The Other Side
Musical Performance - Mikko Heikinpoika
Mikko Heikinpoika is a throat singer, multi-instrumentalist and music producer from Finland. He is part of the new wave of live musicians who strive to create powerful performance experiences through merging the worlds of acoustic and electronic, integrating ancient vocal techniques, live looping, grounded rhythms and deep, heartfelt bass frequencies.
Mikko Heikinpoika (FIN) Musician | Music producer | Vocalist | Throat singer
If you wish, you can open up your senses, feel how you feel in your body, and just forget about all the unnecessary things that are going on and just give in if you feel like.
Summary
- Open the senses and connect with the body to release distractions and fully immerse in the musical performance. - Strength is sought from nature to provide support throughout the creative and spiritual journey. - Recognition is given to artistic collaborators, including masters of geometry and other creative performers. - An upcoming ecstatic dance beach party is announced, featuring a two-hour silent space focused on flow and consciousness. - Today's program concludes with an invitation to enjoy the rest of the weekend's activities.
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The Other Side: Mikko Heikinpoika Led A Rhythmic Descent Into Flow At Biohacker Summit 2019 Helsinki
A Closing Performance That Asked The Audience To Surrender
At Biohacker Summit 2019 Helsinki, the Finnish throat singer, multi-instrumentalist and producer Mikko Heikinpoika brought the programme toward its close with a performance titled *The Other Side*, offering something less like a concert than a guided surrender.
Appearing on Friday, 1 November 2019 in Helsinki, Heikinpoika invited the audience to do something deceptively simple: open their senses, notice their bodies and let the noise of the outside world fall away. “If you wish, you can open up your senses, feel a little bit how you feel in your body and just forget about all the unnecessary things that are going on,” he said, setting the tone for a set rooted in immersion rather than spectacle.
Ancient Voice, Contemporary Pulse
Heikinpoika, part of a new generation of live musicians blending acoustic ritual with electronic architecture, drew on the elements that have defined his work: throat singing, grounded rhythm, looping structures and bass that felt as much physical as musical. The performance moved through chants and vocal patterns, with syllables repeated like incantation, less concerned with lyrical meaning than with bodily effect.
This was music aimed squarely at the nervous system. Its force lay in repetition, resonance and the slow erosion of distraction. In a summit devoted to human optimisation, *The Other Side* suggested a different route to enhancement, one that passed not through metrics or protocols but through attention, breath and vibration.
“Help Me Nature, Give Me Strength”
At one point, Heikinpoika paused to utter a line that carried the simplicity of prayer: “Help me nature, give me strength.” It was a brief appeal, but one that seemed to crystallise the performance’s underlying philosophy. Here was a call not for control, but for grounding. Not for escape from the body, but a return to it.
That sensibility ran through the piece. The experience asked listeners to release mental clutter and enter a more instinctive state, where rhythm could guide consciousness more effectively than language ever might.
A Collective Act Of Recognition
Heikinpoika also made space to acknowledge the artists around him, naming collaborators including Sakary Lehton of Omni Geometrify, described as a “Master of Geometry Geometria”, and Mira Matila Alessa, also introduced by the alias Hepper Hepperkeyou Renegade Brown.
The gesture mattered. In a performance built on atmosphere and altered attention, it grounded the work in collaboration, reminding the audience that immersive experiences are rarely the work of one person alone. Sound, image, movement and presence all contributed to the event’s shape.
A Promise Of More Movement To Come
As the set unfolded, Heikinpoika widened the invitation beyond the room itself, promoting an ecstatic dance beach party scheduled for the following day. He first mentioned limited space, then quickly corrected himself with warmth and inclusivity: “There is a lot of room for all kinds of dancers.”
His pitch was direct and disarmingly clear. “It’s going to be a deep dive into flow, into consciousness,” he said. “Silent space for two hours: only music, only dance, only the good stuff.”
In that description was the essence of the evening’s performance. No over-explanation. No demand for mastery. Just an opening, a zone in which movement and sound might become forms of inquiry.
The Quiet Radicalism Of Pure Immersion
What *The Other Side* offered at Biohacker Summit 2019 Helsinki was not merely entertainment, but a temporary reordering of attention. In a culture increasingly saturated by interruption, Heikinpoika’s performance proposed that transformation may begin with something almost unfashionably basic: listening deeply, moving freely and trusting rhythm to carry thought somewhere words cannot.
As he closed, Heikinpoika thanked the audience “for joining us on this journey” and gently wrapped the day’s programme. It was a modest ending to a performance that had reached for something expansive.
By then, the point was unmistakable. Flow was not being explained. It was being enacted.
Part of Biohacker Summit 2019 Helsinki