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Listening Session

Marta Finkelštein & Agnė Matulevičiūtė

09/11/2024
Photographer: Arminas Bižys

For the second listening session of the exhibition Refuge at the Sapieha Palace, Marta Finkelštein and Agnė Matulevičiūtė will perform a programme centred on wind noise, usually regarded as an error or technical defect in sound recordings. What is usually cut, erased or silenced when processing sound recordings, will become the main motif in the listening session. In this programme, which has been created specifically for Refuge, the artists bring wind noise back into their works from albums White Keys Black Keys Inside Out and Dear, Dear in an attempt to imagine a sonic space beyond music, closer to sound itself.

 

The duo, comprising composer Agnė Matulevičiūtė and pianist Marta Finkelštein, formed in 2021, when they found a shared interest in combining the sounds of the piano and analogue and modular synthesisers. Coming from different professional backgrounds, the pair use elements of acoustic and electronic music to explore the diverse possibilities of contemporary sonic expression.

 

 

Marta Finkelštein is a pianist and music curator based in Vilnius. Alongside being an active performer, she directs and curates Synaesthesis, a contemporary music ensemble. Under her leadership, the group has been awarded the Young Creator’s Prize, the Statuette of St Cristopher for contribution to contemporary music and the Ernst von Siemens Ensembles Prize. Finkelštein graduated from the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland with a degree in music curation, and defended her Doctor of Arts thesis at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre in 2023.

 

Agnė Matulevičiūtė is a composer and sound artist based in Vilnius. She has been actively participating in art and contemporary music festivals and exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad since 2014. Matulevičiūtė has composed music for over 30 theatre productions, while her compositions for cinema have been awarded the national Silver Crane Award. She is the artistic director of the Music in Space festival and the organiser of the club programme of the Sirens international theatre festival. In 2019, Matulevičiūtė became a member of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union, and is currently studying for a doctorate in art at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, researching and developing the notion of užgarsis in contemporary music. She also works under the pseudonym Agnès M.

 

Entry with the Palace visitor ticket.