LAURI LEST
Born: 1983
lauri.lest@gmail.com
An Estonian musician, sound and performance artist. Lauri creates and plays atmospheric electronic music, works with found objects, vibration speakers, lights and sound and video editing software. With his musical installations, often site-specific and consisting of discarded items, he activates rooms and places that are otherwise abandoned or of secondary importance. His art can be described as melancholic, dreamy, experimental and sometimes humorous. He has released three studio albums and holds a degree in Sculpture and Installation from the Estonian Academy of Arts.
EDUCATION
2019-2023 – Estonian Academy of Arts, Installation and sculpture, BA (cum laude)
RESIDENCIES, ATTENDED WORKSHOPS & COURSES
2023 – Copper Leg Residency, Rae, Estonia
2023 – “Sonic Garden Sound Art Workshop”, Massia residency, Massiaru, Estonia
2020-… – Taking piano lessons at Liina Lill’s studio
EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2025 – Eero Alev’s painting exhibition “Longing”, Tartu Art House, Tartu, Estonia (music for the exhibition)
2025 – “Orchestra of Objects”, Paavli Kultuurivabrik, Tallinn, Estonia (installation-concert with lights)
2025 – Klub Silencio at XX Tallinn Design Festival, Krulli Smithy, Tallinn, Estonia (sound and light installation “Legends of Vaskjala”)
2025 – Finissage of XIX Tallinn Print Triennial, Lindakivi Cultural Centre, Tallinn, Estonia (performance-installation “Bonfire”)
2025 – Urban Festival “UIT”, Tartu, Estonia (sound and light installation “Lai 7”)
2025 – Festival “Ümberlülitus” by Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Genialistide Klubi, Tartu, Estonia (musical performance-installation “Spruce 2”)
2025 – Theatre production “Eeter”, Sakala Teatrimaja, Tallinn, Estonia (on-stage sound installation)
2025 – Naiste Ööde Filmifestival NÖFF, Rapla, Estonia (performance and sound installation “Quartet”)
2025 – Sound art festival “Walls Have Ears”, ARS Art Factory, Tallinn, Estonia (sound installation “Spruce 2.2”)
2024 – “SAAL3 vol 3”, curated by Maike Lond, Kanuti Gildi SAAL, Tallinn, Estonia (musical performance-installation “Spruce 2”)
2024 – Exhibition “Life Can Be Never Stopped”, curated by Johanna Jolen Kuzmenko, Tallinn City Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia (sound art installation “Spruce as Phoenix”)
2024 – Urmas Lüüs’s exhibition “The Life and Death of Mr. N: Bourgeois Spaces by Urmas Lüüs”, KUMU, Tallinn, Estonia (sound art installation with music)
2024 – Sirja-Liisa Eelma’s exhibition “Longing for Lost Space”, KUMU, Tallinn, Estonia (music for the exhibition)
2024 – “Hungerburg2024” by Tartu Uus Teater, Mereranna holiday home, Narva-Jõesuu, Estonia (sound and light installation “Hungermusik”)
2024 – “The grand opening of the Narva-Jõesuu Lighthouse”, Narva-Jõesuu Lighthouse, Estonia (sound installation with music)
2024 – “Legends of Vaskjala”, ARS Showroom, Tallinn, Estonia (sound art installation with music and lights)
2023 – “Füürer Praiss 2023”, Metropol gallery, Tallinn, Estonia (musical performance/installation)
2023 – RMK “Tsitre ValgeÖÖ”, Tsitre, Lahemaa National Park, Estonia (installation “Quartet”)
2023 – “Ceremonial handover of the video archive of KKEK”, Film Archives, Tallinn, Estonia (performance “Dawn… mostly red”)
2023 – “TASE FILM 2023”, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia (music video for “Ever Ever”)
2023 – “TASE’23”, Tallinna Art Hall/Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia (installation “Quartet”)
2022 – “TASE FILM 2022”, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia (music video for “Moulded”)
2022 – “Border Light” (Tallinn-Narva Music Week), Gerassimovi park, Narva, Estonia (group installation/animation “Threads of Light”)
2021 – “You Still Live In the Silence Between My Walls”, Raja 11a monumental studio, Tallinn, Estonia (group installation)
2021 – “Gravitation and Contact”, Vent Space, Tallinn, Estonia (group exhibition)
SELECTED CONCERTS
2025 – Concert at the XX Tallinn Design Festival, Krulli Quarter, Tallinn, Estonia (with dancer Maria Solei Järvet and microscope visuals by Inessa Saarist)
2025 – Concert with microscope visuals in the dome cinema of Pernova Nature House, Pärnu, Estonia (visuals by Inessa Saarits)
2022 – Album “Affect / Reflect” release concert, Uus Laine, Tallinn, Estonia
2022 – “XVII Disainiöö & DiMa avapauk”, Tallinn, Estonia
2022 – Opening of Heleliis Hõim’s exhibition “The Martian Chronicles” (with singers Kaie Sauga, Veiko Koiksaar, Eve Martinson, Janek Sibbul), ARS Project Space, Tallinn, Estonia
2020 – Album “Duality” release concert, Kinomaja, Tallinn, Estonia
2019 – Concert performance “Concert of Taeva Jaani” (concept: Markus Truup, spoken word: Ursel Tilk), Vana-Roosa Church, KÕU festival, Võru, Estonia
2018 – Kaarel Kurismaa’s exhibition “Yellow Light Orchestra”, KUMU, Tallinn, Estonia
MUSIC RELEASES
2025 – “Undercurrents”, 11-track album, digital-only
2024 – “Kivi südamel” soundtrack, original music for an Estonian short drama movie
2024 – Music for short animation “Hingelind” by Piret Potter
2024 – “Affect / Reflect – REWORKED”, 6-track EP with reworks by various artists, digital-only
2022 – “Affect / Reflect”, 9-track album, digital-only
2021 – “Moulded”, music video
2020 – “Duality”, 6-track album, digital-only
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