Echofluxx 14
Echofluxx
14
is a free festival of new media, visual art,
and experimental music produced by Efemera of Prague. This year it will
again present
international and Czech performers in a five-day festival at the
Tracfačka Arena in Prague, Kurta Konráda 1, Prague 9, May 6-10, 2014.
For more information contact: info@echofluxx.org
Gallery Installation by Diana
Winklerová and
Dan Senn
Media
Performances curated by Dan Senn
Concert
of Experimental New Music curated by Lenka
Kozderková and Markéta Mazourová.
Festival
Celebration Party the Echofluxx Ensemble and Agnus Kutas and
friends.
Festival
Concept
The
echo of the fluxus movement resonates in this time—a ongoing hedge
against the exclusivity of discipline-specific art and music. Echofluxx 14, a festival of new
media, art and music, presents a spectrum of new art
and music, from experimental film and poetry, to experimental music and
art. It uses an organic curatorial method, with artists suggesting
artists who would like to present with other artists, and so on. The
festival is made possible with the assistance of
volunteer help and in-kind
support.
With Special Thanks to...
Jiří Sovinec
& Petra Vlachynská equipment transportation. and Ladislav Železný, curatorial assistance.
 
flux
brick
|
Festival
Schedule
Tuesday, May 6: festival gallery
exhibition (opening) 6p; Phaerentz
(Prague) (video); Lucie
Vítková (Brno)(video). Presentations at 8p.
Wednesday, May 7:
gallery/installations ongoing; John
Keston (Minneapolis)(video); Michal
Kindernay (Prague)(video). Presentations at 8p.
Thursday, May 8:
gallery/installations ongoing; Mark
Zanter (Marshall
University)(video); Dariusz Mazurowski (Gdansk)(video); Presentations at 8p.
Friday, May 9:
gallery/installations ongoing; Lenka Kozderková
and Markěta Mazourová
(Prague)(video); Brigid
Burke (Australia)(video);
Presentations
8p.
Saturday,
May 10: gallery/installations final day; Echofluxx Ensemble with David Means (Minneapolis) and
others (video); Hana Železná (Prague)(video); Agnes
Kutas (Prague)(video). Presentations at 8p.
A
collaborative sound installation by Diana Winklerová (Prague) and Dan
Senn (USA) in Galerie Puppenklinik. Opening May 6 at 18h.
Lenka Kozderková
(Prague) is
graduate of State Conservatory in Ostrava, Janacek´s Academy of Music
and Performing Arts. She took part in several international courses of
interpretation lead by Severino Gazzelloni, Maurice Bourgh, Sandor
Vegh, Zuzana Ruzickova, Eli Eban. In 1994/95 she gained the annual
scholarship of French government for the study at Ecole Normale de
Musique de Paris Alfred Cortot at professor Christian Lardé. Since 1994
she has been a member of the Czech-French experimental group „Theatre
Ensemble“ and of the musical-stage duo Goelan. Since 1995 she has been
a member of the contemporary music ensemble Moens. She is a known
interprete of contemporary music. She premiered many compositions of
composers such as: Alois Piňos, Peter Graham, Jan Klusák, Ivana
Loudová, Miroslav Pudlák, Hanuš Bartoň, Roman Zdeněk Novák, Arnošt
Parsch, Michal Nejtek, Miroslav Srnka, Michal Rataj, Martin Marek,
Sylva Smejkalová, Jaroslav Rybář, Pavel Zemek, Kateřina Růžičková,
Lenka Kilic and some works were dedicated to her. She performs in the
Czech Republic and abroad – France, Italy, USA, Germany, Spain,
Hungary, Sweden, England. In 2007 she performed the Zeitmasse of
Karlheinz Stockhausen at Carnegie Hall in New York. Since 1999 she has
cooperated with the Foundation VIZE 97 of Dagmar and Václav Havel. She
teaches at the Prague International Conservatory, International
Mastercourse in Prague - Zbraslav and International Mastercourse in
Teplice /Music without borders.  E14 Performance.
