Tallinn 1965
Tallinn 1965 is a studio that could have stood in Estonia beside the studios in Paris, Cologne, Milan and elsewhere that shaped the cultural field of the whole Western world. Opening the studio in 2024 sets free a path of development that history never took. A future that did not come gets a new chance to come true. Sometimes historical processes and phenomena have to be created retrospectively in the place where they should have been, but where, for political, economic or social reasons, they never were. Looking back at history, one can see an intense empty space. New technological means and a new technological understanding of processes that never came about, and of physical devices and objects that never reached reality, make it possible to play that unrealised reality through again, and to look anew at technology and what it allows, its utopias and its visions of the future.
Studio 1965 extends the notion of composition to the making of new instruments and technological solutions. A unique instrument with its own specific sound parameters is a work in itself, and the potential music it holds (which may never yet have come out) is already a creation of its own. This idea is still little known, and communicating and explaining it takes a lot of work, which is one of the focuses of Studio 1965. Secondly, sound processing technologies are mixed, in effect from the wax cylinder to AI. Studio 1965 works in a time when there are no longer clear lines dividing technologies. Historical technologies are contemporary and as current as the newest breakthrough technologies.