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.
Nosov’s orthogonal design
As to loudspeakers, everything worth inventing has been invented. Mr. V. Nosov disagrees.
MIMStuudio
Where technology, theatre, applied art, sound art and new media meet.
Between extremes
One of the most significant composers of his generation, Erkki-Sven Tüür makes music that proceeds from particular to universal.
Passionate about the sound
Hifi Stuudio is one of the major hi-fi dealer shops in Tallinn, Estonia.
Vivo l’Estonie
The irresistible charm of single driver speakers shows no signs of withering away. A fairly recent temptation originates from Estonia and is called Vivo.
Creative non-adaptiveness
Children of the Flowers of Evil is an insightful trip to Estonian Decadent Art. A strong case for technological pessimism?
Reaching for the moon
Known for its sculptured loudspeakers, Estelon has set its ambitions very high in order to attain something that is not easily achievable.
Robert Jürjendal
When he’s playing guitar it doesn’t sound as if he were. A true guitar wizard with a big heart.
Audiokinetica
Music, art, engineering. In all of us.
Quasi Beatles
Jaan Rääts angled piano sonatas.
Theatre Bizarre
An immersive art installation of unprecedented scale summons the mystery of its notorious underground parties. Halloween in extreme.
A mad scientist
Is he interesting? Is it music?
Floating Synthese 2
The Synthese 2 looks bizarre as a loudspeaker but has a plausible explanation for its appearance.
Munchen HE 2017 – the best
As the year goes by, the third and the last report of the Munich Highend 2017 show.
Circus screams
Screams rend the air, blood stains the ground, and the show goes on.
Classic music for young men
The most pointless album on earth?
Origines Mécaniques
Michael Lavorgna’s images tell you more about your relationship to mechanics and technology than you actually knew.
Michael Lavorgna interviewed
The specialist in digital images answers questions about digital audio.
Highend Helsinki 2017
Selected titbits.
The Sagar Veena & Noor Zehra
Only one exists, and only one knows how to play it.