The new Helsinki Music Centre will provide a venue for the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Sibelius Academy. The Helsinki University of Technology has devised a rehearsal stage that remain acoustically identical to the main hall. The acoustics and spatial features of the main hall are simulated by an active acoustic system that mimic its typical echoes and reverberations.
Data gloves and air guitar: Tappio Lokki and Matti Karjalainen on their work in the Helsinki University of Tehchnology multimedia laboratory, p. 16-17.