Sandglasses

Credits
Idea and music: Justė Janulytė
Video installation: Luca Scarzella
Video assistent: Michele Innocente
Live electronics: Michele Tadini | Antonello Raggi
Scenography: Jūratė Paulėkaitė
Light design: Eugenijus Sabaliauskas | Vilius Vilutis
Performers: cellists of “Gaida Ensemble” (E. Kulikauskas | P. Jacunskas | R. Tamutytė | O. Švabauskaitė)

The project was initiated and supported by the European network for the creation and promotion of new music Réseau Varèse. The piece was included in the programmes of Gaida festival (LT), Huddersfield contemporary music festival (UK), Maerzmusik (Berlin), Holland festival (Amsterdam), Warsaw Autumn (PL), Musica festival (Strasbourg), Music of Changes (Klaipėda, LT), RomaEuropa (IT), Operadhoy (Madrid), SonicA (Glasgow), Sydney festival (AU), Culture Night (Vilnius, LT), Music Gardens (Warsaw, PL), Moravian Autumn (Brno). On the 18th of December 2013 "Sandglasses" was performed at the Flagey Center, Brussels at the closing event of the Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of the EU.

The DVD of Sandglasses was released in 2014 by the Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Center together with CD consisting of the most important acoustic works by Janulyte and it is available to order through the Discogs webstore

Duration
50'

Sandglasses is a breath-taking, performance installation for four cellos, live electronics and video. Viewers are submerged in an immersive, audio-visual environment, which is at once beautifully meditative and heart-racingly powerful. Four cellists are shrouded in transparent columns, as they play, traces of light flit down the columns like grains of sand in a time glass. The music and visuals become increasingly powerful, and the viewer becomes submerged, slowly losing their sense of time and space. Created in collaboration with Italian video artist Luca Scarzella and performed by the Gaida Ensemble, Justė Janulytė’s Sandglasses is a three-dimensional, audio-visual exploration of the acoustic, visual and symbolic meaning of sand-timers.  SonicA festival 2012 | Glasgow 

FULL programme note

Selected press reviews in PDF