CLARA DE ASÍS (ES / AT) × REBECCA LANE (AU / DE) | An event in the PLAYGROUND new music concert series

Clara de Asís (ES / AT) × Rebecca Lane (AU/DE)
An event in the PLAYGROUND new music concert series

Tuesday, August 25, 6pm
Sapieha Palace, 13 L. Sapiegos St., Vilnius

The final PLAYGROUND concert of the summer marks an important milestone for this season, opening a new cycle of international projects and programmes featuring artists from abroad. Appearing on the PLAYGROUND stage in Lithuania for the first time are Spanish composer and sound artist Clara de Asís (Spain / Austria) and Berlin - based flutist Rebecca Lane, whose practices are united by a shared interest in microtonality, sound, and the ways it is perceived.
Within the PLAYGROUND programme, the concert continues the series' focus on diverse listening practices and the edges of contemporary music.

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If I Was You
Clara de Asís

Electronics, percussion
35’

In ‘If I was you’, Clara de Asís interweaves slowly evolving electronic patterns on an analog synthesizer with small percussion. Through different degrees of amplification, these elements shift in presence and relation, generating spontaneous interactions across frequencies and spaces. The piece reflects on the ambiguity of sound’s identity – how it takes shape over time and how it blurs. Moving between stability and uncertainty, it draws attention to the embodied process of perception.

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Day Falling
Clara de Asís & Rebecca Lane
Alto flute, voice, electronics
35’

‘Day Falling’ continuously reshapes the relationships between melody, harmony, and environment through microtonal modulations. Balancing precision with fluctuation, it invites a mode of listening in which the interplay between alto flute, voice and electronics points to the threshold of appearance and disappearance.

Performers:
Clara de Asís – analogue synthesizer, percussion, electronics

Rebecca Lane – alto flute, vocals, electronics

6 pm | Clara de Asís – “If I Was You” (35 min.)
7 pm | Clara de Asís & Rebecca Lane – “Day Falling” (35 min.)

Tickets: €20 / €15 (discounted)

The international PLAYGROUND programme will continue this fall:
— October 13 – GBSR Duo (UK)
— December 1 – Anzû Quartet (USA)

Producer: “Tarp tylos”
Co-producer: Sapieha Palace
Curator: Arnas Kmieliauskas
Partners: Lithuanian Composers’ Union
Media partners: LRT Klasika, Radio Vilnius
Sponsor: Baltic-American Freedom Foundation
Funded by: Lithuanian Council for Culture, LATGA, Vilnius City Municipality
Visual communication: Lauryna Narkevičiūtė
Text editing and translation: Alexandra Bondarev