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Juste Janulyte. Sandglasses

"Sandglasses" for four cellos, live electronics and the installation of video, light and tulle (2010) Idea and music: Justė Janulytė Video installation: Luca Scarzella Video assistent: Michele Innocente Live electronics: Michele Tadini, Antonello Raggi Scenography: Juratė Paulėkaitė Light design: Eugenijus Sabaliauskas Performers: cellists of "Gaida Ensemble" (E. Kulikauskas, P. Jacunskas, R. Tamutytė, O. Švabauskaitė) The project is initiated and supported by the European network for the creation and promotion of new music Réseau Varèse. "Sandglasses" explores acoustic, visual and symbolic meanings of a sand timer, as a phenomenon. The inspiration of the piece is a simultaneous launch of several sandglasses of different capacity and duration. This idea is materialized in music by a polytemporal canon played by cellos which pass through their entire register at different rates, thus the initial unison splits off, the voices keep moving further from each other and reach the lowest note at different moments. The sounds produced live are being recorded and repeated in several variants that individually slow down and therefore descend, so that every cello's sound generates its own polytemporal canon. They keep multiplying and layering before finally interlacing into a dense micropoliphonic texture which covers, floods and replaces the real sources of sound. The musical idea is visualized by the purpose-built cylinder screens, made of tulle, where video images and light effects are projected. They extend and transform the performers' existence on the stage while creating fictions and submerging spectators into various perceptive experiences. Although the point of departure of the piece was of a purely acoustic-visual nature, the phenomenon of sandglass, being open for diverse interpretations, got wrapped with some implications and associations during the creative process. The metaphoric sand which seeps from the sandglasses, as a sediment of the passing time, accumulates and submerges the imprisoned individuals. Their identities transform, fade and vanish until the glasses fill up and the relentless operation of the chronometers stops. Everything freezes and the reverse process of purification starts. Justė Janulytė