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Indrė Baik​š​tyt​ė​, Jonė Punytė - Vykintas Baltakas - Sandwriting (I) for two electric keyboards & computer

from Vykintas Baltakas - Sandwritings by Vykintas Baltakas, SWR-Symphony Orchestra, Brad Lubman, Indrė Baikštytė, Jonė Punytė

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Sandwriting (2008) for two keyboards and live electronics

Music is a time based medium or 'art in time'. Linearity is a specific way of thinking in music, that reaches a peak in the classic-romatical era, and remains strong in the musical thinking today. In the linear perception musical changes are seen as events in time. This is related to the way we perceive, organize and memorize temporal information. Often this type of linearity will be seen as a "musical narrative".

As a composer, I am interested in a musical structure which involves changes, but is not based on narrative. Since music is time based, it is effectively impossible to escape the temporality, but I do think it is possible to unravel the linearity of it.

In 2017-2018 I wrote a work for two electric pianos and electronics “Sandwriting", which was commissioned by the WDR Cologne (Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik) and was realised in close cooperation with the Experimentalstudio des SWR, Freiburg. This instrumentation in combination with the use of electronics provided the perfect conditions to experiment with a new non-linear model.

Every piano part contains around 20 musical episodes, which emphasize certain aspects of the initial material and together create a sort of continuous variation. The order in which these episodes appear is not fixed. Operating prepared algorithms, the computer plays an important role: as it adapts the texture by adding and removing notes, changing the harmony or timbre depending on the pianist's interpretation. More so: the computer monitors the overall sound and chooses the best suited episode for continuation, again by operating prepared algorithms.

In the morphing process that results from this, the actual path or direction of the episodes is not essential anymore. By morphing I mean: the gradual transformation of one sound into another. The structure that is created in this way, I call the modal form.

This brings on new challenges for the performer. The pianist is involved in a different way of music creation, where the effort goes towards the active creation of the overall sound and less to the vertical synchronization of the musical material. The articulation, dynamics and attack immediately affects the texture, timbre and form of the piece.

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from Vykintas Baltakas - Sandwritings, released March 20, 2022
Indrė Baikštytė, Jonė Punytė (keyboards)
Vykintas Baltakas (electronics)

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