GLAISTAS. Garso patirtis Vilniaus gete

"Glaistas"

A sound experience in the Vilnius ghetto

"Glaistas" is a sound journey through the territory of the former Vilnius ghetto and bursting memories of Holocaust twists and turns. The sound map of the journey is made up of musical fragments specially created for each space, and the direction of movement is drawn by the voices of four Holocaust survivors who moved from their native Vilnius to Israel after the war, recorded by the creators of "Glaisto" in conversations in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa, in May 2019.

Frida Sohat (b. 1929) was imprisoned in the Vilnius ghetto, Kloogos (Estonia) and Stutthof (Poland) concentration camps. He moved to Israel in 1957 because he wanted to meet his father, who survived the war.

Joshua Zak (1929-2024) left Vilnius and settled in Haifa, becoming a physics professor at the Technion. in 1989 discovered the Z(k) - Zak phase, for which in 2014 awarded with the prestigious Wigner Medal.

Sore Voloshin (1928-2020) was the only survivor from a family of more than 50 people in Vilnius. She was the cousin of Ichchok Rudaševskis, the author of the young diary of the Vilnius ghetto, who was killed in Paneriai.

Baruch Shub (1924-2020) was a participant in the Jewish underground movement during the war. After moving to Israel, he became a flight engineer. Until the end of his life, he lectured on anti-Semitism and was a member of various public organizations.

The sound document, as an artifact of memory, is the main axis of the work, around which stretches the musical scenes of the streets, courtyards, corridors, apartments, halls of the former Vilnius ghetto. , interpretations of other spaces. The fragments of interviews heard in them lose the function of a purely oral narration - the audio events recorded in the recordings offer themes for choirs or electronic compositions, individual stories take on the characteristics of arias, voices are integrated into soundscapes and become full-fledged means of musical expression. Everything is complemented by abundantly used binaural recordings, which give the sounds in the headphones an impression of reality.

This is how the distinctive aesthetics of the musical narrative of "Glaisto" is born, today's dynamic Gesamtkunstwerk, in which the viewer's body and its movement in space also become important.

The work balances between moving "to those times" and returning "to today". Exploring the limits of the possibilities of such a move, first of all - in their own heads, the creative group does not hide from the fact that they are moving in today's Vilnius - rapidly changing, painted and beautified, covered with construction grids, and in some places still waiting for a fresh layer of putty.

The creators, who accompany the audience in camera groups, invite them to look together at what is hidden under the putty and to ponder important questions: is there The Limits of Understanding the Holocaust? Where does memory end and imagination begin (if this divide is possible at all)? In what forms does something that was almost completely destroyed during the war return (or could it return)?

2020. The creative team of the sound walk in the Vilnius ghetto "Glaistas" was awarded the "Golden Stage Cross" for the best dramaturgy.

Feedback:

Although "Glaistas" connects the lost Jewish Vilnius (through reminiscences of its people, architecture, etc.) with today's version of the city covered with cultural and barbaric layers, however, it really and clearly speaks not about the past, but about the present - what Vilnius is like today, without those voices that were drowned out by the Holocaust.

Rima Jūraitė, menufaktura.lt

I have not experienced a better interpretation of the current ghetto theme - because it is, of course, a total experience. It is very difficult to appeal to feelings without manipulating them - this is exactly what the authors of this work succeeded in doing. Don't miss the opportunity. "Glaisto" is worth a special trip to Vilnius.

Lara Lampert, Head of the Judaica Research Center of the Lithuanian National M. Mažvydas Library

The great value of "Glaisto" is the fact that the creators refuse to create a sculpture. They rather give a stone. The created audioscape is dense and multi-faceted, but it seems to be a careful breathing; leading to sensibility, distracting from the field of meaning, also allowing to simply breathe.

Dovilė Zavedskaitė, 7 days of art

The plot of the performance is like a broken connection between the interlocutors' memories and stories, between languages ​​and changing spaces allow not to hear or learn, but rather to feel or remember what someone has already dreamed and therefore experienced dream.

Rimgailė Renevytė, 7 days of art

The creators of "Glaisto" are simply sacrificing themselves so that murdered people can find their guardian angels at least today. This is the most beautiful and expensive Glaisto experience. The creators, without falsifying the facts, without complaining about the past, as if on the tips of their fingers, lead us into and immerse us in the world around and inside.

Daiva Šabasevičienė, Vilnius Gallery

Historical memory appears in this journey not as a reflection of factography, but as a drama interspersed in the actual present, constructed by an unpredictable imagination, experienced individually and subjectively.

Ugnis Babinskas, mic.lt

Audio recordings from interviews with Frida Sohat, Joshua Zak, Sore Voloshin, Baruch Shubu

Participated in audio recordings performers:

Vocal ensemble "Melos": Justina Leinartaitė (soprano), Gabrielė Bilevičiūtė (soprano, head of the ensemble), Karolina Macytė (soprano), Ieva Parnarauskaitė (soprano), Jūra Elena Šedytė (viola), Dainora Aleksaitė (viola), Gabija Adamonytė (viola), Milda Adamonytė (viola)

Sound director Vytautas Bedalis

Lora Kmieliauskaitė (violin)

Kazimires Jušinskas (saxophone)

Programmer Robertas Dumpis

Sound mastering by Arūnas Zujaus

Translators: Rimantas Ribačiauskas, Ana Ablamonova, Olga Lempert, Darius Ross, Vsevolod Chernozub

Guides : Rimantas Ribačiauskas, Mantas Jančiauskas, Jūra Elena Šedytė, Andrius Šiurys, Ana Ablamonova, Paulina Simutytė, Ieva Parnarauskaitė, Medeinė Mickevičiūtė, Kristupas Gikas, Lyja Maknavičiūtė, Greta Štiormer, Marija Laenko, Justina Buslavičiūtė, Miglė Remeikaitė, Eglė Radavičiūtė, Yevgenijus Kovalčukas

Producer Operomania

Main partner Jewish culture and information center

Partners: LMTA Center for Music Innovation Studies, Vilnius Theater "Lėlė", Audiovisual Arts Industries incubator, Mama Studios, Lithuanian National Art Museum

Duration: 80 minutes

Premiere: 2019 October 27 - November 3.

Work in Lithuanian, English, Russian, Hebrew and Yiddish with Lithuanian / English / Russian / Hebrew subtitles

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