Futurónica 50

Episode 50 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Manobras (91.5 MHz in Porto, 18h30) and Rádio Zero (21h GMT, repeating on Tuesday at 01h) airs tomorrow, December 2nd. The playlist for Futurónica #50 is: Emmanuel Mieville, Tarapoto, Peru / Kuantan, Malaysia (2011, Four Wanderings In Tropical Lands, Baskaru) Enrico Coniglio, Mantilla (2009, Glacial Lagoon, Laverna) …

Arturas Bumšteinas / Piotr Kurek and Janek Schaefer live at Next Festival

This year’s Next festival in Bratislava includes a superb line up of performances, including an Arturas BumÅ¡teinas / Piotr Kurek duo and Janek Schaefer, that recently released “Double Exposure” in Crónica. It’s all happening in Bratislava, from the 1st to the 3rd of December.

“Pastoral” reviewed by Cyclic Defrost

Release no. 55 from the esteemed Cronica label sees acoustic/electronic composer Arturas Bumsteinas flexing his experimental muscles by utilising all manners of acoustic instrumentation and then subtly shifting, looping and distorting various passages to create waves and drones of differing complexities. Whilst essentially remaining an organic set of pieces, each is tinkered with just enough …

Futurónica #36

Episode 36 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Zero (every two weeks, on Friday nights, repeating on Tuesdays at 01h) airs tomorrow, May 20th at 21h (GMT). The playlist for Futurónica #36 is: Arturas BumÅ¡teinas, Story 17:54 (2010, Stories From Organ Safari, NMKC) Ø: Heijastuva (2011, Heijastuva, Sähkö) Jin Sangtae, Fixed (2008, from Extensity of …

New podcast: Arturas Bumšteinas

“Shadow (of Shadows)” for organ and electronics, Algirdas Biveinis (organ). This piece was composed by Arturas BumÅ¡teinas in Warsaw, November 2010 and premiered by Algirdas Biveinis in Vilnius, December of the same year. The premiere took place in St. Johns’ church which accommodates the largest pipe organ in Lithuania. The concert was attended by a …

“Pastoral” reviewed by Polychromic

L’homme réside et travaille à Vilnius et Warsaw. Pastoral présente quatre travaux, l’une est dédiée à la nature, la seconde est un enregistrement live à Vilnius en 2009, une commande, la troisième est un enregistrement capté durant le Mariu Klavyrai festival et le dernier est une pièce de studio. 4 possibilités s’offrent à vous pour …

“Pastoral” reviewed by De-Bug

Der Eröffnungstrack des Komponisten aus Litauen thematisiert den “Satanspilz”, und dementsprechend geheimnisvoll und unheimlich klingt auch seine Melange aus bearbeiteten Tuba-Klängen mit heruntergepitchten Fieldrecordings und undeutlichen Stimmen in großen Klanggewölben. Track Zwei ist ein langsam mäanderndes, melancholisches und dissonantes Nebeneinander von Saiten- und Blasinstrumenten. Nummer Drei überlagert Geigen- und Bratschenklänge mit schnell hintereinander abgespielten kurzen …

“Pastoral” reviewed by Monsieur Délire

Another release in the “Unlimited” series (therefore free): an album dvoted to Lithuanian/Polish electroacoustician Arturas BumÅ¡teinas. Four pieces for instrument and tape: one for tuba, one for violin, one for violin and viola, and one for guitar and accordion. Nice plurisemantic writing. “Dough” (17 minutes) is very well done. The whole thing is rather ambient, …