Seismograf: Microtones In the Coal Mines
Publikováno: 3.10.2025
Ostrava Days brought together young composers and established figures in the former mining town of Czechia for a panorama of experiments and monumental soundscapes – ranging from Dadaist primal forces to near infinite silence.
Kazuhisa Uchihashi stood among rusty combine harvesters at the Agricultural Museum when he drew the bow across the pickup of his homemade instrument. Out came a sound that at once resembled a vegetable shredder and a groovy, mechanical monster. (...)
Concert after concert, Ostrava Days painted a picture of contemporary music’s breadth. I will never forget how three flugelhorns, three tubas, and percussion created a deep, almost bodily resonance in a work by Petr Cígler. And I will fondly remember how 24-year-old Wei-Shiang Chang made the festival orchestra Ostravská banda whisper like mists through a Taiwanese mountain valley. (...)
Ostrava, which this year marked its 13th biennale since its beginning in 2001, reaffirmed its role as both laboratory and meeting place – a space where new ideas can be tested, and where even the smallest tone can open new ways of listening.
Andreo Michaelo Mielczarek, Seismograf | read the whole review here >>>
