Bjelle & Christopher Chamber Orchestra | Vilnius spring festival

First concert in Lithuania with MiMu Gloves sensory gloves!
The concert will feature new original works by Raminta Naujanytė – Bjelle as well as joint compositions with the guests of the concert. The highlight of the event will be MiMu Gloves, an interactive gesture-controlled device.

MiMu Gloves – a device developed by renowned British composer, performer and innovator Imogen Heap and her team that allows you to control and create music with hand gestures. The features of this device, which is rarely encountered in practice and still new in Lithuania, give the composer new possibilities of musical expression. The composer notes that MiMu Gloves is at its best when interacting with other acoustic and electronic instruments. The new compositions prepared for this concert will be performed with the author’s familiar combinations of vocals, live electronics, saxophone and orchestra!

Raminta Naujanytė – Bjelle – Doctor of Arts at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Chair of the LATGA Association Council, well-known composer and performer. Raminta holds a Bachelor’s degree in Academic Composition and a Master’s degree in Electronic Music Composition. After a six-month Erasmus exchange programme in Iceland, her focus turned to new technologies in music. During her Master’s studies, she and her team developed sensor-based devices and an attribution system for gesture-controlled music performance. She is now exploring non-tactile gesture-controlled musical devices and their function in composer-performer practice. Bjelle is well known to the Lithuanian audience as an author of lyrical songs and a participant of TV projects, but in this concert she will reveal herself in the context of a different musical aesthetic. She has performed and presented her musical compositions in Norway, Ukraine (2013), Switzerland, USA (Chicago), Iceland (2018), Japan and South Korea (2019).

Main concert participants:
Raminta Naujanytė – Bjelle (gesture-controlled instrument – MiMu Gloves, voice)
St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra, leader and conductor Modestas Barkauskas 

Concert guests:
Matas Samulionis (saxophone and electronic music)
Milda Andrijauskaitė and Teresė Andrijauskaitė (voices)
Adas Gecevičius (electronic music and percussion)

Tickets can be purchased here.