The selected participants worked with a group of teenagers in a secondary school environment. Together, they prepared a site-specific performance that moved through the school, allowing visitors to experience not only the results of the school expedition (see below) in an unusual way but also the architecture of the school and its environment from new perspectives.
The preparation and work together with the students took part during the school expedition to Karlovy Vary region and partly in the school itself, where the final presentation happened. The topic/location of the school expedition played main role in shaping the content of the work created together. Selected artists with approx. 20 students of Gymnasium Přírodní škola gathered material from the historically and environmentally very interesting mining area of Jáchymov, educationally well presented within the so called Jachymov hell trail.
Public presentations:
Thursday 11th of June | 18:00
Kemp Lesík, Lesík (CZ)
Tuesday 16th of June | 8:30 & 17:30
Gymnasium Přírodní škola, Prague (CZ)
Discover the artistisc team:
It is difficult to fit David Bausseron into ready-made categories. A guitarist, performer, and manipulator of objects and waste materials, he displays a particular taste for noise, spectacular concerts, and the staging of himself—always with a certain sense of distance and humor. He has been devoted to improvisation since the late 1990s and has been a member of the Lille-based collective Muzzix since 1998.
Today, he regularly performs within several groups and projects: RON-PON (experimental rock trio with Thierry Dupont, actor with Compagnie l’Oiseau Mouche), Metallikwa, Video Kill Guitar (with Lionel Palun), Peau d’Ours (a young-audience show), Roue de Secours (free jazz), Tranchées (free rock), and Canal Poussière (song-based music).
David Bausseron also develops numerous solo projects: (participatory sound exhibition), murmur meta orchestra (participatory concert), Subspace (a noise sonata for birdcage), O.U.R.S. (participatory noise performance), and Abstract Bloody Blues (solo guitar). In duo with his brother Sébastien Bausseron, he created a cine-concert, Les Bausseron de Nanteuil-sur-Aisne, based on family films from the 1940s–1970s shot on 9.5 mm film.
He has collaborated with numerous artists—musicians, visual artists, performers, choreographers, stage directors, and theater companies.
As a member of the Lille-based collective Muzzix, this versatile musician leads workshops for all kinds of audiences: elderly people, school groups, families, and more. Creative and highly adaptable, the workshops David Bausseron offers are wide-ranging: object manipulation, sound discovery and practice, prepared guitars, guided improvisation, participatory orchestras, and more.
Finally, sensitive to issues surrounding mental health, David Bausseron has for many years carried out specific experimental creative work with the late group Humming Dogs, as well as with RonPon and Metallikwa.
Beyond its concerts, RonPon is also developing a staged creative project entitled Je sais pas j’ai rien du tout (“I Don’t Know, I’ve Got Nothing at All”), a form of sound theater / rock opera. […]
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Marie 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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Václav Kalivoda is a Czech trombone player, musician, composer, and performer. After studying trombone at the Prague Conservatory and Bard College Conservatory of Music (USA), where he received degrees both in music and classical studies, he went to study traditional gamelan music at ISI Yogyakarta (IDN).
Václav works with theatre, dance, and theatre companies (Archa+, Divadlo Ponec, Studio Alta, Crew collective, tYhle, Z druhé strany, NIE theatre, Wariot Ideal, Czech National Theatre and others) with whom he performs, composes, and develops music for the performances. He composed music for performances souHra, Now We Are Here, Icarus, Košilice, Mikrosvěty, Jeden a Jeden a Jeden, Crooners, Pošli pohled odněkud, kam nepojedeš, and others. In the theater and dance projects, he doesn’t stay as a passive musician, but actively steps into the performances, making the music not only a decoration, but rather an equal partner to the words, movements, lights and other theater attributes. He participates in some educational programs connected with music, theater, and dance, both as a musician and an instructor.
