is a collective of four professional composers (Jonas Jurkūnas, Antanas Jasenka, Martynas Bialobžeskis, Vytautas V. Jurgutis), founded in 2008 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
The name of the collective was designed to imitate stuck CD sound, giving listeners a clue that composers would be using CD players most of the time. The Orchestra’s unique character—four composers—enables it to play their own compositions and that of world-renowned composers and remixes, produce live videos, present compositions involving a variety of disc players, stopwatches, special graphic scores, and “low–high” tech devices. Recently, computer and other electronic instruments were introduced as well. The music of the DIISC Orchestra could be labelled as live-electronic, noise, acousmatic, musique concrète, ambient, with occasional rhythmic combinations with techno and DJ elements. Yet even these many terms do not give full justice to the ensemble’s style.
Since its founding, DIISSC Orchestra has created five different programmes: D.O. (created in 2008, with a similarly titled album released by on Clinical Archives in 2009, downloaded worldwide about 34,000 copies and awarded Best Electronic Music Album of 2008 by the Lithuanian Composers’ Union); Zipped and Remixed (2009, unique remixes of J. S. Bach, Ravel, Cage, Stockhausen, Reich, Madonna, Michael Jackson, and Merzbow); a special project for the multimedia bridge Vilnius–Bialystok (2011); an electroacoustic programme for the 70th anniversary of the Lithuanian Composers’ Union, titled 70+1 (2012), and Venta, a special programme with music composed for and played on vintage Soviet electronic analogue instruments (2012).