How to share the ardor? Conveying complex musical structures to unprepared listener through the animated score on the example of Eduard Tubin´s first symphony

The goal of the research is to create an animated score of the first movement of Eduard Tubin's Symphony No. 1, in which the representation of musical elements would support the understanding of the unfolding musical structure, the reception of which does not require knowledge of musical notation or professional terms. By combining a live performance with the animation depicting the construction of the musical form in real time a new concert format will be created and presented in October 2025 at the "TubIN" festival. As the artistic director and conductor of the annual festival "TubIN", I feel that one of my main tasks is to look for new ways to introduce the audience to symphonic music which otherwise remains inaccessible due to the complexity of the compositional structure. Visualising the formal structure of a musical work in real time could inspire building multitude of broad-based connections and thereby turn the listening experience into a proactive experience. The part of the research is the investigation of the specific anticipation skill required from conductor for synchronising the performance with the animation, elaborating on the timing subject discussed in my doctoral thesis. I will try to derive more general principles concerning conductor's figurative thinking from finding the visual representation necessary for animation, which could be applied in the rehearsal process. The creative research is methodologically based on musicological form analysis, animation theory and conducting theory. After the presentation, an empirical study will be conducted to clarify the purposefulness of the animation among the target group. The animated score is a pilot project with great educational and cultural potential, the realisation of which would enable similar presentations of works by various composers.