// Albums

Our daily relationship with the city’s soundscape is accompanied by a constant shifting of attentiveness – much is heard, but not all is listened to. Attentive listening is what allows us to feel our acoustic environment better and discover what has always been just beside us. Applying the same to visual or olfactory experiences opens up the possibility of observing, as if through a microscope, a completely different layer of the city.
We came together to explore and experience the environment we inhabit in a way we have not experienced before – by focusing on detailed explorations of auditory and visual sensations. Starting from the geographical centre of Vilnius, we walked in different directions of the city, listening to and observing the environment we were in, as well as how and when it changes. In this attentive visual and auditory observation of the different urban layers, we compared them, observed their movement and the counterpoint of their constituent elements.
This work is a collage of our many walks to the west and east of Vilnius. The score functions like a map of the city, a set of motifs to be performed freely by one’s own choice; like flaneuring, they can lead to a different place each time. The two parts, performed on violin and cello, work independently, but create a soundscape interwoven with different textures – always similar, but constantly changing.

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On their second album, Dualitas, violinist Lora Kmieliauskaitė and cellist Arnas Kmieliauskas, together known as the Twenty Fingers Duo, present music by two very different Lithuanian composers: Rita Mačiliūnaitė, famous for her incidental music for theatre and modern operas, and Kristupas Bubnelis who recently returned to Lithuania from his studies in London. The album features two electroacoustic compositions, Dreamcatcher 2120 for violin, cello and electronics (2021), and ...please leave your message after the tone... for violin, cello and electronics (2020). These reveal the composers’ differences in their attitudes toward sonic expression, the relationship between the members of the duo, the correlation between the acoustic instruments and the electronics, and the strategy of their creative process.

PERFORMA is a debut album recorded by Lora Kmieliauskaitė (violin) and Arnas Kmieliauskas (cello) of the Twenty Fingers Duo and released in cooperation with the Music Information Centre Lithuania.

The album features six compositions commissioned by the duo to composers Mykolas Natalevičius, Dominykas Digimas, Rūta Vitkauskaitė, Julius Aglinskas, Arturas Bumšteinas, and Andrius Maslekovas. It was designed by visual artist Lauryna Narkevičiūtė who also created six visuals for the project based on primary ideas and conceptual outlines suggested by composers, which complemented the musical narratives recorded on the album.