Perspective

what we immerse ourselves in

  • PEER audio paper23.08.2023

    Creating grief and lamenting on stage
    This audio paper analyses the emotions of contemporary laments in the context of music and performing arts in Finland, and presents the course of events behind the current practices with audio examples.
    By Viliina Silvonen & Emmi Kuittinen
  • audio essay11.06.2023

    The Environmental Audiotour (ENG)
    © PR
    The 2nd Helsinki Biennial launches on 11th of June. Aarhus University's Critical Environmental Data research group was tasked to write an Environmental Audiotour that narrates the city as energy, as sensing, as multiple histories and imagined futures. We feature the 2nd episode of the tour that features the ruins of an old weather station on the island of Vallisaari, a key curatorial site of the Biennial too.
    By Jussi Parikka, Paolo Patelli & May Ee Wong
  • mindeord02.06.2023

    She has returned into the noise of this world
    © Maarit Kytöharju
    Statement from Kaija Saariaho's family.
    By Jean-Baptiste Barrière, Aleksi Barrière & Aliisa Neige Barrière
  • reportage11.10.2022

    Face it and voice it
    © Alla Zagaykevych
    When you close your eyes to obvious acts of violence and evil, you only allow it to grow says Ukrainian composer Alla Zagaykevych, who believes in electronic music as a radical form of freedom. Reportage from the event »Antifascism - Electronic music from worlds on fire« in Lund, Sweden.
    By Giada Dalla Bontà
  • interview27.08.2022

    »I would very much like to survive, thanks in advance«
    © Malin Annie Jansson
    Two years ago, James Black began writing an article series on religion in the Danish composer scene. Getting more and more angry, Black finally had to give up. Why?
    By Sune Anderberg
  • interview23.08.2022

    Oil, Opera and the history that haunts us
    © Tom Ingvardsen
    Niels Rønsholdt's new work, »The Last Rites«, is a pessimistic satire on human nature. The opera takes place in Østerbro Ice Skating Rink, so the audience can feel the cold mechanics of desire and the growing chaos on our planet. Do we really need winter all year round?
    By Macon Holt