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The Year of the Catdog (Radio Vltava premiere)

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Arturas Bumšteinas “The Year of the Catdog” (2016)

Broadcasted at 27.05.2016 22:00

30 kilometers away from Vilnius, capital of Lithuania, there is a small village called Gojus. In the outskirts of this village, near the woods, in a self-built house of clay there lives a family of Dorma and Juozas Penkinski. The couple is both ceramic artists and an afficionados of Japanese traditional ceramic kilns. In their land they have constructed two kilns: Anagama and Sosukenei. The latter one’s name in Japanese means “no problem” and this kiln is deviced specially for shorter and more compact periods of firing. By shorter I mean 4 days and nights of continous firing done by a close group of people who take turns tending the kiln loaded full of clay whistles. The long period of burning helps to reach prolonged high temperatures in which the wood-ash starts melting into a natural glaze thus creating unexpected variations in texture and color of the ceramics. “The Year of the Catdog” was recorded during the 4 day long process of firing and is a concentrate of the whole process from start till the end. Along with the ‘symphonic’ sounds of fire there can be heard voices of the people involved in the ritual, also there is audible presence of a strange dog named Tschinghis who fell in love with a cat.
The clay from which the whistles were made comes from Czech Republic. It is a very good quality clay that is proper for high temperature firing. This kind of clay cannot be found in Lithuania, that’s why local ceramists use imported clay from Chech Republic.

The sounds of the clay whistles were recorded in the studio later.

Sound recording and composition: Arturas Bumšteinas
Producer: Michal Rataj (Cezch Radio Vltava)

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from UN​/​RELEASED VARIA, released July 7, 2014

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