Defending the objective approach
The new 1.4 pays tribute to Gradient’s older loudspeaker models and their objective qualities. An afternoon with the head designer Jorma Salmi.
A brief history of Gradient Labs
Gradient is known for its innovative loudspeakers. But how did the company came to be what it is today?
High End Vantaa 2018
With no more than thirty exhibitors the Vantaa High End is one of the top audio shows in Finland.
Mora Mor Amor
New music for a contemporary baroque orchestra. FIBO & Jukka Tiensuu.
An icon
The history of Finnish loudspeaker manufacturing cannot be written without the Gradient 1-series.
Vitra Design Museum
Frank Gehry’s best deconstructivist work.
High End Stockholm 2018
Rooms that I remember. The best of the best.
Totality or nothing
When it is about everything, Louise Nevelson named it Totality. For the smaller collages she gave no name.
Clocks ticking
Time composed and decomposed. By Petri Kuljuntausta.
Hidden sounds
Christina Kubisch lectures on inaudible and imperceptible sounds at CAMP high in the French Pyrenees.
Beginning of sound
Improvising over complex rhythms and forms.
Trajectories
Waller writes music for calm moments and seemingly reflective moods.
Brilliant Scriabin
When brilliance is a property of the music, it’s marvelous. As a property of the sound, annoying.