"Music has the ability to prompt such a profound emotional sensation that words fail to describe it. Yet it also has the ability to prompt in...

"Everything would seem to have been simpler 30 years ago when the FMQ was launched. No one had ever even dreamt of an octopus-like internet, and...

"In diving into the world of microtones, I tried to make musicality my priority, listening as carefully and acutely as possible, in a natural relationship with...

"The 2/2014 issue of the FMQ highlights some fascinating examples of the latest findings of Finnish music research. The most recent research projects are looking even...

"The slow rise in online sales has not been altogether a bad thing for the producers of art-music CDs, because the turnover in these exceeds that...

"With bands like Nightwish, Children of Bodom and HIM out there, it’s no surprise the image of Finland as a metal country persists. There are many...

"Here in Finland there are places for innovative thinking, and it’s maybe not by accident that they are also multiculturally oriented. The music scene in Helsinki...

"The digital revolution of the third millennium has offered us more and more new ways of accessing and listening to music. The borders between genres have,...

...Staging six days of jazz at the beginning of the Christmas season was a risky undertaking, but We Jazz’s astute programming decisions made it work...