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.
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.
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?
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.
Mali Blues
When tourism has virtually dried up and the musicians can no longer make a living like they once could.
Musica Nova 2017
The biannual music festival of contemporary music, Musica Nova, was held in Helsinki 2 – 12 February 2017. A breakthrough of electronics?
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.
Veijo Ulmanen – a sculptor & audiophile
Veijo Ulmanen is a master of wooden sculpture. And a music lover with two nice Hi-Fi systems, home and studio.
Petri Kuljuntausta: magnetism, sound installation
Media Art UP! presented projects by twenty artists: video works, installations, experimental movies, and sound art
3CORNERS OF THE WORLD + edGeCut
Indian electronic musician edGeCut and the trio 3Corners of the World collaborated in different formations for unprecedented global futuristic sounds, from nature to culture and beyond.
Kill Carmen
Compañía Kaari & Roni Martin’s three-penny opera combines traditional flamenco with modern sung poetry, and does it with pertinent fervor.
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.
Rainbow Studios – Jan Erik Kongshaug
”A good sound comes from a good musician and a good instrument”, says Jan Erik Kongshaug, founder of the famous Rainbow Studio in Oslo.
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.
Surrounding Opus 3
Opus 3 once was synonymous for great music recorded in authentic recording venues with minimal micing. Great music is still there but for the rest: times are changing. Jan-Eric Persson explains.
2L – a high-quality Nordic sound
In 2L recordings the listener sits in the midst of the musicians.
“Sounds of a century”
A digitizing project of all recordings issued in Finland since 1901 is currently under way at the Music Library.
What makes a good recorder recording?
Not only are there different sounding recorder recordings, but also some recorder players sound better than the others.
My four favorite lute CDs
Like to take a time travel? To experience the mystique of listening to music that have survived the centuries? Choose lute music.
How do you collate your record collection?
When filing away your precious sounds how do you approach the task; do you file by: A – Z by artist or group,…
“Talk with my turntables“
“At the beginning, there is the alpenhorn. Then, there are the first few overtones. Bizarre sounds are generated before images of the sublime world of mountains.”
Two books on recording
The first book attempts to offer a broader and more dynamic understanding of the recording industry, while the second unveils the historical meaning of the most important digital format of our times: MP3.