Ääniä: Finland’s Official Soundscape

Chapter 1

Organising the International Luxury Travel Market

Monocle has spent the week at the International Luxury Travel Market on the French Riviera – the annual get together of the crème de la crème of world hospitality. The organisation of the event is performed by Alison Gilmore, who has been in charge of the ILTM for 12 years and oversees everything from the choice of exhibitors to where she places them.

Chapter 2

‘Ääniä’: Finland’s official soundscape

How do you capture the sound of a nation? That’s the question Finland asked itself when it commissioned Lauri Porra, one of the country’s most revered contemporary composers, to create a soundscape for the nation. Monocle’s Helsinki correspondent, Petri Burtsoff, caught up with Porra to hear about the creative process behind the project.