BA thesis:
Wind as a Medium for Relations and Connections
BA project:
connectionsthroughwind (vėjoryšys)
May 30–June 27, 2025 VDA FAMM graduates' exhibition "#FAMM.BA.2025 / Pernaša" at the Atletika and Entity galleries and the Vilnius Academy of Arts.
Python, real-time data, MQTT cloud, code with AI support
Modular synthesis (VCV Rack program)
Chosen participants (people close to me)
thesis in English
technical documentation bits
I am researching how wind can change sound. At first, I researched DIY instruments, but later they became a way to receive wind as data and allow it to change the meaning of sound virtually. However, sound is also shaped by people who receive the wind measurement tool. I associate them with everyday joys and strive for them to also find small joys during this process.
In my written work, I discuss wind as a medium for relationships and connections in a fragmentary way, exploring the mythological and cultural meanings of wind, its impact on nature, sound, and communication-connections in more detail. I explore the concept of wind both personally and scientifically—from its role in the atmosphere to mythical interpretations in which wind becomes a force of both creation and destruction.
The final work is technically as follows: two objects that measure wind speed are given to people during the exhibition who remind me of everyday joys. With instructions on how to use the object, an interlude is added to encourage the search for everyday joys. The data collected from the two wind measurement objects is sent to a computer and changes the pitch (sound frequency) of the sounds I created in a modular synthesis program. The work operates in real time during the gallery’s opening hours.
p.s. photo with the speakers is taken by Laurynas Skeisgiela, other one is mine
Python, real-time data, MQTT cloud, code with AI support
Modular synthesis (VCV Rack program)
Chosen participants (people close to me)
thesis in English
technical documentation bits
I am researching how wind can change sound. At first, I researched DIY instruments, but later they became a way to receive wind as data and allow it to change the meaning of sound virtually. However, sound is also shaped by people who receive the wind measurement tool. I associate them with everyday joys and strive for them to also find small joys during this process.
In my written work, I discuss wind as a medium for relationships and connections in a fragmentary way, exploring the mythological and cultural meanings of wind, its impact on nature, sound, and communication-connections in more detail. I explore the concept of wind both personally and scientifically—from its role in the atmosphere to mythical interpretations in which wind becomes a force of both creation and destruction.
The final work is technically as follows: two objects that measure wind speed are given to people during the exhibition who remind me of everyday joys. With instructions on how to use the object, an interlude is added to encourage the search for everyday joys. The data collected from the two wind measurement objects is sent to a computer and changes the pitch (sound frequency) of the sounds I created in a modular synthesis program. The work operates in real time during the gallery’s opening hours.
p.s. photo with the speakers is taken by Laurynas Skeisgiela, other one is mine
wind-compass
Python, API data, code with AI support,
Raspberry Pi, DC motor, compass, magnets
2025
Raspberry Pi, DC motor, compass, magnets
2025
shown in solo exhibition "travels and wanders" at the VDA gallery "Artifex", Vilnius.
2025 01 21 - 02 07
a compass that responds to real-time wind direction data from eismoinfo.lt.
Raspberry Pi checks every minute to see if there is any new data on eismoinfo.lt. When new data appears, it takes the wind direction data from eismoinfo and converts it into degrees. It then transmits it to a magnet on the axis. The axis is set to zero degrees and then rotated in the desired direction.The process runs 24/7 during the exhibition.
Raspberry Pi checks every minute to see if there is any new data on eismoinfo.lt. When new data appears, it takes the wind direction data from eismoinfo and converts it into degrees. It then transmits it to a magnet on the axis. The axis is set to zero degrees and then rotated in the desired direction.The process runs 24/7 during the exhibition.
wave:sound:scape (side A/B)
Created in September 2024, in the workshop
"Small Realities - Reconstructing Reality" at the
Nida Art Colony.
Blender, Audacity
2024
shown in solo exhibition "travels and wanders" at the VDA gallery "Artifex", Vilnius.
2025 01 21 - 02 07
Travelling on a ferry, and watching the wind blow the waves, I kept thinking. There are all kinds of waves. There are sound, light and sea waves.
How they blend with each other? How can they be combined? How can they converge with each other?
I cannot answer these questions, but I made a try putting sound, light and sea waves together through the help of Blender.
I tried to work with real sound from a video recording with waves (side A) as well as with heavily edited sea wave sound (side B).
Recorded sound was processed in Audacity.
The waves react to the audio in Blender.
"Small Realities - Reconstructing Reality" at the
Nida Art Colony.
Blender, Audacity
2024
shown in solo exhibition "travels and wanders" at the VDA gallery "Artifex", Vilnius.
2025 01 21 - 02 07
Travelling on a ferry, and watching the wind blow the waves, I kept thinking. There are all kinds of waves. There are sound, light and sea waves.
How they blend with each other? How can they be combined? How can they converge with each other?
I cannot answer these questions, but I made a try putting sound, light and sea waves together through the help of Blender.
I tried to work with real sound from a video recording with waves (side A) as well as with heavily edited sea wave sound (side B).
Recorded sound was processed in Audacity.
The waves react to the audio in Blender.
linkvėjo lengvėjo (towards the wind it`s easier)
(untranslatable word-play)
found objects, screws, 2024
I explore the relationship with the found objects, the wind and myself.
