{"id":11006,"date":"2022-05-03T08:20:14","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T07:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11006"},"modified":"2022-05-03T08:20:17","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T07:20:17","slug":"gintas-ks-leti-reviewed-by-aural-aggravation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/?p=11006","title":{"rendered":"Gintas K\u2019s \u201cL\u0117ti\u201d\u00a0reviewed by\u00a0Aural Aggravation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Having seen various videos of Gintas K\u2019s improvisations, involving a keyboard and a dusty old Lenovo ThinkPad running some custom software, it\u2019s apparent that his approach to composition is nothing if not unusual, and it\u2019s matched by the results. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

His Cr\u00f3nica debut, Lengvai \/ 60 x one minute audio colours of 2kHz sound<\/em> was sixteen years ago, and his return to the label is a very different offering, although as has been a common factor throughout his career, L\u0117ti<\/em> \u2013 Lithuanian for slow \u2013 consists of comparatively short pieces \u2013 and here, the majority are four minutes long or less. Less is more, and what\u2019s more, Gintas K invariably manages to pack more into a couple of minutes than many artists do in half an hour. Here, we have a set of eleven short pieces \u2018created from recording and improvising in studio followed by extensive mixing and editing using software.\u2019 There\u2019s no more detail than that: some artists accompany their releases with essays explaining the creative process and the algorithms of the software and so on, but Gintas K simply leaves the music for the listener to engage with and to ponder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where L\u0117ti<\/em> is something of a departure is in the emphasis on the editing and mixing of the material and the fact that, as the title suggests, the arrangements are a little more sedate. The signature crackles and pops, chines and static are all present and correct, but there\u2019s a sense of deliberation as we\u2019re led through ethereal planes of delicate chimes and tinkling tones that resonate and hang in the air, drifting in open expanses, with time and space to reverberate and slowly decay. With this more measured feel, melodies become more apparent, with simple motifs, repeated, giving \u2018Hallucination\u2019 a sense of structure and, I suppose you might actually say \u2018tune\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It isn\u2019t that Gintas\u2019 works lack tunefulness as such, but that any tune is surrounded by froth and extranea, and so much is going on it\u2019s often hard to miss. Listening to L\u0117ti<\/em> is a fairly calm, even soothing experience, at least for the most part, conjuring a mood of reflection, of contemplation. The album\u2019s longest piece, the seven-minute \u2018Various\u2019 brings a dense wave of sound that surges and swells slowly like a turning tide. There\u2019s almost a stately grandeur to it, but then, there\u2019s a rattling kind of a buzz that\u2019s something of a distraction, and a glitch that nags away and seems to accelerate. These little headfucks are quintessential Gintas K, and L\u0117ti <\/strong><\/em>isn\u2019t all soft and sweet: \u2018Savage\u2019 brings thick, fuzzing distortion and discomfort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The flurries of sound, the babble of bubbling bleeps and bloops that are his standard fare are slowed to sparse, irregular drips in a cave on \u2018Variation\u2019, and the application of reverb is impressively nuanced, to the point that the reverbs almost become music in their own right. \u2018Atmosphere\u2019 and \u2018Ambient\u2019 are appropriately titled, while \u2018Nice Pomp\u2019 would comfortably serve as a soundtrack to a slow-motion film of a moon landing or somesuch, and again none of the pieces are without depth or detail, as the layers and slivers of sound that intersect create so much more than mere surface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

L\u0117ti is a genuinely pleasant and pleasurable listening experience, but is most certainly isn\u2019t straightforward or simple in what it delivers. There are many sonic nuggets to unearth, and so many tones and textures along the way, that what is, superficially \u2018less\u2019 is, in actual fact, a whole lot more. Christopher Nosnibor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

via AURAL AGGRAVATION<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Having seen various videos of Gintas K\u2019s improvisations, involving a keyboard and a dusty old Lenovo ThinkPad running some custom software, it\u2019s apparent that his approach to composition is nothing if not unusual, and it\u2019s matched by the results.  His Cr\u00f3nica debut, Lengvai \/ 60 x one minute audio colours of 2kHz sound was sixteen years ago, … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Gintas K\u2019s \u201cL\u0117ti\u201d\u00a0reviewed by\u00a0Aural Aggravation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[546,21],"class_list":["post-11006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-546","tag-gintas-k","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11006","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=11006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11008,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11006\/revisions\/11008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cronicaelectronica.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}