During this first residency, we invite six experienced artists, accompanied by two Czech artists used to lead workshops with teenagers, to experiment with students in the Gymnázium Jana Keplera, a school located near Prague historical center (Czech Republic).
During an entire week, the 8 musicians will work with about 20 teenagers from 13 to 18 years old inside the different school sites (classrooms, staircases, hallways, gardens, sports hall…) to create an artistic piece that will be presented during 2 concerts at the end of the week. A show gathering all the musicians participating to this residency will also be organized.
To meet the challenges of Access, the artists and students will pay particular attention to the listening experience they will be offering to the audience, and will seek to exploit the different playing, movement and listening possibilities offered by the school’s spaces.
Apart from this, they are given complete freedom to experiment as they wish, sharing their different experiences, approaches and inspirations to create together artistic proposals offering a more opened experience to the audience.
Fri. 27 Sept. 2024 – Concert of the artists
Sat. 28 Sept. 2024 – Concert of the artists and teenagers
Sun. 29 Sept. 2024 – Concert of the artists and teenagers
Discover the artistic team:
Pavol BérešPavol Béreš (*1998) is a graduate of the J. L. Bella Conservatory (composition, piano) and the Academy of Arts (composition) in Banská Bystrica (Slovakia). Through the Erasmus+ program, he spent his first year of master (2023-24) at HAMU in Prague. As a composer and performer, he experiments with various styles and genres, aiming towards aleatoric, open and graphic scores, free improvisation and electronics. He is a threefold participant of the international Veni Academy project. In April 2024, he took part in the experimental music artistic residency project Re-patched in Serbia. He is also the founder of the alternative music band MPNP. […]
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Marie ČtveráčkováMarie Čtveráčková aka Mary C is a sound artist, DJ, organizer, educator and co-founder of Synth Library Prague – community space for sharing, learning, discussions and experiments not only in the field of electronic music. In her artistic and educational practice, she is focused on feminist perspectives, social and political context, accessibility and dismantling stereotypes, as well as supportive and collaborative strategies. As educator she collaborates on music programs for schools focused on current electronic music, rap, new instruments and critical listening. […]
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Susanna GartmayerSusanna Gartmayer, born 1975 in Vienna, studied painting and printmaking at the academy of fine arts (Vienna) and has been working as a bass clarinetist, composer and improviser in various fields of experimental music since the early 2000s.
She is member and founder of numerous ensembles for improvised and organized music and her particular interest lies in the polyphonic sound possibilities of low clarinets, open forms of composition as well as theory and practice of collaborative work processes.
Since 2015, together with Thomas Berghammer and Didi Kern, she has been organizing the Monday Improvisers Session at Celeste in Vienna – a weekly musicaly multiideomatic platform for improvisers in Vienna and far beyond.
She has performed at Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf, Museum of Modern Art Indianapolis, Unlimited Wels, Avant Art Festival Wroclav, Festiwal Musikofilia Torun, Kaleidophon Ulrichsberg, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Hongkong City Hall, Meakusma, Musikprotokoll, Wien Modern, Fusion Festival, Bad Bonn Kilbi, Jazzfestival Saalfelden, artacts, Taktlos Festival and many more. […]
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Matěj KotoučekMatěj Kotouček is a musician and sound artist living in Prague. He is currently a member of the Noise Kitchen platform and makes music in the electro-acoustic duo Thistle, solo as Loops of Decay, and occasionally in other collaborations, for example with John Clardy (Tera Melos, Waterbased) or Freddie Hudson. He is also a member of the AVA kolektiv – a collective of like-minded producers, artists and promoters based in Brno (Czech Republic). He founded the audiovisual turned-band-later project Sky To Speak. He worked at Bastl Instruments as a head of the Noise Kitchen store, directed the Nona Records label, and organized lectures, events and residencies at Vašulka Kitchen. In addition to his own work, he composes music for theater plays (Divadlo Feste), video games and audiovisual projects. […]
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Vicente MateusVicente Mateus (1996) lives and works in Porto and has a background in visual and sound arts studies. His work navigates through fields related with sound and drawing, using drum/percussion objects as tools for his work. He takes interest in collaborative movements and DIY methods, using repetition and error to construct instruments, sounds and images. Since 2022, he has been an active member of Sonoscopia Associação Cultural, a platform for creation, experimentation and reflection on sound, based in Porto. […]
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Elia MorettiBorn in 1986 in Milan (Italy), Elia Moretti researches contemporary and experimental music theatre through an ecological perception of sound.
Elia is a PhD student at Charles University in Prague (CZ), where he is developing a research between music and performing arts, with a specific focus on the performativity and agency of sound itself. He is particularly interested in the sonic phenomena that form the basis of performative and theatrical practices, and the ways in which artistic practices participate in the contexts (social grounds) from which they emerge or to which they respond. […]
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Rosa ParlatoRosa Parlato is a flutist, improviser and composer. She graduated in flute at the Conservatory of Rome and at the Academy of Music of Budapest. She obtained several interpretation prizes at the conservatories of Metz and Lille. In 2010, she started training in electroacoustic music at the Art Zoyd Studio. Since then, she has participated in numerous ensembles and improvised encounters. As a composer, her acousmatic works have been broadcasted in several festivals. She has also collaborated on projects for film and video.
Rosa mixes abstract compositions, acoustic and electroacoustic collages, the musicality of voice and language, extended instrumental techniques, contemporary music and musical theater. Her musical vision plays with the borders between disciplines and aesthetic constraints in order to privilege the listening, the meeting, the moment.
Among her projects : Fatrassons, Isophone, Wasteland noise quartet, sextet 36, Compagnie-i, Collectif 4.6.Art, Collectif Sounding Arts. She collaborates with the Centre de Création Musical Art Zoyd Studio, with Le Fresnoy, with Compagnie BVZK, La pluie d’oiseau, Apo 33, GMVL, Miso Musica, Athénor, Light Cone, Les Détours de Babel… […]
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Simon WhethamSince 2005, Simon Whetham has developed a practice of working with sonic activity as a material for creation. He often uses environmental sound, employing a variety of methods and techniques in order to obtain often unnoticed and obscured sonic phenomena. He explores ways of creating physical traces of sound, and of channelling and transforming energy, most recently salvaging and repurposing obsolete consumer technology. He performs and exhibits internationally, participating in Sonica Festival, 28.MFRU, phonon~festival, Fresh Winds Biennale, Nakanojo Biennale, ACC Showcase, Tsonami Festival, Madeiradig and Moers Festival; has a large number of published works; and regularly collaborates with artists of other disciplines. He has received a number of commissions and awards including: 2020: Arts Council England grant to develop studio works2017: British Council supported participation in Tsonami Festival in Chile2009: Grants from Arts Council England and PRS for Music to curate and organise the cultural exchange project ‘Active Crossover’2007: Grant from Arts Council England to attend the Mamori Sound Project, Amazonas, Brazil […]
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