For Sound Plasma’s 10th anniversary, Ensemble for New Music Tallinn is organizing a joint concert with the great Finnish contemporary music group defunensemble.
The concert program includes new works written especially for ENMT by composers Lauri Jõeleht and Arash Yazdani, among others, as well as works of composers from Norway, Finland, Poland and USA/Diné.
Program:
Øyvind Torvund "Yes and no" (2025) for flute, clarinet, piano, cello and electronics
Raven Chacon "Round" (2007) for turntable and performers
Perttu Haapanen "Doll Garden" (2013) for flute, clarinet, piano, cello and electronics
Wojciech Błażejczyk "Sympatheticality" (2026) for viola d'amore, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, double bass and piano
Lauri Jõeleht "Equilibrium" (2026, world premiere) for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and double bass
Arash Yazdani New Work (2026, world premiere) for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, electric guitar, bass guitar, keyboards and drums
Sound Plasma, which has been running since 2017, is distinguished by its focus on boundary-pushing sound practices and its ability to bring together artists and audiences who value experimentation. The concerts have so far experimented with ever-new, intriguing, non-conformist and irregular intonation systems, daring to explore completely new perspectives on microtonal music every year.
The cooperation between the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn and defunensemble has already been quite long-standing:
- In 2021, Fausto Romitelli’s masterpiece "Professor Bad Trip" was jointly premiered in Estonia and Finland.
- In 2022, the ensembles joined forces to premiere Enno Poppe’s great work "Rundfunk" in Estonia.
- The same work was performed with a joint ensemble in August 2023 at the Intsikurmu Festival and in September 2023 at the PianoEspoo Festival in Finland.
Credits
- defunensemble
- Hanna Kinnunen (flutes, objects), Mikko Raasakka (clarinets, objects), Markus Hohti (cello, objects), Sami Klemola (objects), Anders Pohjola (sound design), Timo Kurkikangas (sound design)
- Visiting musician
- Talvi Hunt (piano)
- Ensemble for New Music Tallinn
- Maria Lume (flutes), José Carlos Domíngues Almela (clarinets), Toomas Hendrik Ellervee (violin), Talvi Nurgamaa (viola, viola d'amore), Paul-Gunnar Loorand (cello, bass guitar), Madis Jürgens (double bass), Talvi Hunt (piano, keyboards), Ove-Kuth Soosaar (electric guitar), Karl-Juhan Laanesaar (percussion), Karl Erik Laas (sound design), Arash Yazdani (conductor)
- Performance patch
- Sander Saarmets