Looking at the credits of the short films made at Tampere School of Art and Media this and last year you notice that the composer is often Michael Law. This was obvious at Tampere Art Factory festival in May; the music score was made by him in six of the films screened. Michael Law has composed the music e.g. for Hera by Sanni Rajapolvi and Sideline by Maria Kaurismäki, both presented earlier in

New album of frosty Finnish band Jääportit released as CD digipak by Epidemie Records on the 12th of May 2009."Voimasuo" (Vigor Swamp in English) album contains a bit over 50 minutes of wide-ranging music combining everything from dreamy ethereal ambient to cold rhythmical Nordic electronics and melancholic post-rock.Intense, strong, polymorphous and mostly instrumental album hardly fits in

Students of Visual Design: Tuuli Juntunen, Kiira Kalliomäki, Tuomas Korolainen, Kaisa Kukkonen and Sound Design: Veera Niemi produced an animation based on a touching "Darwin Awards"- winner story. The animation was a task for the Animation II course.watch the animation on youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI_zkYAt8Vc

Operation Hurricane is nominated for EUROPRIX Multimedia Awards in the category for Interactive Television. The team will meet all other 22 EUROPRIX nominee teams at the EUROPRIX Top Talent Festival in Graz November 27-29. The highlight of the festival is the EUROPRIX Awards Gala.