Kalevi Matus

Kalevi Matus is a series of six short choral movements with optional interludes. The text of Kalevi Matus is an episode of the Estonian national epic Kalevipoeg (Meaning son of Kalev). In this story, Linda, Kalevís widow is mourning her husbandís death and is carrying large stones to build a monument on his grave. At the time, Linda is pregnant with Kalevipoeg, the heroic figure of the epic. Weak from her condition, she drops a large stone. Unable to pick it up, she sits down on the stone and begins to cry. Her tears form a little puddle, which turn into a pond, and then into a lake. Today, you can still see Lindaís large stone in the middle of her tear lake (‹lemiste lake) in Tallinn.Kalevi Matus was designed for an amateur group, and continue a personal exploration of heightened developments of sound production and organization. As might be expected, certain compromises had to be accommodated in the rhythmic and pitch axes for an amateur group, but did allow for explorations of airflow, source, resonance, articulation and multiphonic production.