EVENT SERIES “VOLT& VIBE” OPENING | Palle Dahlstedt, Mantautas Krukauskas, Matas Samulionis, Anders Tveit

Volt & Vibe is a series of events inviting composers and performers from different countries, students, lecturers and guests of the Academy to fulfill their electrified sonic ideas in the spaces of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and its partners. Let’s manifest electricity into sound, sound into thought, thought into feeling and vice versa. Volt & Vibe celebrates the alchemy of music, the sonification of fantasy and the freedom to experiment.

Electronic music composers Palle Dahlstedt, Mantautas Krukauskas, Matas Samulionis and Anders Tveit form the free improvisational electronic music quartet for the grand opening of event series “Volt & Vibe”!

Palle Dahlstedt (b.1971) is an artist, musician, composer and researcher from Sweden. After extensive studies in classical piano and composition, he continued into electronic music, and since the 1990s, modular synthesizers are among his main instruments, together with the grand piano. He is strongly focused on being a musician on the machines, with improvisation and physical interaction as key ingredients. As a researcher, Dahlstedt started with a PhD in evolutionary computation for artistic creativity from Chalmers University of Technology (2004). He is interested in the deep entanglement of art and advanced technology, and especially its creative and aesthetic implications. He develops new technologies for improvisation, composition and art, and is especially interested in advanced algorithms in creative process, in technologies that allow for embodied performance on electronic sounds, and new kinds of interactions, based on a systems view of emergence from human-technology interactions. He constantly steps over into other art forms such as photography, video, visual arts and performance, and collaborates regularly with artists from theatre, poetry, dance and the visual arts. Dahlstedt has contributed art, technologies and theories to the field of computational creativity, and has received extensive artistic research funding from the Swedish Research Council and WASP-HS. Dahlstedt is currently Professor of Interaction Design at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, and lecturer in electronic music composition at the Academy of Music and Drama, Gothenburg. He is also adjunct professor in Art & Technology at Aalborg University, Denmark.

 

Matas Samulionis is an improviser, composer who is constantly searching for a balance between acoustic and electronic music principles. He graduated from the LMTA(Lithuanian Music andTheatre Academy)with a degree in jazz performance, and later in improvisational and contemporary music performance. During his Master’s studies Matas became fascinated with analogue modular synthesizers, the depth of sound and the infinite possibilities for timbre. His knowledge of electronic music deepened as a member of the electronic music duo “Artfcl”, where he released a number of albums, and later with the contemporary electroacoustic music group Quark Effect. In parallel, Matas develops other creative projects, not limiting himself to either by style nor by format (e.g.: the embodied electroacoustic composition “Time and Space”, the soundtrack for the exhibition “Ethnographic Op Art: The Textile Tradition”, the live “voice-over”of a silent film, and live experimental chamber performances). Currently the musician is measuring his status as an art researcher as a candidate for a Doctor of Arts degree.

Mantautas Krukauskas (b. 1980) – composer and sound artist, Associate Professor at the Department of Composition of Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in Vilnius, where he is also a co-founder and Head (since 2016) of Music Innovation Studies Centre, academic lab for studies, art and research, with a focus on music technology, innovation in music and music education, interactive arts, and immersive media. His compositions, including chamber music, electronic music, sound art work, music for theatre and dance productions etc. have been performed in Lithuania, Austria, Germany, France, Canada, USA, and other countries. His artistic activity also comprises electronic music performance and work within creative industries sphere with music production and arrangement. Mantautas Krukauskas has been actively involved in diverse field of activities, including leading and managing of international artistic, research and educational programmes. His interests comprise interdisciplinarity, creativity, music and media technologies, and a synergy of different aesthetic and cultural approaches.

 

Anders Tveit (b. 1977) works mainly with electroacoustic composition, improvisation and sound installations. Where the use of self-developed software for real-time processing and spatial sound plays a central role in the musical expression.
“In my work, I am constantly interested in working with new approaches to the use of new technology, both in the composition process and in the performance. Something that for me, creates a holistic thinking around the work and the artistic result. This often means that I like to work in such a way that the differences between developer, performer and composer are blurred, which I find interesting, challenging and exciting. ”
Tveit is also an Associate Professor at The Norwegian Academy of Music and a concert producer and chairman of nyMusikk Vestfold.