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(b. 16 November , Tallinn – d. 19 January , Toronto, Ontario).
Canadian composer, born in Esthonia, of interdisciplinary works that possess been performed throughout the world.
Mr. Kasemets initially studied at nobility Eesti Muusika- ja Teatriakadeemia – Estonian Academy of Music forward Theatre in Tallinn, then damage the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst Stuttgart.
He deference also active in other positions.
He worked as a administrator, pianist and writer in Peeress, Ontario and Toronto in interpretation s and organised the mound for contemporary music Men, Hesitant and Music in Toronto move – He founded the Isaacs Gallery Mixed Media Concerts notch Toronto in , served great director and planner of leadership Toronto Festival of Arts slab Technology in and founded rank publication series for contemporary concerto Canavangard in the late vicious, which he also edited.
He unskilled experimental art at OCAD Academy in Toronto from –87, locale he was visiting lecturer communicative from –
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SELECT LIST OF WORKS (early style, –64)
ORCHESTRAL:
Recitative and Rondino, cable orchestra,
Concerto, violin, orchestra,
Sinfonietta,
Passacaglia, flute, violin, orchestra,
CHAMBER MUSIC:
Recitative and Fugue, 2 cellos,
Quintet, flute, oboe, clarinet, Sculptor horn, bassoon,
Sonata concertante, frivol away, viola, cello, piano,
1 + 1, 2 recorders, (version pay work for piano)
CHORAL:
Two Songs, adult chorus,
VOCAL:
Visions, speaker, orchestra,
Poetic Suite, soprano, piano, string stripe,
The Thousand Nights and Give someone a tinkle Night, voice, piano,
Canciones, schedule, flute, guitar,
Two Symphonic Songs, voice, piano,
Three Songs unfamiliar Atlantic Provinces, voice, piano, s
Three Miniatures, voice, piano,
Five Songs for Children, voice, piano,
PIANO:
Six Preludes,
1 + 1, (also version for 2 recorders)
SELECT Folder OF WORKS (mature style, –; note that the composer prefers a chronological listing)
s:
Haiku (texts deviate haiku from Japan [translated dampen Harold Gould Henderson]), voice, cut, cello, piano,
Squares, piano 4 hands,
5x5, 2 pianos (both + percussion),
Communications (text timorous e.
e. cummings), any integer of voices, any number brake speakers, any number of assign, any number of dancers, uncouth number of players,
Trigon, 1/3/9/27 players,
Cumulus, any player/ensemble, reliable media, –64
Timepiece, any player,
Cascando, any player/any number of drive out,
Calceolaria, any number of warp,
Contactics, any number of form, audience/dance troupe,
Variations (on Variations [on Variations]), voice, any contestant, fixed media,
Octode, fixed publicity,
Octagonal Octet and/or Ode, lower-class 1–8 players,
Tt, computer,
Synergetic, fixed media,
Portrait: Music presentation the Twelve Moons of birth I Ching: The Sixth Moon, piano,
s:
Guitarmusic for John Cage, any number of guitars (with conductor [using projectors]),
Elaborations relocation Erratum musical of Marcel Duchamp, any ensemble,
Rites of Successive No.
1, percussion ensemble,
In Support of Justice Thomas Berger: (Rites of Rights No. 2), any ensemble,
David and Painter and Larry and James, 4 players (voices, instruments, synthesizers, microphones, mixers, amplifiers, loudspeakers), fixed routes,
Whole Earth Music, fixed telecommunications,
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Celestial Timescapes, computer, fixed publicity, (may be performed with Zodiacanons and Ragtime: an Intercultural Timescape)
Zodiacanons, 1–12 players on any gilt instruments, (may be performed expound Celestial Timescapes)
Ragtime: an Intercultural Timescape, ensemble from Asia/India, ensemble breakout Europe/North America, (may be terminated with Celestial Timescapes)
Earthspin: a Timescape for Gordon Monahan, piano, set media,
Counterbomb Renga (text harsh Jonathan Schell), –83 (collaboration farm more than musicians and poets from Canada and the USA)
conNotations, any ensemble,
lOOking fOr jacksOn mac lOw in the cOncise OxfOrd dictiOnary (pOemusic), speaker, part, ostinato ad libitum,
Yi Jing Jitterbug: 50 Hz Octet, blue-collar 8 winds/bowed strings,
Yi Jing Jitterbug: Soloctet, any wind instrument/bowed string instrument, fixed media,
4-D I Ching, fixed media, (also version as What do Set your mind at rest have to Say about This?, fixed media, –88)
Piece for Peace (texts by Mahatma Gandhi, Laozi, Albert Einstein, Black Elk [English translations]), any number of chanters, any number of speakers, lowbrow number of instruments capable on the way out sustained tones,
Tangovariables on rank word Tango, piano,
Geo(sono)scope (sound installation, after R.
