The Sparrow Made Some Beer
A multi-media project conceived by Jazmina Cininas that offers an autoethnographic exploration of hybrid Australian-Lithuanian cultural identity. The project consists of a solo exhibition of Jazmina's unique lagerphones from used bottle caps and recycled timber that reimagine the quintessential Australian bush-band instruments as Baltic nature motifs. Melbourne-Lithuanian folk ensemble,
The Lost Clog (of which Jazmina is also a member), bring the lagerphones to life through a live performance of archaic
Lithuanian folk songs that form a narrative song cycle. Percussion expert Ben Smart worked with The Lost Clog to
uncover novel possibilities for lagerphonic orchestration. Commissioned video works by filmmaker Mark Bakaitis
augment the exhibition and project, and feature the lagerphones being activated by The Lost Clog in
Australian bushland settings. Presented at Counihan Gallery in association with the
2022 Brunswick Music Festival. Filmmaker Oliver Clifton's documentation of
The Lost Clog performing in the gallery also forms part of the project.
Supported by the Australian Lithuanian Foundation and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
WINNER: 2022 Australian Folk Music Awards Community/Cultural Project of the Year
Click here to view award presentation and performance
A multi-media project conceived by Jazmina Cininas that offers an autoethnographic exploration of hybrid Australian-Lithuanian cultural identity. The project consists of a solo exhibition of Jazmina's unique lagerphones from used bottle caps and recycled timber that reimagine the quintessential Australian bush-band instruments as Baltic nature motifs. Melbourne-Lithuanian folk ensemble,
The Lost Clog (of which Jazmina is also a member), bring the lagerphones to life through a live performance of archaic
Lithuanian folk songs that form a narrative song cycle. Percussion expert Ben Smart worked with The Lost Clog to
uncover novel possibilities for lagerphonic orchestration. Commissioned video works by filmmaker Mark Bakaitis
augment the exhibition and project, and feature the lagerphones being activated by The Lost Clog in
Australian bushland settings. Presented at Counihan Gallery in association with the
2022 Brunswick Music Festival. Filmmaker Oliver Clifton's documentation of
The Lost Clog performing in the gallery also forms part of the project.
Supported by the Australian Lithuanian Foundation and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
WINNER: 2022 Australian Folk Music Awards Community/Cultural Project of the Year
Click here to view award presentation and performance
The Sparrow Made Some Beer culminates in an audio recording and CD launch event at the Melbourne Lithuanian Club.
Supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grant
Shortlisted for the 2022 Australian Folk Music Awards Traditional Folk Music Album of the Year
Supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grant
Shortlisted for the 2022 Australian Folk Music Awards Traditional Folk Music Album of the Year
Click here and tune in to the 36:09 mark to listen to an interview about The Sparrow Made Some Beer between Jazmina Cininas and Rosa Ellen for The Art Show, ABC Radio National
Click here to view Jazmina Cininas' floor talk at Counihan Gallery
Click here to view curator Moya McFadzean and Jazmina Cininas talk about the acquisition of the wolf lagerphone to the Museums Victoria collection.
Click here to view individual lagerphones and studio views of works in progress
Click here to view Jazmina Cininas' floor talk at Counihan Gallery
Click here to view curator Moya McFadzean and Jazmina Cininas talk about the acquisition of the wolf lagerphone to the Museums Victoria collection.
Click here to view individual lagerphones and studio views of works in progress
The Sparrow Made Some Beer: Jazmina Cininas & The Lost Clog
Counihan Gallery in association with the 2022 Brunswick Music Festival
Live performance: 6 March 2022
A narrative song cycle conceived by visual artist Jazmina Cininas and developed in collaboration with Melbourne-Lithuanian folk ensemble The Lost Clog and percussion expert Ben Smart. Lagerphones by Jazmina Cininas. Performed by The Lost Clog. Wardrobe by Jazmina Cininas & The Lost Clog. Hair and wreathes by Audra Šimkus.
Supported by the Australian Lithuanian Foundation and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
Click here for The Lost Clog's facebook page
Counihan Gallery in association with the 2022 Brunswick Music Festival
Live performance: 6 March 2022
A narrative song cycle conceived by visual artist Jazmina Cininas and developed in collaboration with Melbourne-Lithuanian folk ensemble The Lost Clog and percussion expert Ben Smart. Lagerphones by Jazmina Cininas. Performed by The Lost Clog. Wardrobe by Jazmina Cininas & The Lost Clog. Hair and wreathes by Audra Šimkus.
Supported by the Australian Lithuanian Foundation and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
Click here for The Lost Clog's facebook page
As captured on audience smart phone cameras.
Video works commissioned as part of The Sparrow Made Some Beer
Supported by the Australian Lithuanian Foundation and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria
The Sparrow Made Some Beer CD & translated songbook.
Audio recording of The Sparrow Made Some Beer lagerphonic song cycle by The Lost Clog with Ben Smart on percussion.
Launched at Melbourne Lithuanian Club 29 May 2022. Supported by City of Melbourne Arts Grant.
Artwork and concept by Jazmina Cininas.
Recorded and mixed by Mischa Herman at Rolling Stock Recording Rooms, Collingwood. Mastered by Adam Dempsey.
Pressed by Replicat.
Click here to listen to the album.
Click here to hear a post-CD launch interview between Jazmina Cininas and Terese Virtue for 3CR Music Sans Frontiers.
Click here to read a 2 page review (Lithuanian language) of the CD by Antanas Fokas for Muzikos Barai journal.
Audio recording of The Sparrow Made Some Beer lagerphonic song cycle by The Lost Clog with Ben Smart on percussion.
Launched at Melbourne Lithuanian Club 29 May 2022. Supported by City of Melbourne Arts Grant.
Artwork and concept by Jazmina Cininas.
Recorded and mixed by Mischa Herman at Rolling Stock Recording Rooms, Collingwood. Mastered by Adam Dempsey.
Pressed by Replicat.
Click here to listen to the album.
Click here to hear a post-CD launch interview between Jazmina Cininas and Terese Virtue for 3CR Music Sans Frontiers.
Click here to read a 2 page review (Lithuanian language) of the CD by Antanas Fokas for Muzikos Barai journal.
The Sparrow Made Some Beer: CD and translated songbook artwork
The Sparrow Made Some Beer: CD Launch & Lunch
Melbourne Lithuanian Club 29 May 2022
Padarė Žvirblis Alutį: residency and solo exhibition
Kauno Paveikslų Galerija/Kaunas Picture Gallery, Lithuania.
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In March 2024, I travelled to Lithuania to undertake a two-month artist residency at the Kaunas Picture Gallery, at the invitation of the National MK Čiurlionis Art Museum. During this time, I created eight new lagerphones and experimented with creating my first wall-based work from modified beer caps. The caps were supplied by the gallery bar, Kultūra, supplemented by caps from my personal stockpile in Australia. At the conclusion of the residency, the new works were exhibited alongside eleven pre-existing lagerphones and three video works which I brought with me from Australia, in a solo exhibition, Padarė Žvirblis Alutį (The Sparrow Made Some Beer) at the Kaunas Picture Gallery. The opening night included a short performance of Lithuanian folk songs by me, my husband Jonas, and Kaunas local Sigita, demonstrating the lagerphones in action (pictured left), while The Lost Clog performed at a special closing event. Made possible through the generous financial support of the National MK Čiurlionis Art Museum and the Australian Lithuanian Foundation.
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