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Bronius Kutavičius

3/5 ( ratings)
Born
September 12 1932
Died
2828 09 20212021
Bronius Kutavičius is one of the most prominent figures in Lithuanian music culture. His work transcends the boundaries of pure music, encompassing a wide cultural context, revealing layers of Baltic history and pre-history buried deep in the ages, and bringing forth archetypes of mythical and religious consciousness. Kutavičius' music, through its archaic and primordial sensibilities, follows a vision of “cultural archaeology” and is at once rational, mathematically accurate and harmonious. The sometimes complexly intertwined structures of sound pulsate with life and the power of feeling.

Because of the multi-layered repetitiveness and reduction of musical material to quite elementary models, Kutavičius' work may seem similar to early European post-minimalism, yet it sounds completely different. The roots of his “pagan minimalism” lie in the ancient forms of Lithuanian ethnic music, forms which can be considered proto-minimalist.

The composer, like a shaman, is a master at enchanting an audience, drawing them into his rituals. Like an architect he builds precise constructions – scores that can often remind you of mandalas from a variety of geometrical figures: circles, squares, crosses and stars. Or perhaps, like an archaeologist using modern means, he reconstructs the artefacts of ancient culture.

Bronius Kutavičius

3/5 ( ratings)
Born
September 12 1932
Died
2828 09 20212021
Bronius Kutavičius is one of the most prominent figures in Lithuanian music culture. His work transcends the boundaries of pure music, encompassing a wide cultural context, revealing layers of Baltic history and pre-history buried deep in the ages, and bringing forth archetypes of mythical and religious consciousness. Kutavičius' music, through its archaic and primordial sensibilities, follows a vision of “cultural archaeology” and is at once rational, mathematically accurate and harmonious. The sometimes complexly intertwined structures of sound pulsate with life and the power of feeling.

Because of the multi-layered repetitiveness and reduction of musical material to quite elementary models, Kutavičius' work may seem similar to early European post-minimalism, yet it sounds completely different. The roots of his “pagan minimalism” lie in the ancient forms of Lithuanian ethnic music, forms which can be considered proto-minimalist.

The composer, like a shaman, is a master at enchanting an audience, drawing them into his rituals. Like an architect he builds precise constructions – scores that can often remind you of mandalas from a variety of geometrical figures: circles, squares, crosses and stars. Or perhaps, like an archaeologist using modern means, he reconstructs the artefacts of ancient culture.

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