Arturas Bumsteinas
Arturas Bumšteinas is Lithuanian composer working within the intersections of music and art. His practices could be divided into several categories: experimental music, acoustic sound works, installations, pieces for theatre, radio art, curating.
Arturas Bumšteinas is Lithuanian composer working within the intersections of music and art. His practices could be divided into several categories: experimental music, acoustic sound works, installations, pieces for theatre, radio art, curating.
Aliases: Arturas Bumšteinas
Morning And Evening At The Museum
"Morning and Evening at the Museum" consists of 9 tracks that were composed from the recordings of musical instruments found in the archives of Lithuanian Museum of Theater, Music and Cinema in the year 2009.These tracks were presented live in the mu…
Goldberg Variations
Art edition of 20 copies consists of vinyl treated with the wire wool to create a subtile physical distortions (hissing whistles) on the surface of the record. Comes with a numbered and signed certificate of authenticity”. Arturas Bumšteinas & Gitis…
Organ Safari Lituanica
We are happy to introduce you Arturas Bumšteinas, a composer from Lithuania! This is our second collaboration with him since he participated in the making of our first release Wozzeck "Act III: Comics". A new Arturas’ solo release continues his serie…
My Own Private Bayreuth
All 8 tracks were composed by Arturas Bumšteinas from audio material recorded during open rehearsal sessions at Kunstvlaai contemporary art fair in Amsterdam, May 2010. All instrumental and vocal recordings that appear on this CD originate from fragm…
Stories From Organ Safari
Organ Safari is an ongoing project which was started in year 2008 by Lithuanian composer and artist Arturas Bumšteinas (b. 1982). Since then he is traveling around Europe and recording sounds of various organs in churches, concert halls, record store…
So-called Space
* Edition of 70 copies * Continuum-collage piece by Lithuanian composer Arturas Bumšteinas created in 2015 from incidental music sampled from various Lithuanian radio drama's from the 1950's to 2000's. A strange heady brew which juxtaposes music, so…
Bad Weather Long Play
Bad Weather is a performative sound art event of a group of performers engaging with reconstructions of Baroque theater noise machines. The project started in 2017 when Lithuanian artist Arturas Bumšteinas teamed up with theater carpenter Ernestas Vo…
Musikaliszer Pinkos
This music was inspired by “Musikaliszer Pinkos” – a collection of more than two hundred Hebrew religious hymns and Chassidic songs compiled and published by Abraham Berenstein in the year 1927 in Wilna (nowadays Vilnius). The selection of songs f…
Different Trains
The album is a collection of works of Arturas Bumsteinas inspired by Central European cultural landscape (soundscape). It includes radio play "Wielka improwizacja" commisioned by Bôlt Records. "Wielka improwizacja" is based on the monologue from t…
Epiloghi
Epiloghi brings together two important sound works by Lithuanian composer and sound artist Arturas Bum teinas; Epiloghi. Six Ways of Saying Zangtumbtumb and Night on the Sailship. These are highly inspired pieces combining layered historical referenc…
Sleep (An attempt at trying)
Sleep (an attempt at trying)“ is a radio suite for vocalist, narrator, improvising ensemble and electronics. In this project Bumšteinas explored the subject of insomnia which makes it a very autobiographic project. The main sound material for “Sleep”…
Three sixteens
Limited to 200 copies. 'Karlstad' was commissioned by Dutch new music ensemble DASH! as a remix track for their CD release 'Bangalore' in 2008. Bum teinas took very short snippets (no longer than 1 second) of breathing noises of the ensemble's vo…