Projects after bars before

Lumi Mannermaa (FI), Snorre Laugerud (NO), Liutauras Baltrūnas (LT), Sebastian Kuhz (NL/FI)

Supervised by Matthias Kronlachner (Syng), Jussi Tuohino (Oulu University of Applied Sciences)

During LIVE SPACE Workshops as part of Jauna Muzika Festival, our group Lumi Mannermaa, Liutauras Baltrūnas, Snorre Laugerud, Basti Kuhz, Jussi Tuohino and Matthias Kronlachner went to jail. We were sentenced to a 5 days penalty behind the bars for making music and art in public. The judge placed us in Lukiškės Prison. Some of us risked their lives and smuggled a recorder in their prison pocket into the cells. The time was harsh and we felt on our own bodies how life must have been in the 1900s when the prison was built. We collected voices of the contemporary soundscape deep inside the prison and with these we made an audible journey through time until an unpredictable future. Say goodbye to your loved ones, hear the handcuffs clicking and enter the prison for the ambisonical live electronic music performance “After Bars Before”.