RICERCARS OF TWITTERING MACHINES ø Music autumn 2025

On Tuesday, October 14, at 7 p.m., the MUZIKOS RUDUO (“Muzikos ruduo“) festival repertoire will feature the LMTA Electronic Music Ensemble's programme RICERCARS OF TWITTERING MACHINES, which will sound in a space that perfectly matches its name – the Energy and Technology Museum.

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In the mid-1980s, a new stylistic current emerged in Lithuanian music, foregrounding the radically mechanical aspects of sound. Its authors – later dubbed the “machinist generation” (Ričardas Kabelis, Šarūnas Nakas, Rytis Mažulis, Gintaras Sodeika, Nomeda Valančiūtė, Tomas Juzeliūnas) - created works that now re-emerge within the context of live electronic music.

In this concert, the music of the “machinist generation” unfolds as a vibrant, multi-layered organism of sound, where the relationship between machine and human is re-examined. It is not merely a recomposition or reinterpretation, but a new dialogue with perhaps the most conceptual phenomenon in Lithuanian music.

Tuesday, 14 October, 7:00 PM
The Energy and Technology Museum

RICERCARS OF TWITTERING MACHINES
LMTA Electronic Music Ensemble

Concert programme:

Recompositional Session - Fragments of the “Machinist Generation” in Today’s Projection
Rytis Mažulis - Twittering Machine
Šarūnas Nakas - Merz-machine
Gintaras Sodeika - Baza gaza
Ričardas Kabelis - Invariations
Nomeda Valančiūtė - Narcissus
Tomas Juzeliūnas - Telephonics

Performers:

Since 2019, the LMTA Electronic Music Ensemble has been exploring the boundaries of electronic sound. This creative laboratory of the Composition Department brings together students from various disciplines who seek to deepen their understanding of electronic music performance and free improvisation, often combining acoustic instruments with electronics. The ensemble not only performs compositions but also ventures into new territories of musical creation. Here, curiosity meets musical collaboration.

Artistic director - Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jonas Jurkūnas
Principal concertmaster - Lect. Dr. Matas Samulionis

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This year, the Festival MUSIC AUTUM („Muzikos ruduo“) is joining forces with BALTIC MUSIC DAYS, a festival held annually in a different Baltic country

This year's festival theme MEANING TRANSFORMATIONS invites us to look at intermediality and explore various forms of meaning transformation, observe the process of change itself, and discover how a whole new field of meanings opens up depending on the medium.

The theme was not chosen at random: in 2025, we are celebrating the 150th anniversary of M. K. Čiurlionis' birth. In his work, music and painting intertwined synesthetically, creating one of the most striking examples of how different artistic languages can extend and transform each other.

Organized by: VšĮ Muzikos ruduo
Funded by: Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius City Municipality
Strategic partners: Lithuanian Composers' Union, Baltic Contemporary Music Network
Information partners: LRT, Latvijas Radio 3 – Klasika, Klaasika Raadio

Partners:
Energy and Technology Museum, Kablys, Lithuanian Music Information Center, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater, Latvian Composers' Union, Estonian Composers' Union, Estonian Cultural Council, GoVilnius.

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