Monday 14 September 2026, 7.30pm

Gintė Preisaitė presents "Instruments of forgetting and the singing bone" + Percussomnia

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Gintė Preisaitė, a Lithuanian artist and graduate of Copenhagen’s Rhythmic Music Conservatory, reveals her first solo release under her own name, following a collaborative effort with Toshimaru Nakamura in 2025 and a number of cassettes as “Baraboro”. The deliberately genre-blurring sound Preisaitė deploys works with composed pop vignettes, sustained drones, FX manipulations and guttural bursts of noise. Sparse piano movements, sample-laden psychedelia and moments of big beat/trip-hop rhythms gel with crowd noise, close mic’d intimacy and experimental percussion with a focus on instrumental timbres and extended techniques. 

With a background in composing for large ensembles, Preisaitė's multi-instrumental approach is evident across the eight tracks, moments of dense concrète-style sound collages anchored by the human voice never being far away. She laments on fantasy, absurdity and relationships as a cast of players contribute string, brass, accordion, and guitar parts. Passages move from delicate acoustic folk motifs through to wide-eyed, cut-and-paste glitch electronics and spectral melodic riffs, making the album an unorthodox and welcome addition to Denmark's current world-class music scene.

Percussomnia

Percussomnia is a long-form electroacoustic exploration of abstract polyrhythms, creating a seamless blend of pitched and percussive sounds, where individual contributions merge into a cohesive musical flow. Originally formed as a duo of prepared piano and percussion, creating intuitive rhythmical flux made out of dozens of percussive and multi-pitched sound events, the format is now extended to a quartet with cello and electronics blending in and expanding the format with textures, sub-bass, and merging drones. Gintė Preisaitė: prepared piano and objects Emily Wittbrodt: cello Rémy Gouffault: digitakt Jan Philipp: drums and percussion.