Twittering Machine

Vilnius: Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre, MILC 076, 2007
MC DapAudio, 1994
CD Twittering Machine. - Megadisc MDC 7809, 2005
CD Lithuanian Music in Context II. Landscapes of Minimalism. - Vilnius, Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre LMIPCCD067-068, 2011

The Twittering Machine is one of the pieces, with which Rytis Mažulis had made his debut as a composer. It also marked the beginning of Mažulis’s “machinistic period” (1984–1987) and lent its name, together with some other pieces written around the same time, to the entire generation of Lithuanian “machinists,” comprising Rytis Mažulis, Šarūnas Nakas, Nomeda Valančiūtė, Gintaras Sodeika, and others. These composers were the first to introduce the elements of futurism, such as the industrial noise, technical sounds of the city and fast-moving modern machinery, in Lithuanian music. The sound of the Twittering Machine evokes mechanical ‘music’ of the gearwheels in action, or that of a player piano.

Gražina Daunoravičienė