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"Robot and Petals" for piano and orchestra. Piano: Motiejus Bazaras. Conductor: Juozas Domarkas, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra. Recorded by "Baltic Mobile Recordings" 2017.

photo: Courtesy McCann

Robots and Petals

Oda kailiadirbiui_for voice and ensemble

One On One

Garden voices

Collection. Sixteen on an Anvil

Performed at Bang on a Can Summer Music Institute at MassMoCa

weLLcome/fareweLL

100 Springtimes - (100  Pavasarių - lith.) - based on Kazys Binkis eponymous poem. For clarinet, viola and piano. Performed by ClaViola trio.

100 Springtimes

The re-sung version of M. K. Ciurlionis piano prelude.

Ciurlionis re-sung

Orchestral piece for chamber orchestra. Uses quotation from Charles Ives'  "Unanswered Question.
Performed by Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra. 

Temporarily. Letter To Charles (excerpt)

Petr Zelenka - Blood theme

So Sho - Tinshima 2

Performed by choir "Jauna Muzika", conductor - V. Augustinas

Self-made Small Amber Necklace Transferred Into English Numbers

Vocals: K. Žaldokaitė, Synths: J. Jurkūnas
Music and Text: J. Jurkūnas

The Red Rat Theme

"Du karveliai" for three folk singers and symphony orchestra. Recording performed by folk group "Intakas" and Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra, dir. M. Barkauskas. World premiere: 2016 February 16, by folk group "Intakas", vocal jazz group "Jazz Island" and Vilnius National Symphony Orchestra, dir. M. Pitrėnas. 

Du karveliai

"Gold Bar" (Aukso luitas) - performed by concert band "Trimitas" (dir. U. Vaiginis)

Gold Bar

"Anthem" from the sountrack to the theatre play "The Martyrdom of Peter Ohey" presented in Klaipeda Drama Threatre 2016 June, dirrected by Darius Rabasauskas

Anthem from "The Martyrdom of Peter Ohey"

Three paraphrases based on (and insluded in) Aistė Smilgevičiūtė ir Skylė album "Dūšelės". Vocals: Aistė Smilgevičiūtė, Jonas Jurkūnas.

Dūšelės 3 (Jonas Jurkūnas Paraphrasis)

Robotai ir žiedlapiai - fortepijonui ir orkestrui.

Robots and Petals - Part Five - Scrapheap Tornado (excerpt)

Robots and Petals - Part Four - Cyclic Waves (excerpt)

Robots and Petals - Part Three - Ghost in the Machine (excerpt)

Robots and Petals - Part Two - Petals (excerpt)

Robots and Petals - Part One - Robots (excerpt)

Šilelis - akusmatinis kūrinys erdvinio garso sferai.  

Tai toks miškas traukęsis per Lietuvos žemę,
Visi plotai žaliavę pavėne aptemę...

Silelis Stereo Mix (excerpt)

"Emilija" full feature film (dir. D. Ulvydas) soundtrack excerpt.

"Emilija" full feature film soundtrack. Mourning scene - excerpt

"A Vogn Shikh" (A Wagon-load of Shoes) for mixed choir and string orchestra, based on the eponymous poem by A. Sutzkever. Performed by "Jauna Muzika" choir and st. Christopher chamber orchestra, dirrected by Amaury du Closel.

A Vogn Shikh (excerpt)

Performed by: Karolina Juodelytė

Yes, this piece is Glass-esque.

Meditacija

"Sode" for eight voices and organ. Text: V. Braziūnas. Performers: vocal octet "B2", K. Juodelytė organ.

Sode (excerpt)

03 Granny Locked

02 Granny At The Sea 2020

01 Intro 2020

Surround acousmatic piece comissioned by "Jauna muzika 2020" festival.

Collection #2 (excerpt)

Paskaita koncertas – Apie akusmatiškumą

Jonas Jurkūnas is a composer keen on discovering and exploiting very different layers of musical creativity, from academic to pop and incidental music. Genre-wise, his creative portfolio includes chamber and orchestral pieces as well as electronic music, multimedia and interdisciplinary projects. Stylistically, his music finds itself in the neighbourhood with minimalism and new tonality. Very often he uses simple sound patterns, pulsating with rhythms, as his creative start-up while searching for new or already forgotten timbres and expressions. These are the minimalist strategies which the composer weaves into his music together with experimental or club-style electronics, ambient stylistics, as well as elements of jazz, pop or even romantic music. Since 2008 Jurkūnas is a member of electronic music collective “Diissc Orchestra”.

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