Dan Senn (Prague-Wisconsin)
is an intermedia artist working in music composition, kinetic sound sculpture, experimental and documentary film. He has been a professor of music and art in the United States and Australia. Dan travels internationally as a lecturer, performer and installation artist living in Prague where he directs the Echofluxx festivals, and Watertown, Wisconsin, the USA, with his partner & collaborator, Caroline Senn. Dan's work moves freely between expressive extremes and languages depending upon the aesthetic joust at hand. He studied music (composition, French Horn, conducting) and art (ceramics) at the University of Wisconsin at La Crosse with Truman Daniel Hayes, Leonard Stach and William Estes, and at the University of Illinois, Urbana (composition), with Salvatore Martirano, Ben Johnston, Otto Laske and Herbert Brün. His music is published by Smith Publications of Baltimore. "Any Three Treble Instruments In the Same Key," aka "Rivus," was released in 2015 by Ravello Records, along with works by Scotto and Cage and performed by the McCormick Percussion Group. In 2017 his work "Four Psalms Modal" was premiered by the Kuhn Choir of Prague, and later performed by the 57 voice Tesas State University Choir in 2019. "Seven for Piano" was premiered in February 2017 by Caroline Senn in Wisconsin. His feature length documentary "Voice of Theresa" will be screened in 2019 at the Indie Wisconsin Film Fest. In 2019 he toured the west coast of the United Stats performing new works for voice  hand-made instruments and improvised electronics. Dan founded Newsense-Intermedium of Tacoma, Washington, cofounded Cascadia Composers of Portland, Oregon, Roulette Intermedium of New York City and the Echofluxx Media Art Festivals of Prague where he serves as director. SITE

K I N D L I N G
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films collection by+
MARTIN KLUSÁK
JAN RYBÁŘ
MAREK KIMEI MATVIJA
KVÉTA PŘIBZLOVÁ
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ERMKE+TEUERLINCKX
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Andrea Ermke setup
Andrea Ermke (Austria) is a musician living in Berlin working with samples and field recordings she replays on mini disc. She is member of groups like Sink (with Chris Abrahmas, Arthur Rother and Marcello Busato) and Tree (with Burkhard Beins and Chris Abrahams). SoundCloud

Teuerlinckx setup

BRIGID BURKE
Brigid Burke (Melbourne) is an Australian composer, performance artist, clarinet soloist, visual artist, video artist and educator whose creative practice explores the use of acoustic sound and technology to enable media performances and installations that are rich in aural and visual nuances. Her work is widely presented in concerts, festivals, and radio broadcasts throughout Australia, Asia, Brazil, Europe and the USA. Recently she has been a recipient of an Australia Council Project Music Fellowship & new work commissions ‘Coral Bells’ & “Instincts and Episodes’ also Artist in Resident at Marshall University USA with a Edwards Distinguished Professor Artist Residency 2015 &17with ensemble BHZ, Indiana University but  and ADM NTU Singapore. Also recently she presented works on the Big screen at Federation Square Melbourne, Tilde Festival, ABC Classic FM, International Media Festival Echofluxx in Prague and Generative Art Festivals GA19 Italy. She has a PhD in Composition from UTAS The University of Tasmania and a Master of Music in Composition from The University of Melbourne. Brigid's gaphic image is used again this year for the Echofluxx banner above! SITE



K R A S T Í
KRASTÍ is a collection of four experimental film poems that seek out the relationships between internal and external landscapes. BROWN rattles, creeps, looking for beauty, landscape, gossip, karst and edges. It originated from the creative cooperation of four artists during the years 2018-19. Their aim was to explore the boundaries of film (visual) and music (sound) composition. The result is four films based on different approaches (from abstract music to documentary), which intersect in admiration for the film landscape and the distinctive musical components of each film. Rhythm and movement are more than narrative. Stories are more immersed and flickered than linearly unfolded. KRASTÍ is ideally featured as a concert, ie with live music. Musical improvisations make every performance a special event. At Echofluxx, it will be presented in four short films.

KRASTÍ je souborem čtyř experimentálních filmových básní, které hledají vztahy vnitřních a vnějších krajin. KRASTÍ chrastí, kráká, hledá krásu, krajinu, jinotaje, krasy a okraje.
Vzniklo z tvůrčí spolupráce čtyř autorů během let 2018-19. Cílem autorů bylo zkoumat hranice filmové (vizuální) a hudební (zvukové) skladby. Výsledkem jsou čtyři filmy založené na odlišných přístupech (od abstraktně hudebních až po dokumentární), které se protínají v obdivu k filmové krajině a výrazných hudebních složkách jednotlivých filmů. Více než vyprávění je KRASTÍ rytmus a pohyb. Příběhy se spíše noří a probleskují, než lineárně odvíjí. KRASTÍ je ideálně uváděno jako koncert, tedy s živým hudebním doprovodem. Hudební improvizace tak vytvářejí z každého uvedení zvláštní událost. Lze jej uvést i v podobě filmového pásma či čtyř krátkých filmů.

