About project
Discounted admission for Signal Plus and Signal VIP holders, students and children.
Please come early. No admission to the church will be allowed after the performance begins.
The performance is organised by an external supplier
V E K T R O S K O P △ is a celebration of audiovisual correlation, a meeting of trendsetters and media archaeologists. The dialogue between creators of musical and visual projects brings new and unexpected messages. Live music, a piano controlled by a robotic hand, programmed mobile objects, sheer physical improvisation, lasers and beams of “ordinary” light, acoustic and electronic music, all this is V E K T R O S K O P △.
The theme of this year’s performance is Ecosystem as a Non-Zero-Sum Game. Understood in the sense of game theory, the ecosystem is a symbiotic relationship between artists, audience, space, sound and light. The evening will feature performances by Beata Hlavenková, Leoš Hort (HRTL), Jan Burian Jr. and David Vrbík. V E K T R O S K O P △ is held this year in the Church of St. Nicholas on the Old Town Square, a space with one of the best acoustics in Prague.
The building doesn’t have barrier-free access.
About the artist
David Vrbík is an audiovisual artist. In the 1990s he composed music for dance theatre, later he started to work on animations and programming stage technology. He is a founding member of the dance company TOW, which has appealed to the dance community with its approach to technology, especially the synchronization of audio, lights, and laser projections. In 2004, together with Vladimír 518, he founded the multi-genre project SPAM, where he explores the possibilities of audiovisual language. Since 2019, he has been working on his own project V E K T R O S K O P, in which he addresses artists from the domestic and international digital art scene.
Beata Hlavenková is a Czech composer, singer, pianist, arranger, and producer who won the Anděl Award 2019 in the category Female Performer of the Year, the Anděl Award 2013 in the category Jazz & Blues, and the Jantar Award 2019 in the category Female Performer of the Year. She is a music educator at New York University in Prague. She composes incidental and film music (Dukla61, Zátopek) and works for children. She cooperates with the Magdalena Kožená MenART Foundation, which supports primary art schools and art education in the Czech Republic.
Leoš Hort aka HRTL is a top performer on modular synthesizer and founder of the Brno-based Bükko Tapes label, which releases music by Eastern European bedroom producers. He is also the stable rider of Bastl Instruments, who produce hand-made open-source music hardware.
Jan Burian Jr. is a Czech composer and sound designer. He collaborates with various theatre and film artists. He has been working with therapist Maria Madeira for over ten years and has composed music for two of her books. For the NFA he composed and recorded the music for the restored film Such Is Life. He teaches workshops in sound design, the art of listening, and creative approaches to electronic musical instruments. He is a founding member of the music projects These Albums and Kyklos Galaktikos.
