OLYMPIAN MACHINE
Sound installation-performance
"Olympian Machine" is a work for 12 voices, presented as a radiophonic sound installation consisting of 12 loudspeakers and synchronous text projection. During the recording, the participants of the piece were invited to the sound studio for one hour. Each individual was read a brief summary of Homer's "Iliad", after which each participant was asked to comment on what (s)he remembered from the text that (s)he had heard. Various personal deviations from the text of "Iliad" were welcome, but not encouraged in any way, seeking to preserve the spontaneity of the subjective associations. This piece presents to the audience a polylogue of voices that review issues of history, memory, and communication.
"In addition to every myth ever told, there is one more, the not nameable, untold one. The other, which keeps waving from the shadows, emerges only in the form of allusions, fragments, and coincidences, without anyone who would dare to tell it as a single story." (Roberto Calasso, "The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony")
Author of idea and sound editing Arturas Bumšteinas
Sound recording director Ramūnas Jasutis
Lighting designer Julius Kuršys
Producer OPEROMANIJA
Participants: Darja Lyzenko, Daumantas Ciunis, Domas Raibys, Eglė Straleckaitė-Kalendra, Greta Grinevičiūtė, Karolis Vyšniauskas, Kristina Agintaitė, Marija Simona Šimulynaitė, Marius Povilas Elijus Martynenko, Mindaugas Urbaitis, Rūta Junevičiūtė, Žilvinas Andriušis
Duration: 60 mins.
In Lithuanian with English surtitles.
