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Boarding Pass (2005) - out-in |
Antanas Jasenka is the second Lithuanian composer present at EARLabs.org. This is an extensive work which was actually performed by a laptop orchestra. It consists of 2 parts: "in-out", performed in 2004 and "out-in", performed in 2005. I have included the texts that come with the compositions: [ 2004 ] and [ 2005 ] .
Antanas Jasenka (b.1965) graduated from the J.Gruodis College of Music in Kaunas, piano class in 1986. In 1989-1991 he studied composition with Osvaldas Balakauskas at the Lithuanian Conservatoire (present Academy of Music). In 1994 he graduated from the Lithuanian Academy of Music, composition class under Vytautas Laurusas. From 1995 on Jasenka also produced electro-acoustic noise, with works such as "Tangophony", "n.A.J.mix'95", "Repeat", "Room music", "Cut-off", "Deusexmachina". The composer has written incidental music for cinema, theatre, and animation.
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Jasenka about the work: My first idea was that this was a 'boarding pass' to nowhere. „Boarding Pass“ is an extension of my sonic atmospheres, based on parallel developments
of different musical paths, rich of various combinations of sonic cuts, drills, drones and
electroacoustic, digital manipulations, sometimes deeply immersive, although often evolving
into intensive sound kaleidoscopes. The jet-man mythology appears in „Boarding Pass“, expanding recent sonic research, realized by complex sound investigations concerning the Man and the Machine.
In the other side i have frequency. We recognize the concept of frequency as the dynamics of processes. We can obtain the interrelation by applying frequencies and regulating them practically. This would mean that all our life is changing whenever we allow this process to develop in all directions simultaneously. This is the dynamics of the unspeakably fast information or events; everything is in action simultaneously. In other words, nothing is everything and everything is nothing... While working with electronic music or noise, i normally do not write scores - the very possibility to record sound in digital domain becomes the score..... I have chosen a sound which contains rhythm, form, and vibration. It is like a plane that can be considered to be a capsule of time storing everything that has been mentioned before...To me an artist is both a human being and a plane...
Live setup:
screen
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\ (conductor_pilot) /
\ AJ /
\ Laptop /
s L_\ /_ L
t L \ / _L
a L_ \ / _L
g L_ \ / _L
e L_ \ / _L
I__I
---------------------- video_projector -------------------
(audience....)
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L = laptop players, they are the passengers.
All play from Jasenka's sound-score.
Passengers… a new program was created for your safety… push me – it’s a helmet… prevent jet fighters… safety on board… a mobile bridge connects you and me… it moves onto anywhere from nowhere… we are flying on a pendulum… new super-toys… only a flying machine… only speed is important…
Passengers…
I slept near open doors
Wake me up
Offer me a parachute
A new program was created for your safety…
No smoking on the plane
Push me
Push me, I’m still young
Push me from sadness
I woke up
Jet fighter, an exhibitionist hit me in the face
High podium swings
Nude skeleton of trotyl has fallen down
The gallows swings
Today the guillotine is closed
The head does not ride
Prevent jet fighters…
Where is justice, courtesy
Too late to buy ticket to the great beyond – it’s a moment of peace
Jet fighter lost ice cream
Strawberry hills are cold
There is another airport
The helmet protects the pilot’s rest
The heavy diver dives into clouds
To save his restless passengers
Push me – it’s a helmet…
The helmet protects me and you
The hard seat belt strangles
The air hole gives shelter for the last florist
The engines sing
Curved mobile space
Clouds discuss the coming storm
I’m moving everywhere
Wings rise up
I’m paying back the wind for potatoes bought in the market
I desire hot tea
I wade in a chair hoping for a sleep
Safety on board…
Helmet, no risk
A bridge moves forward
Do you feel me
Mobile bridge connects you and me…
I’m standing here, touch me
Do you feel the blow of the wind
Earphones suppress song
One sky, one bridge
People flying around
Life, nature moves away
Even from high it is hard not to see
The stratosphere is cold, lucky
Completeness of feelings and the rising of the future
I’m falling into the clouds, into the sun
Do you hear my modern falling
Moves on anywhere, from nowhere
Suspended danger
Futuristic lightning, fate swings
Into the left, into the right, turn and go again
Life – it isn’t a problem anymore
High in the sky, fuel doesn’t get up
I feel electricity
I love electricity
I love soft danger
Heavenly casino
Roulette calm, the head swings
New supertoys
Fall into an open mouth
We are all falling, spacious breast
Asphalt stars arose to the sky
Jungle echoes in the plane
Who’s flying, who’s turning propellers
The plane’s face is on fire
Flame – just the color of wind
Black ink of the stratosphere extinguishes the fire
Flying machine
Arising
Beyond time twists
Beyond colorful curtains
Beyond the complexities of personality
Metal rope saves the deed
Only you, lover
Only you, beloved
Only speed is important…
Only us, lovers
Only you, expectants
I know
I’m speed
I’m connecting bridges
I’m protecting you
Text : Robertas Kundrotas, Algimantas Lyva.
Translate from Lithuanian to English Rudy Carera
... If you could devote your life to... Oratory respects logic… There is no connection between… You could not ever imagine… I am talking to you once again… Why arguments do not matter for you… Interference is a part of our life…
Outside is closed for thought
The hard surface is dreaming
About a slashing jump of form
Desires for the gravity of design
Watch the multitude of letters
Scum throws thoughts into a dump,
Snubs any verbal help
Does not understand modern prestige
With one-off parachute
Falls down from a European skyscraper
Onto the asphalt in Beijing
Outside the connection provides power
It restores dried flowers in books
Anticipates linguistic shock
Refreshes semantic dizziness
And Gothic rhetoric
A Cyber-cube collects lucky points
Every throw is successful
Virtual fingers are playing
Guillotines counts Euros
There is no change today
Open cuts sharpens liquid crystals
Digital treasure shies away
A baby who is born between East and West
Sleeps in the sarcophagus
The answer is in the nadir of the skull
A symbiosis of West and East
There are no directions in thinking
The only clear space is inside
Colloid wire extends,
Electric power disports
Eyes watch a liquid screen
The silver water on the lake
Is a reflection of the moon,
A real shadow of the stratosphere
Inside is a fake shadow of the outside
A gallery of crooked mirrors
A caleidoscope of sentences
Empty letters.
Antic future rushes forward
At the bottom of consciousness the Minotaur sleeps
Scale-less fish keep to their dreams
Water drifts with great lightness
A flood drowns the Creator’s arms
They are sunk by school ink
A golden feather cuts with hesitation
There are no direct connections
There is no demiurge
A sharp syringe doesn’t help
It only moves a little bit further
From the passenger’s wishes
The world is just a mirage
A movie with no picture
A guitar with no string
A metal tear
A quartet of liquid crystals is playing
Long corridors of thoughts
Lead to a locked door
Text : Robertas Kundrotas, Algimantas Lyva.
Translate from Lithuania to English Rudy Carera