The Ensemble of the Estonian Electronic Music Society (EMA), founded in 2017, is a collective dedicated to performing electronic chamber music. The ensemble’s goal is to overcome technological constraints and develop sensitive musicianship, mutual responsiveness, and acute listening by harnessing the incredibly rich sonic possibilities of various electronic instruments. The ensemble has performed at numerous festivals, including AFEKT, Üle Heli, Tallinn Music Week, the Elektron’s Festival of Spooky Action at a Distance, ISCM World Music Days, Estonian Music Days, and Baltic Music Days. In 2021, EMA was awarded the Annual Award of the Endowment for Music of the Cultural Endowment of Estonia for its fruitful and enthusiastic activities: the deciphering and re-performance of Sven Grünberg’s Hingus, an educational and expansive lecture series, and their unique concerts and artistic explorations.
EMA has been praised for its flexibility and musicality—qualities that can often be easily lost among knobs and sliders in electronic music. The ensemble’s instrumentation ranges from oscillators and tape recorders to Buchla and Serge synthesizers and computer-based live electronics.