Schönberg series REMIX 3 Andrus Kallastu composer's concert ECCM

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PROGRAMME

Andrus Kallastu (1967)

Kolm momenti, instrumental theatre for chamber ensemble (2025, premiere)

Purjekad | Sailboats
Vahvlipeer | Waffle fart
Blékété

Roomet Jakap's Three Lectures on Philosophy
Lectiones, recitative for voice and chamber ensemble (2019)
Descartes
Spinoza
Leibniz

Disputationes, sonata for chamber ensemble (2019)
Descartes. Allegro elastico
Spinoza. Andante rigoroso
Leibniz. Vivace

Repoo Ensemble
Kai Kallastu, voice, sound objects
Leonora Palu, flute
Aare Tammesalu, cello
Jorma Toots, piano
Andrus Kallastu, conductor, electronics

The conceptual concert programme Remix 3 presents works by Andrus Kallastu in moment form. Kolm momenti is a transcription into notation of three particular sound materials. Roomet Jakap's Three Lectures on Philosophy deals with the basic units of the metaphysical structure of the world, or substances, by examining the positions of three early modern philosophers. The dualism of René Descartes, the monism of Baruch Spinoza and the pluralism of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz are opened up here from new angles, addressing contemporary people in their rootlessness and superficial perception. The starting point for presenting the views of all three philosophers is a historiographical and contextualising reconstruction, to which a detailed unpacking and analysis of the arguments is added. Attention is paid to the sonic aspects of these positions and arguments, which philosophical research so far has generally ignored. The lectures are followed by a musical disputation in three movements in the form of an early sonata.

The concepts of the moment and moment form were introduced by Karlheinz Stockhausen in connection with his work Kontakte (1958 to 60). For Stockhausen a moment is any formal unit of a musical work that is recognisable by a certain unmistakable character. A moment can be an indivisible figure, a structure with clear components, or a mixture of the two. A moment can be static or dynamic, or a combination of the two. A moment can be of any length. Moment form is a compositional approach to music in which narrative is deliberately avoided. In works in moment form the moments are connected non-linearly. If the system of moments is exhausted with a certain number of possibilities, the form is closed. If the sequence of moments is unfinished, the form is open. Moment form does not necessarily rule out processes perceived as goal-directed. The moments simply do not take part in a directed narrative arc. Moment form is not directed towards a climax and lacks the introductory, rising, transitional and fading stages usual in a climactic form. Nor is moment form defined as a curve of development spanning the whole duration of the work. On the contrary, moment form reaches maximum intensity at once, and that level is kept until the end of the work. In a work in moment form a dynamic minimum or maximum may be expected at any moment, and the direction of the work's development is unpredictable. Moment form has, as it were, always already begun and goes on forever. In moment form there is everything or nothing at once. Now-moments cannot be seen as the consequence of the moments before them or as preparation for the moments to come. Nor are moments something a person could rely on. Moments are rather independent, able to exist on their own. In moment form a moment is not a point on a timeline or a span of measured duration. Moment form focuses on the present, in which every moment drives vertical wedges, as it were, through the horizontal, bringing about the absence of time, eternity. Eternity does not begin at the end of time but exists at every moment in time. A work in moment form seeks, as it were, to abolish time, or more precisely the sense of temporal duration. Although a work in moment form may cease after a certain time, both its beginning and its end often remain open for the listener.

In cooperation with
Estonian Arnold Schönberg Society
Estonian Centre of Contemporary Music (ECCM)
EELC Pärnu St. Elizabeth's Congregation
EELC Tartu University and St. John's Congregation
Pärnu Opera
Autorfest

Supported by
City of Pärnu
City of Tartu
City of Tallinn
Cultural Endowment of Estonia
Ministry of Culture

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