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compositions
list of published music, sound compositions, fixed media, graphic scores and other compositions
the title of the work also serves as a url link
Máš mít doma mech (2024)
And Then — Crickets... (2023)
Intimate sounds for an intimate ensemble in an intimate yet open space. Year before I've composed and played a “concert for birds”, this time it's a concert for crickets, or rather a concert with crickets. The soft sounds composed for an oud, flute, and bongos, are timed to interact with the crickets in different stages of their daily sonic activity. A large part of uncertainty and indeterminacy is to be expected. The weather conditions among many other things can drastically change the outcome. Thus, the performers are not following a strict score, nor is it purely improvised. There is a certain part precomposed and different rules and conditions which allow or force the performers to take a decision and carry out a certain action. In this sense, the composition is highly site & time-specific, however simultaneously, it could be done wherever and whenever where there are crickets active. And then — crickets…
Audio recording & press
Lofofora Quarry (2023)
For two days and one night I've been commissioned by Obscura Radio to collect field recordings from the flooded quarry in Kurovice, Czechia, to then make a composition on the spot and discuss the process.
Connect the Dots (2023)
The municipality building in Den Haag (...) The absolute whiteness and sterility of the interior, the vast openness, the vertical spaciousness, the large number of entrances and exits, the layers of railings, stairs, and floors… And its sonic nature is equally as blank. Often the only sounds present are human voices, spoken words. (...)
People, voices, and emptied-out concepts and words, politicized and problematic terms and phrases, the most common and overused words of contemporary discourses, which have been repeated over and over until the inevitable thorough depletion of meaning. And I use the audience as people who carry these voices, which are not theirs. (...)
Listen to the Iterative Process of Peter's Philosophy (2023)
A collection of works by students, alumni and teachers from Sonology in dedication to our beloved teacher and colleague Peter Pabon. A small gift in return for his perpetual altruism and charming nature.
All composers were asked to make a piece that included a notion of human voice.
My piece is track nr. 1 composed solely from Peter's speeches.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING I SAID TAKE IT EASY BUT SERIOUS CRUNCHY SQUARE SILENCE!!! (2023)
in progress
Food for Thought (2022)
Soundwalk in collaboration with Yannis Mihos
The key difference between unity and uniformity is their acceptance of differences; when there is unity, people tend to tolerate and accept differences, but uniformity implies that everyone is alike, so there is no room for differences. In the same way everyone thinks they know what pizza is, while in fact, that’s not as simple. (...) This continuous site-specific audio walk piece guides the listeners through the streets of the Hague in the Netherlands, moving them from one pizza place to another, wearing headphones connected to their mobile phones. (...)
Soundtrack to Běla Beránková's film
Watch & listen in the link
Plumbers special(2022)
Using the famous windows pipe screensaver as a score, this string quartet composition stares at the obsolete. Screensavers once used to serve a very important function in literally saving the old plasma screens from phosphor burning in the static displayed image. Besides their aesthetic value... (...)
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Cosmic Meadows(2022)
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.
(...)
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.radioart.zone/thursday-22-september
WHY AM I LONELY(2022)
A live daxophone musical performance / public intervention. Performed by Ghaith Qoutainy & František Hruška in June in Den Haag, The Netherlands.
With the kind help from Hilde Wollenstein
Watch & listen in the link
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 Institute of Sonology in Den Haag.
Listen & read more in the link
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. (...)
Composition for piano and pipe organ
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The idea was to compose a piece for the pipe organ where the building pieces of the composition are the two existing whole-tone scales. There are two main reasons for this choice. (...)
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I ask for forgiveness.
That is the name of the composition in translation from Hungarian. Why Hungarian? (...)
Fixed media
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SPUI TEK(2022)
Fixed media spatial composition for 18 speakers, part of Sounding the Spui project at Rewire music festival, Den Haag, April 2022
The composition was made in collaboration with Tristan Better
I stared for hours and hours at these libraries of Jana Beranová (1932), originally a Czech poet and translator who lives in Rotterdam for a long time. And this is just one of many libraries, her entire two-story apartment is surrounded by books that come in the way of one's steps and hide between plates in the kitchen. In addition to all that beauty, however, there is also a bit of distress in it, permanently reminding one, that it is not possible to read them all, even if you want to. It reminds one of time. Apparently this reminder must have helped Jana to live to her healthy 90 years.
So if you don't have time to read all the books, at least try to play them.
Dedicated to Jana
The lockdown had a different effect on each of us, such was it for me.
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What Does My Computer Hear?
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, making it as 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.
Simply Pulses is an acousmatic fixed-media composition made in the analog studio BEA5 in the Institute of Sonology, Den Haag, June 2019.
All the source sounds are purely analog (pulses, sine waves, noise) and all the processing has been done with analog modules.
Originally five-track composition, later mixed into stereo.
When I was longing for Czech sounds while studying in the Netherlands, far from home, I created this system, which allows the performer to synthetically create sounds similar to Czech trains, for trains in the Netherlands are sterilely silent.
CTG is a digital live music instrument that I programmed in SuperCollider. This is a short recording of a composition / performance on this instrument. All sounds are purely digitally synthetic and digitally processed.
August 2019
Inspired by Gottfired Michael Koenig's piece Terminus I.
Composition made in the analog studio of the Sonology department of The Royal Conservatoire in The Hague.
Source material being field recording sequences, all processing and transformations of the sound are purely analog.
Originally four-channel piece, mixed into stereo. 2019
The first single of the now legendary versatile artist František Hruška with his pioneering use of the C major chord
Listen in the link
Two-tone biscuit (2017)
An experimental film with experimental music
Watch & listen in the link