CHAIN OF CHANGES ø Music Autumn 2025

On October 10, at 7 p.m., the Energy and Technology Museum will host the second concert of the Festival MUSIC AUTUMN (“Muzikos ruduo“), featuring the Contemporary Music Ensemble LENsemble's programme CHAIN OF CHANGES.

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“Chain of Changes” is a creative principle in which each new musical stage builds on and develops the one before it. In this way, the concert’s overall sound becomes a single continuous compositional line. This principle of re-composition is characteristic of Vykintas Baltakas’s work, which is why the concert opens with his re(a)Line for saxophone(s) and electronics. With the help of electronics, the soloist creates a single continuous line that, once recorded at the beginning, is subsequently extended and constantly transformed.

The main performers of the concert are Liudas Mockūnas and the younger generation of saxophonists – graduates of LMTA’s Contemporary Music Performance programme, who, during their studies, combined academic music with free improvisation. It is no coincidence, then, that the principle introduced in the first piece is further developed in improvisational form. Through successive cycles of re-creation, the musical material mutates into an entirely new musical expression.

Symbolically, the concert is concluded with Bronius Kutavičius’s opus “Far Away, Till Midnight” (1995). Written for the rare ensemble of five saxophones and strings, the piece reflects the composer’s fascination with Indian musical culture. As is well known, this culture is grounded in a profound improvisational tradition – over centuries, its musical structures and modes have provided the foundation for a constant process of “rewriting”.

Thus, “Chain of Changes” expresses not only a musical principle but also symbolises the transformation of kindred ideas in the light of generational change.

Friday, 10 October
Energy and Technology Museum
7:00 p.m.

CHAIN OF CHANGES

Vykintas Baltakas | re(a)Line (premiere)
for saxophone(s) and electronics
Improvisations
Bronius Kutavičius | Far Away, Till Midnight (1995)
for five saxophones and five strings

PERFORMERS

LENsemble
Saxophones: Liudas Mockūnas, Gregory Kharaneka, Kazimieras Jušinskas, Arminas Bižys, Artiom Zalizko
Strings: Vaida Paukštienė (I violin), Ulijona Pugačiukaitė (II violin), Robertas Bliškevičius (viola), Viktor Rekalo (violoncello), Gediminas Stepanavičius (double bass)
Conductor: Vykintas Baltakas

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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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