On this double CD containing two separate but related works, sound artist Gintas Kraptavicius organises dry moments into neat sets. Lengvai is a sequence of four tight compositions that allow complexity to emerge from small things but in a precise order. Working with a simple rangle of clicks, sinewaves, silences and repeated effects, Kraptavicius shows …
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Die Computerwelt öffnet sich zusehends für andere Quellen. Ging es vor ein paar Jahren noch darum zu zeigen, was innerhalb dieser abgeschlossenen Welt alles für Sounds möglich waren, so geht es heute eher um einen Dialog und das Durchbrechen von Ästhetiken, die einer bestimmten Produktionsweise geschuldet sind. Flow ist genau das: ein Fluß aus warm-pulsierenden …
Das neue Doppelalbum des aus Litauen stammenden Sinuswellensurfers Gintas Kraptavicius beschränkt sich auf ein übersichtlich gehaltenes Sortiment an Ausgangsmaterial und liefert zwei gegensätzliche Entwürfe im kompromisslosen Umgang mit diesem . “Lengvai” ist dabei das am Reißbrett gefertigte Rhythmusmonster, das aus ultrapräzise strukturierten Kleinstbestandteilen eines reduzierten Clicks’n’Cuts-Sprachschatzes mittels hypnotischer Grooves und vorsichtiger Dramaturgie einen beeindruckend komplexen …
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On découvrait Gintas K en juin dernier lors d’une soirée aux Instants Chavirés autour de la scène musicale balte. Lors de cette soirée globalement d’une très bonne tenue, le Lithuanien nous avait alors présenté un set honnête mais dont on regrettait le systématisme : introduction façon minimal techno, puis éléments de plus en plus denses, …
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Gintas K è un agitatore elettronico/sperimentale della scena lituana, noise, glitch, digital sounds, esplorazioni del minimale, studi sulle vibrazioni acustiche, realizzazione di musiche per film, teatro ed installazioni; sono tutta farina del suo sacco. È stato membro di una delle prime band lituane di elettronica/industriale (Modus), ha lavorato in radio alternative come la stazione Kapsai …
DvojCD Lengvai / 60 x One Minute Audio Colours of 2kHz Sound je takÅ™ka Äistokrevný “hard listening”. Jinými slovy se pÅ™ipravte na to, že KraptaviÄiusova sonická minimal vyÅ¡inutost na hranici ultrazvuku made in Lithuania dá vaÅ¡im uÅ¡Ãm pořádnÄ› zabrat. Po dvou albech vydaných nÄ›meckým labelem Retina Scan se zvukových experimentů Gintase KraptaviÄiuse tentokrát ujÃmá malé …
For this effort, a pure sound at the frequency of 2kHz forms a malleable network which is lubricated by steady rhythmic formulations. Accordingly, the concerns of these compositions, specifically those featured on the second disc, are technical, not musical. Cold, clinical and transfixing in its sparse, endless motion, these works slowly suss out infinitesimal combinations, …
Directamente da cena electrónica experimental da Lituânia para a editora portuguesa Crónica Electrónica, Gintas K. (K. de Krapatvicius) expõe os ambientes rarefeitos e o minimalismo da sua maquinaria. Gintas trabalha sobretudo com micro-sons em baixa frequência. Experimenta combinações dinâmicas e cromáticas e interessa-se pelo impacto das frequências sonoras no ouvinte, através dum acervo sonoro que …
I’m certainly not attracted by the large part of contemporary glitch-and-skip electronica, but this double CD by Gintas Kraptavicius is surely a good antidote against the “light-hearted laptop” syndrome that is affecting the world today. Will anyone ever prevent all these nondescript twiddlers from releasing neat-sounding “bell-and-whistle” tiny songs slightly disturbed by electrostatics to give …
Dalla Lituania via Crónica Electronica (Portogallo) arriva un doppio cd deflagrante nelle articolazioni soniche di raffinate sequenze sperimentali, astratte e minimal. Incursione nei territori post-techno operata da Gintas Kraptavicius, aka Gintas K, coerente e sistematica nelle strutture non immuni da influenze anche noise-industrial. In ‘Lengvai’, diviso a sua volta in altre cinque incisioni, le ricche …
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