Producer: GPO Platform - Jakub Wagner, Martin Kohout

Martin Klusák (Prague)
 is a composer and audiovisual artist with a portfolio of internationally premiered and performed works. He focuses on music in the context of film, multimedia, concert, and site-specific situation. Currently, as a PhD student at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, he researches visual music and possible links and crossovers between musical composition and film. His projects suceeded in a range of competitions, such as selection of Phonurgia Nova Awards 2016 in Paris, Honorable Mention at the Experimental Forum 2017 in LA. Films with his original scores have been screened at major film festivals around the world, such as the Quinzaine des réalizateurs in Cannes (Happy End, dir. Jan Saska, 2016).

Krastí film notes - "Svídna"
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The old tree resembles a grand bee hive. Secrets can be heard in it’s midst. Names of lands, rivers and ancestors can all be heard in the buzzing of the bees. It trembles with the secrets of speech. (…) It’s time flows slowly and since the dawn of ages, the breath of life has been contained in it. It lives but does not realize, that in front of it stands a man quite different from the man 100 years ago. And the man, though it is his first time in this place, has a feeling he has already been there and seen this tree before. He is sure of it, for the knowledge of paths and lands passes from man to man. How else would he recognize the oak that converses with the storm ? /Vladislav Vančura - Pictures from the History of the Czech Nation . Svídna is an intuitive reflection on the suspected archetype of mythical Czech-dom, it wanders about, searches and finds the peculiar. On one hand it celebrates the magic of the film process, connected with almost mystical, solipsistic dreaming. This dreaming is grotesquely disrupted, on the other hand, by a series of alienating and opposing moments typical for a diary-like or home-made film. Thanks to this we have a multilayered film, sometimes self-ironical and peculiar, but always playful.






Randall Davidson (Minnesota),
'cellist. performs regularly in Minnesota. He performs in numerous new music ensembles and experimental music-theater productions. As composer, he has enjoyed hundreds of performances in the U.S. and Europe. His catalogue includes nearly every genre: choir, opera, orchestra, ballet/dance, oratorio, chamber, television/film, theater and jazz/wind ensemble. SITE

Haštal Hapka (Czech)
studies composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He has a Bachelors and Masters degrees in Phonetics and/or Linguistics from Charles University in Prague and has been a bass vocalist with Dábrlíbap choir in Prague and jazz pianist with Bigband Biskupská. Haštal has been studying at HAMU since 2019. He will be performing and have a work presented at Echofluxx.

Jan Jirucha (Prague)
comes from a family of musicians having played the euphonium and the trombone since age six. In the autumn of 1997 he began to study trombone playing with Bedřich Beránek at Jaroslav Ježek Conservatory in Prague. In 2003 he went on to study at Jaroslav Ježek Higher Specialized School under the tutelage of legendary Czech trombone player, Svatopluk Košvanec. In 2008 Jirucha began to study at the Academy of Music in Katowice, Poland, where - besides trombone playing - he focused on orchestral composition and arrangement under the tutelage of the internationally acclaimed jazz big band personality, Ed Partyka. In the spring of 2009 he went on tour with the European Jazz Orchestra (international project gathering talented young jazz musicians under 30 years ) conducted by Peter Herbolzheimer. Since 2010 Jan Jirucha has been teaching jazz trombone at Janáček Academy of Music and Perfoming Arts in Brno. In 2012 Jirucha won the "Best Jazz Composition Award" for his long piece, Preludium for Jazz Orchestra. This prize is regularly awarded by the prestigious Bohemia Jazz Fest in cooperation with Ochranný svaz autorský (OSA). In 2014 he conducted Euroradio Jazz Orchestra which also played some of his compositions. Two years later, the album "Concept Art Orchestra  - The Prague Six", where he contributed as lead trombone player and composer, won a significant Czech award "Anděl" for the best Jazz and Blues album 2016. In January 2018, he cofounded Jazz Dock Orchestra which performs in the well known Prague club Jazz Dock each third monday. SITE

Štěpán Drtina (Prague)
studied with Renata Strašrybková at Prague conservatory and graduated at Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where he studied with prof. Miroslav Petráš and Michal Kaňka. He attended many competitions such as Prague Junior Note, international competitions in Liezen, Austria (2004 and 2008) and competition of Bohuslav Martinů Foundation (2012). He participated in masterclasses with Miroslav Zicha, Jiří Bárta, Dmitrij Ferschtman, Anner Bylsma, Wolfgang Boettcher, Ludwig Quandt and Rudolf Gleissner. He is member of Bořkovec String Quartet and performs with prominent Czech orchestras and ensembles, such as FOK, Orchestra Berg, Talich Chamber Orchestra or Prague Modern).

Bruno Cunha (Prague-Brazil), as picture above, studied his bachelor degree in music composition at the Universidade de Brasília, Brazil, under the guidance of composer and anthropologist Flávio Santos Pereira. His compositions incorporate hypertextual discourses, and several have been played at festivals and on the radio in Brazil, Mexico, England, Sweden and Czech Republic. He is currently studying his master’s degree at AMU under the mentorship of composer Michal Rataj.