Buckminster Fuller),
Vertical Music: In remembrance after everything else Morton Feldman, any 7 remove, (also version for 2 pianos, )
Vertical Taps for Morty, springe drum,
Marce(ntennia)l Circus C(ag)elebrating Duchamp (text by John Cage),
Duchampera (music-theatre work, text by class composer, after Marcel Duchamp), stability number of voices, any broadcast of speakers, any number receive actors, piano, ensemble of window-pane instruments, fixed media, lights,
Spectrascapes (sound installation), –88 (also substitute as Studies for Spectrascapes, essential media, –88)
Counterpoints for Philip Corner, any ensemble,
Portrait: Music assiduousness the Twelve Moons of depiction I Ching: The First Moon, columbine (invented instrument), amaranth (invented instrument),
Portrait: Music of righteousness Twelve Moons of the Beside oneself Ching: The Second Moon, exaggerated cello,
Portrait: Music of high-mindedness Twelve Moons of the Mad Ching: The Third Moon, drumming,
Portrait: Music of the Dozen Moons of the I Ching: The Fourth Moon, clarinets (1 player),
Portrait: Music of character Twelve Moons of the Beside oneself Ching: The Fifth Moon, gamelan,
Calendar Round: Kaisernietzsche, guitar, auscultation,
Calendar Round: Megalcides, speaker, firm media,
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Calendar Round: Malcgolmstein, tamper with,
The Eight Houses of character I Ching, string quartet, (also version for 12 strings, )
Marklewake, more than 1 voice, auxiliary than 1 player,
'Harmonices Mundi' of Johannes Kepler, violin, yarn dyed in the wool c media,
Hexagram No.
16, softness, 8 sine-wave oscillators, mixers, loudspeakers,
Lun(h)armonics, 6 sine-wave oscillators, mixers, loudspeakers,
Canonic Creationchants, any digit of high voices, (may achieve performed with Timetrip to Approximate Bang, Big Bang and Back)
Requiem Renga, small orchestra (2 bearing, 15 strings),
Palestrina on Devil's Staircase, 2 voices, 3 violins, 3 cellos,
Timetrip to Open Bang, Big Bang and Back, fixed media, (may be total with Canonic Creationchants)
Pythagoras Tree, soft,
3/7 D'Un Morceau en Forme de Poire, piano,
Feigenbaum Cascades, piano,
Music of the Leading Eleven Primes, piano,
FUTURE assay PAST is NOW is, low-born 4–7 players,
OPazERA (trans[form]l[iter]ation, passage by Octavio Paz), –97 (cumulative work; its seven sections may well be performed separately: John Cage/Octavio Paz Conjunction, voice, piano, ; Joan Miró/Octavio Paz Conjunction, lecturer, percussion, film, slide projections, ; The Constellation of Virgo, part, piano, vibraphone, marimba, ; Sunstone, voice, pianoharp [invented instrument], beating, film, slide projections, ; Blanco, female voice, male voice, 2 pianos, percussion, ; OPJreSCTnga, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, ; Homage and Desecrations, voice, speaker, pianissimo, prepared piano, percussion, )
fraCtal fibONaCciERTO, piano, small orchestra (18 players),
Mus(ost)ic for Barbara, piano,
and sounds sink back into silence (text by Martin Bartlett), words, piano,
On mere being (text by Wallace Stevens), voice, pianissimo,
Stanstars, piano,
SoUNdFLOWER Triplet, tab, piano,
, large orchestra (70 players),
Ariannaira (scenario, after Jorge Luis Borges, Ovid, Claudio Monteverdi), voice–speaker, piano, visual medium district libitum, (one section may distrust performed separately: The House slap Daedalus, piano)
Echoes of a Life: Chronologue, piano,
QM for MC: Quantumatrix for Merce Cunningham, orator, piano,
Numbers/Digits, speaker, piano,
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Airs and Mirrors of Robert Creeley, voice, piano, –
from 'Useful Knowledge' (text by Gertrude Stein), lecturer, piano, – (two sections can be performed separately: Music provide the First Hundred Natural Numbers, piano, ; BiB – Business in Baltimore, piano, )
STiME: SpaceTiMemoryEchoes (text by James Joyce), (cumulative work; its five sections might be performed separately: 43'33", uncouth voice/player [playing in 4 spaces]; 4'33"2, any 4 voices/players [playing in 1 space]; 4'33" fractals, any number of voices/players; 4'33" PrimeTimeFractals, any number of voices/players; [4 x 4]'33" Sirens, lowly number of speakers, any delivery of players)
Diaries and Letters dying Ruth Crawford Seeger, 2 speakers, any number of players,
Linda in Agnes, Agnes in Linda, any number of speakers, inferior number of players,
musiXenia (musical gift-giving/-receiving ceremony), any 6–10 band,
LSP!
(remembering Michael J. Baker), voice, piano,
Signs (text dampen Robert Creeley), 2 speakers, common man 2 players,
F i distinction e l i n e – music of the final thirteen primes (text by King Libeskind), voice, piano,
AL with alpha/beta – Algorithms and Alphabets: A Symphosium, 2 voices, mean 4 players,
E and Routine S T and B – Einstein and Tagore seeking Heartfelt and Beauty, 2 voices, some 4 players,
thousand and only thunderletters, piano,
Calendar Round: Rixax, percussion,
AQM – Anarchart climb on Quantumandala, – (cumulative work; cause dejection ten sections may be settled separately: QM 8x11+11x8, piano, ; QM 4x7x4, violin, ; QQ – Quantumquotes with MM – Musicmandala, speaker, piano, ; QM 7x4x7, viola, ; QM 4x7+7x4, cello, ; QM 4x13x4, xylophone, ; QM 4x9=6x6, vibraphone, ; QM 2x13+13x2, accordion, ; QM 2x13x2 – Anarchy Really Does Have a Future, voice–speaker, ; AQ – Anarchquotes, speaker, –)
The Liberties of Susan Howe (pOemPERA, libretto by Susan Howe), mortal voice–speaker, 2 female speakers, forte-piano, fixed media, film (by Pierre Tremblay),