On the first weekend of the new year, from January 5 to 8, the Concert Hall “Cēsis” invites you to the space music event “Inclusive Winter”. Every day, in a specially built sound dome, in different projections, you will have the opportunity to get acquainted with a new musical experience, listening to specially created ambisonic compositions, which will take the listener into a unique spatial dimension and allow you to hear how it sounds. .. winter.
For the first time, the dome of the “Cēsis” concert hall was built and opened to the public in January 2022, introducing the audience to space music as a special genre and including contemporary sound models specially created for this event in the program.
This time in the dome you will be able to hear something completely different: soundscapes in an ambient, soft and minimalistic aesthetic created by Baltic and Nordic composers Mantautas Krukauskas (Lithuania), Platons Buravickis (Latvia), Tine Surel Lange (Norway), Theodore Parker ( Estonia/USA), Gedmintė Samsonaitė (Lithuania/UK) and others. As the authors of this project promise, “all soundtracks set to music the sensations we experience and the nature we look at in winter. We are in the middle of winter, it surrounds our daily life and it might be interesting to hear how it sounds”. As a special surprise, the winter parts of the popular cycle “Seasons” by Antonio Vivaldi, this time arranged in an ambisonic version.
In the center of the large hall of the “Cēsis” concert hall will be a dome, or room within a room, equipped with a surround sound system for concerts and numerous speakers, and seats for the audience will be located inside it. Thanks to the arrangement of the numerous sound sources in the room and to the sound that moves dynamically in the musical score, the listener will be able to appreciate a different, complete and involving sound experience. The dark atmosphere that will reign in the dome and the direction of the lights will take you to an unfamiliar and completely new world of feelings and emotions.
