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Our Curators
Sara Pinheiro
Pinheiro graduated in Cinema (Lisbon, 2008) and holds a Master of Music in Sonology (The Hague, 2012), where she has been a guest lecturer since the She teaches sound at CAS – FAMU, Prague, since 2013. Her academic work is practice-based research under the name of “Acousmatic Foley”. She is currently a PhD student at The School of Music and Media, in Bangor University (UK), under the Parry Williams scholarship.
George Cremaschi
Geroge Cremaschi was born in New York, where he also studied music, composition and double bass. He has written compositions for dancers, installation artists, improvisers, poets, film, radio, theatre, orchestras, and has also performed with many of them. He has collaborated with many outstanding artists and has performed on over 50 recordings. He currently lives in Prague, where he founded the Prague Improvisation Orchestra and where he teaches, among other things, at FAMU.
Eliška Vidomus
Eliška Vidomus is a singer, composer and journalist. She is interested in various musical fusions based mostly on jazz. In 2009, she founded the band Fanfán Tulipán, for which she composes music at the edge of jazz, funk and film music.
Ian Mikyska
Czechoslovak composer living and working between London, Prague and Berlin. He also dabbles as a translator, journalist, poet, banjoist, improviser and maker of video.
Ivan Palacký
Musician and architect. He has been a free improviser for over two decades and enjoys short-term projects as well as playing solo. His work embraces various prepared instruments, fans, the amplified single knitting machine Dopleta 160, as well as the electric guitar. He has played in many bands such as Sledě živé sledě, Tílko, Výkřiky břich, and currently with the band Pátí na světě.
Jan Mikač
Student at the Faculty of Fine Arts, BUT in the studio of design and hacking at that time. Designer, hacker, DJ, listener and all-round music lover. He creates sounds and co-organises open jam sessions in duo under the name @purefuckingfun.
Mikuláš Mrva
Czech composer and musician. Studied at Creative Sound and Media Technology MMus at Bath Spa University, UK. Perform with Prague Music Performace orchestra, Stratocluster ensable and on Prague Hybrid session. He also cooperated with Ostrava Days Festival as head of electronics in the technical production team.
Miloš Vojtěchovský
Curator, art historian, audiovisual artist, critic, educator, publisher in the field of electronic media, experimental music and communication systems. Born in 1955 in Prague, where he lives.
Martin Hurych
A sound artist, architect, and curator based in The Hague (NL) and Lubná (CZ). He works with field and documentary recordings, makes codes and synths, creates installations and platforms. The artist is known for a certain amount of exaggeration and warm humor, but at the same time he is sensitive to social problems. As a curator, he collaborates with a young generation of artists moving across genres of visual art, film, sound art, and music. Hurych is a co-founder and curator of the Přespolní association, organizing a cultural programme in the countryside of the Czech Republic (since 2017). He is also currently a research associate at the Institute of Sonology (since 2022).
Wilf Amis
Hague-based London-born composer, improviser, synth designer and writer. You can expect microtonal synth nerdery, well-disguised bad singing, textural plunderphonics, arhythmic breaks and blown out kicks. Recently they have been rethinking everything through a cybernetic lens and so they are now more annoying to talk to but at least their methods of synth patching are more efficient at crunching complexity.
