Something Dark is Coming

Here it is finally, a video of me playing the Bear McCreary's Something Dark is Coming  from the Battlestar Galactica TV series.There are so many great cues in the Battlestar Galactica series, but this has to be my favourite. Because of the music in the BSG, Bear McCreary became also one of my favourite, if [...]

Kullaaugu 2020 Videos

I recently got hold of the audio tracks and video footage of our Projektorn Kullaaugu 2020 live.So as good way to look back to the wonderful festival, I edited a couple of videos for everybody to enjoy. https://youtu.be/D4GhgDfxb04 https://youtu.be/PHgunq7EsKU Video: Maris Tomba & Manivald Tamm

Now on Spotify et al

My new album "projektorn 1" now streaming at Spotify, Apple Music and others. https://open.spotify.com/album/3o9BLH7Bxtpvt6XwD57H8p https://music.apple.com/us/album/projektorn-1/1535217903 Follow if you like what you hear:

Mixage Fou 2020

Over the years I've taken part in various composing / songwriting competitions. I've gradually faded them all out, but Mixage Fou (Crazy Mix) is the one that still remains.Not for the fame or glory neither the prizes, but just for the joy of creating something that I usually don't find the time for in the every [...]

Projektorn at Kullaaugu

From left: Kaspar Torn, Jaan Liinat (in the shadows), Risto Sülluste and Kristian Sülluste. After a long period of composing and rehearsing the material, we gave our first performance with Projektorn at Argo Vals' annual music festival-party - Kullaaugu 2020. https://youtu.be/D4GhgDfxb04 https://youtu.be/PHgunq7EsKU The festival took place over 3 days from July 31 to August 2, [...]

Punkt Explained

The process for this song was a bit different than usually. The main idea came to me as a whole with visuals for an abstract video. When I sat down to record the idea, the specific notes weren't very clear in my mind, but I could record the overall arc and rhythm.I made a quick [...]

Biitnik Explained

Having just gotten a cello bow, I was eager to use it in a composition and this was the piece. I did mainly long overlaid drones with some melodical movement in one section. Also some whammy pedal action near the end that gives the air-raid kind of a siren sound. After the intro bowing section [...]

Raak Explained

I completed this one by Halloween and the mood of the piece is appropriately more menacing. Using one bassline / chord progression throughout I wanted the progression to be uneven, meaning shorter version alternating with the longer one. Chord progression in piano intro. Then I laid some melodies over it, making sure that I don't [...]

Pellet Explained

The main aim of the piece was to use polyrhythms. I first got the itch to do it in a minimal form, while listening to the The Dawn of MIDI "Dysnomia" album. But one thing led to another and I was again veering towards more elaborate. The polyrhythmic interplay between drums and and other instruments [...]

Paratamatu Explained

As the name partially hints, the inspiration to make this song was to use drum-set paradiddles. The paradiddles are arranged on the drumset on different pieces of the kit as well as other instruments in different sections. Here are a couple of variations on the drum-kit. Drumkit paradiddle 1 Drumkit paradiddle 2 The Stick also [...]