 Markéta Mazourová
(Prague)
is percussionist and composer. Her creative output includes music for
percussion and incidental music. She graduated of the Academy of
Performing Arts in Prague–percussions (2001-2006), Conservatory of
Prague–percussions, piano, composition (1994-2000). She followed Master
classes with Marina Čeremuchyna, Kevi Bobo Run Martinsen, Hans Treselt.
She works and plays with flutist Lenka Kozderkova, famous Czech artist.
She has recorded for Universal, Sony Music, Popron, ArcoDiva. She has
performed in Egypt, Rumania, Bulgaria, Malta, USA, Czech Republic
(Prague Symphony Orchestra, Prague Philharmonia, Agon Orchestra, etc).
Selected works: The Flash of Dark, for flute and small percussion
(shakers, cabasa, bongos, templeblocs, log drum). Awards: 2nd prize of
the International Evaluation Children´s Note Mladá Boleslav 2004; 1st
prize Zlíntalent 2003; 1st prize of the YMFE-Scholarship Competition
2001. E14 Performance.
The dancing feet of
Agnes Kutas
 Agnes
Kutas
(Budapest-Prague) is a
singer and violonist from Budapest, Hungary, of extraordinary depth,
range and talent. Her violin playing is rich and warm as is her voice
and absolute directness. She performs her own original compositions in
additation to aranged hungarian folk songs. She has been living in
Prague for a long time. Her music is an urgent, unaffected song, free
of all the sugary sweets, and spiced with a hot paprika. E14 Performance.
 David Means
(USA)
graphic scores, installations and performance systems have been
exhibited and presented by the Walker Art Center, IRCAM, Documenta IX,
the Xi An Conservatory of Music (China), Het Stroomhuis (Holland),
Logos Foundation (Belgium) and the Arts Council of Great Britain. He is
currently an Associate Professor of Media and Fine Arts and producer of
the Strange Attractors Festival of Experimental Intermedia Art at
Metropolitan State University.
 Michael Karman
(Portland) is
the
publisher, editor, and chief writer of Asymmetry Music Magazine,
an online magazine that is devoted to contemporary music. Karman lives
in Europe and Oregon after many years living in the Los Angeles area.
He
trained as a musician, is a novelist, and has taught writing for many
years at university. Here
is a recent interview of Michael in a Portland publication.
Efemera
of Prague - Festival
Organizers
Dan Senn (USA), Tereza
Kučerová (Czech) Petra
Vlachynská
(Czech), Diana Winklerová (Czech), David Means
(USA); Caroline
Senn (Australia), Ladislav Železný (Prague) and Martin Janíček (Czech).
 Dan Senn
(Wisconsin)
is an
intermedia artist
in the fluxus tradition working in music composition, kinetic sound
sculpture, experimental and documentary film. In the 1980s and 90s he
was a professor of music and art in the United States and Australia.
Dan travels internationally as
a lecturer, performer and installation
artist and lives in Prague, Czech Republic, where he directs the
Echofluxx media art festivals, and in Watertown, Wisconsin, the USA,
with his partner Caroline
Daniel Senn. He studied music and art at the
University of Wisconsin at LaCrosse with Truman Daniel Hayes and
Leonard Stach, and at the University of Illinois, Urbana, with Salvatore
Martirano, Ben
Johnston and Herbert Brun.
His music is published by Smith Publications of Baltimore. Dan founded
Newsense-Intermedium of Tacoma, Washington, and cofounded Roulette Intermedium of New York City.
He is artistic director of Echofluxx. E14 Performance
|
Performing
Artists
 Lucie Vítková (Brno) is
a composer, performer and improviser of accordion, harmonica, voice and
dance from the Czech Republic. She graduated in accordion performance
at Brno Conservatory in 2010 and composition at Janáček Academy of
Music and Performing Arts in Brno (CZ) in 2013. During her Master
Degree, she studied at Royal Conservatory in The Hague (NL) and at
California Institute of the Arts in Valencia (USA). She has studied
with Martin Smolka, Jaroslav Šťastný, Martijn Padding, Gillius van
Bergijk and Michael Pisaro. Along with her study of music she used to
teach tap dance at the Faculty of Theatre of JAMU. She is member of the
Dust in the Groove, Ensemble Marijan, Dunami, Brno Improvising Unit and
Prague Improvisation Orchestra. At the festival Echofluxx 14, she will
introduce her new album Ideas and Techniques, released by Chicago label
pan y rosas (2014). It is solo accordion album which gathers the ideas
and techniques which Lucie Vítková collected through her practice as an
improviser. In every piece I tried to portray certain phenomena in
their pure, concentrated form to make their individual characters
clear. Every song is like a mechanism with a specific kind of natural
behavior, which determines its musical structure.  E14 Performance1, E14 Performance2
Brigid
Burke
(Melbourne) is
an Australian composer, clarinettist, visual artist and video-maker.
