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MIRJAM TALLY (EE) Mirjam Tally b. November 28, 1976, Tallinn, Member of the Estonian Composers Union since 2000 and the Swedish Composers Union (FST) since 2007. Sound is central in Tally’s creations. Her music brims with playful contrasts – humorous, dramatic and poetic uses of sound are mixed there. So far she has written chamber and electronic music in which acoustic and electronic sounds often interweave. Sometimes she uses Nordic or exotic instruments (Estonian kannel, didgeridoo, tanpura, accordion and others) and treats sound material with a modernist open mind. Work with electronic means has considerably widened my imagination of sound. To me, colour is really important in music. Lately I have discovered recording of environmental sounds. This is a bit similar to photography – you just need to be at the right place at the right time to get the fascinating sound on tape, be it, for example, yacht masts swaying in the wind, clinks of ice floes on the coast or wind generators, not to mention the sounds of birds and nature in general. The further result (i.e. the composition) already depends on if you have good ingredients; you don’t need to process and “bend” it in studio at all. The main thing is to collect valuable sound material from the living environment. Mirjam Tally has collaborated with ensembles and musicians, such as Altera Veritas and Kaspars Putninsh (Latvia), Ensemble Courage (Germany), The Gothenburg Combo and Örjan Fahlström (Sweden), Duo Violoncellissimo (Ukraine), Isolde Jourdan (Austria). From Estonia: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, Estonian National Male Choir; Küberstuudio, Weekend Guitar Trio, Improloo, Wirbel; Iris Oja, Kristi Mühling, etc. Presently Tally is collaborating with Ülo Pikkov in the realm of animation. Mirjam Tally graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music in 2000 as a student of Lepo Sumera. During the studies she also received guidance in electronic music from Rauno Remme. In 2003 she obtained the master degree at the Estonian Academy of Music. 1998–2004 Tally was active as a freelance program host in the Estonian classical music channel Klassikaraadio; from 2003 to 2006 she worked as an editor of the Estonian music magazine Muusika and has published articles on music also in other editions. In collaboration with ARM Music Tally released an author’s CD in 2003. In 2004, she was awarded the Heino Eller Music Prize. In August 2005 Tally was in Visby International Centre for Composers as a grantee of NOMUS. Since the autumn of 2006, Mirjam Tally lives and works in Visby on the island of Gotland, Sweden. In 2008, Tally's orchestral work "Turbulence" participates in ISCM World Music Days in Vilnius and at The Venice Biennale's International Festival of Contemporary Music. “Turbulence” was awarded the Composer Prize at the Estonian Music Days Festival 2007. In 2008, Tally was awarded the annual prize of the Society of Swedish Composers. E-Mail: mirjamtally(at)hotmail.com; mt(at)mirjamtally.com www.emic.ee (Estonian music infomation centre) www.mirjamtally.com (My personal homepage with music samples). |
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