NICHE 2026 ⑉⑇ ANDREW PEKLER, GIULIA RAE

This spring, the contemporary music concert series NICHE returns for its fourth edition. This year, the programme expands, inviting audiences to four site-specific concerts held in unique Kaunas architectural sites.

The program, curated by Adomas Palekas and Edvinas Grinkevičius, invites to trace the dynamic relationships of sound in space, exploring how architecture shapes our listening experience and how music and environment interact through material, social, and aural dimensions. The cycle presents four distinct concerts, all travelling through diverse sonic contexts: architectural acoustics and resonances, spatial composition and electroacoustic music, spaces of transformation and anthropogenic soundscapes, dialogues through body, movement, and rhythm.

The second concert in the series will take place on April 22 at the AGATHUM event hall (25 I. Kanto St., Kaunas). Drawing on the tradition of electroacoustic music, this concert invites the audience to experience space as a compositional dimension and to engage in an acousmatic listening experience—one that separates sound from performativity.
The concert will feature two representatives of electroacoustic music: Andrew Pekler (Berlin), who will perform live pieces from his latest album New Environments & Rhythm Studies, and Giulia Rae (Brussels), who will present a unique spatial sound program designed for an eight-channel sound system.

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Andrew Pekler works with sampling and synthesis to produce texturally rich and sensually evocative sound compositions. Pekler's familiar palette of synthetic field recordings, warm, undulating electronic textures, shifting percussion patterns and serene melodies.

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Giulia Rae is a sound artist based in Brussels. Fundamentally nourished by the Italian underground music scene, she later expanded her path internationally, performing live and presenting her acousmatic music. Grounded in creative coding, Giulia Rae’s current touch on sound embraces the possibilities given by human-machine interaction to craft sonic environments characterised by intricate and fragmented textures, rarefied pulsations and enveloping bass.

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Tickets HERE*.

*𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀, 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗽𝘂𝗽𝗶𝗹𝘀, 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗼𝗿𝘀, 𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗱𝘂𝗮𝗹𝘀, 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗮 𝟮𝟬% 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝘆𝗽𝗲𝘀. 𝗧𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁, 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗡𝗨𝗢𝗟𝗔𝗜𝗗𝗔 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁. 𝗔 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗱 𝗜𝗗 𝗺𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲.

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Organized by: Kaunas Artists' House

Curated by: Adomas Palekas, Edvinas Grinkevičius

Funded by: Kaunas city municipality, Lithuanian Council for Culture

Partners: National Institute of Architecture, Music Information Centre Lithuania, "Ekskursas", AGATHUM, "Kaunas Full of Culture"