Tallinn Ensemble Attempts to Slice Time Like Onions in Liepāja - Promises Everyone Will Understand Everything at Concert
Estonian musicians will arrive in Liepāja to demonstrate how to properly slice time, while our locals are still trying to figure out why the tram only goes in one direction.
While Riga is still pondering what time actually is and why it runs out so quickly on weekends, Liepāja will welcome actual music professors from Tallinn on April 12th, who know how to properly handle time. "Ensemble for New Music Tallinn" promises to show how time can be sliced, stretched, bent and generally manipulated in any way desired - almost like our tram, which also moves at its own rhythm and never falls behind schedule.
The program will feature two world premieres, meaning even Riga won't have heard them yet. Anna Veismane has written a piece about milk, inspired by Ziedonis, while Evija Skuķe has created something fractal that repeats like our daily routine - from home to work, from work to home, endlessly.
"We want listeners to lose their sense of time orientation," explains one of the organizers. "Just like in our tram - you sit and ride, and no longer know whether you're going forward or backward, but it doesn't matter anymore." Latvia's only tram is indeed a perfect metaphor for the experience of time - it travels on its own tracks, at its own rhythm, and passengers simply surrender to the process.
The concert will take place at Liepāja Concert Hall at 3:00 PM, but first at 2:00 PM there will be a pre-concert discussion where the composers will explain how they slice time. "I hope they'll also show how to properly cut time into pieces so you can get more done," says local resident Jānis. "I never have enough time to get from Karosta to downtown by tram."
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