On December 16th at 18.00 PUBLICS invites Kamimura and Aarni to play a live rendition of their new collaborative work Kōri no ryokō / Jäämatkailu, released as a limited-run vinyl record and in digital formats by the Slovakian label mappa. 

Water can retain or wash away memory; flowing or freezing. It gives life and shapes earth, while frozen imprints of an ancient past are waiting to melt – back into sound or fluid motion, or simply to dissipate and disappear. For their split album release, Yoichi Kamimura and Olli Aarni offer two distinct reinterpretations of a performance recorded live at the Temppeliaukio Kirkko – a church in Helsinki built directly into solid rock and bathed in natural light – meditating on glacial landscapes and water cycles, using shared field recordings that bifurcate into two sonic visions of “ice journey”.

The concert includes recordings from the following bodies of water: Ohōtsukukai (Shiretoko), the Lake Biwa Canal (Kyoto), the Therme Vals baths (Vals), Saint Benedict Chapel (Graubünden); Juutuanjoki (Inari), Vantaanjoki (Vantaa and Helsinki), and Suontee (Joutsa).

During the event Tea will be served by Nari Tea.

BIOS

Olli Aarni
Olli Aarni is an artist working with music and sound. His practice moves across the boundaries of various techniques and approaches, creating works that both soothe the emotions and tickle the mind. Aarni’s soundscapes are delicately multilayered—teeming, swirling, and immersive. His work often deals with the perception of time.

His work has been released on record across four continents, with over twenty albums to date. In addition to recordings and live performances, Aarni has created installations, sound poetry, interactive online sound pieces, and radiophonic works.

Website: olliaarni.com

Bandcamp: olliaarni.bandcamp.com

Yoichi Kamimura
Yoichi Kamimura is a sound/visual artist based in Helsinki. Through his self-described practice of “Meditative Hunting,” Kamimura explores the inner and spiritual connections between humans and nature via field recordings. In recent years, he has presented immersive sound installations, paintings, sound performances, and ambient audio works in Japan and abroad, based on research in locations such as the drift ice of Shiretoko, the glaciers of Iceland, the Amazon rainforest, and the world’s largest waterfall, Iguazu.

Recent major exhibitions and projects include Waterforest (hakari contemporary, Kyoto), Awasi Art Week by LABVERDE (Awasi Iguazú, Iguazu, 2024), LABVERDE Speculative Ecologies Residency 2023 (Manaus, 2023), From Seeing to Acting (Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam, 2021), and Michikusa: Walking with the Unknown (Art Tower Mito, Mito, 2020).

His musical works include Therme Vals, a collaborative album with France Jobin (Vertical Music, Berlin, 2023). In July 2025, he released ryūhyō, a pure field recording album composed entirely of environmental sounds of Shiretoko drift ice, captured over a span of six years, on the Berlin-based label forms of minutiae. 

He received the Sound of the Year Awards in London for two consecutive years, in 2023 and 2024. In the same year, he was also awarded the Phonurgia Nova 2023 Special Mention in Paris.

Website: yoichikamimura.com

Bandcamp: yoichikamimura.bandcamp.com