Michael Sagulin
Michael Sagulin
Composer
Michael Sagulin is a Finnish classically trained violist, improviser, pedagogue and musicologist. He has studied contemporary improvisation at the Estonian Academy of Theatre and Music. His musical development has been influenced by such teacher as Pirkko Simojoki, Corinne Contardo, Vincent Royer, Anto Pett, Sergio Castrillon, Anatoly Melnikov and Rachel Isserlis. Michael has performed around the world in various groups, mainly in the Nordic countries and central Europe but also in the Baltic countries and the Middle East. In recent years Michael has played in Corelli Baroque Orchestra, Musicians of the King's Road and Beethoven NOW! to mention a few. Besides classical music, Michael performs early music and free improvisation, and is one of the founding members of Call Us, a quartet focusing on free improvisation. In his artistic work Michael is interested in the borderline between music and performance.

MICROPHONICAL IMPROVISATION I do not consider myself as a composer but as an improviser, though the borderline between composing and improvising is sometimes rather vague. Microphonical Improvisation, as one can […]

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MICROPHONICAL IMPROVISATION
I do not consider myself as a composer but as an improviser, though the borderline between composing and improvising is sometimes rather vague. Microphonical Improvisation, as one can notice from the title, is based on improvisation with few rules. Its length and form of existence varies from a performance to another. The piece had its first performance in June 2019 in Tallinn. The idea of the piece is to produce all the sound material used in the performance by only touching different surfaces and consciously creating feedback with microphones. No musical instruments are allowed as the performers must explore the music in the sounds the everyday life provides us.