In his work, Ramūnas Motiekaitis seems to resist the very idea of concert quality in music, along with its indispensable attributes, such as dynamic contrasts and intensity, textural variety and virtuosity of execution on the part of both composer and performer. “Rather than being an art practiced to conquer a certain space, to build a monument within its limits, I always wanted music to be an art that exposes the larger space that surrounds it – the space we listen to intently and, by doing that, become part of it.” He chooses intimate expression and speaks the language of allusions and ambivalent gestures instead; his delicate musical movements often halt, as if keeping the tension between the sound’s presence and absence.
