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The 4th International Conference on Timbre, 2–4 July 2026 in Montréal, Canada, is hosted by the Faculty of music, University of Montreal. Arja Kastinen will participate the conference with her presentation “The Intimate Timbres of the Kantele: Materiality, Touch and Cultural Memory”, and by performing at the conference concert. Research articles about the acoustics of […]

Northumbria University, in collaboration with the Galpin Society and the UKRI Global Music Technologies research group, will host the Sound Stories Conference on 17–19 June 2026 in Newcastle Upon Tyne, England. The conference aims to examine potential gaps in organology and to highlight forgotten or emerging analytical approaches. Its goal is to bring together diverse […]

From 2014 to 2017, I photographed and measured all the kantele instruments at the Sibelius Museum in Turku. Information on the five‑string kantele and on small kantele instruments with more than five strings has been published previously. The third file, Sibelius Museum’s Large Kanteles, is now available at the bottom of the Research page. All […]

The first Five Senses Retreats, a new small-group Nordic mindfulness concept, is set to open in Nuuksio National Park from 24–26 April 2026. Just 30 minutes from Helsinki Airport, the retreat invites participants to slow down, reconnect with their surroundings, and explore Finnish culture through  immersive experiences of touch, sound, sight, smell, and taste. Developed […]

An experimental approach to the “inner power” improvisation in 19th-century Karelian kantele tradition is a new publication on the Research Catalogue. The publication  was developed as part of the research project, Kantele of the Runosong Culture and the Dialogue of Creativity, and is based on documetation of the old kantele tradition recorded in the Karelian […]