Úterý 10. září 2024 19:30h
Tuesday, September 10
Prague Modern
With works by Michael BOYD “of something” (open), Hannah KENDALL, “Weeroon, Weeroon” (violin), Martin JANÍČEK “Acer” (free), Erin BUSCH
“perennial, mvt. i. overwinter”, Gaetano LORANDI, “Passando come un
sogno” (viola), Ben HOPPE, “long way home” (vn, va, vc, cb), Ben HOPPE,
“long way home” (vn, va, vc, cb), Joao P. OLIVEIRO, “Light Particles” (vc, cb, electronics), Joseph KLEIN , “Verklärte Einblicke” (vn, va, vc), Darren Xu, “Getting Back into the Groove” (flute), Luis ESCOBAR, Vitula y Electrónica(violin + electronics), Chun WAI WONG, “A Breath of Life” (ob, fg, vn, va, vc, cb), and Juwon LIM, “axe” (fg, va, vc, cb).
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Prague
Modern has been hailed by music journalists as "the best Czech ensemble
for new music“. It is ensemble of flexible size comprised of the cream
of Czech instrumentalists.
Prague Modern is unique on the concert podiums/scene in the Czech
Republic – the ensemble exudes both the youthful enthusiasm and the
professionalism when performing contemporary music in solo recitals,
chamber music concerts or smaller orchestra works.
Prague Modern has performed at prestigious new music festivals
such as Contempuls Prague (repeatedly), MusicOlomouc, Prague Premieres,
also at the classic Prague Spring Festival (Czech Republic), Musica
Strasbourg, Festival international de musique Besancon, Les musicales
de Quiberon (all France), Poznańska wiosna muzyczna (Poland) or Cafe
Budapest (Hungary). Prague Modern also toured France, Romania, Slovakia
and Turkey where their members also gave workshops on new music
interpretation at local universities. Furthermore, PM under the
baton of Pascal Gallois had recorded several successful CDs for the
Italian label Stradivarius featuring music of Luciano Berio, Pierre
Boulez, Dai Fujikura, Gérard Grisey, Fabien Lévy and Arnold Schoenberg.
The CD introducing the work of British composer Dai Fujikura was awared
"Coup de cour 2004" in the field of new music by the famous French
Academie Charles Cros. Prague Modern is regularly collaborating with
conductors such as Michel Swierczewski, Pascal Gallois, Baldur
Brönnimann, Roland Kluttig or Marián Lejava. Their repertoire includes
the works of international avantgarde composers as well as the music of
Czech contemporary composers.
Prague Modern has been open to in-between-the-art-fields and
multimedia cooperations with acclaimed artists such as Jan Švankmajer
(film), Kateřina
Vincourová, Markéta
Othová (visual art) or actress
Fanny Ardant with whom they presented the Czech premiere of Cassandre,
a spoken opera by Michael Jarrell and others.
Prague Modern was established by the conductor Michel
Swierczewski
in 2008 on the ground of the Prague Philharmonia. Since 2009 PM has
functioned as a NGO with David
Danel as Artistic Leader.
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Středa 11. září 2024 19:30h
Wednesday, September 11
Martin
Zetová
 Martin Zetová
(Libušin) is known for
connecting personal and political thematic levels in his artwork. His
work is characterized by a departure from a static understanding of art
and the use of his own language, which allows him to influence time in
his performances and installations through metaphors and similes. In
the performance "Czech Collection of the 20th Century", for example,
Zet processed portraits of Czech monarchs and presidents into one
image, reflecting on time, the continuity of stereotypes and memory. | Martin was born on September 11, 1959 in Prague into a family with artistic roots. His mother a
dancer specializing in traditional folk dances, his father
the sculptor Miloš Zet. In the period of1979-85, Martin studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, where he
was shaped by artists like Jiří Bradáček and Jan Hána.
