It seems appropriate that Cronica’s 100th release should be something that’s as unique and as arty (for wont of a better word) as Arturas BumÅ¡teinas’ ‘Gamelan Descending a Staircase’. Its title is a reference to Marcel Duchamp’s 1912 classic modernist painting ‘Nude Descending a Staircase’, while its composition and formulation – a development of a …
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Alsof je het galmende instrument van een trap laat kukelen. Alsof je de naakte klank daarvan buitelend kwinkelerend met een onvast vibrato componeert – trede voor trede – alsof de gamelan met een bruuske schop de hemelen uitgeknikkerd wordt. Alsof een bewust onscherpe foto daarvan liefdevol realistisch geschilderd is op doek door een pietje precies… …
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Ob so etwas im Berliner Schloss auch noch möglich sein wird? Der litauische Klangkünstler Arturas BumÅ¡teinas hat für sein Album „Gamelan Descending a Staircase“ im Jahr 2013 die Archive des Ethnologischen Museums Dahlem nutzen dürfen, um auf Perkussionsinstrumenten des traditionellen indonesischen Gamelan-Orchesters das Material für sein Titelstück, eine fünfzigminütige Großkomposition, einzuspielen. Als Inspiration diente ihm …
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Gamelan Descending a Staircase by Arturas Bumšteinas
Arturas BumÅ¡teinas es un compositor, artista sonoro e improvisador lituano que trabaja en los campos de la música experimental y electroacústica, del radio arte e instalaciones. Desde 1997 trabaja en solitario con su nombre editando más de 30 discos, también bajo el seudónimo de Refuse y tiene varias colaboraciones con artistas locales e internacionales. El …
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Arturas BumÅ¡teinas’s “Gamelan Descending a Staircase” is Crónica release 100! We celebrate with a full episode of Futurónica dedicated to it. Episode 153 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, November 11th. The playlist of Futurónica 153 is: …
Crónica is very proud to announce it’s 100th release, Arturas BumÅ¡teinas’s “Gamelan Descending a Staircaseâ€! Arturas BumÅ¡teinas (aka Refusenik) is a composer of acoustic and electronic music (graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater), performer, sound artist, and a founding-member of Quartet Twentytwentyone, the Works & Days, Wolumen and Zarasai ensembles. His various …
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The second episode (of 5) of Arturas Bumšteinas’s Organ Archipelago is now available for streaming from ABC Radio National.
Gamelan Descending a Staircase by Arturas Bumšteinas
Arturas BumÅ¡teinas’s Organ Safari project will be highlighted in this week’s Soundproof in Australia’s ABC Radio National.
