OUT OF ČIURLIONIS ø Festival MUSIC AUTUMN 2025

On October 9, at 7 p.m., the Energy and Technology Museum will host the opening of the Contemporary Lithuanian Music Festival MUSIC AUTUMN („Muzikos ruduo“) with the programme OUT OF ČIURLIONIS.

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The programme OUT OF ČIURLIONIS creates a space between epochs, where Čiurlionis’s String Quartet in C minor radiates like a distant star, shining with the light of Lithuanian Romanticism – an image of a lost, gentle and intimate world, re-read from today’s perspective: through the languages of electronics, unconventional performance techniques and live visuals.

Alongside the original work, Antanas Jasenka’s and Antanas Kučinskas’s composition OUT OF ČIURLIONIS forms a prism of our own time, through which the rays of Čiurlionis’s music reach us from afar – like starlight, transformed beyond recognition, becoming an entirely new work. In this confrontation of different temporal expressions, Čiurlionis’s quartet, without altering its score, opens other dimensions and reflects how our relationship with sound, form and aesthetics has changed over the past century.

Let us quietly dream: what if Čiurlionis suddenly found himself here today – among sound effects, code and streams of images – and how might his thought unfold through the means of our time, in the soundscapes of today.

PROGRAMME:

Thursday, October 9
Energy and Technology Museum

6:00 p.m. OPENING DISCUSSION (free admission)

7:00 p.m. CONCERT

OUT OF ČIURLIONIS
Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis | String quartet in C minor, VL 83 (1901)
Antanas Jasenka, Antanas Kučinskas | Out of Čiurlionis (2007) for string quartet, two laptops and live video projection

PERFORMERS

CHORDOS String Quartet
Antanas Jasenka, Antanas Kučinskas (laptops)
Džiugas Katinas (live video projection)

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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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