JM_SOUND GALLERY 2010
Kaunas, Vilnius, Klaipėda
Since 2002 the Jauna Muzika festival has been exploring the vast horizons of electronic/electroacoustic music and digital sound art by presenting the most innovative projects and pioneering artists who shape and expand the very concept of contemporary sound art today. This year, once again, the festival changes its format and name to become the JM_Sound Gallery divided into ten different events, exhibiting sound art as objects in a gallery.
JM_Sound Gallery is a platform that gives access to the sounds and music produced both by traditional acoustic/digital instruments and by employing most unconventional means including text data, various technical devices and even human body. Interdisciplinary approach lies at the very core of the festival’s programming which results in performances, combining movement, visuals and music.
PROGRAMME
Sunday 25 April, 4 pm
Business Leaders Centre (K. Donelaičio g. 62 / V. Putvinskio g. 53), Kaunas
I. INTERACTIVE SOUND & MOVEMENT GALLERY
Grenztänzer: international video link Graz (Austria)–Kaunas (Lithuania)
Idea and concept: Eveline Koberg (Austria)
Director and choreographer Tomas Danielis (Austria)
Performers in Kaunas: Rasa Danilinaitė, Rūta Lelytė (Kaunas Dance Theatre Aura)
Performers in Graz: Marius Pinigis (Kaunas Dance Theatre Aura), Tomas Danielis, Claudia Fürnholzer
Tickets: Lt20
Tuesday 27 April, 7 pm
Business Leaders Centre (K. Donelaičio g. 62 / V. Putvinskio g. 53), Kaunas
II. DANCE & SOUND GALLERY
Interiors (2008)
Choreography, set and video design: Karel Vanek (Czech Republic / Germany)
Music: Alva Noto (Germany)
Lighting design: Markus Becker (Germany)
Dancers of the Kaunas Dance Theatre Aura
Big Fat Packages
Betoniniai triušiai feat. Skaidra Jančaitė (soprano)
Tickets: Lt20, Lt30
Wednesday 28 April, 7 pm
Piano LT (Trakų g. 9/1), Vilnius
III. AMBIENT SOUND GALLERY
Carl Michael von Hausswolff (Sweden)
Thomas Köner (Germany)
La Barca (2008)
Tickets: Lt20
Thursday 29 April, 7 pm
Piano LT (Trakų g. 9/1), Vilnius
IV. ELECTROACOUSTIC SOUND GALLERY 1
Manuel Zurria (flute, electronics; Italy)
Pauline Oliveros – Portrait of Manuel Zurria (2009)
Alvin Lucier – 947 (2001)
Giacinto Scelsi / Manuel Zurria – CASADISCELSI
Martynas Bialobžeskis – Re: Re:… (2010; commission of the festival)
Rytis Mažulis – Musica falsa (2007); Belvedere (2009; commission of the festival); Puja (2004)
Philip Corner – First Travels in the New Millennium (2000)
Tickets: Lt20
Friday 30 April, 7 pm
Pamėnkalnio Gallery (Pamėnkalnio g. 1/13), Vilnius
V. INDUSTRIAL SOUND GALLERY
Vytautas V. Jurgutis
Cn Gx iW eQ (2010; commission of the festival)
Skardas, with the participation of Dainius Veršulis (cello)
Direction for cello and electronics (2010; commission of the festival)
Paul Ramshaw (UK)
Tickets: Lt15
Sunday 2 May, 6 pm
Pamėnkalnio Gallery (Pamėnkalnio g. 1/13), Vilnius
VI. EXPERIMENTAL SOUND GALLERY
Antanas Jasenka
point/circle
Ramūnas Motiekaitis
White Flutes (2010; commission of the festival)
Sound(RE)cycler Project & Vodka Jugend
TEST on CLEFS (2010; commission of the festival)
Tickets: Lt15
Monday 3 May, 7 pm
Pamėnkalnio Gallery (Pamėnkalnio g. 1/13), Vilnius
VII. PERFORMATIVE SOUND GALLERY
Darius Čiuta & Ilya Belorukov (saxophone, Russia)
Lina Lapelytė
PAR
Gintas K & Paulo Raposo (Portugal)
Remove the Seed
Džiugas Katinas & Dominykas Guobis
Tones 1–8
Tickets: Lt15
Tuesday 4 May, 7 pm
Piano LT (Trakų g. 9/1), Vilnius
VIII. NOISE SOUND GALLERY
Zenial (Poland)
Jeff Surak (USA)
Rinus van Alebeek (The Netherlands)
Alexei Borisov & Olga Nosova (Russia)
Tickets: Lt20
Thursday 6 May, 7 pm
Piano LT (Trakų g. 9/1), Vilnius
IX. ELECTROACOUSTIC SOUND GALLERY 2
Chordos String Quartet, Saulius Astrauskas (percussion), Kristina Žaldokaitė (soprano)
Egidija Medekšaitė – Sinus Iridum (2010; commission of the festival)
Jonas Jurkūnas – Untitled (2010; commission of the festival)
Antanas Kučinskas – Previously I was Melisandra (2010; commission of the festival)
Vytautas Germanavičius – Outer Spaces (2010)
Algirdas Martinaitis – EuroJob (2010; commission of the festival)
Tickets: Lt20
Friday 7 May, 8 pm
Klaipėda Art Exhibition Hall (Aukštoji g. 1 / Didžioji Vandens g. 2), Klaipėda
X. MOVING SOUND GALLERY
Jeff Surak (USA)
Zenial (Poland)
The Gardens of Sorrow (2005; premiere of the multimedia version)
Music by Loreta Narvilaitė, video by Arturas Bukauskas
Ilya Belorukov (saxophone, Russia)
Tickets: Lt8
Ticketing Information:
Tickets for all concerts at 5 Lt for students (appropriate cards to be shown).
Tickets are available at the venue one hour prior to the start of a performance.
Tickets for the performances at the Piano LT hall (28, 29 April; 4, 6 May) are also available via the ticketing system Tiketa from 19 April: online at http://www.tiketa.lt/; in person at the Tiketa box offices; bookings by short service number 1653 (Lt2/min).
Contacts:
Antanas Jasenka, curator of the festival
ph. (+370 5) 272 1727, +370 620 38097; e-mail antanas.jasenka@gmail.com
Veronika Janatjeva, public relations
ph. +370 612 52121; e-mail veronika.jan@gmail.com
Organised by: Lithuanian Composers’ Union
Sponsored by: Culture Support Foundation, Polish Institute in Vilnius, Prašvieta
Partners: Business Leaders Centre, Pamėnkalnio Gallery, Klaipėda Art Exhibition Hall, piano.lt, net-radio Test Sound
Official hotels of the festival: Martialis, Apia