Sound Plasma / festival for alternative intonations
24. November 2022
18:30 Ensemble for New Music Tallinn (Estonia)
20:30 Dsilton (Austria)
25. November 2022
18:30 neuverBand (Switzerland)
20:30 defunensemble (Finland
(All concerts will be around 1h 15min)
Sound Plasma is a mini festival dedicated to music with alternative intonation, in broadest definition of the term. Sound Plasma is dedicated to promote a different view towards intonation. The festival takes place in Tallinn and Berlin and this year it is inspired by intonation in electronic sounds.
The 6th edition of the festival experiments with new ideas of intonation with a flavour of electroacoustic music with world premiere of pieces by Demetre Gamsachurdia, Aleksander Gabrys
The term Sound Plasma, as was first used by the Swiss-based composer Horatiu Radulescu, is borrowed to illustrate the intention for advocating a non-conformist, non-standard and ultimately out-of-the-box creative freedom toward musical intonation. We want to give platform to voices that break boundaries and step beyond sonic realm of the established European classical music, and encourage composers to investigate and create alternative soundings through intonation. Particularly the soundings that don't belong to a school of intonation-based music but invent their own universe.
With many avid fans extending beyond contemporary or classical music community, many composers employ various aspects of micro-intervals on their works to some degrees, either as means of expression, or as the very fabric of their music. Meanwhile, the more experimental and liberal micro-interval music often has little place on the usual repertoire of contemporary music scene. Sound Plasma is hoping to fill the gap by presenting a festival fully dedicated and devoted to repertoire of alternative intonation music.
Artistic director Arash Yazdani Manager Helena Tuuling
Founded in 2012, Ensemble for New Music Tallinn is a platform to bring about fresh and newly perceived music to new generation of public and professionals. ENMT has had performances and collaborations with many institutions and festivals around Europe (Universität der Künste Berlin, ISCM World Music Days Festival, MIXTUR Festival Barcelona, ORF Musikprotokoll, CrossRoads Salzburg, Ostrava Music Days festival, MusicOlomouc festival, PÖFF Black Nights Film Festival, Inner Sound New Arts Festival Bucharest, Tallinn Music Week, Resonanta Paris, FUGA in Budapest, AFEKT festival, Baltic Music Days, World Music Days etc. As of 2017 the ensemble is making its own festival of alternative intonations, titled Sound Plasma, in Berlin and Tallinn (Estonia). https://enmtallinn.com
The music of DSILTON consists of energetic arrangements in 31 equal temperament with modulating rhythms. At Dsiltons current program, cycles of Georg Vogel & David Dornig are interlocked. Concerning the techniques of composition and the frames for improvisation all pieces share together complex grooves and the extended tonality of 31-tone tuning. The repertoire shows a range from enharmonically entangled improvisation forms, 31-tone serial compositions to arrangements of processed field recordings. This enharmonic microtonal journey is played on special instruments: newly built 31 tone keyboards called Claviton, drumset and a new eight string electric guitar with 31 frets per octave.
neuverBand, founded in 2012 by graduates from the Musik Akademie Basel Contemporary Performance Masters Programme, neuverBand is a new-music chamber group devoted to promoting a broader appreciation of the art-musics of the 20th & 21st centuries. The ensemble endeavours to expand repertoire through collaborations with emerging composers, to promote works which are rarely performed or whose composers are relatively unknown beyond the borders of their countries of origin, and to present masterworks by international composers to Swiss audiences. Since its creation, neuverBand has commissioned and premiered some forty works and performed the Swiss premieres of works by Uroš Rojko, Gérard Pesson, Philippe Leroux, Stefano Gervasoni, Salvatore Sciarrino, Wolfgang Rihm, and Franck Bedrossian, among others. http://www.neuverband.ch
defunensemble, formed only as recently as in 2009, defunensemble has ashtonishingly fast established ifself as one of the most important contemporary music groups in Finland. The ensemble's vigorous mission is to systematically delve into the world of electroacoustic music. Defunensemble gives Finnish premieres of the most essential electroacoustic repertoire both classic and current, while simultaneuosly actively commissioning new works incorporating the latest technologies. With artistic director Sami Klemola the ensemble's concert concepts have proven to be highly innovative, blending different sub-genres of the electroacoustic persuasion with an unprecedented street credibility—any dusty notions of classical music are soon forgotten. A serious professional undertaking, the musicians and sound desingers of defunensemble are some of the most most active personalities in the Finnish contemporary music scene. After conquering the major Finnish festivals, the ensemble is already gaining international pull, their concert calendar is filling rapidly. https://www.defunensemble.fi/en/