Estonian bagpipe + Ensemble for New Music Tallinn

Sound Plasma is a concert series and festival format dedicated to music with alternative intonation. Since 2017, it has taken place annually in Berlin and Tallinn as a network of satellite mini-festivals.

This year's concert presents a special combination where a contemporary music ensemble meets the traditional Estonian bagpipe. Due to its unique construction, the bagpipe offers a rare opportunity to explore and discover intonation from a new perspective.
It's usually associated with traditional and diatonic music. However, we offer the opportunity to experience the microtonal sound world of this instrument through new compositions.

The joint concert by the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn and the bagpipe includes works by composers who each pursue very different approaches to microintervals and contribute their own musical language: Klaus Lang, Liisa Hirsch, William Dougherty, and Arash Yazdani.


Since its establishment in 2013, the Ensemble for New Music Tallinn has aimed to bring about innovative, non-conformist music to a new generation of listeners. Recognised as one of the leading contemporary music ensembles in the Baltic and Nordic regions, it consists of a core group of principal musicians and a larger network of collaborators and guest artists, allowing for a flexible and modular performance format.
Ensemble for New Music Tallinn is the prize winner of Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation Ensemble Prize '26.

Katariin Raska (bagpipe) is an Estonian multi-instrumentalist and improviser whose projects have in common folk and traditional music as well as free improvisation and experimental music. In 2010, she graduated from the Viljandi Academy of Culture of the University of Tartu with a degree in Estonian traditional music. In 2013, she obtained her bachelor's degree and in 2016, her master's degree from the Norwegian Academy of Music.