The video and sound installation "The Rhythm of Memory"

The installation combines the Čiurlionian image and sound, which are masterfully transformed by recreating the prevailing forms, rhythms, recurrences and a spatial expression. Rhythm is at the heart of these works, and acts uniformly, both from the conceptual and technological points of view, when digitising the image, weaving the fabric, or producing a digital sound to create its spatial expression. A personal and unique approach of both artists is essential in creating a shared sense of our own identity and the rhythm of global human unity.

Artist Monika Žaltauskaitė Grašienė -Žaltė: "Working on the installation The Rhythm of Memory, I referred to a lesser-known world of M. K. Čiurlionis – sketches and vignettes. I think this is a very important creative point that reveals the artist's multi-layered perception of the world. As a basis for the installation, I chose a sketch by M. K. Čiurlionis for a vignette entitled Boats (1909). My choice was not accidental as the idea of the sketch is based on a rhythmic composition. Rhythm here becomes the main means of creative expression – it implies not only extremely visual but also musical features. The other six sketches are transformed into functional fabrics, made ready to be used in a wide range of applications in public life. This is a viable pattern of M. K. Čiurlionis' sketches, which has been transferred into a contemporary field of the digitised weaving, where warp-vertical and weft-horizontal intertwine to create an unbroken thread – a thread of life for co-creation".

Composer Kipras Mašanauskas: "When creating this composition, I aimed to reveal my perception of Čiurlionis’ music today, at this moment, both when surveying his concrete sketch and trying to feel the cosmic nature of the artist’s visual art in general. By choosing certain sequences of sounds from the piano ballad in F sharp minor (VL 272a), I have tried to merge the different passages of time into a single one, making  use of the timbral plasticity of instruments as a basis for the continuous variation of vibrations in space: from a barely audible polyrhythmicity of the vibrations' undulations to a clearly audible rhythmic movement".

You are welcome to a nearby Music hall to view the composition Boats and hear the musical composition.