Chamber of Circuits brought together two synthesizer chamber orchestras for what became a one-of-a-kind evening at Hanzas Perons. The concert presented electronic music in a format rarely experienced on stage a large-scale collective work where synthesisers became the instruments of a chamber ensemble.

The evening opened with the Ensemble of the Estonian Electronic Music Society (EMA), who performed the music of Estonian electronic music pioneer Sven Grünberg live, with the composer himself present. Works from Hingus, OM and the soundtrack to Dead Mountaineer’s Hotel were brought to the stage for the first time in a live ensemble format, creating a meditative and immersive opening to the night.

The second part of the concert featured the premiere of Anna Fišere’s Noesis - an ambitious new work for eight performers and fourteen synthesizers. Bringing together musicians from Latvia’s classical and electronic music scenes, Noesis explored the relationship between human intuition and machine precision through repeated structures, spectral harmony and constantly evolving electronic textures. Developed in close collaboration with Erica Synths, the performance made use of a wide range of analogue, digital and modular instruments spanning decades of synthesizer history.

Produced by Artes Liberales, Chamber of Circuits proposed a different way of experiencing electronic music - as a collective, nuanced and deeply human performance practice. Judging by the audience response, this first edition may have opened the door to something much larger.