Concert for birds – A tribute to Kozmic meadows and all living beings

As a part of Radio Art Zone's project in cooperation with Magdalena Maderlova & Michal Kindernay.

"Kozmic meadows are a system of floodplain meadows situated in the Opava region, northeast of the Czech Republic. This area was formerly intended for gravel mining and experienced difficult times of water drainage, aggressive terrain destructions, and extraction of resources. These activities disrupted the natural balance and caused the loss of biodiversity. Kozmic meadows are now, thanks to the long-term commitment and dedicated work and care of the local community and the company Semix, full of life and accommodating hundreds of species of birds and plants, amphibians, Exmoor ponies, and an ornithological observation station.
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As a tribute to Kozmic meadows and all living beings, we commissioned Martin Režný and František Hruška, two local experimental musicians, to perform a Concert for Birds. The improvised performance took place near the bird reserve in the dusk of August 16th, 2022."

https://radioart.zone/thursday-22-september

Kosmic Meadows - Concert for Birds

Read all about it here: 
https://www.frantisek-hruska.com/bocsanatot-kerek

I ask for forgiveness. 
That is the name of the composition in translation from Hungarian. Why Hungarian? Because I am talking directly to the composer, who inspired me with his beautiful music. Only for me to butcher it in a way, for which I will burn in hell. That composer being György Ligeti and the specific piece being the second piece of his relatively early 1953 set of compositions for piano named Musica Ricercata. (...)
Have a listen, you poor listener… Bocsánatot Kérek

Bocsánatot Kérek (A György Ligeti Homage)

What do all the digits of pi, a slice of wood, human DNA and a blueprint of the Eiffel Tower have in common? 
That somewhere down the line some different composers made it all sound like C major.

Read all about it here:
https://www.frantisek-hruska.com/homesick-child

Homesick Child (A Claude Vivier Homage)

Read all about it here: 
https://www.frantisek-hruska.com/since-there-is-ony-one-of-you

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The building pieces of the composition are the two existing whole-tone scales. I chose these two scales so that each tone of the western 12-tone system is represented exactly once. 
The other reason is given by the fact that it’s written for pipe organ. Pipe organs most often have the pipes arranged around an axis symmetry, alternating around the axis in the middle. The result of this is e.g., we have C1 on the very left and C#1 on the very right. As the piece begins with both the full-tone scales being played in sequence, it should result in a clear stereo image. Upon which the spatialization gets progressively more chaotic only to arrive back to the original scales (but transposed one octave higher) exactly 24 bars later.
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Since There's Only One Of You (A Tom Johnson Homage)

A recording of a process of a generative analog logic synthesis system. 
A result of a collaboration with Max Frimout & Tristan Better in the Analogue studio of the Insitute of Sonolgy in Den Haag, 2022

Read more: 
https://www.frantisek-hruska.com/blessed-kick

Blessed Kick (Build 195.v2)

A short and simple composition I made two years ago, but I still like it. Here.

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Míjení (retro vize)/Passing by (retro vision)
English below

Původně čtyřstopá skladba zmixovaná do stereo. 

Kompozice vytvořená v analogovém studiu sonologie na Královské konzervatoři v Haagu. 
Inspirováno kompozicí Terminus I od Gottfried Michael Koenig. 
Zdrojovým materiálem jsou sekvence terénních nahrávek (field recordings), 
veškeré transformace zvuku jsou čistě analogové. 

Obraz coveru: Josef Šíma, bílý krystal

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Passing By (Retro Vision)
Originaly four channel piece, mixed into stereo for you. 

Composition made in the analog studio of Sonology department of The Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. 
Inspired by Gottfired Michael Koenig's piece Terminus I.  
As source material I used field recording sequences, 
all processing and transforming of the sound is purely analog. 

Cover painting: Josef Šíma, White Crystal

Míjení (retro vize)/Passing By (Retro Vision)

What does my computer hear?
A computer does not only compute and provide outputs, but it has it‘s own sensory device that allows it to receive information from the outside and inside. And these „hearing organs“ often also distort the audio in many different ways, giving it also inputs of it own, creating a final interpretation of the sound with a subjective point of view. That is based on all sorts of clippings, glitches, „hickups“ and noise sources.
I looked in this composition to what my computer „hears“ at times when I don‘t expect it to „listen“.
By recording every sound the computer is recieving for a longer period of time and by composing it together into two minutes, I create something as a timelapse -
A Day in the Life of My Laptop.

A Day in the Life of My Laptop

Simply Pulses 
is an acousmatic fixed-media composition made in the analog studio BEA5 in the Institute of Sonology, Den Haag. 
All the source sounds are purely analog (pulses, sine waves, noise)
and all the processing has been done with analog modules.
Originaly five track composition, later mixed into stereo. 
June 2019

Simply pulses
akusmatická fixed media kompozice, vytvořená v analogovém studiu BEA5 na Institutu sonologie v Haagu. 
Zdrojem kompozice jsou čistě analogové zvuky (pulsy, sinusoidy, šum) a veškeré zvukové procesy jsou též s použitím analogové techniky. 
Skladba původně vytvořená pro pět stop, následně zmixovaná do sterea.
Červen 2019

Simply Pulses

CTG is a live digital musical instrument I have programmed in SuperCollider. 
This is a short composition/performance on the instrument. 
All of the sounds are purely digitaly synthesized and processed.

September 2019

CTG je digitální hudební nástroj pro živou performance, který jsem naprogramoval v jazyce SuperCollider. 
Tohle je krátká nahrávka kompozice/performance na tento instrument.
Všechny zvuky jsou čistě digitálně syntetické a digitálně zpracované.

Srpen 2019

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