{"id":1081,"date":"2009-02-09T09:45:47","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T08:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2009-02-09T09:45:47","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T08:45:47","slug":"new-cd-release-gintas-k%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%9clovely-banalities%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=1081","title":{"rendered":"New CD release: Gintas K\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lovely Banalities\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/img\/cat\/040-2009-h.jpg\" alt=\"Lovely Banalities\" \/><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=040\">Lovely Banalities<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is the second release in Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica from Lithuanian sound-artist Gintas K, after the much acclaimed double CD from 2006 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=024\">Lengvai \/ 60 x one minute audio colours of 2kHz sound<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong>Lovely Banalities<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d presents fourteen short pieces \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a collection of miniatures, impressions, sketches, innuendos and errors \u00e2\u20ac\u201d inspired on the exceptionality and suprisingness of the quotidian, on the extraordinary everydayness.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=gintask\">Gintas K<\/a> draws analogies between these pieces and Modest Mussorgsky\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s suite \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pictures at an Exhibition\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, mapping fourteen individual moments, ready to be visited by the listener. The pieces of synthesized digital music are contrasted with evocative field recordings, captured in Gintas K\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hometown of Marijampol\u00c4\u2014, during a windy summer Sunday afternoon. These are sounds of lovely and quotidian moments, unremarkable sounds that are an evocation of forgotten and rediscovered feelings, of small and precious things from the past that still hover in the air, that remain in the streets, somewhere in the grass. The field recordings weave the pieces together, guiding this auditory visit. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<strong>Lovely Banalities<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d thrives by its apparent formal and structural simplicity, but this simplicity \u00e2\u20ac\u201d as in everyday life \u00e2\u20ac\u201d is an illusion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/img\/cat\/040-2009-9.jpg\" alt=\"Marijampol\u00c4\u2014\" \/><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lovely Banalities\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was composed by Gintas K. The lovely cover art was created by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmuth.net\/\">David Muth<\/a>. It was designed and mastered by MCarvalhais.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/img\/cat\/040-2009-10.jpg\" alt=\"Marijampol\u00c4\u2014\" \/><br \/>\nYou can listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/download.cronicaelectronica.org\/040200905.m3u\">C2<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/download.cronicaelectronica.org\/040200910.m3u\">Lovely Banalities<\/a>, read the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/pr\/pr040~2009.pdf\">Press-release<\/a>, buy the CD directly from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=040\">Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica<\/a>, or download through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boomkat.com\/item.cfm?id=156884\">Boomkat<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zero-inch.com\/bundleDetails.jsp?productId=82288\">Zero Inch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lovely Banalities\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is the second release in Cr\u00c3\u00b3nica from Lithuanian sound-artist Gintas K, after the much acclaimed double CD from 2006 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lengvai \/ 60 x one minute audio colours of 2kHz sound\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lovely Banalities\u00e2\u20ac\u009d presents fourteen short pieces \u00e2\u20ac\u201d a collection of miniatures, impressions, sketches, innuendos and errors \u00e2\u20ac\u201d inspired on the exceptionality and suprisingness &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=1081\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New CD release: Gintas K\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lovely Banalities\u00e2\u20ac\u009d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[57,21],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-releases","tag-david-muth","tag-gintas-k","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1093,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions\/1093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}