Rytis Mazulis is one of the most distinctive Lithuanian composers; he tends towards "super-minimalism," and his music is based on the principle of repetition. Influenced by composers such as Conlon Nancarrow and Giacinto Scelsi, he writes radical monistic compositions based on canonical technique.
One finds reminiscences of Renaissance polyphony and hyper-dissonance with microintervals (contemplations in the style of Scelsi) in his music.
However, I would like your opinion... also regarding the listening experience
the eternal repetitions in this case bore me rather quickly and seven minutes are long...
In effect, there is a strong similarity to Scelsi's repetitions... regarding the fact that it becomes tiresome, one only needs to think of Feldmann's 5 and a half hours or Giacinto Scelsi's String Quartet no. 5 (do you know how many repetitions there are?), from which, as far as I understand, this composer (whom I didn't know)... draws.
Feldman is (for me) something else; I heard his quartet live not long ago, I had to leave after an hour and a half and I wasn't fed up, and I tell you, for me an hour and a half is a lot! If he draws from Feldman, however, it seems to me that he doesn't share silence with him.
As far as repetition is concerned, I am not an enemy of repetition, quite the contrary, it depends on how it is used. Here I don't like it, that's all.
In this piece there is repetition and here I like it very much...
