"Tallinn 1965” is an open experimental, multifunctional analog music studio and its relations to contemporary electronic music production.
Alongside modern phonics, analog devices from decades ago are also put to work for recording sounds (professional old-time studio tape recorders) as well as creating music (classical oscillators, filters, echo machines). Cultural remanence of analogue electronic experimental music could be seen in a dual function in today's digital age: on the one hand as representation of a wider retrospectacle, on the other as tools for an artistic exploration of the media conditions of history and historiography. We approach music through the concrete artifacts and technological layers that range from hardware to software processes and that have been part of the circulation of time and memory, as an archive in the Foucauldian sense that conditions the knowledge, but also the perceptions, and the sensations. In other words, the archive is not only a place for systematic keeping of documents as a spatial place of history, as a contemporary technological circuit that redistributes temporality. This way, a parallel historical path is drawn, where an electronic music studio that could have been located in Estonia alongside contemporary electroacoustic music studios in Paris, Cologne, Milan and elsewhere, is rediscovered and emerges in Estonian Contemporary Music Center in Tallinn.
