First concert in Lithuania with MiMu Gloves!
The concert will feature new original works by Raminta Naujanytė - Bjelles and collaborative compositions with the concert guests. The main highlight of the event will be the MiMu Gloves, an interactive gesture-controlled device. MiMu Gloves is a device developed by the renowned British composer, performer and innovator Imogen Heap and her team, which allows you to control and create music using hand gestures. This device, which is rarely seen in practice and still new in Lithuania, offers new possibilities for the composer to express music. The composer notes that MiMu Gloves is at its best when interacting with other acoustic and electronic musical instruments. The new compositions prepared for this concert will be performed with familiar combinations of vocals, live electronics, saxophone and orchestra!
Raminta Naujanytė - Bjelle is a PhD student at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, the chairwoman of the board of the association LATGA, and a renowned composer and performer. Raminta graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Academic Composition and a Master's degree in Electronic Composition. After a semester of Erasmus exchange programme in Iceland, her focus turned to new technologies in music. During her Master's studies, she and her team developed sensor-based devices and an attribution system for gesture-controlled music performance. She is now exploring non-tactile gesture-controlled musical devices and their function in composer-performer practice. Bjelle is well known to Lithuanian audiences as a lyrical songwriter and a participant in television projects, but in this concert, she will reveal herself in the context of a different musical aesthetic. She has performed and presented her musical compositions in Norway, Ukraine (2013), Switzerland, USA (Chicago), Iceland (2018), Japan and South Korea (2019).
Main concert participants:
Raminta Naujanytė - Bjelle (gesture-controlled instrument - MiMu Gloves, voice)
Šv. Christophers Chamber Orchestra, leader and conductor Modestas Barkauskas
Concert Guests:
Matas Samulionis (saxophone and electronics)
Milda Andrijauskaitė and Teresė Andrijauskaitė (voices)
Adas Gecevičius (electronics and percussion)
