Veijo Ulmanen – a sculptor & audiophile
Veijo Ulmanen is a master of wooden sculpture. And a music lover with two nice Hi-Fi systems, home and studio.
Petri Kuljuntausta: magnetism, sound installation
Media Art UP! presented projects by twenty artists: video works, installations, experimental movies, and sound art
3CORNERS OF THE WORLD + edGeCut
Indian electronic musician edGeCut and the trio 3Corners of the World collaborated in different formations for unprecedented global futuristic sounds, from nature to culture and beyond.
Kill Carmen
Compañía Kaari & Roni Martin’s three-penny opera combines traditional flamenco with modern sung poetry, and does it with pertinent fervor.
Your brain, your music – or the other way round?
If human mind was identical with the brain, brain research would have a better chance to be relevant to music psychology.
Kari Bremnes – a story teller
“The words and the stories are my main instruments. My voice too but I’m not as conscious about that as I am about the words, and maybe that’s a good thing.”
Chords for eyes
Of all (visual) arts, abstract art is best suited for posing ontological questions about art itself, and because of that, also for accompanying music.
Rainbow Studios – Jan Erik Kongshaug
”A good sound comes from a good musician and a good instrument”, says Jan Erik Kongshaug, founder of the famous Rainbow Studio in Oslo.
EV Patrician 800
If indeed “mighty” is an adjective that could be attributed to a loudspeaker, here’s one that definitely deserves it.
Uraltone PP EL34
A specialty shop for audio components sells its EL34 amp primarily as a DIY kit but for butterfingers, also as assembled.
Medieval polyphony and unique sound
The Trio Mediaeval makes the northern wind sing.
Surrounding Opus 3
Opus 3 once was synonymous for great music recorded in authentic recording venues with minimal micing. Great music is still there but for the rest: times are changing. Jan-Eric Persson explains.
2L – a high-quality Nordic sound
In 2L recordings the listener sits in the midst of the musicians.
“Sounds of a century”
A digitizing project of all recordings issued in Finland since 1901 is currently under way at the Music Library.
What makes a good recorder recording?
Not only are there different sounding recorder recordings, but also some recorder players sound better than the others.
My four favorite lute CDs
Like to take a time travel? To experience the mystique of listening to music that have survived the centuries? Choose lute music.
How do you collate your record collection?
When filing away your precious sounds how do you approach the task; do you file by: A – Z by artist or group,…
“Talk with my turntables“
“At the beginning, there is the alpenhorn. Then, there are the first few overtones. Bizarre sounds are generated before images of the sublime world of mountains.”
Two books on recording
The first book attempts to offer a broader and more dynamic understanding of the recording industry, while the second unveils the historical meaning of the most important digital format of our times: MP3.
After Picasso and Hemingway, Blue Note
A simple black rectangle with rounded corners, an elastic page-holder, and an internal expandable pocket: a nameless object with a spare perfection all…
Performance that defied hi-fi
Sometimes a performance can be so deep-going that the listener wants to save the experience in his/her soul and not hear it again.
Vivaldi goes dance & techno
If there is a Baroque composer whose music adapts to a techno-classical style, it must be Vivaldi, the point well proven by the Finnish contemporary opera group Opera Scala.
ERIC BIBB – USA, Sweden, Finland
Having stayed away from the USA for long periods of time, a singer, guitar player and song writer Eric Bibb now keeps his base in Helsinki, Finland.
The Sound of the Desert’s Silence
The tracks may repeat each other, but the artistic quality of the music is high, and the material realized with an infallible consistency.
Fantastic Graupner
Looking for Baroque music that shines both in terms of melody and treatment of harmony, but isn’t too “serious”?
Michael Vincent Waller: The South Shore
Michael Vincent Waller plays with modal scales to paint impressionistic landscape images.
“?->?->?” v.1
Working with sound and visuals in different contexts/forms, Martins Rokis is exploring multimodality of human perception via installations, performances or multichannel systems.
Sound installation A (2013)
A (2013) is a new collaboration between visual artist Sami van Ingen and sound artist Petri Kuljuntausta.
vib || sub
vib || sub is a sound installation by sound artist Jari Kauppinen. The installation was exhibited in Galleria Akusmata 17. – 24. April.
