Palacký Ivan (bio ENG)
A musician and architect, in the 1980s and early '90s Palacký performed in various bands and participated in a diverse range of musical projects. He performed at many concerts with the band "Sledě, živé sledě". He is currently a member of the ambi(val)ent duo "Tílko" (with Jennifer Helia DeFelice) and the audiovisual improvisational duo "Koberce, záclony" (with Filip Cenek). He also keeps audio diaries of his travels, recording story fragments, strange sounds and a diverse array of "acoustic errors". Since 2002, he has been involved in free improvisation, and enjoys participating in short-term projects (collaborations with Cremaster, Ruth Barberán and Margarida Garcia, Willem Guthrie, and Andrea Neumann, among others). He equally enjoys playing solo. His main passion since 2005 has been the "mining" of sounds from an amplified Dopleta 160 single bed knitting machine. As an architect, he is interested in architecture without "structures", sociological methods in project planning and morphogenetic maps in digital architecture.
For me, playing is characteristic of a kind of intuitive "slicing of time" and the persistent attempt to reach a point where I don't know how the whole thing works and when it will derail to the extent that I stop trying to figure it out; it is not even so important for me which tools I use to achieve this state. My interest in tectonic playing comes from my profession, from architecture: the proportions and ratios between individual parts, and the most difficult thing: a kind of subconscious, precisely located "turning point" which alters and shifts the entire intangibly flowing audio situation...