Although Václav is trained as a classical musician he goes way beyond classical music to other styles and genres including free improvisation, music for the theater, and Javanese gamelan. He has been cooperating with many musicians and music groups such as: Tomislav Federsel/B4, Prague Improvisation Orchestra, Orchestr Berg, PMP Orchestra, EnsembleSpectrum, Contemporaeus, Voříšci, Moving Orchestra, Petr Vrba, Zdeněk Závodný, Iva Bittová, Čikori, Secret Aerobic, Drozdi a Droždí, Anna Romanovská, Petr Tichý, Pasi Mäkelä, Jiří Konvrzek, Helder Deploige, Michal Hrubý, Vložte Kočku, Anna Pančenko.
Václav has been part of many site-specific projects and public interventions with projects like Moving Orchestra, 4+4 Dny v Pohybu, Meziprostory, Zažij mesto jinak, Živé mesto, and Funebráci. He has a wife and a son and lives in Prague. […]
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Matěj 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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Pasi Mäkelä (b. 1975)Finnish performer, musician, director, educator, choreographer, conceptual artist.Mäkelä studied at Turku Arts Academy in Finland, where he received a degree as a theatre director and educator. He is a long-time member of the Finnish theatre communities Reality Research Center and Circus Maximus. He is currently involved in the musical projects The Spermbankers, Fart Armers and various improvisation collaborations. His notable original works include solo performances of Tonttu and Walrus Vampire Show, FUGK – Finno-ugric Garage Kabuki and projects with his own international music/performance collective Sabotanic Garden. He regularly appears as a guest actor, performer or musician in a variety of one-off and staging works. Has teached regulary in art academies in Helsinki and Prague. […]
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Andria Nicodemou is a multidisciplinary musician, sound artist, and educator from Cyprus working internationally across improvisational, experimental, and interdisciplinary performance. Her practice centers on vibraphone and percussion, improvisation, sound art, and interactive performance, exploring extended, embodied, and multisensory approaches to sound-making.
An active touring artist, she performs internationally in ongoing collaborations, including duos with Marina Tantanozi and Petr Vrba, and a trio with Vasco Trilla and Drew Wesely. She has collaborated with artists such as Joe Morris, Ikue Mori, Joe McPhee, Ingrid Laubrock, Anthony Coleman, Tayler Ho Bynum, Anne La Berge, Ab Baars, Gerald Cleaver, and Hans Koch, among others. Her work has been presented at major festivals and venues including MoMA PS1 and The Stone (New York), Earshot Jazz Festival (Seattle), Irtijal (Beirut), Borderline Festival (Athens), the Megaron Athens Concert Hall, and with the Royal, Prague, and London Improvisers Orchestras.
Her discography includes The Industry of Entropy (Relative Pitch), R̔ aven (Glacial Erratic Records), and The River Is Full(Subcontinental Records). She has been invited as a speaker at international conferences including the Change Maker Conference (Boston) and Ignite at Lesley University.
As an educator, she develops process-driven, exploratory learning environments that emphasize creativity, listening, embodiment, and interdisciplinary collaboration. She has worked in public and private schools in Massachusetts, designing alternative curricula beyond traditional music education, and collaborates with Young Audiences of Massachusetts. She is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the NGO Make Music Cyprus and the founder and curator of Breach Festival, Cyprus’s first festival dedicated toimprovisational and experimental music. […]
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Marija Rašić (1998) is a classical guitarist and lutenist from Belgrade, Serbia, currently based in Rome, Italy. She completed her Bachelor’s degree for guitar in 2020 at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade and went on to earn her Master’s degree with highest honors at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest in 2022. Marija is currently pursuing her second Master’s degree, this time in lute performance at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome.
In recent years, her projects and performances on the guitar have primarily focused on contemporary music. Her debut CD, Guitarization, released in 2023, features five world-premiere recordings of works by Serbian composers. She took part in different workshops dedicated to improvised music and open scores (as SZIM – Szeged Improvisation Workshop 2022, International workshop for improvised music 2022, 2023, 2024 in Senta and Veni Academy 2021 in Banská Bystrica) but has also been curating and organizing her projects aimed at promoting contemporary music. Notable among them are guitARevolution, a multimedia project that merges graphic scores with augmented reality visuals viewed through a camera lens, and the Karika Project, an initiative fostering artistic exchange between performers and composers from Hungary and Serbia. As part of the Belgrade Guitar District, a collective of young professional classical guitarists, she is involved in organizing the concerts and other musical projects.
