Arturas Bumsteinas is a composer from Vilnius, Lithuania. He composes both electronic music and works for traditional instruments. In 2002 he formed a duo with Laura Garbstiene (as G-Lab). Bumsteinas intrigued from the very beginning that I heard work from him. He is also quite active in the Vilnius art scene, and I think that from the ex-Sovjet area a lot of talent wanders around working with the intentions and sometimes lack of decent instruments that was usual in my olden days. It's not always brilliant but there's definitely something interesting happening.

This composition, "second Sequentina", is an electronic sequel to "Sequentina for orchestra". There's a recording of the original at Bumsteinas' site, so you can listen to it. I think this Second Sequentina is an excellent example of Bumsteinas' music, but I really encourage all of you to check out the website and listen and watch the other things presented there.

As a bonus I present a short film that has been published on Bumsteinas' Mixthemixthemix project site. It's called "Bumsteinas plays Baldessari sings LeWitt (Instrumental version of Sentences on Conceptual Art)" encoded in avi format for all to see. This too is, to me, an excellent example of the mind set of Arturas Bumsteinas.

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