Petr Bakla
Petr Bakla (1980, Prague) often employs basic pitch-based material (typically chromatic and whole-tone scales) in his compositions. He is interested in constructing situations and structural contexts in which these meager musical elements can acquire a unique expressiveness and energy. A frequent feature of Bakla’s work is the simultaneous unfolding of two musical/sound layers which, although they usually employ markedly different dynamics that evoke a “figure and background” relationship, are not mutually subordinating – they are of equal importance, their “friction” creating specific tension and ambiguity. Bakla’s music has been performed in the Czech Republic, Armenia, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, Armenia, Ukraine, and the US, often commissioned and/or performed by distinguished musicians. His collaboration with the Ostrava Center for New Music has been of special importance.
