At the threshold of beauty, science and art collaborate. Edgar Varese.

Art

The practical world is divided into what is Fine, and what is Useful. “Fine” refers to things that are appreciated for their imaginative, aesthetic, or intellectual content. “Useful” is concerned with the skills and methods of making something, ie. it comes close to what we nowadays call technique or technology. A sharp difference is often made between the two, technology unilaterally being seen in the light of its instrumental role.

For Inner-Magazines art and technology express one and the same thing: creativity of human thought and imagination. From Leonardo da Vinci’s famous mechanical drawings to all-embracing works of the Bauhaus design house, both sides are present and often closely interwined. Technology owes as much to Fine arts as it owes to science.

Music

Music is among the finest things in life. For some it’s the highest of all arts.  Compared to other arts, music appears to be more intimately connected to technology, not least because the  technology of the last century enabled to reproduce music irrespective of the time and place of the original event, changing deeply the way music is consumed and experienced nowadays. Recordings allow composers and musicians to express themselves in ways not possible in a live concert. On the other hand, recordings put the listener in an intimate and pure relationship with the music itself, stripped from extra-musical distractions. In short, recorded music is an art of its own, and Inner-Magazine covers all aspects of recorded music from unforgettable recordings to discographies, and to presentations of musicians, composers and people who work for the recording industry.

Audiophilia

Audiophilia is the art of retrieving, by technological means, ultimate pleasure from valuable record collections in a domestic environment. It is by manipulating sophisticated playback systems that the unique and abstract experience of listening to records is elevated to its highest level. Audiophilia is a such a unique inter-disciplinary sub-culture of passionate people that it provides a splendid opportunity to study (male) emotional response towards technology as well a wide variety of technology-related social and cultural issues.

Inner-Magazines aims to cover all aspects of audiophilia, from  in-depth reviews of components and systems to events and people working for the industry.

 Audiophilia is a such a unique inter-disciplinary sub-culture of passionate people that it provides a splendid opportunity to study (male) emotional response towards technology as well a wide variety of technology-related social and cultural issues.

As far as Inner-Magazines is concerned, the best method to ensure that reviews and articles communicate objective content is to make sure that the reviewers are experienced and informed enough so that they know to place the device under focus in the correct context technically, sonically and market-wise, and that the subjective evaluations are written with sufficient clarity and substance.

Editor in chief
Kari Nevalainen
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