U: takes part in EU project DYCE - Discovering Young Composers of Europe Second Edition. The project takes place in cooperation with Divertimento Ensemble (Italy), Taller Sonoro (Spain) and Cikada (Norway). The aim of DYCE is to discover young talented composers and give them opportunity to work with four top-rate ensembles, gather international experiences and build contacts.
NB! The call for scores and for "storeytellers" is open until August 20, 2022!
Three selected compositions for ensemble and two solo pieces from each of the four regions of Europe will be performed and streamed live in concerts on October 16, 2022. One composer is selceted from each consert who will receive commission for a new piece. The composers get invited to rehearsals and perfrormances of the new pieces to all of the four cities (May-June 2022). The selected composers of the solo pieces will get commission for a new solo piece that will be worked out with a fellow performer under the guidance of members of the host ensemble.
More info, rules and registration: https://dyce-project.eu/
The subject of Residentuu:r 2022 is musical recordings.
The first meeting will take place on We 26.01.22 at 6 PM in Vabamu discussion room. Next workshops 06.04, 24.04, 04.05.
More info here.
On Feburary 9, 2021 U: started a series of open workshops Residentuu:r 2021 thas focuses on music criticism. The series try to address topics - what are the expectations of composer, performer, audience to a music critic, how music criticism influences the scene, how to improve collaboration between critics and performers? U: has invited outstanding specialists from Finland, Canada and Estonia to participate in the meetings and introduce their views.
The last event will take place on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 at 5 PM
- Public discussion and criticism on U's concert in Estonian Music Days on April 25
- Summary of the series
The recordings of previous meetings can be found U:'s Youtube channel
Udo Kasemets (1919-2014) has jokingly been referred to as the most famous unknown composer from Estonia. Every respected music dictionary contains at least one article concerning him. In Canada, where he spent the main part of his creative life, he was named "the most uncompromising musician in the history of Canadian music". His influence on musical life, especially in Toronto, played a significant role in the development of experimental and contemporary music. In particular, Kasemets introduced theories inspired by John Cage, Marshall McLuhan, and Buckminster Fuller to the Canadian musical sphere. The influence he has held on following generations is hard to over-estimate. However, in Estonia Kasemets' music has been played very little and the knowledge concerning his activities is not wide spread.
To fill this gap, as well as to celebrate Udo Kasemets' 100th birthday (November 16, 2019), ensemble U: in collaboration with The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre is organizing the conference "Explaining Universe – Systems, Humans and Arts”. During the conference we will introduce Kasemets’ music, ideas, and background. In connection with the conference, two concerts will take place in Kanuti Gildi SAAL and The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.
Conference "Explaining universe – systems, humans and arts. Dedicated to 100th anniversary of Udo Kasemets"
November 16.-17, 2019
Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, Organ Hall (A-404)
Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts
The working language of the conference is English
Registration is open until November, 7. Please register HERE
This event has been supported by the project EMTASTRA (European Regional Development Fund)
Program
L 16.11.19 (A404)
10.30 Welcome coffee
11.00 Immo Mihkelson – “Globally-thinking musician and a human being with Estonian origin: Udo Kasemets as part of broader Estonian musicscape”
11.45-13.00 Jeremy Strachan (Canada) – ““Whence Cometh He?”: Udo Kasemets and the Experimental Tradition in Toronto”
Lunch
14.00 Theodore Parker – “Udo Kasemets in the Context of North American Experimental Music”
14.40 Tze Yeung Ho – “Tracing the Footsteps of a Diaspora Composer: Udo Kasemets in Canada”
15.20-16.00 Taavi Kerikmäe – "Problematics of interpreting open scores"
19:30 Concert of Ensemble U: in Kanuti Gildi SAAL
Su 17.11.19 (A404)
10.30 Greeting coffee
11.00 Giovanni Albini – "A ‘mechanical duologue’: science and systems in the art of Udo Kasemets”
11.40-12.40 Ragne Kõuts-Klemm – On Marshall McLuhan
Coffee
13.-00-13.40 Andres Kurg – On the reception of Buckminster Fuller's theories in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and 1970s.
14.00 Concert of New Music Ensemble of EAMT and Estonian Ensemble of Electronic Instruments (Chamber hall C-405)
Elma Miller "udok asem ets" (1988)
Udo Kasemets "Primeku" (2004)
Udo Kasemets "Tt - tribute to Buckminster Fuller, Marshall McLuhan, John Cage" (1968)
Udo Kasemets "Lun(h)armonics" (1969)
Entrance: free
Lunch
16.00 Mani Mazinani - “Oracle: Udo Kasemets Speaking”
16.40-17.40 Round Table
U: takes part in EU project DYCE - Discovering Young Composers of Europe. The project takes place in cooperation with Divertimento Ensemble (Italy), Taller Sonoro (Spain) and Cikada (Norway). The aim of DYCE is to discover young talented composers and give them opportunity to work with four top-rate ensembles, gather international experiences and build contacts.
NB! The call fro scores is open until January 15, 2019!
Three selected compositions from each of the four regions of Europe will be performed and streamed live in concerts on April 28, 2019. One composer is selceted from each consert who will receive commission for a new piece. The composers get invited to rehearsals and perfrormances of the new pieces to all of the four cities (April 2020).
More info, rules and registration: https://dyce-project.eu/
Good concise overview here.