Antarctica Ambient Music

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Lorem Ipsum Ex Machina – sugrįžimas prie elektroninės muzikos ištakų ir pamėginimas aktualizuoti elementariausias priemones (tokias kaip filtrai, triukšmas, rezonansai ir kt.) siekiant jos grynumo. 

Balsas – kūrinio ašis. Jo semantikos norėta išvengti pasirenkant tekstą „Lorem Ipsum“. Tai – teksto simuliakras, parašytas tariama lotynų kalba, ir naudojamas tipografijos, dizaino ar šrifto demonstracijai spaudos ir grafinio dizaino industrijoje.

Kūrinio pavadinime užkoduotas pagrindinis procesas – iš triukšmo bei rezonansų laipsniškai išnyrantis balsas (la voix humaine), teatrališkai rečituojantis tekstą „Lorem Ipsum“.

Sopranas – Monta Martinsone

2023 – 05 – 23

Lorem Ipsum Ex Machina (binaural)

From Alva Noto's 'This Stolen Country of Mine' [N-059] 

Vinyl & CD · https://noton.info/product/n-059/

Alva Noto’s award winning score for the 2022 German documentary film ‘This Stolen Country of Mine’ directed by German filmmaker Marc Wiese features nineteen compositions to be released on NOTON in July 21. 2023.

https://noton.info/

This Stolen Country of Mine

Alva Noto - Ritual

Mėta Gabrielė Pelegrimaitė – fleita 
Salomėja Kalvelytė – fleita, altinė fleita
Kristupas Gikas – bosinė fleita

FLEITŲ3 @KKC

Wall Talk

Antarctica

This piece is about monumental iceberg and game which leads to nowhere.

Performed by Twenty Fingers Duo:
Lora Kmieliauskaitė - violin
Arnas Kmieliauskas - violoncello

Recorded in LMTA Music Innovation Study Center
Sound engineer - Julius Aglinskas

playing chess in Antarctica

Multi-layered, dark drone that even depresses myself …

Image: Dave Pape (Public Domain)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antarctica_6400px_from_Blue_Marble.jpg

‘Performa’ (Live) @ Arts Printing House | 2019-02-26 | Twenty Fingers Duo
Lora Kmieliauskaitė | violin
Arnas Kmieliauskas | cello
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Performa is a project that combines sound and visuals. 
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#Performa | composition #2
'In the midst of silence', composer Julius Aglinskas
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Julius Aglinskas, Composer:
Musical material lands in between beats 'of silence' every time. In a certain time segment where it seems nothing is happening. Just like the occurence 'here and now', that has unavoidably fallen back to the past tense and became silence - similar to the one existing in the forest.. In the past moments, for the forest and its silence.
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Lauryna Narkevičiūtė, Visual Artist | Artwork ‘Process’ 
In between movement and stagnation, in between time and ever changing material. Resin of conifers on the night forest floor and its imperceptible transformation into amber.

Julius Aglinskas - “Tarp tylos” (live version)

The Australian Voices
Conductor | Gordon Hamilton

View the score: https://bit.ly/32Cd8AX

I wrote Antarctica during and after a trip to Casey Station, Antarctica onboard the icebreaker Aurora Australis – an Australian icon, nearing the end of her service. I was the lucky guest of the Australian Antarctic Division on an Aurora Legacy Fellowship.

The opening movement is an aria set against the backdrop of a recording I made of the ship cutting through sea-ice (standing in the bow while my stinging hands clenched the microphone! – I soon learned to glove-up!). A solo voice sings, hand-in-hand with mighty bricks of harmony: a blazing seascape coated in white. Aeliatoric music follows, depicting a hill near Casey Station where the scene can be divided into three colossal horizontal strips of sky, sea and ice. ‘Whalesong’ is a harmonisation of a finback whale call: the Aurora Australis recovered a hydrophone which had been recording the crooning of sea mammals. Over a year’s worth of sound was logged; I picked the bit in D-minor. Infinite Monochrome is a pock-marked canon inspired by – in the words of Voyage Leader James Maloney – “...the vision of a brilliant bright expanse where ice, snow and cloud coalesced, holding the ship suspended in white nothingness.” Every direction is a hiss of white (painful to the naked eye!) and the frozen sea bristles, splintered by town-sized icebergs. In the last movement ‘Reeve Hill’ short chorale-like utterances are sown among long thoughtful stillnesses, played over my recording of ice gently melting on Reeve Hill, far-off Adélie penguins and snow-petrels nattering to each other.

The work is for voices (their type unspecified), with various moments of solo singing.

Antarctica (for choir)

Viola - Pauline Hogstrand
Double Bass - Aurelijus Užameckis

Composition & Live Electronics - Jūra Elena Šedytė
Mix and Master - Tadas Dailyda
September 2018, Copenhagen

Nice to meet you / Viola-Doublebass-Electronics (2018)

first performance 19 - 6-2018

Modré kvety

I have been writing this piece while re-reading Raymond Queneau’s novel Les Fleurs Bleues (Modré kvety in Slovak). This book is, among other things, about daydreaming. This piece is, among other things, about daydreaming, too.

Modré Kvety oboe-cello-piano 2018

A dreamy sonic exploration of the eternal ice realm. Played live. 
Equipment used: Lyra-8, Monologue, Pigments 2.

Instructions of use: Listen while in a meditative state, in a low volume environment. Enjoy.

http://www.justejanulyte.com/en/works/now-im-nowhere/

commissioned by and written for the Estonian National male choir for their 75-years celebration

"Now I'm nowhere, but wish
I could live in the North, where days
And nights, where sounds and colours
Snow and rain is one and all;
Where nature is not ours,
But we are of the nature; where everything, even the death
Is just one, continuous birth."

Alfonsas Nyka-Niliūnas (1919-2015)

"Dabar aš esu niekur, bet norėčiau
Gyventi šiaurėje, kur dienos
Ir naktys, kur garsai ir spalvos,
Sniegas ir lietus yra viena ir visa;
Kur gamta yra ne mūsų,
Bet mes gamtos; kur viskas, net mirtis,
Tik vienas, nenutrūkstamas gimimas."

16 November 2019, Estonia Concert Hall, Tallinn (EE)

kuulamiskoopia - listening copy

"Now I'm Nowhere" for male choir (2019)

2019-02-10 Eclat Festival Stuttgart (DE)
SWR Symphonieorchester Brad Lubman, cond.
www.baltakas.net/work/sandwriting2

Sandwriting II for orchestra (2018, excerpt)

Dominykas Digimas is a young composer based in Vilnius, Lithuania. His field of activities are extremely varied stretching from contemporary and electronic, coordinating music festivals, to creative interdisciplinary projects. 

 His main creative interests are based on abstract, quasi-narrative ideas, which are contemplating a persons relation with their environment and their ‘self’. Upon deeper consideration he is often drawing upon psychological or psycho-analytical terminology, theories, and  often runs experimental listening practices.

 Dominykas’ oeuvre is based on strict musical structures which become an intermediate object between the idea and audio realisation. The pre-compositional material is constructed in two ways; firstly by creating a system/structure which corresponds the idea of the piece or producing research which will in turn create the architecture for the structure.

playing chess in Antarctica

Dominykas Digimas

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