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Ladislav Železný
METACURATOR
Ladislav Železný is a sound and listening nerd, musician, curator and audiovisual artist. He aims at various forms of acoustic art. As one of the authors he participated in the Lemurie TAZ radio broadcast, which is connected with the beginnings of the experimental space ROXY/NoD. He works at Czech Radio as a dramaturge focusing on unconventional music and experimental radio production. His projects and compositions related to radio creation were given numerous awards in the Czech Republic and Europe.
Tomáš Vtípil
SOUND SUPERVISOR
Tomáš Vtípil is a Czech composer, multi-instrumentalist, and sound producer known for his experimental approach to music. His work spans acoustic and electronic music, often blending glitch elements and unconventional sounds, particularly with his violin, which he uses rhythmically as well as melodically. Vtípil has collaborated across generations and genres, working with groups like DG 307 and artists such as Monika Načeva. His film and stage compositions, including scores for Pouta and Lidi krve, have earned critical acclaim, as has his innovative live performance style. Whether with orchestras, underground ensembles, or solo projects, Vtípil seeks to explore the unity within musical diversity.
Vít Kalvoda
PROJECT MANAGER
Vít Kalvoda is an organizer of festivals, international partnerships and a universal castles in the air developer. Organizes various topical festivals (jazz / alternative PonavaFest, electronic / electro-acoustic / ethno FAUN) and streetparties (Luzanecka Open), established Ponava.Radio and created the idea of UFMC. Fallback worker for all possible issues.
Sara Pinheiro
CURATOR
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
CURATOR
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
CURATOR
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
CURATOR
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
CURATOR
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
CURATOR
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
CURATOR
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
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
CURATOR
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
CURATOR
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.
