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Twentytwentyone Laptop Quartet performs selected pages
from 'Treatise' by
Cornelius Cardew. Live @ Jauna Muzika Festival 2006,
Vilnius, Lithuania.

Laptop Quartet twentytwentyone

Though these numbers do not represent the average age
of this quartet‘s
members, they actually refer to the certain
transitional period from what
we know as 20th century, with its modernistic (in the
neutral sense of
this word) outlook, to what is happening right now, as
well as what may
happen tomorrow. Performance of this ensemble could be
called concert as
exhibition, or a retrospect of graphic musical
notation extended with the
graphical materials of non-musical origin, that are
read as musical script
and, through collaborative efforts, transfered into
the sphere of live
electroacoustic sound.

Concert of twentytwentyone consists of four laptop
musicians performing
onstage a combination of these graphic notation
scores: Having Never
Written a Note For Percussion by American composer
James Tenney, Draw a
Straight Line and Follow It by American composer La
Monte Young, A Heap of
Language by American conceptual artist Robert
Smithson, Treatise by
English composer Cornelius Cardew, Morphology of City
by architect/sound
artist Tomas Grunskis, Expansia by Lithuanian composer
Vytautas V.
Jurgutis, Renaissance in Music by artist/composer
Arturas Bumðteinas and
the silent b/w film Symphonie Diagonale (1924) by
swedish-german
experimental film pioneer Viking Eggeling treated as a
moving graphic
score (the program is in the ongoing process of
update). All the scores
are projected on the screen for the audience‘s
observation.

Members:

Arturas Bumðteinas – composer of electronic and
acoustic music also works
as visual artist with a leaning towards cinematography
and conceptuality.
He runs mixthemixthemix label as well as practically
and theoretically
supports the concept of a musical opus as a platform
for parallel events.
More info at www.bumstein.com/art

Antanas Dombrovsky – collector of ecclectic and
contemporary urban
folklore, most often working in collaborative spheres
and projects. Lately
he has been making noticeable appearances as a
participant at visual art
events.

Lina Lapelytë – violinist, student of Keiko Wataya,
she has performed solo
with orchestras as well as with the alternative rock
group
Sugyvulintoslatakams. She is currently a student at
the London University
of Arts, improvises with the violin and records
sinusoidal sound tracks
with the use of computer.

Vilius Lys – is one of the representatives of the
phenomenal dynasty of
architects-sound-artists (including Kauðpëdas, Èiûta,
Naruðis, Grunskis).
Several albums of his music are available on the
internet and prove that
electronic ambient/glitch music has in no way reached
a dead end.

Selected pages from 'Treatise' by Cornelius Cardew

Subjectivity is a synonym for Treatise. This piece,
written from 1963 to
1967, is one of the most famous and most often
performed graphical
notation scores, consisting of 193 otherwise unrelated
pages that are
united by a single dominant symbol at the bottom of
each page – a double
staff (an allusion to the reduced piano score?).
Although the author has
later indicated that the score‘s horizontal space does
not literally
correspond to time, but because of this mentioned
piano staff the score
will be read in the traditional manner - from left to
right. Treatise is a
collection of graphical notation symbols without any
further explanations
or comments how they should be interpreted when they
are transferred from
paper into the sphere of sound. How should one
interpret a line, a dot, or
a circle?... You can only create your own answers to
these questions by
setting your own rules or, in other words, a model for
collective action,
which can remind us of a futuristic vehicle (p.50), or
a spaceship
(p.134), carrying its crew through “the mess of
potential sounds that
permeate this planet and its atmosphere”.



[ liner notes by Arturas Bumsteinas ] 



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