Electronic music legend Jeff Mills to perform in Lithuania: an exclusive live performance

Legendary electronic music artist Jeff Mills (USA) is coming to Lithuania for the first time. The icon of Detroit's techno scene, producer, DJ, composer, producer, DJ and composer will perform at the first concert on November 6, 2014. The musician, composer and DJ of the Detroit Detroit Symphony Orchestra, will give an exclusive performance with live music performers at the newly equipped LVSO Concert Hall in Vilnius. Over the past decades, Jeff Mills has gone beyond electronica to create spectacular performances that blend music, contemporary art, pop culture, design and science fiction, and his concerts with live musicians have received worldwide acclaim and are regularly invited to major concert halls and festivals. Last year he performed at Hamburg's famous Elbe Philharmonic, London's Barbican and Amsterdam's Muziekgebouw concert halls, the Cologne and Luxembourg philharmonics, and this year's tour began in May in New York, followed by performances at the Grand Théâtre de Genève in Switzerland, the Parvis de la Défense in Paris, and the Théâtre d'Arles Antique in France. Before his concert in Lithuania, Jeff Mills will perform in Barcelona at the Jazztronica Festival, and after Vilnius he will perform at the famous Antwerp International Arts Centre De Singel.

Jeff Mills began his musical career in Detroit in the 1980s and has been releasing music on his own label, Axis Records, since 1992. He first came to prominence as a member of the Underground Resistance, then under the stage name "The Wizard". In 1991, looking for new challenges, he moved to New York, then to Berlin, where he was a resident at the famous Tresor club, and then to Chicago. Later, he became interested in science fiction, from which he drew inspiration. In the 2000s, he began to link his music to other art forms. Jeff Mills composed the soundtrack for Fritz Lang's famous futuristic film Metropolis (1927), the success of which led him to other similar projects.

As a video artist, he has staged numerous performances and exhibitions at art institutions such as the Centre for Contemporary Culture, CCCB in Barcelona, London's Southbank Centre and the Barbican Centre, the Cinémathèque Française and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, as well as at the Monte-Carlo Art Fair. In 2014, French film director and producer Jacqueline Caux made a film about Jeff Mills and his music, Man From Tomorrow. In 2015, he was invited to become Artist in Residence at the Louvre Museum, where he created four performances that fused music, film and dance. In the same year, he formed the electronic jazz fusion band Spiral Deluxe. In 2017, as artist in residence at the Barbican Centre, he presented From Here to There, a series of innovative conceptual events combining electronic music with symphonic sounds and other art forms.

Jeff Mills was the first DJ to collaborate with classical orchestras. His first such work was Blue Potential (2005), for which he created a new version, Light from the Outside World, which is still widely played today, in 2012.Other works with symphony orchestra include Where Light Ends (2013), Planets (2015), inspired by Gustav Holst's Planets Suite, and more. Jeff Mills has released around 70 albums and numerous individual works. In 2007 he was awarded the French government's Order of the Cavalier of Arts and Letters ("L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres") and in 2017 he was awarded the Officer's Cross of the same order in recognition of his services to the arts.

Excerpts from Jeff Mills' performances.