Zestien jaar geleden verscheen ‘Lengvai / 60 x one minute audio colours of 2kHz sound’ bij Crónica, het eerste album van K bij dit label. Sindsdien werkte K regelmatig mee aan compilatie albums en volgde er vier volwaardige albums, gevolgd door het vijfde dit jaar, ‘Lėti’. Zoals gezegd is dit een totaal ander album dan …
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Portugalijos leidybinė kompanija „Crónica“ šįmet išleido naują Ginto Kraptavičiaus albumą Lėti. Tai nebe pirmas Ginto albumas po šio leiblo vėliava. Be to, jau anksčiau į field recoring ir elektroakustinius eksperimentus orientuotos kompanijos akiratyje buvo atsidūrę ir kiti lietuviai – Arturas Bumšteinas ir Darius Čiuta. Naujausio Ginto albumo pavadinimas Lėti taikliai nusako, kaip jis skamba: albumas tikrai lėtas. Žinoma, jis nėra toks lėtas …
The work of Gintas Kraptavicius who works usually under moniker Gintas K since 1994 opens up a entirely different universe tingling with variety of references and influences. Since he has been working in a diverse fields of modern composition, sound art and sound installation, film music, granular synthesis, electronic music that is positively problematic to …
L’artiste sonore et compositeur lithuanien Gintas K sort, seize ans après son premier disque chez Crónica, l’excellent label portugais consacré aux musiques électroniques et expérimentales, Lèti, « Lent » en lithuanien. Onze titres de musique électronique à la fine granulation : regardez bien la pochette ! Clochettes, touches de synthétiseur : un clapotis, un tintinnabulement enchanteur, c’est “Bells”, …
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Having seen various videos of Gintas K’s improvisations, involving a keyboard and a dusty old Lenovo ThinkPad running some custom software, it’s apparent that his approach to composition is nothing if not unusual, and it’s matched by the results. His Crónica debut, Lengvai / 60 x one minute audio colours of 2kHz sound was sixteen years ago, …
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Der litauische Klang-, Performance- und Konzeptkünstler Gintas Kraptavičius alias Gintas K bringt dieser Tage ein neues Tape heraus. “Lėti”, das im Litauischen “langsam” bedeutet, enthält elf Miniaturen, gebaut aus filigranen Sounddetails unterschiedlichster Herkunft, die einer ebensolchen Vielfalt an Bearbeitungsstufen unterzogen wurden und in ihrer finalen Gestalt einer großen Wunderkammer gleichen, in der man bei jedem …
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This is my second review of the works of Gintas K, a fascinating and innovative sound artist, born in Lithuania in 1969 and a person who has generated considerable interest. As with the previous album I reviewed, this electronic music work needs a good sound system or headphones and a nice quiet environment to truly …
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