FINLAND—Ilpo Martikainen passed away on Jan. 30 from an undisclosed long-term illness; he was 69. Genelec, the company that Martikainen founded, announced his passing in a post on its website.

Ilpo Martikainen

Martikainen’s children—Juho Martikainen, Mikko Martikainen, and Maria Martikainen—who have served on Genelec’s board since 2001, will continue to do so along with Topi Partanen and Ritva Leinonen, who serves as the board’s chairperson.

“We warmly thank Ilpo’s family for supporting him in being an essential part of our lives and journey too,” read Genelec’s post. “We hope the whole audio and music industry will join us in extending thoughts and prayers to his family.

“Even if we greatly miss Ilpo we are privileged and grateful to share in the wonderful memories, passion, humanistic values, love and evolution of the Genelec story that we have experienced with Ilpo. This keeps his memory living in our hearts and deeds. He will continue to live on, through us.”

MUNICH—Class was in session for those in attendance at the Genelec Experience Centre in London, as Ravenna and Genelec teamed up to host an educational event of AES67.

“Everything You Wanted to Know About AES67 But Were Afraid to Ask” began with an introduction from Roland Hemming of RH Consulting, who provided an overview of audio networking, adoption levels across the industry, and examples of projects that rely on audio networking. Then ALC NetworX’s Andreas Hildebrand led the class by explaining the specifics of AES67, how it works and how it impacts the industry’s increasingly connected environment.

After that, Hildebrand offered a live demo of an AES67 system using a Cymatic Audio uTrack24 multitrack recorder/player, an ARG switch, a Grandmaster clock from Sonifex, a Ravenna Virtual soundcard, and Genelec 8430 IP speakers. Later, a Dante device was added to the setup to show streams running back and forth between the Ravenna and Dante eco system.

Hildebrand said after the event that it is likely that Ravenna will host similar events in the future, though no details are available at this time.