-
what is this wind about? What are these objects about?
things that I still can't leave - I'm learning not to forget, not to forget the places and people I've visited.
sometimes in a notebook, sometimes deep in my mind, sometimes in the shape of a thing, sometimes in the colour of a thing.
things that I still can't leave - places I will return to someday, or maybe not, memories that will never be the same. like their sound or their blend.
The wind blows, blows at these things. never the same, each gust is different, each sound is no longer the same.
I put my semester's collection in the hands of the wind. Wind, it's like your wind chimes. someone hangs them by the river, someone hangs them on a high hill, someone hangs them by a lonely tree.
Sometimes, when it's hard, I listen to the wind's song. sometimes, when it's hard, I listen, but I don't know if I hear - I observe.
I notice, I notice the little things, and I try to enjoy them. Where the heart desires, where the eyes point, where the feet lead.
Listen. Observe.
Maybe you'll hear the song of the wind and found things.
Sometimes it's extremely hard, but try to find joy in the days.
found objects, screws, 2024
I explore the relationship with the found objects, the wind and myself.
-
what is this wind about? What are these objects about?
things that I still can't leave - I'm learning not to forget, not to forget the places and people I've visited.
sometimes in a notebook, sometimes deep in my mind, sometimes in the shape of a thing, sometimes in the colour of a thing.
things that I still can't leave - places I will return to someday, or maybe not, memories that will never be the same. like their sound or their blend.
The wind blows, blows at these things. never the same, each gust is different, each sound is no longer the same.
I put my semester's collection in the hands of the wind. Wind, it's like your wind chimes. someone hangs them by the river, someone hangs them on a high hill, someone hangs them by a lonely tree.
Sometimes, when it's hard, I listen to the wind's song. sometimes, when it's hard, I listen, but I don't know if I hear - I observe.
I notice, I notice the little things, and I try to enjoy them. Where the heart desires, where the eyes point, where the feet lead.
Listen. Observe.
Maybe you'll hear the song of the wind and found things.
Sometimes it's extremely hard, but try to find joy in the days.
exhibited (revisited/reworked):
* in solo exhibition "travels and wanders" at the
VDA gallery "Artifex", Vilnius 2025 01 21 - 02 07
* in one day group pop-up exhibition „ICamp`as“ at the
Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy Sluškų Palace,
Vilnius, Lithuania 2024 06 20
* in solo exhibition "travels and wanders" at the
VDA gallery "Artifex", Vilnius 2025 01 21 - 02 07
* in one day group pop-up exhibition „ICamp`as“ at the
Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy Sluškų Palace,
Vilnius, Lithuania 2024 06 20
archive of souvenirs
(“towards
the wind it’s easier” alt-work)
found objects, paper, transparent paper, notes, 2023-2024
Trying to collect bits and pieces of everyday life and never forget - I'm always afraid of losing my reminiscences because of my fragmented memory, and at times I am conspecting my memories in my phone notes app and in my notebook.
At the same time, it's an attempt to piece together random bits of the city - the location and circumstances of the find are written on the pieces of paper in which the found objects are packed. I only write down the situation when I return home or to the academy, sometimes not even on the same day - so it's an attempt to expand the boundaries and frames of my memory. The objects are different, from different days and places - so it's a kind of mapping of the city and memory.
Sometimes I don`t remember where exactly, how, and why did I take the object. These objects doesn`t exist in the archive.
Trying to collect bits and pieces of everyday life and never forget - I'm always afraid of losing my reminiscences because of my fragmented memory, and at times I am conspecting my memories in my phone notes app and in my notebook.
At the same time, it's an attempt to piece together random bits of the city - the location and circumstances of the find are written on the pieces of paper in which the found objects are packed. I only write down the situation when I return home or to the academy, sometimes not even on the same day - so it's an attempt to expand the boundaries and frames of my memory. The objects are different, from different days and places - so it's a kind of mapping of the city and memory.
Sometimes I don`t remember where exactly, how, and why did I take the object. These objects doesn`t exist in the archive.
see processes of tech part:
https://konspektuojanti.com/drafts2
https://konspektuojanti.com/drafts2
catching the wind
artworks related to coding / Arduino / Raspberry pi:
2025 08 25 - 31 Ung Nordisk Musik (UNM) festival theme "Preparty" in Helsinki, Finland.
Python, API data, code with AI support
Modular synthesis (VCV Rack program)
How can we turn data into something more accessible and tangible for people? But how not to transform the originality of the data?
I was interested in the wind, and
how to turn the direction and speed of the wind into something more tangible - in this case I was thinking about sound.
Wind speed and direction data collected by the Finnish Meteorological Institute, downloaded in csv format. Transferred via python code to the loopMIDI program in VCV Rack.
Python, API data, code with AI support
Modular synthesis (VCV Rack program)
How can we turn data into something more accessible and tangible for people? But how not to transform the originality of the data?
I was interested in the wind, and
how to turn the direction and speed of the wind into something more tangible - in this case I was thinking about sound.
Wind speed and direction data collected by the Finnish Meteorological Institute, downloaded in csv format. Transferred via python code to the loopMIDI program in VCV Rack.