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Exhibition

Émotions Terranaissantes

A solo exhibition by Elise Guillaume at L’Espace Croisé.

Sound art

DIY – Do It Yourself

A therapy project turned into a series of innovative instruments.

Sound art

Oscillating everyday objects

When pendulum physics meet digital sound synthesis.

Exhibition

Exploring Solastalgia

Land Body Ecologies Festival is an collaborative event encompassing sound, touch, taste, and vision over four days.

Sound art

Summer sound art

Sound art was launched on the west bank of Porvoo, as part of Avanti Music’s summer festival.

Exhibition

The Preserving Machine

A lone robotic bird flies over an abandoned landscape.

Exhibition

Sensory mixes of the future

Sougwen 愫君 Chung’s new large-scale kinetic installation features a new multi-robotic Drawing Operations Unit.

Exhibition

Jeannette Ehlers: Black Bullets

A video work on the French colonial rule and Haitian revolution.

Sound art

Not just rivers

The Landscape Series is an immersive sound art work by Natalia Beylis, Óscar Mascareñas and Irene Murphy .

Design

Apollo and Dionysos

The story of Beogram 4000 is a story about the two sides of humanity and how they can be reconciled.

Books

From Spark to Icon

From Spark to Icon is Jens Bang’s ambitious and beautiful take on B&O’s industrial history.

Design

B&O Beoplay S8

Confident in style, less certain with technology. Which side the new BeoPlay S8 is on?

Design

Amphion design philosophy

Leans on three basic principles of functionalism.

Exhibition

Skin deep

For the Asia-Europe 5 exhibition the skin is deep, and leaves a lasting impression.

Design

Speaker transparency

Does transparency of the cabinet translate to transparency of the sound? Some examples.

Sound art

Ääni sauna #1: Jaakko Eino Kalevi

A Finnish multi-instrumentalist heating up the sauna in Norway.

Exhibition

The power of naming

Marguerite Humeau’s new sound piece Weeds aims to make silenced and invisible knowledge visible. The solo exhibition opens today.

Sound art

Ceramics and sound united

Interbeing is an ambitious international ceramic and sound art project creating new collaborations between British and Chinese artists.

Sound art

Perishable vinyl

The new book of the Basque sound artist Mikel R. Nieto contemplates current lack of sensitivity toward the sound of water, snow and ice. A vinyl is attached.

Design

Noise perceivers

Industrial designer and sound-enthusiast Lola Mijouin is not indifferent about noises.

Artists

Radio live

Rava vavàra is an experimental radio broadcast and sound art/sound poetry project created by Italian artist Eva Macali.

Sound art

Horns at art’s service

A sound artist Yuri Suzuki unveils a new participatory artwork at Tuner Contemporary. Once again horns occupy the lead role.

Sound art

Bodily music to the letter

One-plus-one-is-three performs using EEG signals to control sounds, lights and images.

Exhibition

Speaker park

Speaker Park steers thoughts away from the commercial hi-fi markets.

Books

In the shadow of Schubert and Beethoven

Georg von Wright is widely known for his enormous contribution to the philosophy of the 20th century. But what do we know about his relation to music? And sound, if any?

Exhibition

Men, masculinity and technology

Two recent independent exhibitions reflected masculinity. Neither of them too optimistically.

Blog

What is it that he loves?

Hi-Fi seems to be thoroughly gendered.

Sound art

Zach this out

Zach Rowden does most peculiar things with his double bass, and does it sensibly and with a meaning.

Sound art

Plastic heart

Mika Taanila’s multi-channel sound installation pays homage to the Futuro-house.

Design

Habitare – HiFi

The best in the Helsinki Hifi Show 2018.