SOUND PLASMA: Hibiki

Hibiki
or Don't curl the hare in the poke

Ensemble for New Music Tallinn gives premiere of a new chamber opera by Czech composer Marek Keprt

Hibiki
Music & libretto: Marek Keprt
Ensemble for New Music Tallinn
soprano: Laura Štoma, Mariliis Lahesalu
conductor: Arash Yazdani

About Hibiki:
Hibiki is a Japanese whisky. Whisky connoisseurs appreciate its 17 and 21-year-old vintages, as well as the scarcely available 30-year-old one. There is also a Hibiki, Japanese harmony no age statement version. The very word Hibiki means “echo” or “resonance” in Japanese. Sound, taste, smell, touch, space – everything has its harmony, echoes and resonances. Let us get entangled by them...​

The libretto is about tasting. It uses different Czech proverbs, which are in free connection to the tasting as: to buy a pig in a poke, measure twice and cut once, no pain, no gain etc. These proverbs are deformed in a way, that they sound similar, but have a different meaning.