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________Sander Saarmets


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Photo by Aron Urb

Sander Saarmets is an interdisciplinary composer, sound designer & electronic musician hailing from Estonia.

Starting from the 2000's electronic scene of Tallinn, Saarmets has been on a constant sonic expedition that has led him to places like Taiwan, Sweden, France & Germany. He has studied electronic music at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and is a proud member of the CoPeCo alumni.

During his journey, he has created solo and ensemble works, music and soundscapes for film (e.g. Everyday Mysticism & A Pile of Ghosts), contemporary dance (e.g. Ainukordus & Artefactourism), galleries (e.g. We Will Always Have Paris & Ghost Hits Wall) & runways (e.g. YUFASH SS20 at New York Fashion Week).
In 2023, his composition and the sky turned yellow (2022) was selected as one of the recommended works at the 69th International Rostrum of Composers in Hague.
His music and sound design is part of Regional_Express (a project by Ella Raidel, Petra Ardai and Marlene Rutzendorfer), an audiovisual experience featured at the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024. Echoes of Salt, a composition based on Regional_Express VR Experience, was commissioned by the Ö1 radio station.

He has released albums under the monikers of Muschraum (Ulmeplaadid, 2005) & V4R1 (Grainy Records, 2017).

Sander Saarmets is a member of Estonian Composers Union and Estonian Electronic Music Society.








_____________news & upcoming events


// MARCH
12.03 – Compilation release day: Glitch Please: TERE with a new track from V4R1

↑ 2025

// DECEMBER
14.12 – 3 Kinds of Music co-curated by Sander Saarmets and Anna Mullarkey, The Mick Lally Theatre, Galway
03.12 – Lunchtimes with ConTempo with music by Arvo Pärt, Heino Eller, Age Veeroos, Tõnu Kõrvits and Sander Saarmets,
St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, Galway

// NOVEMBER
16.11 – ConTempo Countywide: Claregalway with music by Arvo Pärt, Jane O’Leary, Tõnu Kõrvits and Sander Saarmets,
Claregalway Castle
09.11 – 3 Kinds of Music co-curated by Sander Saarmets and Aengus Hackett: Ingrid Nicola & Bogdan Sofei, Aengus Hackett Trio, Sander Saarmets & Olesya Zdorovetska, The Mick Lally Theatre, Galway
05.11 – Lunchtimes with ConTempo with music by Arvo Pärt, Jane O’Leary, Tõnu Kõrvits and Sander Saarmets, St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, Galway, Ireland

// SEPTEMBER
12.09 – REGIONAL_EXPRESS: ECHOES OF SALT on radio Ö1: Sound Art: Kunst zum Hören with Matthias Kassmannhuber and Marlene Rutzendorfer
06.09 – Remix release day: Belle Chen - Lone Wolf (Sander Saarmets Meditative Rework) is now available on all platforms.
04.09 – Live modular concert at Áras Éanna Arts Centre as part of Galway Music Residency, Inis Oirr, Ireland

// AUGUST
28 & 29.08 – REGIONAL_EXPRESS VR EXPERIENCE presentation at the Internationale Akademie Traunkirchen / VR Escape Room with Ella Raidel, Matthias Kassmannhuber and Marlene Rutzendorfer, Traunkirchen, Austria

// JANUARY
20.01 – REGIONAL_EXPRESS opening event - live modular performance, Gemischter Chor Altmünster, Ella Raidel, Petra Ardai and Marlene Rutzendorfer Salzkammergut 2024, Bad Ischl, Austria

↑ 2024

// DECEMBER
19.12 – Scrapyard 3.5 with Ensemble for New Music Tallinn & Dizlerim Küpsis at Sveta, Tallinn

// NOVEMBER
16.11 – ORCHARD AV live with Liudmila Siewerski at Café Babette, Berlin
01.11 – Signals modular concert at festival AFEKT, University of Tartu Narva College, Narva

// OCTOBER
19.10 – ORCHARD AV live with Liudmila Siewerski at Üle Heli festival, Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn

// SEPTEMBER
17.09 – INTERVIEW with Jana De Troyer about my web installations @ WEBSOUNDART

// AUGUST
24.08 – ERSO V4R1, HALL, Tallinn
04.08 – Late Night Modern: "Nature as Signals" modular set at Kammermuusika Fotografiskas, Fotografiska, Tallinn

// APRIL - MAY
|| 69TH INTERNATIONAL ROSTRUM OF COMPOSERS
|| and the sky turned yellow was selected as one of the recommended works at the 69th International Rostrum of Composers in Hague, Netherlands.
26.04 – Ensemble New Music Tallinn, Tallinn Creative Hub
30.04 – Ensemble of the Estonian Electronic Music Society, Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn
01.05 – Ensemble U:, The Concert and Theatre House of EMTA, black box
07.05 – Ensemble U:, Tartu Heino Eller Music College
Performances of CONFLUENCE (2021), and the sky turned yellow (2022) and a premiere of Phantom Trails (2023) at the Estonian Music Days festival.

// FEBRUARY
02.02 – (((transponder))) at Vorspiel 2023 - Performances with Clemens Schöll, Liudmila Sierwerski & Sander Saarmets, Alte Münze, Berlin
02.02 – Remix release day: reMolded - a rework of Lauri Lest's single "Molded" is now available on all platforms.

↑ 2023

// DECEMBER
03.12 – VJ OPEN LAB#31: Liudmila Siewerski & Sander Saarmets / Charlotte Wie Der Fluss, PANDA platforma, Berlin

// NOVEMBER
24.11 – Premiere of and the sky turned yellow by Ensemble for New Music Tallinn at Sound Plasma Festival, Acker Stadt Palast, Berlin
08.11 – Premiere of Artefactourism: rumours and ruins performance with original live music, STL, Tallinn

// OCTOBER
30.10 – Premiere of Shards for flute and electronics at Afekt Festival, Genialistide Klubi, Tartu

// SEPTEMBER
24.09 – Ääniaalto Festival: Merle Karp x Sander Saarmets, Vapaan taiteen tila, Helsinki

// JULY
08.07 – Suveune öönägu: V4R1 modular live, ULM, Tallinn
06 - 09.07 – Bohdana Korohod, Daria Khrystych performing inscribed trajectories: a play in walks, BALTOSCANDAL

// MAY
18.05 – inklingroom 18.05.2022, HALL, Tallinn

// MARCH
29.03 – Improtest: Sander Saarmets / Doris Hallmägi, Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn
04.03 – UNUSTA/FORGET opening event | Sander Saarmets + Jan Kaus, elektron.art, Tallinn

↑ 2022

// NOVEMBER
27.11 – Nature as Magic: AV Bridges | Sander Saarmets + Merle Karp, elektron.art, Tallinn

// OCTOBER
22.10 – Üle Heli: Eksperimendid horisondiga vol. 4 - a new composition for Ensemble U:, Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn
09.10 – World Premiere of A Pile of Ghosts at the AFFR Architectural Filmfestival Rotterdam 2021
02.10 – TMW 2021: Üle Heli & Skaņu Mežs Night, Winkel, Tallinn

// SEPTEMBER
KIPATAUW is displayed at the 17th Athens Digital Arts Festival | Online | 20.09.21 - 31.10.21

// AUGUST
28.08 – EES: SIRAKAS, Copper Leg Residency, Estonia
14.08 – ÜLE MAA HELI, Maajaam, Estonia

// JUNE
Ella Raidel x Sander Saarmets video installation Ghost Hits Wall dispalyed in Pavilion 0 at the Venice Architecture Biennale.

// APRIL
Sander Saarmets becomes a member of Estonian Composer's Union.

↑ 2021