KOSMOS LAB'23

Open lecture

Prof. HEINER GOEBBELS (GER) Composer and director, one of the most important creators of contemporary music and theatre in Europe. He has created numerous sound and visual installations, theatrical concerts, and contemporary music theatre performances. His compositions for ensembles and large orchestras are performed worldwide. For almost 20 years he was a professor at Justus Liebig University Giessen; he served as president of the Hessian Theatre Academy and was artistic director of the international arts festival “RUHRTRIENNALE”. In 2012, he became laureate of the International Ibsen Award for “innovative work”. He published “Aesthetics of Absence”, a book of particular significance in the theatre world.

Open lecture: “Laboratory of Imagination”

Prof. Dr. KRISTUPAS SABOLIUS Philosopher, writer, translator, screenwriter, professor at the Institute of Philosophy of Vilnius University, and affiliated scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He wrote the screenplays for the films “Invisible” and “The Gambler” (with director Ignas Jonynas). He published the book “The Man Who Knew Everything” (with Tomas Ramanauskas) and the novel “Bad Book” (2006, Vilnius, “Tyto alba”).

Creative mentor and music technology consultant

Assoc. Prof. MANTAUTAS KRUKAUSKAS Composer and sound artist, lecturer at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, and head of the Music Innovation Studies Centre. His chamber music, theatre music, electroacoustic and audiovisual compositions, and other sound art works have been presented in Lithuania, Austria, Germany, France, the USA, Canada, and other countries. An active organiser of and participant in international artistic research and educational projects. He works in the field of spatial music and sound, and since 2019 has been part of the “Jazz Academy” collective.

Production mentor, consultant for technical and visual solutions

DEIVIDAS DZIKEVIČIUS Engineer of interactive technological solutions, metallurgist, 3D designer. He builds complex mechanical systems incorporating 3D projections and works with robotics, sensor installation, CNC machining, and 3D printing: from realistic film sets or miniatures to giant interactive installations.

SOUND SCULPTURE: “LLLLOVE V 0.32”

by Jonas Jurkūnas, Donatas Jankauskas (Duonis)

This alphabetised love story explores cases where meanings survive after various framing procedures. Independent sound objects create a constantly renewing space of voiced letters. Part of an opera project developed together with “Operomanija” and Duonis, based on Eve Rhymer’s book “Legendary, Lexical, Loquacious Love”.

SOUND SCULPTURE: “HERE HEAR”

by Edvinas Siliūnas, Agnė Nemanytė

On Earth there is no space without sound. Even locked in a completely isolated room with no external sound, after some time you would hear your own heartbeat, your own breathing. This interactive installation is a game in which the soundscape emerges, changes, expands, or contracts through a person’s physical presence and movement in space. An inseparable connection between the body and the materiality of sound. Perceptually (and physically) it is both a social event and a private experience, one that envelops us and is extracted from within.

ONE’S OWN ATTENTION | FOR ONE’S OWN TIME

by Ieva Raubytė, Lina Židonytė

24 hours in a day — the time we all have in common. Nature and humanity function differently within this structure. A human’s relationship with time is individual: comfortable in some ways, uncomfortable in others; for some there is too much of it, for others not enough. Nature operates cyclically, consistently, and naturally adapts to change. For humans, this unit of measure poses challenges and raises conflicting questions: how to fit in? Manage everything on time? Do more? Make use of it? How not to get lost?… What if we looked at the time of day from the outside? What if we allowed ourselves to choose and visually see our priorities? Where would attention be directed? And how would it sound?

WORK FOR PIANO, TWO CAMERAS AND SEVEN OBJECTS

by Andrius Šiurys, Kornelijus Jaroševičius, Žilvinas Vingelis, Julija Bagdonavičiūtė

An audiovisual work, written in a precise score of musical and visual parameters, which explores the semantic and aesthetic relationships between sound and visual objects performed live on stage, as well as audiovisual polyphony and audiovisual montage.

Are attention and imagination enough to hear a sound in an image and to see an image in sound? Do we recognise when these two media operate together and when they act separately? How quickly do we get distracted?

In the age of visual culture, artists from different fields use the image as one of the instruments to create a coherent, live-performed chamber work that connects the practices of performative arts, montage, music, and camera work.

Performed by pianist Julija Bagdonavičiūtė; broadcast director Kornelijus Jaroševičius; actress Gintarė Šmigelskytė; camera operators Dinas Marcinkevičius and Nojus Šeputis.