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Welcome to Sounds of Europe, a platform for field recording. The blog of the website will travel to a different European country every month where a local organisation or artist will be responsible for maintaining it. Each country´s particular context and practices with regards to field recording will be explored and presented in a personal way.
The Finnish Society Of Bioart
09/26/2012 · Antye

The Finnish Society Of Bioart, established May 2008 in Kilpisjärvi, is an organisation supporting, producing and creating activities around art and natural sciences, especially biology.
 
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Since 2010 The Finnish Society Of Bioart is organizing an artist-in-residency program together with the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki in the sub-Arctic Lapland.
 

 
The residency has an emphasis on the Arctic environment and art and science collaboration. It is is open for artists and art&science research teams.
 
3 sound artists had residencies there.
 
Read the blog entry of Andrea Polli
 
Listen: Mosquitoes in Malla
 

 
Kilpisjarvi notes by Antye Greie
 
Listen: Ice shuffle In May 2011
 

 
Observations by Till Bovermann
 

 
 
Other non sound related blog entries.
 
Discover the The Biological Station.
 
It is one of the most beautiful places to be a resident artist providing a very inspiring and undisturbed working environment.