Altered Images 1: Paul Simonen

During the War on Music the mainstream media stopped printing old pictures of musicians with their instruments or cropped the instruments out. As part of their effort to rewrite history, they often printed iconic shots of musicians and removed the offending instrument, and then subsequently claimed that their doctored photo was the original and that … Continue reading →

The Sibelius Monument and the Harmonic Church of the Diminished Fifth

In Helsinki, Finland, at the time when music was banned, there was one instrument that escaped destruction – all 24 shiny stainless steel tons of it – even though it stood proudly, 9m tall in plain view in the middle of a city centre park. As a monument to Finland’s greatest composer Jean Sibelius it … Continue reading →