The album features two works by sound artists Marija Rasa Kudabaitė (LT/BE) and Audrius Šimkūnas (LT). These compositions are the outcome of Kintai.Kitaip, a sound art project, co-curated by Kintai Arts and Music Information Centre Lithuania that took place in July 2022. The project invited two sound artists to spend two weeks in Kintai Arts Residency during which, while using various recording and sound processing techniques, they created quadrophonic sound sculptures, exploring natural and cultural landscape of Kintai.
Marija Rasa Kudabaitė is a musician and sound artist from Lithuania, living and working in Brussels. Her music centers around her interest in sound spatiality, as well as in sonic fragility and structure that arises out of textural subtleties. Currently, she is continuing working on series of acousmatic pieces for multichannel speakers system that she has begun to develop during her studies at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague. These fixed media pieces - sonic landscapes emerging out of delicate noises, electronic sounds, and field recordings from the extremely quiet places, attentively put together by using a micromontage technique.
Audrius Šimkūnas (aka Sala) has been working in the field of sound art for more than 15 years. He is interested in sound, recorded outside recording studio, or, in other words, field recordings. In his solo work Audrius Šimkūnas is interested in quiet sounds, also sounds inaudible without special technical means. In addition to collecting sound from the environment, local sounds and the documentation of sound maps, the artist organizes sound walks, sound art workshops, and conversations about acoustic ecology. A special place in his practice is devoted to sounds, inaudible to human ears, but those heard using non-traditional technical means: underwater microphones, contact microphones, seismic sensors, electromagnetic field antennas. All this helps to reveal the inaudible world around us.
Produced by Music Information Centre Lithuania and Kintai Arts
Released by Music Information Centre Lithuania
Supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania
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