Sound Plasma is a concert series and festival format dedicated to music with alternative intonation. Since 2017, it has taken place annually in Berlin and Tallinn as a network of satellite mini-festivals.
This year’s concert presents a special combination where a contemporary music ensemble meets the traditional Estonian bagpipe. Due to its unique construction, the bagpipe offers a rare opportunity to explore and discover intonation from a new perspective. It’s usually associated with traditional and diatonic music. However, we offer the opportunity to experience the microtonal sound world of this instrument through new compositions.
The joint concert by the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn and the bagpipe includes works by composers who each pursue very different approaches to microintervals and contribute their own musical language: Klaus Lang, Liisa Hirsch, William Dougherty, and Arash Yazdani.
Since its establishment in 2013, the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn aimed to bring about fresh, non-conformist and newly perceived music to a new generation of audience. Today, one of the leading groups of contemporary music in Baltic and Nordic region, the ensemble is made of a core of principal members, main musicians, and a larger body of collaborators or guest artists to form a flexibly modular format.
With a growing number of commissioned pieces and specially written compositions, a repertoire of over a hundred pieces, and several dozens of original programs covering various genres and styles of cutting-edge contemporary music, Ensemble for New Music Tallinn is becoming a recognized name in contemporary classical music scene across Europe.
