Resonance #3

An ongoing festival of experimental music, sound art and technology at Linserka.

Sound as memory, landscape and material to be reshaped. One evening, four different approaches – from raw improvisation through poetry set to music and guitar textures to layered ambient soundscapes. Ambient, field recordings and attentive listening.

INTERPRETACE (CZ)

live experimental noise improvisation

A Liberec-based project active since the turn of the 1980s, and one of the longest-running acts on the Czech experimental scene. Its recordings grew out of free improvisation with guitars, tape and radio in North Bohemia, far from Prague’s industrial scene. Richard Charvát described it as a ritual escape from the reality of the time.
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There is a Liberec story that now feels almost part of the group’s own mythology: a concert by British band Bourbonese Qualk was announced for the Plastimat club in 1990. They did not arrive, so local musicians stepped in at the last minute, forming the trio NBCH for that one evening only. (Concert account)
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Their latest recording is the album 345 (2026).

INTIMNÍ PLAYLIST (CZ)

live experimental electronica

Michal Praslička and Pavel Malý use electronics as a space for words, silence and slow unfolding. They composed original music for a Czech Radio Vltava programme based on a posthumously published collection by poet Tomáš Tomášek, read in full by Jan Vlasák (“Souzvuk”, premiered 13 April 2026).
Czech Radio Vltava

The album Ahava (2026) comes from the same world. Its title means “love” in Hebrew, and its music draws on nature poetry, restraint and unhurried perception.
mujrozhlas

JAN JANECKÝ (CZ)

live ambient electronica

A Liberec musician working between ambient and downtempo, with an emphasis on texture and sustained tones rather than rhythm. He is also known for Lavender Mist, where his electronics meet Michal Staněk’s guitar walls and evoke the sounds of the 1990s.
Zivyliberec

RAPOON (UK)

live experimental ambient

A project by British musician and visual artist Robin Storey, founded in 1992 after he left Zoviet France. In less than thirty years he released more than 80 albums. Across that extensive catalogue, he combines ambient and industrial sound, loops, muted rhythms, acoustic fragments and influences from music beyond Europe. The result is a slowly shifting soundscape somewhere between music, ritual and imagined memory.
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The latest album, The Silent Trumpets (Klanggalerie, 2026), reveals a quieter, more layered side of Rapoon: sound that does not seek to dominate a space but gradually transforms it.

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