Tag: Arja Kastinen

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For roughly half of the year I listened to everything, almost or near enough. Then I wilted, or the opposite of that, for come the summer I perked up in my stool and began to listen to summer ambiances like the chirping of birds, the splashing of hose pipes and water pistols or the sizzling of a barbecue. As...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a young twenty-something called Armas Otto Väisänen began to document through photographs and field recordings the traditional musical cultures of his native Finland and beyond. Using fragile wax cylinders which were typically capable of recording for no more than two or three minutes, this scholar of folk music or early ethnomusicologist made...