On my music and beyond:
Advocating for the human touch
"With my works and with the way I write them, I advocate for the human touch in our increasingly cold and technological world," writes composer Kalevi Aho. This column is part of the series where composers and other music makers write about their music.
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Elifantree’s global rhythm adventure
Genre-bending trio Elifantree keeps challenging itself – this time creating music with eight drummers in as many countries.
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FMQ Special Feature 4/2020:
The year 2020 in music - Notes for the future
FMQ Special Feature 4/2020 takes a look back at the year now ending and raises issues which have grown increasingly important during the present exceptional circumstances and which we should keep in mind once the crisis has passed.
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Classical world pulling through – concerts here and abroad
In November 2020, the pandemic situation in Finland has remained calm enough for cultural functions to carry on.* In these exceptional times, there is an unusually great hunger for art, and socially distanced concerts provide a vital antidote to anxiety and uncertainty.
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Slow touring à la Charles Gil
”Could we talk in 10 minutes, I’m just returning some backline drums from our tour?” says Charles Gil, picking up the phone on a dimly-lit November afternoon. It’s business as usual for the French producer who has lived and worked in Finland since 1995, introducing Finnish audiences in places near and far to high quality improvised music from France, Finland and beyond time and again.
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Pandemic proves to be mother of invention
For all the grief that the coronavirus pandemic has caused, it has also brought out a great many strengths in the music sector. People in the arts are no strangers to creative, solution-oriented thinking and reactiveness, and the exceptional circumstances we are experiencing have bred novel concepts, operating models, content and applications.
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Archive recordings meet the 21st century
Pauanne
Pauanne is both the name of an innovative Finnish folk trio and the old Finnish thunder god. And like a blast of thunder their music is shaking up the way we look and hear the past, present and future.
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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.
Selected articles from our back catalogue have been posted online, and the selection is continuously being added to.
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