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Written in the Sand 2000-2001
"Liivale kirjutatud" ("Written in the Sand") is a series of preludes. A number of basic principles - for none of which I claim originality, though - form the ideological foundation of the series: self-sabotage, disturbances, fissure and cracking-up, and various parametric projections. Fissures and disturbances are actually used on every level, although at the same time I did try to operate as simple a sound-world as possible. I wilfully shut out obvious directions and axiomatic solutions, self-sabotaging like a madman. I kept cracking the space where my fantasy would have settled of its own accord. I dared myself to take the kind of risks that I previously used to avoid. Consequently, the comprehending of courage led to seeking for contrasts. For instance, long components alternate with extremely short structural elements. I conceived of the form as a semblance of the rhythmic alternation of vers libre. So stability and coherence have nothing to do with the themes of this composition. Also, in no way could I content myself with 'playing it safe' – designing "Northwest Bow Vol.2", say – in its stead, I was magnetised by a fairly confused state of mind. Concurrently, the composing of this piece entailed additional projects of harmonic, structural and intervallic research as well as dealing, geometrically speaking, with the problems of line and development. For some time the composition´s working title was "Arkaad", because for me that word is associated with certain issues of development in the pictorial art, the perspectively growing and diminishing colonnades. Instead of utilising homogenous musical matter, "Written in the Sand" employs approximately twenty-five different elements. These elements, however, are interrelated in multitudinous ways. Written in the Sand was written immediately after my second trip to the Livonian coast, which strongly influenced this work. At the time I examined many questions about the meaning of culture: just as all elements crumble all over in this work – ever vanishing and vanishing.
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