CHRONOVARIATIONS

Winner of the Finnish Critics’ Association’s ’Kritiikin Kannukset’ honorary prize 2025 for the year’s biggest artistic breakthrough. Nominee for the 2024 Jazz Emma Prize, the Finnish equivalent of the Grammys.

CHRONOVARIATIONS is an experimental 3D-sound piece for tenor saxophone, live electronics, resonating metal objects, and a space with magnificent acoustics. It is a longform immersive sonic journey that explores the themes of time, resonance, and unfolding. Through Hartikainen’s masterful saxophone performance and innovative use of electronics, the album invites listeners to explore a realm where sound evolves gradually, resonates holistically, and unfolds dramatically.

”While parts of this album could likewise fit in with the current “ambient jazz” trend, most of it is a tantalising mystery; indescribable, indecipherable long slabs of sound and melody, coupled with a sinewy physical and emotional power. ”

1 I 8:10
2 II & III 10:32
3 IV 8:37
4 V 8:46