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.
Theatre Bizarre
An immersive art installation of unprecedented scale summons the mystery of its notorious underground parties. Halloween in extreme.
Floating Synthese 2
The Synthese 2 looks bizarre as a loudspeaker but has a plausible explanation for its appearance.
Origines Mécaniques
Michael Lavorgna’s images tell you more about your relationship to mechanics and technology than you actually knew.
The Sagar Veena & Noor Zehra
Only one exists, and only one knows how to play it.
Anna Zemánková
Four in the morning she would wake up and start working on her drawings in a manic manner, Bach, Beethoven or Dvorak on the background.
Bhulley Phono preamp
The sound may have a deeper dimension than the West admits. A phono amp from the lab of truth.
Manger Z1 – quite simply
When technical efforts have not been wasted.
Phill Niblock interviewed
Composer, filmmaker and videographer, Phill Niblock is best known for his minimalist and experimental music.
Simplicity
The desire to simplify, to weed out excess and get to the heart of the matter is a cyclical human tendency both historically and personally.
Critically pop
Harro Koskinen is best known for his socially critical works which draw on Pop Art. In one, a turntable plays black crispbread.
Loud and passionate
Want to know what happens when a sousaphone becomes the bass, and the guitar the only one to play harmonies? Check out Roni Martin & Kalabalik Brass Band’s latest album.
Roksan Kandy
The turntable specialist Roksan is not just a turntable specialist. New amplifiers will be launched and old ones upgraded. Kandy L.III belongs to the latter group.
Skin deep
Berlinde de Bruyckere uses hanging and stacked animal hides to make us think of the delicate difference between being an animal and becoming mere material.
Flexound HUMU – feel the sound
It may look like a gadget, but what really makes it worth resting one’s head on its soft surface, is the hard techniques that’s gone into it.
Dancing a book
The book is by far the best. But what would be the second best way to tell the Alice’s story in the wonderland? A ballet at the Finnish National Opera/Ballet.
Listening to … a smell
In the highend world of smells, scents are listened to.
Ayon CD3sx – to preamp, or not to preamp
One of world’s top CD players, Ayon Audio’s 3sx, has tubes for two different outputs; a pair for the CD player, two pairs for the preamp. Which way to go?
Musica Nova 2017
The biannual music festival of contemporary music, Musica Nova, was held in Helsinki 2 – 12 February 2017. A breakthrough of electronics?
Re-defining arts – steamrollers and urinals
When an man places a metal counterweight at the other end of a tonearm in order to fine-adjust the tracking force of the 10 gram cartridge, it’s called audiophilia. When another man places 40 tons of concrete to counterweight a steamroller at the other end of a massive balk, it’s called art. Is it art? What is art, anyway?
Kill Carmen
Compañía Kaari & Roni Martin’s three-penny opera combines traditional flamenco with modern sung poetry, and does it with pertinent fervor.
Sibelius and Art
“I am more moved by other arts than by the music of others.” – Jean Sibelius in a letter to Aino Sibelius from Munich, 28 July 1894.
