| First sounds | Monday, August 16, 2010 | |
| Just a quick note to tell all our followers that we'll be able to hear the first sounds from the Acusticum organ early on Wednesday morning! Hans-Ola played the organ for real for the fi... | ||
| In readiness for Woehl | Sunday, August 01, 2010 | |
| At the time of writing there's a short break in the organ builders' activities at Piteå. In the meantime, the working lights are being installed in the organ case. Next, on 5 August, Ger... | ||
| Harmonie intérieure III-IV | 28 photos | Wednesday, July 21, 2010 |
| An overview of the interior of the Acusticum organ before the pipework arrives. Swell boxes are in place, and trackers and ... | ||
| The first phase completed | 9 photos | Tuesday, July 13, 2010 |
| A little over a month has passed since the first organ parts arrived from Marburg. Everything shipped to Studio Acusticum in Piteå has now been painted, prepared, assembled and put in its... | ||
| Interview with Hans-Ola Ericsson | Sunday, June 20, 2010 | |
| About the ideas behind the Studio Acusticum organ. This interview with Hans-Ola Ericsson was done in Piteå just a few days after the first organ parts arrived. | ||
| A lorry arrived from Marburg | 32 photos | Friday, June 11, 2010 |
| Late at night on 10 June, the first lorry arrived from Gerald Woehl's workshop in Marburg, Germany, bringing the first parts of the organ, including the console. The contents of the lorr... | ||
| The video feed is up | Tuesday, June 08, 2010 | |
| The Studio Acustium Organ live webcam video feed is now up and running. It will be up 24 hours a day until the Studio Acusticum Organ is finished in April 2012. You can't miss it — it si... | ||
| Wind ducts arrive | 4 photos | Friday, June 04, 2010 |
| Studio Acusticum is turning into a workshop: the podium is now full of wind ducts and wind chests from Grönlunds Orgelbyggeri organ builders who are acting as subcontractors for Firma Woe... | ||
| Holes for a console | 9 photos | Saturday, May 29, 2010 |
| Some pictures of the floor of the completed organ chamber. The console itself will fit into the smaller cutout, at a lower position relative to the floor. The larger cutout in the floor i... | ||
| Concrete foundations | 7 photos | Monday, May 24, 2010 |
| The concrete foundations needed to support the weight of the console are now in place. The main opening in the organ floor is completed, as are the necessary supporting steel beams and co... | ||
| Touchscreens, video cameras and monitors | 4 photos | Tuesday, May 18, 2010 |
| In addition to being fully equipped for internet interactivity, the console of the Studio Acusticum organ has a minimalist design. There are no stops to pull, no switches to flip, hardly ... | ||
| The first baby sounds | 1 photo | Friday, May 14, 2010 |
| These are exciting times at Studio Acusticum. Very soon, in the beginning of June, the first organ parts will start arriving in batches. The newborn organ will make its first sounds in ea... | ||
| Pictures from the building site | 13 photos | Monday, May 10, 2010 |
| A few pictures taken in Studio Acusticum while the structural alterations needed to accommodate the organ were being made. Click on any picture to start the slide show. | ||
| Hall preparations | One comment | Thursday, May 06, 2010 |
| Dear friends of the Studio Acusticum Organ project. Work has started in the concert hall in preparation for the arrival of the first parts of the organ. The classical part of the instrum... | ||
| Some facts about the organ | 1 photo | Tuesday, April 20, 2010 |
| Some facts:• The Acusticum organ has 208 stops, which makes it the largest instrument in Scandinavia. • It has four manuals and pedals • It features a floating Harmonics Division, an en... | ||
| Gerald Woehl on the new organ | Friday, September 25, 2009 | |
| Gerald Woehl talks about the new Studio Acusticum organ. (The interview is in German.) | ||
| The specification finalised | 6 photos | Thursday, September 17, 2009 |
| The specification of the organ has now been finalised. The final touches were made to the organ plans together with Gerald Woehl in Potsdam, near Berlin, Germany. The Expert Group conven... | ||
| Woehl's Bach organ in Leipzig | Monday, September 14, 2009 | |
| The famous Thomas Church in Leipzig, where Bach served as an organist, has a new period instrument by Gerald Woehl. | ||
| So much more than a new organ | 1 photo | Tuesday, May 12, 2009 |
| The queen of all instruments, says the organist and professor Hans-Ola Ericsson. With firm support from the establishment, and with Ericsson at the helm, the School of Music in Piteå is e... | ||
| The unheard and unseen | 1 photo, 2 comments | Friday, January 09, 2009 |
| The never before heard, the never before seen. This is the theme theme for the internationally unique organ that will soon be built at Studio Acusticum in Piteå. This extraordinary organ... | ||
| Gerald Woehl | 1 photo | |
| Other projects in which Gerald Woehl is involved Portraits of other Woehl organs Woehl's organ workshop Woehl's co-workers | ||
| Hans-Ola Ericsson | 1 photo | |
| Composer and organist. Hans-Ola Ericsson was born in Stockholm in 1958. He studied music in Stockholm and Freiburg and later in the USA and in Venice. The teachers who have been seminal t... | ||
| Expert Group | ||
| The expert group for the project consists of the following people: Hans-Ola Ericsson – professor, concert organist, and composer, LMA, OWR (Project leader) Gerald Woehl – Organ builde... | ||
| The Project Group | 8 photos | |
| [[4]]Sam Nilsson. Swedish politician, journalist and manager. He became head of the news department at Swedish Television (SVT) in 1977 and manager of channel 1 at SVT in 1979. In 1981, h... | ||
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| Contact | ||
| Hans-Ola Ericsson, Project leader: phone: +46 70 535 13 79, email: hans-ola.ericsson@acusticumorgel.se Roger Norén, Production manager Studio Acusticum phone: +46 70 687 28 67,... | ||
| Press | ||
| For general press information, please contact Tomas Riklund: phone +46 (0) 70-675 11 33 e-mail tomas.riklund@acusticumorgel.se. For images and logos, please contact Fredrik Nordl... | ||
| Partners | ||
| Kempestiftelserna Luleå University of Polytechnics Sparbanken Nord Studio Acusticum | ||
| Specification | 2 comments | |
| This is the complete specification of the Studio Acusticum Organ. I. Hauptwerk II. Positiv III. Récit IV. Solo enclosed enclosed partly enclosed+, some ranks playable fro... | ||
| Studio Acusticum | 6 photos | |
| Studio Acusticum was inaugurated in October 2007 and is one of the most modern concert halls in Europe. In addition to its award-winning architecture, the building offers cultural events ... | ||
| The Project | 2 photos | |
| In October 2007, Studio Acusticum, the new concert house in Piteå, was inaugurated. The ambitions for the house were high – a concert hall with world-class acoustics. When the house was c... | ||
| The Studio Acusticum Organ | ||
| The vision is of a symphonic instrument for the 21st century. An instrument that combines tradition, artistic renewal, and innovative technology, to create a tool for the music of the fut... | ||
