The First Concert in Lithuania Performed With the Sensory MiMu Gloves!

The concert will feature new original works by Raminta Naujanytė ‒ Bjelle and the compositions created in collaboration with the concert guests. The event will feature, as its main highlight, the interactive gesture-controlled device MiMu Gloves. MiMu Gloves is a device developed by the renowned British composer, performer and innovator Imogen Heap and her team. The gloves allow you to control and create music using hand gestures. The characteristics of this device, which is rarely seen to be used in practice and is still new in Lithuania, offer the composer new possibilities for musical expression. The composer notes that the instrument MiMu Gloves is best revealed when interacting with other acoustic and electronic musical instruments. New compositions created for this concert will be performed in combination with the vocals, live electronics, saxophone and the orchestra, the combinations being so familiar to the author!

Raminta Naujanytė ‒ Bjelle is a doctoral student at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Chair of the Council of the Association LATGA, a well-known composer and performer. Raminta graduated with a Bachelor's degree in academic composition and a Master's degree in electronic composition. After a 6-month semester of Erasmus exchange programme in Iceland, her focus shifted to new technologies in music. During her Master's studies, together with her team she developed sensor-based devices and an attribution system for performing gesture-controlled music. She is now engaged in exploring non-tactile gesture-controlled musical devices and their functions in her role as a practicing composer-performer. Bjelle is very familiar to the Lithuanian audience as a lyrical songwriter and a participant in TV projects, but in this concert, she will reveal herself in the context of different musical aesthetics. This artist and creator has performed and presented her musical compositions in Norway, Ukraine (2013), Switzerland, USA (Chicago), Iceland (2018), Japan and South Korea (2019).

PERFORMERS:

Raminta Naujanytė - Bjelle (gesture-controlled instrument MiMu Gloves, vocal).

St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra; Artistic Director and Chief Conductor Modestas Barkauskas.

Concert guests:

• Matas Samulionis (saxophone and electronics);
• Milda Andrijauskaitė and Teresė Andrijauskaitė (vocals);
• Adas Gecevičius (electronics and percussion).