performed by Maciej Skrzeczkowski on 21.06.22, Royal Conservatory of the Hague (NL)
mixed & mastered by Lilita Dunska

for blandine & maciej

A conceptual piece for 2 theremin, exploring the sensitivity and fragility inherent in the instrument and its performers through a minimal but deceptively complex score.

Performed by Markus Rogenhofer and Peter Stiegler.
Technical support by Maya Sivak.
Composed in Tallinn, recorded in Graz Winter 2023

Swinging Doors 1 & 2 (For 2 Theremin)

pf Explore Ensemble
Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Nov 2020, @ BBC Maida Vale

Sentimental drifting music

A very cold day (-17C) on the sea ice outside Trutholma Reef with a just distinctive swell under the ice.  Microphones in a crack beside a block on the ice, recording also the water and the out coming air from the the squeaking ice fields.

Updating www.baltic.fi

(Sennheiser KE4, Sony D100, no eq, no ampl, 24bit flac)

Jan Eerala Finland

Ice Sleep - 24/2/2018 - Trutholma Reef

"Conatus" was selected one of the recommended works in "Rostrum of Composers 2018", category composers under 30. 

The Latin word conatus stands for impulse, struggling, striving, growing, effort and tension. Many famous philosophers such as Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza and Leibniz have contributed to the definition of this term. It indicates an instinctive will to live and relates to various metaphysical theories of movement and inertia.
“Conatus” was commissioned by the festival Estonian Music Days 2018 and is written for a 16-speaker immersive sound system that was specially built in Tallinn’s St. Nicolas’ Church for this event. The main theme of the 2018 festival was “Sacred” and, aptly enough, Sumera’s piece “Conatus” also carries sacred undertones and has a meditative atmosphere about it.
Liina Sumera is combining acousmatic and electronic ele- ments in a way that neither forces them to compete with each other nor keeps them apart. Instead, they work in a symbiosis, morphing together, as it were, in a more organic manner.

Conatus - Liina Sumera

Si la confiance du cœur était au commencement de tout...
(frère Roger Schutz)

The compositional material of Trust in Heart comes from the sound analysis of bells in Taizé (France) and Krk (Croatia).

My inspiration came from experience in the French village Taizé.
I stood directly below a relatively low bell tower with five great bells during their ringing (on the picture). The sound pressure was, for me, at the threshold of pain. I experienced the sound literally as haptic. I suddenly realized that my attention jumps completely uncontrolled between the various cuts of the rich sound spectrum of the bells, focusing on the beat of waves or wandering between the chosen frequencies.

Performed live by Magdalena Bajuszová (piano)
photo (c) Jiří Bubeníček

Trust In Heart (2016-18) for piano

For Orchestra

Layers upon layers of threads are unfurled and laid alongside one another, forming a whole that approaches and dissipates, leaving only ripples in memory’s wavering echo.

Written for and performed by The Icelandic Symphony Orchestra.
Conducted by Bjarni Frímann Bjarnarson.

Memory's Wavering Echo

Tallinn Chamber Orchestra, 
conducted by Risto Joost
Live recording from ISCM World Music Days/Estonian Music Days 2019
sound engineer Tanel Klesment, ERR

Composing sound fields with natural harmonics of the strings can lead to unexpected acoustic balances and resonances full of suddenly appearing and disappearing sound colors. It creates an immediacy for the performers to react to. Sometimes the music polarises between clear resonance and noise while in silence one can still hear the echoes from the previous experience. Chords are building up and transforming in several speeds, allowing one to shift focus between the overall shape of the form and its detail, creating a similar instance that the viewer might have when looking at a(n abstract) painting.

Canvas / sulam (2019)

Tactile Distortion -  Excerpt of raw recording audiovisual live set at Üle Heli festival Tallinn 2019.
Tactile Distortion
Sound - Renzo van Steenbergen
Image - Emer Värk

Tactile Distortion - Üle Heli Festival Live Set (Raw Excerpt)

Electronic Music in 37-limit Just Intonation (3.5.7.11.13.23.37)

created in SuperCollider 3.9.3
April-December, 2020

dedicated to Marcus Pal

large scale modulation down a fourth ("I-V")
3:4  -->  6:8:9  -->  8:11:12

Canvas / sulam (2019)

Liisa Hirsch

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