Joonas Sildre’s graphic biography Between Two Sounds is about Estonian composer Arvo Pärt’s lifelong quest to break new ground. … The art does an exceptional job of expressing the power of music in a visual format. … A perfect graphic novel introduction to the life and work of an acclaimed modern master of music.
Foreword Reviews
Sildre’s exceptional biography of the experimental Estonian composer finds novel ways to visualize his revolutionary sound. The comics storytelling translates the minimalist beauty and power of Pärt’s music to the page. … Lovers of art and music will be inspired.
Publisher’s Weekly, starred review
This extraordinary book, with its interplay of calm and dynamic, goes along well with Pärt’s music. It brings fans closer to Arvo Pärt as a person and will make the uninitiated curious.
Dorothea Husslein, SWR 2
Sildre finds exciting ways to graphically depict music that shouldn’t be missed.
Casten Jaehner, Comic Couch
Pärt seeks silence in music, and Sildre creates this silence in the pictures.
Gregor Lilla, Élet és Irodalom
This book is an invitation to understand Arvo Pärt and his seemingly simple compositions, which have baffled the music critics but cast a spell over audiences.
Ralf Julke, Leipziger Zeitung
Joonas Sildre employs an imaginative and narrative force in his clear, reduced images – images that exploit empty space in the way Arvo Pärt’s music exploits silence.