"Signmark himself insists that what he is making with sign language is music and not, say, visual performance art. Many people commenting on his situation seem...

"The ‘flow’ experience of everything coming together just right in making music is familiar to everyone who has ever performed music, but audience members can sense...

"Reworking a familiar composition does indeed demand a lot of effort and creativity; the world has changed, and it is not enough just to repeat what...

"In any case, we are at the heart of creative action when musicians get together and start playing out of pure love for the music. So...

"Music has long been open to influences from foreign cultures. These influences have been utilized in producing high-quality Finnish world music, as well as modernist classical...

"Rather than being a separate category, children's is nowadays a specific consumer segment in a variety of musical genres. It has commercial potential in that parents...

“If there is much room around a composer’s ‘self’ both in nature and culture, discreteness and the experience of space can probably be heard in her...

"A perennial anomaly in Finnish music has finally been put right: the national capital now has a concert hall that is up to international standards. And...

"The positive spin on this is that research can adapt itself to the plurality of the music scene and can renew itself, engage in dialogue and...