[2] He studied Western techniques such as random operations, timbre experiments and spatial sound concepts (Zufallsoperationen, Klangfarbenexperimente und Raumklangkonzepte).
[2] Kutavičius was a member of the executive council of the Soviet-Lithuanian composers' association, but maintained an independent mindset without concessions to the occupation.
[1] Kutavičius taught composition at Čiurlionis School of Art from 1975, and at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater from 1984, appointed professor a year later.
In response, he wrote a diptych Ignis et fides (Fire and Faith), scored for vocal soloists, readers, choir, and symphony orchestra including folk instruments.
[9] Perhaps the most iconic work by Kutavičius is "Last Pagan Rites" (Paskutinės pagonių apeigos) for chorus, organ, and 4 horns, with text by Sigitas Geda (1978).
The final chords of the piece are a pseudo-Protestant hymn played on the organ, growing ever louder, symbolizing the Christianization of Lithuania, while the ancestral vocal layers dissolve and vanish.
It uncovers centuries-old layers of history and reaches back to prehistoric times to speak in archetypes of mythical and religious consciousness.
The archaic and primeval in character music by Bronius Kutavičius, a composer on a mission of "cultural archaeology", is also no less rationalistic and mathematically exact.
[2]Compositions by Kutavičius include:[10] A reviewer of a 2015 recording of The Seasons by Kutavičius noted described the composer as "a mesmerist who enfolds his audiences and listeners in trance-like music embedded in structures redolent of Pagan ritual",[11] who uses minimalism in a personal way, where "repetitious are never sonically static", but in "constant accretion of colour and timbre, strong and striking intensifications".