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A file about the five-string kanteles in the Sibelius-museum (Turku, Finland) is published both as a Issuu-publication and as a downloadable pdf-file (please, visit: Research). All museum-kantele files on the Temps-site are at the moment available only in Finnish. In the Sibelius-museum there is a so called Olympic-kantele by Armas J. Koivisto (built for the […]

An international event, the Slow Art Day, is encouraging people to look at art slowly. This year it is happening on Sat, the 6th of April, at 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. At the Finnish National Gallery, the Ateneum, there will be several nonstop -workshops during the day, a coversational guided tour, and a relaxation […]

Finally, after dreaming about this for over a decade, the project of re-publishing some of the old phonograph recordings of Karelian kantele players has come true, and the work has started. The amount of work will be huge, and the project will probably last for several years, but the results will be published bit by […]

In November of 2018 I had the possibility to visit Toronto and make some new music with two amazing musicians, Alison Melville and Ben Grossman.  We improvised several sessions together before the actual concerts and now an edited compilation is online on Soundcloud.

On the coming Saturday, 27th of October, there will be Arja’s kantele concert at the Auki Yogaschool in Tampere (Petsamonkatu 14). The concert starts at 6 p.m. The music is an hour lasting improvisation in the spirit of the old, Karelian kanteleimprovisation. The public can sit or lay down on the floor of the yoga […]