embodied experience. At its core is the tenor saxophone, extended through a custom-built live sampler that responds in real time to pitch and volume, creating a polyphonic counterpart to the performer. A degree of randomness is built into the system, merging improvisation and algorithmic processes—the human and the machine-organism—and keeping the performer on their toes.

00:25 Interbody
08:14 Tide
17:08 Pneuma
22:50 Aporia
27:00 Mosaic
31:50 Nadir


Tenor saxophone, compositions, samples: Heli Hartikainen
Live sound: Kimmo Antikainen / G Livelab Helsinki 31.10.2025

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Heli Hartikainen - Interbody / Live at G Livelab Helsinki

Live at Vapaan taiteen tila, Helsinki, July 8th 2016.

Hemlös

Barlast (Swedish for ballast) creates spacious new world music. The silence can be heard between the notes. Everything unnecessary is stripped away. Only the name remains as ballast.

Barlast (suomeksi painolasti) luo uutta ilmavaa maailmanmusiikkia, jonka taustalla kuuluu hiljaisuus. Tarpeeton on riisuttu pois. Ainoastaan nimestä tuli painolasti.

Barlast skapar ny världsmusik som luftar tystnaden. Allt överflödigt är borta. Endast namnet är barlast.

Philip Holm - Double bass, compositions
Heikki Hänninen - Guitars
Minna Koskenlahti - Drums and flute
Sanna Salonen - Woodwinds

Hemlös

Barlast

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