Gausme

Type: Vinyl record

Information

LP

Year of Publication: 2026

Publisher: Music Information Centre Lithuania

Product ID: MICL LP012

Description

‘Gausme’ is inspired by the unique textural layers of the soundscape in the centre-eastern part of Vilnius. The sounds produced by people here act in harmony with a biophonic sonority that is constantly active, but can only be heard if you listen carefully to it.

To me, ‘I hear what I can't see’ are birds, crickets, grasshoppers and other fauna hidden in the grasses and trees, as well as the city's hum, the sound of car horns on the horizon, the clatter of the construction site, and other anthropophonic sounds. It is an invisible sonority that lies within the acoustic horizon. Listening to it creates a very interesting sensation – the perception of sound as a mass, as a trace element hovering like air. It has its own logic, but at the same time it is constantly changing. This score works in the same way – it has a clear structure of who does what and when, yet how they do it is always a little bit different.

The words ‘I see what I can't hear’ came about before I even thought of the piece itself, while I was recording a windy, howling morning city on the hill of Bekešas. At one point I stiffened, looking at a few yellowish, flabby, winter-surviving tufts of grass and agrostis. I realised that I could see how intensely they were moving in the wind, but I couldn't hear them. I have a similar sensation when I watch the slow flow of a river. Even on a quiet morning or evening – a huge amount of water just rushes by without a sound. Meanwhile, all the sounds of the city merge into one drone, and you are in it.

Dominykas Digimas

The piece was performed with self-made string, wind and percussion instruments by:

Twenty Fingers Duo 

Arnas Kmieliauskas

Lora Kmieliauskaitė

Fleitų 3

Mėta Gabrielė Pelegrimaitė-Kaupinė

Salomėja Kalvelytė

Kristupas Gikas

Recorded at: Plokštelinė, 2025

Sound engineer: Vytautas Bedalis (MAMA Studios)

Designers: Valentina Černiauskaitė, Juozapas Švelnys

Editors & Producers: Marija Astromskaitė, Radvilė Buivydienė

Contents:

SIDE A

1 I hear what I can't see

SIDE B

1 I see what I can't hear