28/04/2019
An alternative Easter Sunday afternoon of collaborative performances, with live sketching, spoken word and music improvisation, featuring:
Dominykas Snarskis (percussion)
Kornelijus Pukinskis (saxophone)
Karen Strang (visual art)
Max Iantone (spoken word)
Join us in drawing the sounds, experience synaesthesia and watch an amazing array of creative play from guest artists.
Dominykas Snarskis is a drummer born in Vilnius, Lithuania. He first encountered music when listening to the Jimi Hendrix tapes in his father’s car, and since then he has never looked back. Since the age of 14, he has been involved in many fantastic and unique musical activities, from creating theatre music for Lithuanian Association of People with Disabilities, to playing concerts in a war- base, or popping up with an orchestra at a homeless shelter. He has recorded many studio records, as well as toured throughout the Europe (UK, Germany, Lithuania, Netherlands, Latvia, Poland, Estonia). In 2016 he moved to Scotland to study at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.
Kornelijus is passionate about undiscovered shapes, sounds, and other art forms. While studying Jazz music he deepens his knowledge in the electronic and avant-garde music, composition, poetry, and philosophy. Kornelijus has played in many bands: The Magic Time Orchestra, Juozo Tallat-Kelpsos Conservatoire Big Band, a few straight-ahead jazz groups. At the moment, his main group is ‘Trio SIN’, which performs throughout Lithuania, from the capital Vilnius to War Base in Rukla. The trio has won Vilnius Jazz Festival prize for the ‘’Most original composition’’ twice. Kornelijus is also a leader and composer of a 10-piece band called ‘Saunter With Pyromans’. Kornelijus has played with well-known European sound artist Arturas Bumsteinas.
Links to the music:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Xxcs3FSErz8UC8HFAMtjI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YICnwL1U1Y8
All pics by Sweet P Photography/The Write Angle