Concert-Installation “Mutating Shared Reality”. Baltic & Estonian Music Days

The transmedial concert-installation Ühisilma mutatsioonid (Mutations of the Common Space) connects the outer and inner space in the Harbour Theatre situated on the banks of the Emajõgi River.

Monika Mattiesen – concert-installation Mutating Shared Reality (2024, premiere)

Cyberstudio:
Monika Mattiesen: idea, music, flutes; synthesizers Soma Pipe, ARP 2600; sound objects
Kaarel Kuusk: sound design
Henry Griin: video
Sten Saarits: technical support

The transmedial concert-installation Ühisilma mutatsioonid (Mutations of the Common Space) connects the outer and inner space in the Harbour Theatre situated on the banks of the Emajõgi River. Broadcasting and comparing sounds that occur in real-time in urban Tartu and in the depths of Emajõgi to field recordings that have been made previously in Tallinn, Berlin, Bad-Urach, Köln, Kyiv, Minsk, New York, Otepää and elsewhere. Trying to step out of linear time and capture the presence of the constantly mutating common reality.

This composition forms a collage of pre-recorded (performed by Ensemble Musikfabrik) and live compositions: Net (2022) for amplified bass flute, Soma Pipe synthesizer and live electronics; Parallel Bridge (2021) for ensemble and live electronics; Radade vahel (Between Paths, 2020) for two flutes, electronics and video.

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Estonian Music Days is the most important continuously held contemporary music festival in Estonia. Over the decades it has become undeniably the most significant platform for Estonian composers, new musical creations, and artistic growth. What makes the festival unique is the abundance of premieres of Estonian composers’ newly commissioned works.

In 2024 Tartu is the cultural capital of Europe. Therefore the festival Estonian Music Days will join forces with three neighboring countries to become a larger event that unites Baltic and Estonian Music Days. In addition to recognized Estonian ensembles and soloists, musicians from Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland are also expected.

The Festival Baltic and Estonian Music Days is a part of the European Capital of Culture Tartu 2024 main programme.

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