healing nightclub
Can sound mend a broken heart? Or at least rearrange the fragments into something tolerable? Whatever it is you’ve come to repair, your mood, your memory, your minor existential fracture, this is the place. An interdisciplinary artistic proposition, Timo Tuhkanen’s project the Healing Nightclub gathers people, dance, sound, music, and various healing practices into a shared nocturnal experiment. The club is gently recast as a ritual site: a provisional temple where baselines replace incense. Here, sound performs a kind of care work—circulating, insisting, transforming—while bodies assemble into a temporary ceremony of the willing and healing occurs obliquely: it is invited to join the club through repetition, movement, and the shared grammar of dance.
- Elena Sorokina
The first Healing Nightclub (also occasionally written Healing Night Club) is organised at the Kaņepes Kultūras centrs in Riga as part of the Survival Kit Riga 17 festival.
- Elena Sorokina
The first Healing Nightclub (also occasionally written Healing Night Club) is organised at the Kaņepes Kultūras centrs in Riga as part of the Survival Kit Riga 17 festival.
Providing the introduction to the ceremonial evening is Timo Tuhkanen. They will play a set that emerges from an intense research into the connection between music, medical hypnosis, daseinanalysis, and touch. Built from a bricolage of existing music, vocal samples, microtonal Max/Msp patches, and ableton, the performance invites the audience towards self-reflection and relaxation before leading them towards the more intense gestures.
Mo’ong will perform playing his signature custom electro-acoustic instruments reconnecting and reinterpreting the sounds of his Indonesian heritage through ancient and modern ideas of trance and shamanism, decolonising his cultural expressions, and honoring their origins while adapting them to modern contexts and leading the audience deeper into bodily expression and awareness. Mo’ong's work spans diverse genres and multidisciplinary collaborations, including modern dance, theater, contemporary puppet theater, installation art, and performance art. In 2015, he launched the Limbah Berbunyi project, composing music from instruments made of found objects and waste materials. He also initiated the Sound-Making Objects project, pushing the boundaries of unconventional materials in music-making. As part of the experimental duo Raja Kirik with musician/composer Yennu Ariendra, Mo'ong explores the war of narratives during the Dutch occupation of Indonesia. His latest project, Takkak Takkak, a collaboration with Shigeru Ishihara (DJ Scotch Egg), merges experimental sounds and cross-cultural influences into genre-defying performances. His gigs are like trips all over the world where styles and tempos change like you would be on a trip in the nature, including both deep valleys and high mountains.
The final performance from DJ Bunuel. A pioneer of Finnish DJ music and culture, proving to dance-floor and radio audiences since 1977 that the need to move is not bound by genre but by musical imagination and creativity on the decks.