She has had works performed extensively both nationally and
internationally. Most recently, she has performed in the Generative
Arts Festivals in Rome & Milan Italy, Asian Music Festivals, The
Melbourne International Arts Festival, Futura Music Festival Paris
France, Mona Foma Festival Hobart, The International Clarinet Festivals
in Japan and Canada also Seoul and Australian International Computer
Music Festivals. She was Artist in Residence at ADM NTU Singapore. She
has been a recipient of an Australia Council Performing Arts Music
Project Fellowship. She also curates Seensound Visual/Music series at
LOOP Bar Melbourne Australia. For her E14, Brigid will present an
audiovisual composition Instinct and
Episodes for bass clarinet,
live electronics/laptop and live and pre-recorded video projection. The
creative process evolves from reflection upon glass buildings. E14 Performance.
 John Keston (Minneapolis) John
Keston is a musician, composer, sound artist, and developer exploring
the synesthetic relationships between auditory and optical landscapes.
His work evokes stochastic behaviors in compositional structures by
translating visual or gestural input into music. Among the instruments
he has created is the Gestural Music Sequencer or GMS, an application
that analyzes video input and converts it into a sequence of musical
information in real-time. Originally from the United Kingdom, John is
currently based in Minneapolis, Minnesota where he is an instructor of
interactive media. He founded the sound design resource,
AudioCookbook.org, where you will find articles and documentation about
his projects and research. John has spoken, performed, or exhibited
original work at Northern Spark, the Weisman Art Museum, the Montreal
Jazz Festival, the Burnet Gallery, Walker's Point Center for the Arts,
the Minnesota Institute of Art, the In/Out Festival of Digital
Performance, the Eyeo Festival, INST-INT, and Moogfest. He produced and
performed in the piece Instant Cinema: Teleportation Platform X, a
featured project at Northern Spark 2013. He composed and performed the
music for In Habit: Life in Patterns (2012) and Words to Dead Lips
(2011) in collaboration with the dance company Aniccha Arts. John's
performance was made possible by a grant from the American
Composers Forum with funds provided by the Jerome Foundation.John's
presentation at Echofluxx is titled "Vocalise Sintetica" and has 4
movements: I. Machines, II. Liquid, III. Vocalise, and, IV. Sintetica.
He describes these in this way "Each
movement is a playlist of five audiovisual objects that are instantly
available to be projected and amplified while being granulated in
real-time by a performer using a multitouch interface. The performer
may loop their gestures applied to the audiovisual objects in order to
bring in additional synthesized sound layers that contrast or mimic the
audiovisual objects. E14 Performance.
 Phaerentz (Prague)
(Petr
Ferenc) is a Prague-based electronic musician, promoter and music
journalist. Phaerentz focuses on physical qualities of sound and
its reaction
with space and listeners‘ bodies and minds. By phase shifting of short
loops he creates surprising acoustic and polyrhythmic phenomena
that cannot be fully anticipated beforehand. The result is a
psycho-acoustic minimalist experience that focuses on extended
repetition as a means to discovering motion in static. It’s
psychophysical! Minimalism. Pulse. Throbbing spaces. Repetition is
the strongest variation possible. Slow development and living through
every single second. We do not want to skip the time of our lives, do
we? Better be real than postmodern. E14 Performance.
