Sander Saarmets

_{Bleu Précieux at Üle Heli 2025. Photo by Maria Aua.}

_{Bleu Précieux at Üle Heli 2025. Photo by Maria Aua.}

_{Bleu Précieux at Üle Heli 2025. Photo by Maria Aua.}

_{Bleu Précieux at Üle Heli 2025. Photo by Maria Aua.}

_{Bleu Précieux at Üle Heli 2025. Photo by Maria Aua.}

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Sander Saarmets is an Estonian composer, electronic musician, and sound designer whose work explores the interplay between structure and openness. Working across concert music, live electronics, film, installation, and radio, he combines modular synthesis, generative processes, and transformed remnants of his own acoustic compositions into evolving musical forms.

Whether composing for ensembles, creating music for film and installation, or performing live electronics, Saarmets is drawn to musical processes that leave room for the unforeseen. These ideas take different forms throughout his practice, from interdisciplinary collaborations and concert works to his recent LP, Bleu Précieux (Glitch Please, 2025), and his live modular performances.

His work has been presented across Europe in concerts, galleries, films, and radio broadcasts. In 2023, his ensemble work and the sky turned yellow was recommended at the 69th International Rostrum of Composers.

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News & Upcoming Events

// SEPTEMBER
09.09 – Rinalds Maksimovs + Mart Soo + Sander Saarmets | Uus Laine, Tallinn

// JULY
29.07 – Helinihe listening event: Naterijeka (2005) and Bleu Précieux (2025) | Helinihe, Tallinn
12.07 – Yellow Wasabi + vvvosk + Sander Saarmets | Uus Laine, Tallinn

// JUNE
20.06 – EIII + Sander Saarmets + Echoeast | KURTE, Talsi
19.06 – EIII + Sander Saarmets | Dimension Ink, Cēsis
18.06 – EIII + Sander Saarmets + R3YWYA | 1983, Riga

// MAY
26.05 – Vooluring: Maarja Nuut, Sander Saarmets & Villem Jahu | Klassikaraadio → Listen here

// APRIL
27.04 – Modular Monday: Lai Tsung Yun (TW), Kiwanoid, Doris Hallmägi, Sander Saarmets & Mikk-Mait | Uus Laine, Tallinn
15 - 18.04 – Deer Buttons at ru-mòre festival (VR competition) – with Ella Raidel & Marlene Rutzendorfer | Cinema Tibur, Rome
11.04 – V4R1 at TMW: Glitch Please stage: Galaktlan, Ameline & Piena, V4R1, Kiwanoid, s8jfou, Oliotronix & Ratkiller | Fonoteek, Tallinn

// MARCH
A month-long residency at the Baltic Analog Lab (BAL) in Riga, Latvia
27.03 – BAL – Artists-in-residence: Sander Saarmets (EST), Hanga Toth (HU) and Berk Yağlı (CY)
24.03 – BAL – Zuneigung: Audiovisual Performance with Marlene Rutzendorfer
24.03 – Interview on Liminal Noise on CAMP Radio → Listen here

// FEBRUARY
10.02 – Bleu Précieux special program on Klassikaraadio. → Listen here

// JANUARY
27.01 – An in-depth → interview and a → live performance at Erica Synths Garage

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