"Inspiration hides in the tiniest details of the world around us. Once you start noticing the grooves in tree bark, the individual weaves of the fabric in your clothes, the hundreds of lines that run through the skin of your hands and you watch all that in awe at the beautiful and complex thing that is existence - that is one of the feelings I try to portray in my music.
We feel a million different things every day and it's difficult to express that into words. Language is too limited to show the vastness of the human experience. Music and art is the one thing that can universally share that, which is otherwise impossible to find the right words for. I've struggled with that a lot throughout my life and I found sound to be the tool that helps me with it the most.
As I play music the universe whispers secrets to me and I weave what I hear into the sounds I create and thus my creations become an impression of that which surrounds us."
Bartoš Eiliakas is an electro-acoustic music composer, multiinstrumentalist. In his music Bartoš unites the sounds of classical (piano, guitars, violin, viola, cello), electronic (synthesizer) and traditional (gongs, ronroco, flute, drums and other) instruments, creating an authentic, cinematographic musical landscape, which transfers the listener to the world of dreams, fantasy and visions.
The composer’s journey with music started in his family - he was born and raised in a family of Lithuania's gong masters Alicija and Ričardas Eiliakas. Unique surroundings and exposure to many traditional instruments formed an authentic musical feel and ability to join archaic sounds with classical and modern music.
"To me electronic instruments, as amazing and versatile as they are, always lacked the natural sound and feeling of acoustic instruments. Electronica brings a kind of power, unrivaled by any other instrument and also its strange sound can make people wonder what exactly they are hearing. And acoustic instruments bring subtlety. Control between the dynamics and various sounds you can make, that you can only get by physically touching the source of the sound. And also texture - the sound of the piano mechanism moving its hammers, the sharp sound of your fingers running across guitar strings, the mallet moving the air around it before it collides with a gong or a drum.
Throughout my work I always strive to find a balance between these two worlds of sound."
"All my music has a very unique purpose of leading the listener on a journey into their inner self. For me, every composition and album has a very specific story but more important than telling that story is that every listener would find their own story, an experience that is important only to them. Something that might strike a thought, spark an action or a feeling inviting to take a look inwards. The listener gets the key to a process... What the process will be depends on the listener."