 Hana Železná (Prague)
works as a director of film and radio documentaries dedicated to
experimental film and interdisciplinary projects which connects video
with music and dance. In her documentaries, the focus is on the
portrait, a stylized genre characterized by a very sensitive and
specific rendering of the subject. Her experimental film work has the
character of the Media Research and
contains elements of surface erosion, decay and loss of the image
carriers such as meaning copying and multiplication. Even so, her work
leads one to more intimate experience with the image. Železná uses the
degradation of media surfaces as part of a broader dramaturgical
framework which connect personal references, formal procedures and
specific properties of the medium.  (Click to enlarge image from NOISE above)
At Echofluxx 14, Hana will be presenting her work NOISE
(ŠUM) which is an acoustic and vocal composition varying the topic of
media mechanisms, manipulations, and multiplication. The sonic form is
based on a fragment of the script of an acoustic and textual
composition called The Dislocated Transition into a Dream (Vymykavý
pohyb do snu), which I wrote at the beginning of 2012 thanks to a
Ministry of Culture scholarship. The idea of the composition arose and
settled gradually during the time in which newspaper articles, radio
and TV programmes presented to me heaps of recycled mutations of the
same content, stale means of expression, and stationary programme
schemes. In the resulting form I tried to confront the world of the
media, whose pedestals are buried in viewer ratings pie charts and in
programme success charts, using its own mechanisms – multiplication and
manipulation. The composition develops by gradually piling up words,
multiplying them and by slight variations and loops of meanings
referring to the autotelic nature of many media mechanisms. Besides
vocally rendered texts the composition also works with classical music.
The way of its use refers to the threat of downplaying the works of art
embedded in the thoughtless world of the media, i.e. in the world whose
frequent main goal is to produce something only for the sake of
production. More about NOISE.
see E11 presentation.
 Mark Zanter (West
Virginia) iis
composer/performer, has received commissions from the UIUC Creative
Music Orchestra, CU Symphony, the American Composers forum, the WV
Commission on the Arts, WVMTA, Due East, Solen Dikener, Rick Kurasz,
Cetin Aydar, Ankara University Soloists, Lindsey Goodman, Trifecta!,
Awea Duo and many others. He has appeared as a composer and performer
on NPR’s Live at the Landmark, WILL, IPR, Second Sunday concerts, on
WVPN In Touch With The Arts, is published by Les Productions d’OZ,
Schott European American and MJIC Music publishing, his works have been
performed nationally and internationally at festivals including, MUSIC
X, June in Buffalo, The Cortona Contemporary Music Festival, NYCEMF,
the Atlantic Center for the Arts. He is the recipient of grants/awards
from The American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP), The
American Music Center (AMC), The American Composers Forum (ACF), Meet
the Composer, The West Virginia Division of Culture and History, WV
Music Teachers Association; in 2014 Lament and dream for string
orchestra, piano and percussion received special distinction for the
ASCAP Rudolph Nissim Award. Dr. Zanter is equally at home performing
standard repertoire, creative music, and jazz and has appeared with
orchestras, chamber groups, and improvisers, including the Huntington
Symphony Orchestra, the Ohio Valley Orchestra, Sinfonia Da Camera,
Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Leroy Jenkins, Vinko Globokar, George
Lewis, Butch Morris, and Alphonse Mouzon. He has recorded with Deborah
Richtmeyer, Vinko Globokar, and his recording of Composition 165 with
Anthony Braxton received special mention in Downbeat Magazine. Zanter's
Echofluxx 14 program will feature new compostions for electric guitar
and live processing. E14 Performance.
 Michal Kindernay
(Prague)
is interested in the interactive connections of sound, image and
natural atmospheric processes. He works primarily with visual
programming and environmental applications. His works include video
performances and interactive installations, intermedia and documentary
projects as well as musical compositions. He also invents tools and
software solutions that can be used for audiovisual production in
performance. In this sense, his work inextricably combines research,
software development and tool design, the work itself being result of
implementation in different forms. "Eye-catching" is an ecological
aspect of Kindernay's work which is extensively engaged with various
forms of pollution and only sometimes in the position of direct
visualization (Art Pollution Kit, Camera Altera) and more through a
creative perspective. E14 Performance.
|