After completing his studies, Zet devoted himself to various
forms of artistic expression including performance, sculpture,
drawing, photography, video, happenings, and creation of author's books. After completing his art education, Zet settled in Libušín, where in 1998 he
founded the Libušín Center for Contemporary Art. Martin Zet worked from 2010–2017 as the head of the Video Studio at the Faculty of Fine
Arts of the BUT in Brno. In 2013, he was presented the Artist má cena
prize, awarded by young visual artists, critics and theorists for
inspirational personalities of the older generation.
Echofluxx, started in 2011,
is an annual festival of new media with an emphasis on experimental
music, sound art, theatre and film. The
festivals are rooted in
the
interplay of risk-taking and self actualization, a resistance to
media specificity in art and the mindfulness of Cage. Echofluxx evolved
out of the international fluxus movement and the University of
Illinois-Urbana, USA, in the 70's where collaborating composers
emerged working graphically, sculpturally, in dance, theatre, film
and clay, and then through a natural post-graduate diaspora, to produce
sundry artifacts, organizations, performances and festivals world-wide,
the
sum of which increases to this day.
Echofluxx was cofounded by the current DIrector, Dan Senn and Anja Kaufmann. This
year's festival is produced by Dan Senn and David Danel.
 The bell tower of the 1300 year old St Clements.
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Čtvrtec 12. září 2024 19:30h
Thursday, September 12
KlangWesen
Annabelle Plum +
Žaneta Vítová + Káťa Vacková
Ramin Akhavijou
KlangWesen
is a project of three female musicians, mostly active in the
experimental jazz scene. The original duo Annabelle Plum & Žaneta
Vítová ( voice/ accordion) are now joined by Kateřina Vacková (double
bass) and thus reincarnated into the band KlangWesen.
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KlangWesen Ensemble (click to enlarge)
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Their
work is full of sonic colour, meandering between everyday mundanity and
intense emotionality. Composed parts merge with spheres of free
improvisation, where inspirations from the European musical tradition
and the roots of world music come to the surface. Singer Annabelle Plum
uses her voice ranging from soprano to massive contralto in a wide
range of colourations and extended techniques, accordionist Žaneta
Vítová draws inspiration from free jazz and contemporary music, and
double bassist and singer Kateřina Vacková brings experience from swing
music and free improvisation. Their live performances together draw the
listener into an unknown world where feminine fragility combines with
unbridled vivacity.
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 Singer Annabelle Plum uses her voice ranging from soprano to massive
contralto depths in a wide range of colours.
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 Accordionist Žaneta Vítová is rooted in jazz and contemporary music.
Outside of this project
Annabelle and Žaneta enjoy their own soloist careers, performing
with renowned orchestras and ensembles in the Czech Republic and
beyond. Together, their captivating live performances draw
audiences into unknown worlds where feminine fragility and unchained
roughness coexist in harmony.
 Kateřina Vacková
is a double bassist and singer working on the border between pop,
classical music and jazz. She is part of Metastava, Uthando, Blue Oyster Court and At Ease, all
characterized by a colorful and imaginative repertoire drawing on jazz,
classical and avant-garde music.
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Koncert
spolupořádá NEIRO Association for Expanding Arts z.s. s
podporou Ministerstva kultury ČR a hlavního města Prahy. This
concert is co-organized by the NEIRO Association for
Expanding Arts z.s. with the support of the Ministry of Culture of
the Czech Republic
and the City of Prague.
 Ramin Akhavijou,
from
Iran by way of the University of Pittsburgh, uses
technology to generate and manipulate sounds using tech
leading him to new compositional approaches. "While
composing, I balance the connections formed between my musical habits
and the technological
tools available to me. This balanced interaction is what differs
between my approaches to acoustic and electronic composition."
Ramin confronts sound and time with differing notions of distance and
coordination, characteristics embedded in his electronic music. "During
my compositional process, I navigate textures, rhythmic frames, and
embedded sounds within varying virtual acousmatic distances. From this
vast array of options in creating sound structures, I’ve, ironically,
come to kinds of repetition as structures within my electronic work."
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