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Ram​ū​nas Motiekaitis. After Sunset Cycles

from Another Point of View by Synaesthesis

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The first version of the piece was commissioned by Lunatree, a Dutch ensemble of contemporary music and premiered in the dunes of the Schiermonnikoog Island during the After Sunset Festival. Later, it was performed at the Chamber Hall of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. So, I did not write it for a listener focused entirely on new music, yet this does not mean I have betrayed my own aesthetic principles.

As in many other compositions, I am interested in ambivalence and ephemerality expressed through harmony, dynamics and form. All what emerges, only shows up to a certain extent; it surfaces out of silence and then fades away. Every euphoria is incrusted with a moment of dysphoria. The music is structured by strict rhythmic periods of twelve fourths each. The boundaries of these cycles, however, dissolve in the middle of the piece.

I gave a name to each section of the work: 'glimmer', 'three voices', 'fall/call' and 'unanswered question'. While the music may be rather mechanical ('glimmer') or more organic ('three voices', 'fall/call'), everything is eventually reconciled in the final section of the piece. The titles of two sections serve as direct allusions to the compositions I love, namely 'Three Voices' by Morton Feldman and 'Unanswered Questions' by Charles Ives, although one should not look evident analogies.

The version for the Synaesthesis Ensemble was written in spring 2018.

Ramūnas Motiekaitis

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from Another Point of View, released December 31, 2018

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Synaesthesis vision extends beyond the sound into space, light, movement, and narrative — any medium that allows for professionally performed music to become a multidimensional experience and blur the lines between genres.

Having been awarded the Ernst von Siemens Foundation Ensemble Prize in 2020, Synaesthesis continues to widen its reach as a performing entity of considerable renown. ... more

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