Music Laboratory Network THE PROCESS is designed for talented, enthusiastic and culturally conscious young artists whose primary goal is to create professional and exclusively valuable art, to disseminate it as far as possible while preserving artistic originality and authenticity. Stimulated by this objective, Music Laboratory Network THE PROCESS has opened a special niche, where valuable musical phenomena can be born.
Talented and professional young musicians and other artists from Lithuania and the world are invited to participate in THE PROCESS. Especially important task of THE PROCESS is to grow these young people into the global context of cultural consciousness. Over the years, musicians, participating in the world of professional music, working, gaining knowledge and experience, with a common understanding of cultural and elite art provides a significant starting point for new and dynamic ideas, born in laboratories.
Music Lab is an important event and at the same time, a big step into the process of growth, development and evolution of culture. Here a newborn innovative idea, an original artistic vision, developed and implemented in a few weeks is wraped into the aesthetic body and presented to the world without losing its initial transparency and power.
We believe that the art, born in our laboratories, will become a significant awareness-promoting factor in public, a spark, inciting cultural awareness and artistic literacy. We hope that THE PROCESS will draw attention of people from Lithuania to the events of world art and that the Lithuanian artistic traditions with their strong core of authenticity will become an integral part of this culture.
- Rūta Vitkauskaitė, The initiator of Music Laboratory Network THE PROCESS
Nordplus IP music laboratory THE PROCESS
‘Nordplus IP music laboratory THE PROCESS‘ is an educational programme, which aims to strengthen and develop Nordic-Baltic educational and cultural cooperation, to promote cooperation of young composers and professional musicians, to train well prepared composers in the multinational environment, and to disseminate project results by presenting musical works of young composers to the audience of Nordic and Baltic countries.
The Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre is a coordinating institution of the Nordplus IP. Partners are: Iceland Academy of the Arts, Malmö Academy of Music, Norwegian Academy of Music, Royal Danish Academy of Music, Sibelius Academy.
‘Nordplus IP music laboratory THE PROCESS‘ takes place in Lithuania – Druskininkai and Vilnius from May 20 to 30, 2010. THE PROCESS will be split into two parts: the first part will encompass lectures by professors and individual consultations as well as individual and group creative activities of selected participants – students of composition from partner institutions. The second part will involve public rehearsals of young composers and lecturers together with professional musicians – String Quartet ‘Chordos’ and ‘St. Christopher’s Woodwind Quintet’.
The 17 participants will create individually, the result of their ten-day activities will be 31 new composition and also premieres by their lecturers at three concerts in Lithuania during the International Contemporary Music Festival Druskomanija 2010.
PUBLIC EVENTS
at the International Contemporary Music Festival DRUSKOMANIJA 2010
DRUSKININKAI
full program see at www.druskomanija.lt
May 21-28
Hotel ‘Europa Royale’, Conference Hall No.5 (Vilnius avenue 7, Druskininkai)
“MONOLOGUES”: lecturers about contemporary music
May 21, Friday, 12 a.m.: lecture by composer Rytis Mažulis ‘Structural Cycles In My Microtonal Compositions’
May 21, Friday, 6 p.m.: lecture by composer Kent Olofsson (Sweden) ‘Alinea I-III For String Quartet And Electronics’
May 22, Saturday, 12 a.m.: lecture by composer Veli-Matti Puumala (Finland) ‘Aspects Of My Recent Music’
May 22, Saturday, 6 p.m..: lecture by composer Kjartan Olaffson (Iceland) ‘A Computer Program CALMUS’
May 23, Sunday, 12 a.m.: lecture by composer Niels Rosing Show (Denmark) ‘Spectral Procedures For Harmonic Processes’
May 24, Monday, 12 a.m.: lecture by composer Ivar Frounberg (Norway) ‘What’s Next In The World Of Contemporary Music?’
May 28, Friday, 12 a.m.: lecture by composer Tapio Tuomela (Finland) ‘Writing For Voice. National Heritage (Kalevala) In My Music’
VILNIUS
May 27, Thursday 6 p.m.
‘Menų spaustuvė’ (Arts Printing House), the Black Hall (Šiltadaržio st. 6, Vilnius)
Šiaurės muzika (Northern Music)
Compositions by the lecturers of the ‘PROCESS’. Niels Rosing-Show (Denmark) Kjartan Olafsson (Iceland), Ivar Frounberg (Norway), Kent Olofsson (Sweden), Veli-Matti Puumala (Finland), Rytis Mažulis (Lithuania), Tapio Tuomela (Finland)
Performers: String Quartet ‘Chordos‘, St. Christopher’s woodwind quintet
DRUSKININKAI
May 29, Saturday 12 a.m.
Švč. Mergelės Škaplierinės bažnyčia (St. Virgin Škaplierinė Church), Vilnius avenue 1, Druskininkai
Jaunoji Šiaurės muzika. I dalis (The young Northern music, part I)
Compositions by the particioants of the ‘PROCESS’.
Ansgar Beste (Sweden), Jan Dobiaš (Czech), Árni Gudjonsson (Ireland), Juhani Junkala (Finland), Øyvind Mæland (Norway), Filip Correia de Melo (Sweden), Tiina Myllärinen (Finalnd), Alessandro Perini (Italy), Agnes Ida Pettersen (Norway), Justina Repečkaitė, Mantas Savickis, Justina Šikšnelytė, Marius Čivilis, Lukrecija Petkutė, Tadas Dailyda, Julius Aglinskas, Rita Mačiliūnaitė (Lithuania)
Performers: String Quartet ‘Chordos‘, St. Christopher’s woodwind quintet
May 29, Saturday 3 p.m.
Hotel ‘Europa Royale’ Restaurant (Vilnius avenue 7, Druskininkai)
Jaunoji Šiaurės muzika. II dalis (The young Northern music, part II)
Compositions by the particioants of the ‘PROCESS’. Jan Dobiaš (Czech), Juhani Junkala (Finland), Øyvind Mæland (Norway), Filip Correia de Melo (Sweden), Tiina Myllärinen (Finalnd), Agnes Ida Pettersen (Norway), Justina Repečkaitė, Mantas Savickis, Justina Šikšnelytė, Marius Čivilis, Lukrecija Petkutė, Tadas Dailyda, Julius Aglinskas, Rita Mačiliūnaitė (Lithuania)
Performers: String Quartet ‘Chordos‘, St. Christopher’s woodwind quintet