punktò

Jonas Šarkus audiovisual artistic project "punktò", reached its first high point and on 2023 October 1 presented his debut album “QQ”. The unique project of actor and musician J. Šarkus is an “all in one”: his alter ego, the individual musical and visual art language, in collaborations with various artists from other fields. "punktò" sound is an unusual composition of dance music inspired by lo-fi, Synth-Pop, Disco, minimal wave style and avant-garde tone, which is brought by J. Šarkus work in the theater. With his new album, he (self-)ironically reflects on the established traditions of dance music. “QQ”'s songs are created using exclusively analog, modular synthesizers, sometimes interweaving their cold sound with the timbres of living instruments, thus extracting uncommon polyphonics.
"punktò" is open to all audiences. Without didactics, with a new sound and the texts living in it, the artist criticizes the consumerist, the rushing and individually deprived society, while seeing himself in it as well. The concept of time is very important in the debut album. It’s goal is to make music modern, but at the same time not to respond to a specific era, placing in itself the motives of the older dance music of the 70’s and 80’s. The album's format - an audiocassette - also serves for this "slow" experience, it individualizes the music, invites you to step back from the tempo of the surrounding world and turn to yourself, - to receive this music as an experience suspended in time.