Sleep at Sea

Klaus Lang

50′

for voices and organ

partially commissioned by Melos 

Three Voices

Morton Feldman

1982 
50′

Eskhatos

Rytis Mažulis

2022
30′

for cello & 
female voices

 

Melos commission

MONOCHROME

Martinaitytė. Medekštaitė. Natalevičius. Navickas. 

2022
60′

for 5 cellos & 8 female voices

Melos commission

EUSTACHIA

Jacob Kirkegaard

2017
17′

The work is composed from tones generated in the inner ear.  These tones, called spontaneous otoacoustic emissions (or SOAE), are produced – without external stimulation – in the ears of some people. All ‘ear chords’ were recorded, filtered, analyzed, and then interpreted for voices.

MAŽULIS CANONS

Mažulis.

program of new and canonical vocal works of Rytis Mažulis

melos, melos collective, melos ensemble, melos vocal ensemble

LISTENING STOCK

Arturas Bumšteinas.

2021.
40′

sound performance
+ publication of essay by Daniel Muzyczuk  

It is a performance in the genre of “body music,” which consists of four pieces. Each piece explores a different way of non-hearing or some other conceptual, if not esoteric way of hearing. The choir performing them wears soundproof headphones. In “Listening Stock”, the performers come to metaphysical listening and attunement through a temporary pseudo-deafness.

Melos commission

MINIMAL VOICES

Digimas. Mažulienė. Mažulis. Kapustaitė.

2020
40′

program of new Lithuanian minimal vocal music

partially commissioned by Melos 

LIVING ROOM MUSIC

Cage. Aperghis. Johnson. Toch. Fujikura. Nono. Kagel. Feldman.

45′

MEDICA(MELOS)

Arturas Bumšteinas & Gitis Bertulis

Sound installation & performance at the Atletika project space. This work is from the series of works based on recordings of people singing Latin names of their chosen medication. This version was recorded by the members of vocal ensemble Melos.

aa-aa

Agnė Matulevičiūtė

performance – sound installation

Sonic materials derived from various lullaby recordings collected by the composer.

Premiered at Site-specific Music Festival MUZIKA ERDVEJE 2021