From the Garden of Love to Fuzzy Logic and the Big Bang

The concert performance “ From the Garden of Love to Fuzzy Logic and the Big Bang  ” takes us through three worlds that, at first glance, seem entirely unrelated. We begin in the garden of love, lose our way for a while in fuzzy logic, and end with the Big Bang.

This time, saxophonist Uku Gross (18) and pianist and composer Havryil Sydoryk (17) decided not to limit themselves to simply giving a concert, but to see what happens when music is interwoven with literature, philosophy and a touch of science. The programme features contemporary works by Jacob TV, Takashi Yoshimatsu and Vincent David, alongside Sydoryk’s own music. The musical works are connected by texts – not to explain the music, but rather to raise more questions.

Jacob TV takes William Blake’s “The Garden of Love” quite literally to pieces. The recorded poem is fragmented into phrases, words and syllables, which are repeated, stretched and thrown from one rhythm into another. The saxophone seems to catch them out of the air, responding to them and gradually beginning to speak along with them. Blake’s poem is not simply the starting point for the music – his words themselves become music.

Jacob TV’s The Garden of Love is followed by Havryil Sydoryk’s “Poem of Love” – the young composer’s musical perspective on love. Where Blake uses words and Jacob TV plays with those words, Sydoryk creates his poem without words.

Takashi Yoshimatsu’s Fuzzy Bird Sonata takes us into a world where boundaries are no longer quite so clear. Fuzzy logic allows something to be a little of one thing and a little of another. Yoshimatsu’s Fuzzy Bird flies so freely between classical music, jazz and other musical worlds that, at some point, it is no longer entirely clear which side of the boundary we are on.

The evening concludes with French saxophonist and composer Vincent David’s virtuosic Nuée ardente. The title Nuée ardente literally means “glowing cloud” and refers to the immensely powerful flow of hot gas, ash and rock produced by a volcanic eruption. In the dramaturgy of the concert performance, however, this volcanic explosion grows into something even greater – the Big Bang.

Travel to the concert conveniently by train!

The Elron train departing Tallinn at 15:25 arrives at Kloogaranna railway station at 16:11. A shuttle bus will take concertgoers from Kloogaranna station to the Arvo Pärt Centre.

The concert begins at 17:00 and lasts approximately 50 minutes.

After the concert, the shuttle bus will take visitors back to Kloogaranna railway station, where the 18:27 train departs for Tallinn.

The return shuttle transfer costs €5 per person. The train ticket is not included in the transfer price.