ESKIL AND AARON - TALLINN RECORDINGS

We improvise.
The rules we know and we want to expand each other.
When we succeed, when we fail.
To let go, to know it was never something.
We listen to each other to hear ourselves.

Sometimes I feel myself through the exchange with someone else—questioning, joking, pushing each other, talking too much, letting the other speak, getting annoyed, being caught, misunderstood, fearful, powerful, challenged, comforted. Exploring ideas. A person to call, to text, to talk to. Asking how they are, telling them how I am. Conversations in language are not planned.

Conversation is improvisation. Sound is vibration. Vibration, like words or music. When we talk, we understand each other—and we don’t. The rules are basic. We misunderstand, reformulate, reinterpret, and then we understand again. Our understanding expands, because the rules were never rules. Before the conversation, are we tense, expectant, or afraid? When we succeed, are we happy, laughing, or comforted? When we fail, are we angry, stupid, or sad? Yet we continue to converse, we continue to improvise, and we invite you to listen.

Eskil and Aaron is an improvised musical dialogue—determined only by you, by us. We met in Tallinn, Estonia, where we studied, recorded, and performed at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.

• Eskil Roos (Malmö, Sweden) plays piano and studied at the Malmö Academy of Music.

• Aaron Klenke (Berlin, Germany) plays saxophone and studied at the Berlin University of the Arts.

We are currently planning recordings and performances in Berlin (UdK Berlin) and Sweden (Malmö Academy of Music). These recordings were made in the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre where we met during our Erasmus Exchange and were. mixed by Anton Pelzer (@an.ton.meister).