Arturas Bumšteinas

If you’re in the mood for something a bit left-field to liven up your summer, you could do worse than check out Aggregate, a double album featuring “new works for automated pipe organs”. i know, right? i’ve experienced my fair share of automated organ music, and it invariably tends toward …

Ambient modes of expression, and listening, were brought to bear on two large-scale works during my long weekend at HCMF, both by Lithuanian composers. The less successful of the two was Hadal Zone by Žibuoklė Martinaitytė, which sought to be an hour-long sonic descent into the most abyssal oceanic depths. …