The first part "Kaunas avalanche (confluence)" is a piece for 6 performers with pebbles, boulders, bushes and bells and a cello.
Georg Nussbaumer - composer, performance artist. He is considered a virtuoso "Gesamtkunstwerker" (the German term Gesamtkunstwerk roughly translates to "complete work of art" and describes a work of art or creative process in which different art forms are combined to create a cohesive whole). His works balance between composition, installation art, performance and theater. Nussbaumer expands the boundaries of musical instruments to installations, uses machines, videos or animals to realize his compositions. There is hardly anything that Georg Nussbaumer does not use for music, and his instruments can be a bow, deer antlers, a urinal, stones, potatoes, chewing gum. Nussbaumer works both with professional performers, ensembles and musicians, as well as with archers, a motorcycle club or hundreds of amateur country choristers. His large-scale productions are shown on international stages.
The first part "Kaunas Avalanche" is a piece about the incessant movement of stones down and rolling from the mountains to the sea. The phenomenon of migrating rocks as a horizontal avalanche is explored with microscopic precision in image and sound. This refreshing process, rarely heard in nature, is interspersed with the rustling of coastal vegetation. The bell and the cello, shaped like a person bathing on the shore, represent the passage of time at different speeds.
The second part "Bow Exercises (Wounds and Echoes)" is a piece for archer and cello.
Bow exercises express the relationship between a weapon and a musical instrument. Sagittarius copies the 6th century St. An image of Sebastian on a cello body resembling a human torso. The tension of the first shot is followed by a series of unrestrained violence. The arrows coincide with the arrows of the painting on the same body and turn into St. Sebastian's matrix, and each wound reverberates with the tone of a cello on the intact instrument.
