Touching The Vibrating Silence : Sounds from the Hermit Foundation Art Symposiums (CZE, 1993 & 1995)

The Plasy Monastery
(front cover of "The Meridian Crossings" compilation)

Selections from two HERMIT FOUNDATION (art center in Czech Republic) compilations, with czech and international artists working on the basis of improvisation, modern composition and free-form sound. Apart from their innovative orientation, the tracks capture the haunted aura of the spaces of (former) monastery of Plasy (Pilzen), where they' re recorded, during the foundation's second ("GROWTHRINGS", 1993) and fourth ("THE MERIDIAN CROSSINGS", 1995) art symposiums.

01 VLASTIMIL MAREK & ROMAN BRENDA - untitled (singing bowls)

02 TIBOR SZEMZO & MARTIEN GROENEVELD - untitled (flute, xylophone, seamachine) 

03 VOJTECH HAVEL - untitled (cello)

04 MICHAEL DELIA & JAROSLAV KORAN - untitled

05 JAROSLAV STASTNY - untitled (prepared piano)

06 WIEL CONEN - untitled (guitar, electronics) 

07 PAVEL FAJT - untitled (percussions)

08 PETER CUSACK - Bees in the bush (w MICHAEL DELIA on kalimba)

09 IRENA & VOJTECH HAVEL - untitled (viola da gamba) 

10 ORLOJ SNIVCU - Concert for Plasy (performed by J. Koran, M. Sebesta, M. Janicek, M. Koran, S. Austen)

HERMIT FOUNDATION SYMPOSIUMS


selected by LaFolieDuJour

PASCAL COMELADE " Zumzum.ka" (spain/france, 1998)

Zumzum... an onomatopoeia..., the humming of crowd..., the swarmed noises in distance..., the buzzing - the voice of insect wings....

And Ka... an antithesis to onomatopoeia..., the mythical for modern literature letter K..., the walking letter... the letter as a shape of man..., the body of a dancer..., the potenciality of motion & stillness into the air...

 ZUMZUM.KA (60mb)