MUZIKA ERDVĖJE '23 | Going to Nowhere: Along the Drones

Dominykas Digimas
GOING TO NOWHERE: ALONG THE DRONES (or SUB-SILENCE)

Musical expedition around the Karoliniškės Landscape Reserve

Meeting point: Plikakalnis escarpment (Location on the map→)

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ATTENTION:

• Please ensure you have comfortable, suitable footwear for extended walks that do not produce noise, along with appropriate clothing and protection against insects and ticks.
  

• The route involves steep hills, narrow winding paths, and potentially dangerous cliffs. Before purchasing a ticket, assess your ability to participate. Organizers will not be held responsible for any injuries sustained during the event. By participating, you take full responsibility for your safety.

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The Karoliniškiai Landscape Reserve and its surroundings are one of the spaces in Vilnius where the dominant soundscape of nature intertwines with the distant urban bustle. Here, we can retreat from the city's hustle and bustle, yet we can never fully escape it.

Amidst the presence of nearby sounds, we often pay less attention to those occurring at the acoustic horizon. Therefore, this deep listening walk will help expand your auditory perception, enabling you to hear the forest and the city beyond in a way that's different from anything you could imagine. Thanks to the ensembles, the Three Flutes and the Twenty Fingers Duo, the familiar forest soundscape will take on a slightly different hue, making all participants an integral part of this experience.

"Going to Nowhere" is a collaborative artistic research practice. Through listening walks, we aim to experience everyday urban space differently and capture sensory experiences. The routes we take are unique, linked only by their starting and ending points. We are compiling an archive of urban sounds and images, with the empirical impressions captured through team members' reflections and other media becoming the basis for audio, visual, and other format works.

"Along the Drones" (or "Sub-Silence") is an embedded study of the team members' walks in the western direction of Vilnius.

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Site-specific Music Festival
MUZIKA ERDVĖJE ‘23 • Location Unknown
5–10 09 | Vilnius

This year, the festival invites to reflect on the places, communities, or processes that remain on the fringes or outskirts of Vilnius society and public life, thus concluding the cycle of themes dedicated to the 700th anniversary of the capital.

In the eleven works created by Lithuanian and foreign composers and artists from various fields, the audience will have the chance to catch a glimpse of the unadorned face of Vilnius. Unexpected locations, intriguing harmonies, unconventional approaches to experiencing music and space, and, most importantly, thought-provoking themes and discomforting contexts. This year's festival program fosters an intimate, open, and authentic conversation between you and Vilnius.

Festival Directors – Matas Drukteinis and Agnė Matulevičiūtė

Organizer: „Meno genas“

Supported by:
Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius City

Strategic Partner:
Lithuanian Composers' Union

Location Partners:
Refugees Reception Center | Radvila Palace Museum of Art | LDS art space „Medūza" | Energy and Technology Museum | „Active Vilnius“

Program Partners:
Arts agency „Artscape“ | Arts and Science Lab

Partners and Supporters:
Music Information Centre Lithuania | Music Composing and Creativity School „Muzikalkė“

www.muzikaerdveje.lt