Here's a couple of recordings I made yesterday lunchtime in the streets around and outside the excellent KIASMA ( the Museum of Contemporary Art), in Helsinki. There was some interesting recorded street sounds of Lagos (I believe by the artist Baaba) playing outside KIASMA supporting the excellent ARS 11 exhibition which explores Africa in contemporary art, particularly poignant after the recent Finnish election result.

If you're in, or around Helsinki, any time soon I strongly recommend that you visit this excellent exhibition...Finland, despite being essentially a very quiet country, is full of people who (inspirationally for me) really understand the power of sound.

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A great day in Helsinki, a fascinating back stage tour the soon to be opened Helsinki Music Centre, what a superb concert hall, followed by a visit to check out some new software at the Swedish Theatre (what a great sound team there!) and finishing of at the Theatre Museum where I experienced a thought provoking exhibition by the students of the Sound Design course from the Theatre Academy of Finland.

Whilst enjoying a coffee in the sunshine, with my host this morning Christian, this wonderful old man walked past with lovely old Barrel Organ....so....

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I'm sat at my desk writing, my window is wide open and warm sunshine is flooding into my room, it feels as if Spring has arrived and thinks it's Summer. The world is waking up after hibernation, the birds are singing and people are out and about....so I just put my Zoom by the window and...

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So I was woken up at 3am this morning by...maintenance work on the nearby Metro track.

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