Proposal for a performance of sound experimentation with improvised images succession accompaniment.

Carpets Curtains (Koberce, záclony)
Combining live audio “micro-improvisations” (refined by architect Ivan Palacky) with live video manipulations (by visual artist Filip Cenek aka VJ Vera Lukasova), Carpets Curtains express an engaging and nuanced interplay of audio and visual material. With live visuals being based on improvised memory re-edits in which emphasis is placed on ambiguous “narration” whilst VJ software errors are used to reach new amoebic image qualities, the result is a principle or method of remaining fixed to moving images while vacating the essential aspects for building concrete meaning. Such visual approaches find parallel in Palacky’s delicate musicalities, in which found objects and minimal electronics are fused to create elegantly small sound mixtures.

Ivan Palacky – amplified knitting machine Dopleta 160
Ivan Palacky, b. 1967 in Uherské Hradiste, has (in the 80s and the beginning of the 90s) played with various groups and taken part in several music projects. He was a member of the guitar-doublebass-bassoon group "Slede, zive slede" (Herring, live herring) – and currently performs in a duo with Jennifer DeFelice called “Tilko” (Singlet) and audiovisual project “Koberce, zaclony” (Carpets Curtains) with Filip Cenek. He “writes” a sound diary from his journeys – collects excerpts of stories, weird sounds and various “acoustic mistakes”. He likes to take part in one-shot improvisational groups or duos (with Cremaster, Ruth Barberán and Margarida Garcia, Will Guthrie, Andrea Neumann among others) as well as playing solo performances. Since 2005 his main interest has been to “dig out” sounds from an amplified Dopleta 160 knitting machine from the 70s.

Filip Cenek aka VJ Vera Lukasova – real-time image manipulation in interaction with sound (live re-edits)
Filip Cenek, b. 1976 in Jeseník, is educated projectionist, graduated from the Brno Faculty of Fine Arts, Video Studio (Keiko Sei), where he currently teaches. From 2004 he is a postgraduate student at the FAMU Centre of Audiovisual Studies in Prague. He is the author of several short films and animations presented at various fine art exhibitions and film festivals (Centre Pompidou, Paris; L'immagine leggera, Palermo; EMAF, Osnabruck; Wardrobe, Leeds; Parker`s Box, New York; MNAC, Bucuresti; among others). He is represented in the National Gallery Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art in Prague and Marek Collection. He is holder of the Tranzit Award (2004) for his work in the field of visual media which allowed him to realize “Carpets Curtains” DVD-Video disc (Errant Bodies, Denmark/USA 2006), documenting his cooperation with a musician Ivan Palacky. He also makes the visible part of Midi Lidi project and works as a co-curator for FreshFilmFest (Theatre Optique section) and NewNew! Festival.

Links: http://carpetscurtains.fiume.cz, www.palacky.org, www.fiume.cz

Contacts:
Ivan Palacky (audio) – manus (AT) iol (DOT) cz – +420 736177966
Filip Cenek (visuals) – filip (AT) fiume (DOT) cz – +420 777744790

Technical rider: http://carpetscurtains.fiume.cz/carpets_curtains_rider.txt

Promo photo: http://carpetscurtains.fiume.cz/brno_2007.jpg

Downloads (videosamples, stills, etc.)
http://plant.ffa.vutbr.cz/~filip/carpetscurtains/images/