Visual artists such as Hubertus Giebe and composers such as Kalevi Aho or Helmut Oehring have taken up motives from The Aesthetics of Resistance in their paintings and compositions.
Kalevi Aho | Juhani Aho | Kalevi Spordihall | Siaosi U. Tuku'aho | Petri Aho | Kalevi Wiik | Kalevi Kiviniemi | Kalevi Kärkinen | Esko Aho's cabinet | Esko Aho |
He participated in the world premiere of an operatic trilogy of Aika ja uni (The Age of Dreams) by three Finnish composers: Herman Rechberger (b. 1947), Olli Kortekangas (b. 1955), and Kalevi Aho (b. 1949) on the stage of Olavinlinna Castle on July 15, 2000.
Other composers who have written specially for Martin Fröst are: Krzysztof Penderecki, Kalevi Aho, Rolf Martinsson, Bent Sørensen, Victoria Borisova-Ollas, Karin Rehnqvist and Sven-David Sandström.
Mäkilä has also actively championed modern Finnish music, notably Kalevi Aho and Jukka Tiensuu.