Intriguing Dálava
On its debut album, the NYC based band Dálava interprets a hundred years old folk songs.
Respighi’s wonderful birds
Respighi borrowed from the Italian baroque music and combined the influences with the late 19th century romantic style to create enchanting original orchestral music.
ProAc Response D20R – an ideal Baroque loudspeaker
A loudspeaker can be “sophisticated” by featuring highly complex and unusual techniques, or simply by being elegant and expert in matters of culture. ProAc…
Only fifteen is made
Electric bike manufacturer Noordung’s Angel Edition bicycle features a battery that functions as a backup speaker.
Stockholm Highend 2017
It was a good year. No long predicted death, no crash. Just masses of folks, folks and exhibitioners. More than year before. The Stockholm Highend…
Sound art matters
Listen to what well-known scholars have to say on sound art and why it matters. Full Lectures by Brian Kane, Frances Dyson, Wolfgang Ernst and Cathy Lane.
The Man Who ‘Sold’ The World?
“I thought you died alone, a long long time ago…” (David Bowie, 1947 – 2016)
Project dark
If you’re allergic to vinyl scratch, don’t bother to read more.
Smart Tivoli design
Advertising is art of its own. Sometimes ads are art.
Gradient 1.4 – NEW
1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.5, 5.0, 6.0 … What’s missing? 1.4 is missing, Gradient’s next loudspeaker model. Once again, design and acoustics go every bit hand in hand.
Mercuriale FC413
Mercuriale FC413 is an interesting looking French loudspeaker from the 1970s. A pair of FC413 was refurbished in order to hear how this vintage beauty sounds.
Mali Blues
When tourism has virtually dried up and the musicians can no longer make a living like they once could.
Berio: Sinfonia
A milestone for 20th century Western art music.
Triangle Frequency
“Triangle Frequency” is a sound installation that consists of three looping “endless tapes” of varying lengths and a projected video loop.
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.
Waves, Spectra and Sounds
To calculate a Fourier transform, all you have to do is listen.
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.
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…
“?->?->?” 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.
