In search of lost time
Different media, different practices.
Noah Fishman & Samuel Lundh
Noah and his Swedish buddy’s musical journey from Maine to Gothenburg.
Will this Fever ever end?
Christian Rintelen is a Swiss-based freelance writer, AD, DIY audiophile and music lover with more than 1000 cover versions of the Blackwell’s Fever.
Munich Highend 2018
Part I: tape recorders, turntables, CD players.
Long live the LP cover
The sound may be essential to music, but in making a brilliant album so is the cover. And no cover can compete with a LP cover.
Timmion Records
Vinyl record labels are springing up like mushrooms after the rain. Very few of them have their own Neumann’s cutting lathe.
David gegen Goliath
In German turntables there are Midsummer Dreams (Mendehlssohn) and flamboyant symphonies (Brahms). What happens when an elegant puny contester takes the measure of a bombastic tank (Bruckner)?
Jorma Salmi (1948-2018)
One of the great minds of loudspeaker building, Jorma Salmi passed away on Sunday 27th May 2018. Along with him we lost not only an enormous amount of technical knowledge and understanding but also a civilized and a good-hearted man.
Defending the objective approach
The new 1.4 pays tribute to Gradient’s older loudspeaker models and their objective qualities. An afternoon with the head designer Jorma Salmi.
A brief history of Gradient Labs
Gradient is known for its innovative loudspeakers. But how did the company came to be what it is today?
High End Vantaa 2018
With no more than thirty exhibitors the Vantaa High End is one of the top audio shows in Finland.
Mora Mor Amor
New music for a contemporary baroque orchestra. FIBO & Jukka Tiensuu.
An icon
The history of Finnish loudspeaker manufacturing cannot be written without the Gradient 1-series.
Vitra Design Museum
Frank Gehry’s best deconstructivist work.
High End Stockholm 2018
Rooms that I remember. The best of the best.
Totality or nothing
When it is about everything, Louise Nevelson named it Totality. For the smaller collages she gave no name.
Clocks ticking
Time composed and decomposed. By Petri Kuljuntausta.
Hidden sounds
Christina Kubisch lectures on inaudible and imperceptible sounds at CAMP high in the French Pyrenees.
Beginning of sound
Improvising over complex rhythms and forms.
Trajectories
Waller writes music for calm moments and seemingly reflective moods.
Brilliant Scriabin
When brilliance is a property of the music, it’s marvelous. As a property of the sound, annoying.
Nosov’s orthogonal design
As to loudspeakers, everything worth inventing has been invented. Mr. V. Nosov disagrees.
MIMStuudio
Where technology, theatre, applied art, sound art and new media meet.
Between extremes
One of the most significant composers of his generation, Erkki-Sven Tüür makes music that proceeds from particular to universal.
Passionate about the sound
Hifi Stuudio is one of the major hi-fi dealer shops in Tallinn, Estonia.
Vivo l’Estonie
The irresistible charm of single driver speakers shows no signs of withering away. A fairly recent temptation originates from Estonia and is called Vivo.
Creative non-adaptiveness
Children of the Flowers of Evil is an insightful trip to Estonian Decadent Art. A strong case for technological pessimism?
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.
Audiokinetica
Music, art, engineering. In all of us.