{"id":157683,"date":"2026-04-29T04:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/?p=157683"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:28:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T14:28:28","slug":"arvo-part-inspired-sound-art-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/arvo-part-inspired-sound-art-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Arvo P\u00e4rt-Inspired Sound Art in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Finnish artist <b>Hans Rosenstr\u00f6m<\/b>\u2019s site-specific sound installation \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fdrfourfreedomspark.org\/out-of-silence-installation\/\"><span class=\"s1\">Out of Silence<\/span><\/a>\u201d has its public premiere today, 29 April, in Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island in New York. Inspired by the music of <b>Arvo P\u00e4rt<\/b> and marking the composer\u2019s 90th birthday, the work has been created in collaboration with the internationally acclaimed and Grammy-award-winning Estonian ensemble Vox Clamantis choir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cOut of Silence\u201d is an immersive sound journey in which sound moves across the park designed by world-renowned architect <b>Louis Kahn<\/b> through speakers hidden from visitors. The work combines the human voice, silence, and a strong sense of presence\u2014elements that are also central to P\u00e4rt\u2019s music. The sounds guide visitors through the park over approximately 15 minutes at a pace set by Rosenstr\u00f6m and the choir.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The audio materials were recorded by Vox Clamantis last autumn at the Arvo P\u00e4rt Centre in Laulasmaa near Tallinn. According to <b>Jaan-Eik Tulve<\/b>, the choir\u2019s artistic director, the work was created in an unusual way\u2014through improvisation: \u201cHans only described his vision to us verbally, and from there we began building the whole piece. Since <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/this-is-how-tintinnabuli-was-born-50-years-ago\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">modal harmony<\/span><\/a><\/span> is central to P\u00e4rt\u2019s music, we decided to respect it and stay within its framework.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Journalist <b>Mariana Martinez-Pazzi<\/b> writes in <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.archpaper.com\/2026\/03\/hans-rosenstrom-voices-trees-fdr-four-freedoms-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>The Architect\u2019s Newspaper<\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span> that the Finnish\u2013Estonian sound work is striking and thought-provoking. According to her, \u201cafter 15 minutes the park looks the same as before, but the silence it carries feels different\u2014deeper, as if newly earned. Kahn once built a space for silence, but Rosenstr\u00f6m has now given that silence a voice. His work reveals in a radical way what has always been present in space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The sound installation \u201cOut of Silence\u201d will remain on display in New York until 21 June, and is presented daily at hourly intervals. In Finland, Rosenstr\u00f6m\u2019s works are included in the collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki and EMMA, the Espoo Museum of Modern Art. Born in Lohja in 1978, the artist also took part in Tartu\u2019s cultural capital year two years ago by creating a sound installation for the catalogue room of the Estonian Literary Museum, which he described as beautiful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Finnish artist Hans Rosenstr\u00f6m\u2019s site-specific sound installation \u201cOut of Silence\u201d has its public premiere today, 29 April, in Four &hellip; <span class=\"read-more-excerpt\">Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":157590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[13270,16109,16111,24632,27333,27334],"class_list":["post-157683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-tartu-2","tag-arvo-part-2","tag-laulasmaa-2","tag-new-york-2","tag-sound-art","tag-hans-rosenstrom"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157684,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157683\/revisions\/157684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}