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Interfaces with early music

3/2024
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Contemporary-early music – towards a merging of styles

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Children's music

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Touching the void with Selma Savolainen

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In a Vortex of Sounds: Visual Highlights from Sibafest

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FMQ Special Feature 4/2023:

AI – the complex topic of artificial intelligence and music

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by Wif Stenger

Savonlinna’s underground resurfaces

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by Juhani Nuorvala

What did John Cage really teach in Viitasaari?

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A guide to the Finnish contemporary music scene

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Composers! Artificial Intelligence is Your Friend

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FMQ Special Feature 3/2023:

Grief – the intricate relationship between music and grief

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Published   27 Oct 2022

Kaija Saariaho 70

FMQ Special Feature 3/2022 joins the celebration of Kaija Saariaho’s extraordinary career and creative output by addressing the...

Articles

Published   20 Dec 2024

Lost villages, found sounds: Anne-Mari Kivimäki’s accordion trance

What connects an Icelandic rapper, Ukrainian-Polish vocalists, Estonian Eurovision stars, and the forgotten soundscapes of Karelian villages? For...

Reviews

Published   08 Nov 2024

New dimensions in saxophone

Finnish saxophonists are creating vivid music that leaps over fences between jazz, experimental and classical, as evidenced by...

Columns

Published   13 Dec 2024

On my music and beyond: Towards the golden era of the classical accordion

The accordion is poised to redefine its place in the musical world – its golden era is only...

Special features

Published   27 Oct 2022

Kaija Saariaho 70

FMQ Special Feature 3/2022 joins the celebration of Kaija Saariaho’s extraordinary career and creative output by addressing the...

Articles

Published   20 Dec 2024

Lost villages, found sounds: Anne-Mari Kivimäki’s accordion trance

What connects an Icelandic rapper, Ukrainian-Polish vocalists, Estonian Eurovision stars, and the forgotten soundscapes of Karelian villages? For...

Reviews

Published   08 Nov 2024

New dimensions in saxophone

Finnish saxophonists are creating vivid music that leaps over fences between jazz, experimental and classical, as evidenced by...

Columns

Published   13 Dec 2024

On my music and beyond: Towards the golden era of the classical accordion

The accordion is poised to redefine its place in the musical world – its golden era is only...

From the Archives (1985–2005)

FMQ began life as a printed magazine – the Finnish Music Quarterly – in 1985. Until 2005, its articles were only available in hard copy.

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FMQ Reviews

Original twilight tales

by Tove Djupsjöbacka20 Dec 2024

The band Sähköpaimen combines folk music heritage with electronic sounds.

Verneri Pohjola's world-building is both mindful and intuitive

by Santeri Kaipiainen20 Dec 2024

Themes revolving around the complexity of life and humanity have had a strong presence in Pohjola’s instrumental music.

Reinventing the concerto in five album takes

by Jari Kallio20 Dec 2024

Jari Juhani Kallio reviews the latest concerto releases by Finnish composers.

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