Your Shadow
Mirjam Tally's work "Your Shadow" for mixed choir, seashell wind chimes and tape ad lib. (2015) is written in Estonian and English (text by Kristiina Ehin, translated by Ilmar Lehtpere).
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Your Shadow
The composer has based the composition of the work on a specific sound line. Modal thinking can be found in quite a lot of the works heard. "Your Shadow' is thus based on a single musical sound line that persists throughout the work and does not cover other tonal areas. The harmonic plan of the impressionistic miniature is built up in such a way that the sounds of all kinds appear gradually, and then vary in a chordal way.
Your Shadow
The musical process of the gradual concentration of sounds in the soprano group's cluster was beautiful: it created a wonderful parallel with the text, which highlights the beauty of the sky.
Elis Vesik, newspaper Sirp, January 27th, 2017
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…The second piece of the concert was the North American premiere of Estonian composer Mirjam Tally’s “Sinu Vari,” a nine-minute piece of rare beauty. Connecting voices with ambient recorded electronic sounds and pastoral bells, the music evoked otherly paradoxes and spacious mystery. Emptiness is its own completion; shadow and light depend on each other for their very existence. The repeated word ‘God’ was at once punctuation and oxygen. Half prayer and half tone-poem, “Sinu Vari” is a ravishing piece of music…