Date
HYB4 Hudba: Sustain #1: Music and sustainability | debate, concerts
Music
Circularity
Science and innovation
Conference
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May 2024
What does sustainable music of today and tomorrow sound like? Sustain: Music and Sustainability project connects art, music creation, concert and production activities with environmental thinking. The theme of sustainability in connection with music in the Czech Republic has not yet come to the fore, this program changes the rules of the game. Conferences, debates, panel discussions, workshops as well as practical audio demonstrations and installations - all focused on the present and future of music in the era of climate change.
Two days dedicated to combining natural voices with modern approaches to the creation of experimental electronic music.
The event will be preceded by DIY Musical Instruments workshop in HYB4 Dílna.
The unique music group fyield brings together leading personalities of the Czech and Icelandic independent music scene. On the Czech side is Václav Havelka and Kryštof Kříček from the band Please the Trees, these are completed by the Icelander Pan Thorarensen (Stereo Hypnosis), who is the founder of the experimental music and sonic arts festival Extreme Chill. On the album, a vital part of the interdisciplinary project Landscapes of the Future project, the fyield takes listeners to industrial sites crucial to the running of civilization, letting nature and technology to become equal bandmates.
Accompanied by fieldrecordists Magnús Bergsson and Sara Pinheiro with special microphones, the sonic expedition set out to explore through sound the challenges of the world's transformation spoken by the technologies and systems on which modern civilization depends. Against the backdrop of the climate crisis, participants and participants in an audio expedition around the Czech Republic and Iceland tried to decipher the messages emanating from an oil well, a geothermal power plant or an aquaponic farm. The director Ivo Bystřičan brought the film from the expedition Invisible Landscapes, musicians Václav Havelka and Pan Thorarensen aka fyield album Future Landscapes in concert performance with Kryštof Kříček.
Invisible Landscapes
(directed by Ivo Bystřičan)
2022/48 mins
What does the roar of water and heat in the bowels of a thermal power plant or the regular breathing of an oil rig sound like? Full of movement and sound, yet almost wordless, this film offers an original perspective on the issues of ecology and energy.
Between the film and the concert, there will be a discussion with the actors and actresses of the project.
Admission: 200 CZK pre-sale/ 250 CZK on site
What soundscapes do we live in? Who and what is being heard, who and what is being silenced? Who breathes noise, and who lives hi-fi? Join a walk through different soundscapes and their re-shaping with Marie Čtveráčková aka Mary C from the Synth Library Prague, following on from the critical listening walks The Music of No Places and The Music of No Places.
It's been 110 years since Italian futurist Luigi Russolo wrote a manifesto The Art of Noise in which he called for observing the world more with ears than eyes. It's been more than 60 years since Rachel Carson's Silent Spring without the pesticide-silenced birds, and 55 years since Pauline Oliveros‘s Sonic Meditations and R.M. Schafer‘s The Book of Noise and the New Soundscape, seminal contributions to the field of acoustic ecology. Let us listen to nature and its forces with respect. Our toxic capitalism and patriarchy is producing new soundscapes of deafening inequalities. There is no point in plugging your ears. The dirt is much deeper and resonates through the structures of our entire society. Who will you listen to?
Mary C. is a musician, DJ, curator and co-founder of Synth Library Prague, a space for sharing, experimentation and discussion not only in the field of electronic music. She deals with the possibilities of music education as well as the social and political context and potential of music, music technology and sound in general. She has collaborated with MeetFactory, the SHAPE platform, Lunchmeat festival, Bonus, Eva Koťátková and others.
Capacity: 15 people
Admission: 100 CZK
Workshop suitable for beginners and novices who want to learn about making music with synthesizers, how they connect with plants and how and where they can start creating their own sounds. In her work, lecturer Nikol Strobach experiments with the combination of plants and electronic instruments in her work. She has led many music workshops and lectures around the world (Superbooth, Moogfest, Synthposium, Knobs&Wires).
In the first part of the evening, Nikol Strobach will present her work, explaining how she got into modular synthesizers, weird sounds and playing with plants. She will then lightly touch on sound and wave theory so that we understand the terminology used in the creation of synthetic sounds, and then there will be a demonstration of some types of synthesizers. They will listen to digital sounds and discuss what is music to us and what is no longer. At the end, we will connect a plant to a synth using gel electrodes and get to play. At the end there will be space to try out instruments and ask questions. Headphones required.
Capacity: 10 people
Admission: 100 CZK
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Sustain promotes the development of the competences of professional artistic and professional professionals in the cultural and creative sectors, the acquisition of new knowledge and skills applicable to their future professional lives and to increase their competitiveness in the international context.
The project is being implemented with the financial support of the European Union.
Partners: Radio Wave, HIS Voice, Full Moon, Radio 1, UNI Magazín
