20.00 Avant-garde & Improvised Music
This very special evening will feature multiple genres of contemporary music. The concert highlight will be an appearance by the great shakuhachi master, Sakai Shodo, as well as a sound-art performance, Attracted by Light by Slavek Kwi (Artificial Memory Trace) and the premiere performance of Sansara, Samadhi and Sangha, a triptych chamber composition by Vlastislav Matoušek. Specially invited musicians Steve Cohn, George Cremaschi and Liz Allbee, will collaborate in an improvisation session. Finally, the concert will conclude with John Cage's Variations no.1 for chamber ensemble.
Quadrophonic sound-situation dedicated to vlastislav matousek and his shakuhachi.
Constructed from sounds of crustaceans, fishsongs recorded underwater in tasmania (2011), army ants attacking recording device and walking inside machine, termites and ants recorded with contact-microphone from inside tree-nests (2008-2009, xixuau xiparina and mamori, amazonas, brazil - ants inside nest rec. with Francisco Lopez), sounds from inside of bee-hive (rec. with Vlastislav Matousek, 1994), sounds of trains rec. in freezing winter 1994 in Prague and more...
Live performance intervention by Slavek Kwi within pre-recorded 4-channel sound-environment: stroboscopic lights used as sound-sources with electromagnetic detectors, bubbling machine and objects manipulated underwater picked-up by hydrophone, musical sound-flags and talking drum.
Warning:
Due to the use of stroboscopic lighting, access to the performance is strongly not recommended for people with problems of photosensitive epilepsy or similar conditions.
Admission: seats 150 CZK; benches 50 CZK
