Album is subjective reflection of place Hrklávka by Rusava in Czech Republic. Author during one-year capture landscape, its sound situations and space from which he made sonic portrait. Author grew up and spend his childhood in these places, that’s why album could be considered as the feedback of early memories confronted with contemporary soundscape. 

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„You have got two ears to be able to hear the meeting as well as the permanent. Do not listen using only an ear, this way you would not listen perfectly.“ 
Pai Čang 

Seven field recordings made by Tomáš Šenkyřík´s ear and hand – the sound portrait of the landscape where he spent part of his childhood; that was the only thing he told me about it – has started reminding me more and more Chinese landscape painting made by Indian ink or haiku. In my point of view Tomáš´s recordings have the same magical power that combines the moment of limitation and immersion. Through the single move of an eye, arm, hand and brush the masterful sketching of a brush soaked with water and Indian ink has the ability to express the landscape in her unity, but the print of brush on the paper hides in itself the remote skyline and the light white fog descending to the valley. Tomáš as well as the Chinese master knows how to use the technique of concentration, moderation, gift of listening, enchantment and humbleness. The Rusava landscape is not only described and illustrated. It is nor narrated, “mediated” by the cadence of the bird singing at the dusk or water gurgling in the brook at dawn. The sound of burbling water or of the bird singing ARE the real though ONLY “sound” landscape. This landscape seems to be as precious as the beauty, geology and morphology of the physical one where the recording was in the specific and one-and-only moment made. 

I can speculate whether the “Hrklávka” landscape is really free from the sound of passing cars, motorcycles, planes and crying children. Whether the author has removed the human sounds to put it symbolically back to the mythical and mystical time of childhood. While listening I can be thinking whether this and last dry spring, summer and autumn has changed not only the colors of grass, leaves but the acoustics of the meadows, hillsides, tops and the bottoms of hills as well? Can the lack of the water running down in the riverbeds change the landscape, does it have ability to draw further its sensory presence as well as the timbre and to harm its soul by the humidity. While listening I can be thinking that it is not possible to hold the sound landscape as well as the physical landscape which we can perceive via sense of sight, sense of hearing and olfactory sense. And that the landscape that is being heard well and softly can bring out the other sense. Alternatively I do not have to think about anything at all and I can just listen whether he (Šenkyřík) managed like the poet Bašó to capture the whole river from the spring to the mouth in a few words. 
(Miloš Vojtěchovský) 

Methods of Recording: AB stereo, binaural, parabolic mirror, hydrophones. 
Listen to the album with headphones. 
Sound, mix: Tomáš Šenkyřík 
Mastering: Tomáš Vtípil / dinn (dinn is not noise)

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VIDEOGRAM SPECIAL – Pefromative lecture w/ AGF

"Performative lecture” - mix of talk & concert - on sound practice, audio production, accelerationist feminism, language, speculative realities of being an artist under ad-driven surveillance imperialism w open Q&A.

AGF
German artist AGF aka Antye Greie-Ripatti a sonic ninja and electronic music producer. Her work inhabits an augmented space where pounding Berlin experimental techno, spoken word, abstract video art, feminism and radical ecology create a self-sustaining environment. Originally from East Germany, she started to develop a DIY approach early on, while also using her voice to fight against oppression by supporting marginalized communities and calling out injustice, most recently through female:pressure, a support community and promotional platform for female-identified electronic musicians. Currently based in Northern Finland, Antye founded the local arts organization Hai Art in Hailuoto. Since its inception in 2011, Hai Art has been involved in numerous sound-related projects, focusing on working with children. Antye acts as its director, curator and workshop instructor. Active since the early 90's, she has collaborated with strong names in electronic music such as French pioneer Eliane Radigue, German legends Gudrun Gut and Ellen Allien, British avantgardist Kaffe Matthews, Finnish IDM treasure Vladislav Delay and classical composer Craig Armstrong.
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8.11.2019, 19:00, PRAHA / Forum for Architecture and Media
Brno, Czech Republic

Photo by Moravian Gallery in Brno 
Recorded by Filip Johánek
Edited by Tatiana Heuman

*The lecture is a part of Videogram - series of lectures on contemporary art, theory and praxis held by Faculty of Fine Arts in Brno, Czech Republic. www.videogram.cz

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