How is AI impacting the music industry? Three experts from Finland tell us it will shake our fundamental assumptions about artists’ identities, their unique creative visions...

Ano Sirppiniemi (Senior Advisor, Technology and Foresight at the Finnish performance rights organization Teosto) and Ville Hytönen (Chair of the Union of Finnish Writers) met and...

Have you ever listened to music created by artificial intelligence? Here are some recommendations to explore. These compositions raise intriguing questions: what defines the essence of...

The development of artificial intelligence has seen the introduction of several different paradigms, the latest often superseding its predecessor. In the current millennium, the improvements in...

Combining urgent melodies and fervent activism, Vimma is a progressive Finnish band whose music pulses with a frenzy for change. Their latest album resonates with climate...

Summer 2023 marked 40 years since John Cage visited the Time of Music festival in Viitasaari. There are clichéd narratives still circulating about the snapping of...

The importance of creativity in futures thinking and foresight is widely recognised, but conversely the role of futures thinking in creativity is less obvious. Nevertheless, actively...

We are currently in the process of developing FMQ in order to better serve our readers. We have now launched a survey designed to gauge the...

Focusing on contemporary music, Superpluck are a trio made up of three plucked instruments. Over the past five years, Rody van Gemert, Eija Kankaanranta and Assi...