Playlist #12 on Janus, Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles
Playlist on Janus #12, by Justina Repečkaitė, for the second anniversary of the Janus project, the fruit of an innovative partnership between the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles and Ircam: “With this brief panorama of my favourite music, putting contemporary and early music in dialogue, I'd like to present a few examples illustrating how the inspirations of today's creators are not limited to musical influences from the past, but also explore the subjects of legends, artefacts or philosophical concepts from distant times.“
Rūta Staneviciūtė on microtonal music
Microtonal music is probably the most striking utopia of Lithuanian music that emerged in between two worlds wars. For a long time it seemed that we had J.Kačinskas and 50 years in, – R.Mažulis. But when my colleges and I started to get interested in the topic we have found phenomena…
Microtonal Music in Central and Eastern Europe
Exemples of Justina’s systematic quarter-tone approach to composition featuring pre-compositional charts and score reductions of her compositions Tapisserie, Acupuncture and Pulsus Flatus Vox appear in Rima Povilioniene‘s article From Tone Inflection to Microdimensional Glissando: Observations on Microtonal Manner in Contemporary Lithuanian Music
Justina Rapeckaite’s profile by Ben Lunn
The music of Justina Repečkaitė has many similarities to a diamond. With its hard unforgiving shape and geometric perfection, it creates a profound and striking beauty, which singles her out from many composers of her generation.