Besides on the guitar, Marija is actively performing on the lute as soloist and part of few ensembles. Among the recent concerts, the following stand out: the Re-Patched Tour 2024 (as part of an ensemble performing open scores and partially improvised music) in Banská Bystrica (Bábkové divadlo na Rázcestí), Bratislava (Slovak National Gallery), Budapest (Három Holló / Drei Raben), Prague (Alternativa Festival, Atrium Žižkov), Novi Sad (Eđšeg), and Belgrade (Art Get Gallery); a series of solo performances with the Szeged Symphony Orchestra 2022 in Budapest (Solti Hall), Szeged (Korzó Zeneház), and Kanjiža (The House of Arts); solo lute recitals in Bucharest 2025 (Mogoșoaia Palace and Dalles Hall); as well as solo recitals in Serbia 2024 — at the Theatre Museum (Zaječar) and in the Cultural Center Kovačica.
During her education, she won more than 40 awards at national and international competitions and improved her skills through masterclasses with some of the most prominent guitarists of today. She is the recipient of several national and international scholarships.
Marija has been teaching since 2016 at various private and public schools, including full-time positions as a guitar and chamber music teacher at the Davorin Jenko primary and secondary music school in Belgrade, as well as a part-time role at the Budapest British International School. […]
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Marta Zapparoli is a Berlin-based Italian sound artist, improviser, performer, independent researcher whose work explores the invisible electromagnetic spectrum through site-specific, live performances and analog sonic experimentation.
In the recent years her work mainly involves the intersection of the visible and the invisible aspects of physics – seeking to activate all the poetic and conceptual levels. She capture unique self-made recordings of the “energetic environment” surrounding us, electromagnetic radiation coming from the outer space and the atmosphere : (Natural Radio phenomena VLF, astronomical radio sources like stars, the Sun, Northern Lights among others..) and, (electro-smog, wireless, radio wave communication) coming form the technological world.
In her artistic work, she questioning and exploring on the themes : “Technological Nature”, nature imitated by technology in an anthropogenic age – The behavior, transformation of nature contaminated by the technological world – The “other-then-human” as a medium fostering awareness of our cosmic connections, offering new perspectives of our anthropogenic reality, and deep listening as political practice.
She believe that electromagnetic radiations contain also life, history, wisdom, and they became the medium that she use for live performances, sound collage, composition, site-specific interventions.
Her artistic work spans sound art, science, radio ecology, radio astronomy, cosmic imagery, psychoacoustics, and spirituality.
Her main instruments are a vary of sculptural antennas (some of them self made), a wide range of radio receivers, detectors, sensors, tape recorders which she use during live performances .
In 2019 she started an ongoing collaboration with the Astronomical Observatory (Astrofili Urania) in (Italy) to develop a part of her artistic research and project, diving into the vast field of radio astronomy.
Since 2010 She is a member of Splitter Orchester (an ensemble of 24 musicians focusing on improvise music, experimentation, and site specific).
She is a member of numerous international collectives, like Pareidolia with Liz Allbee, Vertigo Transport with Burkhard Beins, THE ELKS with (Liz Allbee ,Kai Fagaschinski, Billy Roisz), M.Z.A.L. duo with Albrecht Loops, Liminal Resonatrix with (Sebastian Hofmann, Martin Lorenz), among others.
Marta has performed at major festivals including MaerzMusik (DE), CTM (DE), Borealis (Norway),Tsunami Festival (Chile),The Listening Effects fest at Planetario of Porto (Portugal), High Zero (USA), Noise Fest(Turkay), Oscillation (Belgium), TEA Art Museum (Tenerife), MusraraMix (Israel), Soundprotokoll (Austria), Meakusma (Belgium), Artact (austria) among others.
Her works have been broadcast across Europeon WDR3 Open Studio Elektronische Musik Deutschland, RTS.ch, Radio Deutschland Kultur, SWR2, Rai3 (Battiti), among others, and supported by INM, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Musikfonds, Goethe-Institut, and Italian Cultural Institutes. […]
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