Naarmu is an amateur group dedicated to experimental music and performance art. Its roots lie in the interpretive forum Tulkinnanvaraista, where from 2020 to 2024 the group engaged in a research-based full production of Cornelius Cardew’s music theatre work The Great Learning. The group’s activities are sustained by the members’ shared interest in learning together through experimentation and dialogue, as well as by cultivating mutual trust and polyphony among people of different ages and backgrounds. Everyone interested is welcome to join.
Anna-Liisa Arjama is a mother of two who enjoys sauna and spends her free time on climate activism and strengthening the position of the elderly and immigrants.
Iris Mankila lives through words, language, poetry, and song. She is trained in speech and has been in a choir for 30 years, including in Naarmu.
Janne Kivistö is a music lover from Turku, interested in art as an expression of ethical togetherness.
Juha Soivio enjoys spending time on islands and is enchanted by trees.
Juho Laitinen is a playful person. He plays, sings, and strolls.
Markku Nikula is a composer and music theory teacher based in Helsinki.
Paola Livorsi is a composer and music researcher. She is interested in the human voice, the musicality of language, and the unexpected phenomena that emerge between different languages.