Sander Saarmets

As an epilogue to my excursions in Estonia during the summer and autumn, i want to highlight two albums that are tangentially related to the events i attended. The first is by During the Tormis 95 extravaganza in August, i mentioned Olev Muska, an Australian-Estonian composer who among other things …

Perhaps the most compelling example of the kind of disorientation that border states can engender came in the concert given by Polish ensemble Spółdzielnia Muzyczna, appropriately titled ‘The Borders of Identity’. Here, more than anywhere else during AFEKT 2023, was a concert where none of the five works on the …

Surely the most completely abstract music i heard at this year’s Estonian Music Days was Blue Moon Station by Latvian composer Alise Rancāne. The piece involved all six members of the Ensemble of the Estonian Electronic Music Society (EMA) huddled around a computer keyboard playing a video game projected on …