Thornton Heath, London
07/03/2026
with Petri Huurinainen & Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
This first Cosy Nook after an extended break brings together for the first time two Finnish composers / improvisers/artists. Petri Huurinainen (the other half of Bouche Bee) based in London since the 1990s and Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, visiting from Karelia, in the far North of Finland. We met at Klangraum 2023 in Dusseldorf.
Programme
Two new scores written for the occasion. Just Lightly introduced by a poem by Aldous Huxley (Lightly, My Darling) that is setting the tone for the work: “ It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. Just Lightly...” Petri’s Spaces Within, invites immersion into the world of natural harmonics and overtones through careful bowing, subtle touch and slow gestures.
Sadly Jukka could not join us for personal reasons. While we postponed the concert for later in the year, we used the occasion for a collective listening session to some of Petri and Jukka Pekka’s recent works. A first for Cosy Nook
Petri Huurinainen is a Finnish electro- acoustic composer, improviser, performer and visual artist. His sound practice is rooted in embodied, process-driven engagement with the instrument, exploring the acoustic guitar’s sonic possibilities through extended techniques, DIY tools, pedals and bows. Environmental sounds- touch, gesture and traces of the surrounding space- are treated as an integral part of his work, combined with melodic minimalism across performances, recordings, and text scores.
Jukka-Pekka Kervinen (b. 1961) is a highly prolific finnish composer, writer and visual artist. His works are mainly experimental, computer- oriented including algorithmic composing methods. Compositions consist of chamber music, solo works, microtonal and post-minimal music. He has experimented also combining various genres and styles like techno, IDM, breaks and glitch with computer assisted composing systems.
Cosy Nook
(since 2016) a small cove in South London, where we occasionally come together to play, listen to and share words, sounds and other gems, polished or unpolished. (Named after a small rocky bay littered with gem stones smoothed by the fierce tidal waters of New Zealand South Island).