VISIBLE MUSIC, VOCAL PICTURE – TRIO FRAGILE AT OUR SCHOOL
About thirty or forty people watched Trio Fragile’s performance on November 23rd in Keila Gymnasium, where Tõnu Talve’s two paintings of Keila were borned by the sounds and rhytms of music. He gave one of the paintings to Keila Gymnasium and the other to the City Government.
Trio Fragile is a collective, what combines improvisational music and art. They have published 3 music albums – “Manifest” (’98), “Õunapuu osakas” (’00) and “Saad” (’04). Together they’ve operated over 10 years, combining guitarist Robert Jürjendal, percussionist Arvo Urb and painter Tõnu Talve. How it all got started, tells Tõnu Talve the following: “Trio Fragile was at the beginning, 11 years ago, Duo Fragile: Robert Jürjendal as guitarist and me as a painter on a frosted glass. Coincidentally Tõnis Mägi asked Robert, as a creator of many songs, to participate in Mägi’s ETV broadcast as co-author. To make it more interesting, I thought to design the songs visually. This is how the idea to paint live with music came from. I can say that Tõnis, as a participator in our co-operation, is Trio Fragile’s godfather. After that show on ETV there were many offers to perform and after some time me and Robert realized that ensemble needs drums. I made up the name “Fragile” just before Arvo Urb – the drummer – joined us and everybody seemed to like it.
Tõnu Talve has made exhibitions over 15 years, but most considerable of them have appeared in past few years, with general name “KA”. The “KA-8” took place last year in Tartu, Vanemuise Concerthouse foyer. Ants Juske, the doctor of art-science, has helped this exhibition series. About Trio Fragile’s performances, says Talve the following: “I have, with Fragile’s few video, which the author of ideas and co-director I am, been in Helsinki, Stockholm, Istanbul, Barcelona and Viseus, Portugal, where the teacher congress’ InSEA took place. In the last, Portugal’s InSEA this year, Trio Fragile was in a body and gave “the art-lesson 1”.”
Tõnu Talve’s paintings can be found in Finland, Sweden, Russia, Germany, Portugal, Turkey, Canada and USA.
On 23rd of November Trio Fragile performed in our school. The show began with Robert Jürjendal’s quiet guitar solo, after what followed Arno Kalbus’ (replacing Arvo Urb, who couldn’t come) soft beat of the drum.
In few moments Tõnu Talve started to paint. His moves were accurate and bodacious, but also simple and enjoyable. It can be said that on the stage the game of music and colour appeared at the same time. While painting, Talve added many colours alternately: orange, black, pink, blue, white etc. Music collected energy and from that time Talve painted assuredly and more powerful. The fourth person on the stage – the cameraman – brought double reality on the screen, filming painter’s and musicians faces and moves. At the end of painting, Talve looked his pictures from the distance, to be sure if they are ready. After short thinking, he took the colours again and added some dashing lines. Only after this the paintings were ready. One hour passed and the show was over.
Trio Fragile’s music style is hard to specify, but I can say that they have found their own style, which makes them even more special. Robert Jürjendal has said about music that: “The CD’s are studio-work and the concerts – improvisation. For any reasons it is not programmatic music, but free improvisation based in common white energy, where Tõnu Talve with his “open painting” is also a part of it.
The members of Trio Fragile say that they are an ambient project, with guitar, electronics, drums and live paintings, because on stage they make music and art at the same time. Tõnu Talve said that for 1-hour-performance a thorough and elaborated work needs to be done, both from the art and music side.
Tõnu Talve thanks for the interest and approval that had showed up during his stay in the school and this from the teachers and students side.
About thirty or forty people watched Trio Fragile’s performance on November 23rd in Keila Gymnasium, where Tõnu Talve’s two paintings of Keila were borned by the sounds and rhytms of music. He gave one of the paintings to Keila Gymnasium and the other to the City Government.
Trio Fragile is a collective, what combines improvisational music and art. They have published 3 music albums – “Manifest” (’98), “Õunapuu osakas” (’00) and “Saad” (’04). Together they’ve operated over 10 years, combining guitarist Robert Jürjendal, percussionist Arvo Urb and painter Tõnu Talve. How it all got started, tells Tõnu Talve the following: “Trio Fragile was at the beginning, 11 years ago, Duo Fragile: Robert Jürjendal as guitarist and me as a painter on a frosted glass. Coincidentally Tõnis Mägi asked Robert, as a creator of many songs, to participate in Mägi’s ETV broadcast as co-author. To make it more interesting, I thought to design the songs visually. This is how the idea to paint live with music came from. I can say that Tõnis, as a participator in our co-operation, is Trio Fragile’s godfather. After that show on ETV there were many offers to perform and after some time me and Robert realized that ensemble needs drums. I made up the name “Fragile” just before Arvo Urb – the drummer – joined us and everybody seemed to like it.
Tõnu Talve has made exhibitions over 15 years, but most considerable of them have appeared in past few years, with general name “KA”. The “KA-8” took place last year in Tartu, Vanemuise Concerthouse foyer. Ants Juske, the doctor of art-science, has helped this exhibition series. About Trio Fragile’s performances, says Talve the following: “I have, with Fragile’s few video, which the author of ideas and co-director I am, been in Helsinki, Stockholm, Istanbul, Barcelona and Viseus, Portugal, where the teacher congress’ InSEA took place. In the last, Portugal’s InSEA this year, Trio Fragile was in a body and gave “the art-lesson 1”.”
Tõnu Talve’s paintings can be found in Finland, Sweden, Russia, Germany, Portugal, Turkey, Canada and USA.
On 23rd of November Trio Fragile performed in our school. The show began with Robert Jürjendal’s quiet guitar solo, after what followed Arno Kalbus’ (replacing Arvo Urb, who couldn’t come) soft beat of the drum.
In few moments Tõnu Talve started to paint. His moves were accurate and bodacious, but also simple and enjoyable. It can be said that on the stage the game of music and colour appeared at the same time. While painting, Talve added many colours alternately: orange, black, pink, blue, white etc. Music collected energy and from that time Talve painted assuredly and more powerful. The fourth person on the stage – the cameraman – brought double reality on the screen, filming painter’s and musicians faces and moves. At the end of painting, Talve looked his pictures from the distance, to be sure if they are ready. After short thinking, he took the colours again and added some dashing lines. Only after this the paintings were ready. One hour passed and the show was over.
Trio Fragile’s music style is hard to specify, but I can say that they have found their own style, which makes them even more special. Robert Jürjendal has said about music that: “The CD’s are studio-work and the concerts – improvisation. For any reasons it is not programmatic music, but free improvisation based in common white energy, where Tõnu Talve with his “open painting” is also a part of it.
The members of Trio Fragile say that they are an ambient project, with guitar, electronics, drums and live paintings, because on stage they make music and art at the same time. Tõnu Talve said that for 1-hour-performance a thorough and elaborated work needs to be done, both from the art and music side.
Tõnu Talve thanks for the interest and approval that had showed up during his stay in the school and this from the teachers and students side.
Sabina Vatter, Keila Gymnasium.
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