KOSMOS APP

KOSMOS APP is a digital audio-performance broadcasting platform that allows you to travel through audio based historical and cultural memories of public spaces. With the help of the phone’s GPS signal, the app tracks your geolocation, allowing you to walk around the geography of sounds and stories. With the principles of augmented reality we seek to extend your understanding of the physical world by sounds. On one hand it’s about our human history and cultural heritage, on the other mythology and magic. Each application program (story) is created by professional theatre, literature and music artists in collaboration with scientists, history and cultural researchers from various fields.

KOSMOS THEATRE is an official partner of Kaunas 2022 European Capital of Culture program. From 2019 working togeather with its Memory office we reasearched Kaunas heritage, connected with local communities and cultural organizations and established a reality bending experience. Proudly we introduce 3 audio-compositional stories and a car instalation to inspire the local residents and visitors to travel in time of Kaunas and meet the most inspiring personas who not only effected localy but has a huge inpact for us today, We are also greatfull for Lithuanian culture council for support of this program.

The audio-collage “The Crossroads of Four Confessions” in Kaunas Peace Park is made of dozens of authentic documentary recordings and stories of the park recorded by professional actors, and together with the accompanying music and sound design, guides listeners through the religious-cultural traditions of all four of the park’s denominations, the famous All Souls’ Day events of 1956, the memory of the Lithuanian struggle for independence and the stories of Kaunas residents today.

The audio composition ” RECONCILIATION” is a musical memory trail connecting the Museum, the IX Fort and the Monument, inviting you to walk through the echoes of the noise of the past and to experience an emotional transformation – to feel the cultural trauma caused by the dramatic political changes of the 20th century. The symbolic howls of world wars, totalitarian regimes and crimes against humanity encourage us to imagine man in a precarious, murmuring environment. The audio composition reveals the invisible emotional charge of Kaunas IX Fort Memorial Complex as a historical and memorial site. The noisy, intense, intermittent sounds ultimately search for harmony among themselves, stimulate reflection on society’s relationship to history, and lead towards recognition and reconciliation of historical traumas.

The audio-composition “Absolute World”, located in the Aleksotas and Old Town districts of Kaunas, immerses into the intellectual world of the world-famous scientists, brothers Oskar and Herman Minkowski, who spent their childhood years in Kaunas, and explores the links between Kaunas and the discoveries of the famous scientists of that time.