With only a few exceptions, every performance and every album release that gets people’s attention is guided by the industry’s standards, while everything else is left in the underground, rarely getting a good spotlight. Üle Heli (Estonian for “Above Sound”) sound art and music festival is an exceptional platform that allows performers to share music and art created “outside of the box” and encourages experimental music to be created and performed.

When I sat down with Estonian composer and intermedia artist Kristjan Kannukene, I knew this conversation would be something special. Kristjan is not only the head of HetkFest, a young but already vital festival for improvised arts in Estonia, but also a musician whose work bridges sound installations, improvisation, and academic research. Currently pursuing his doctoral studies on the symbiosis of viola and voice, he has been exploring ways to merge different sound worlds in

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