JCHA 2014 – 555 – Left-right

• "Dot Rozhlas Dot CZ."00:00:00.740
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• "Czech Radio Plzeň. The songs you don't hear anywhere else."00:00:04.952
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• "Exactly to the day fifty years ago the movie 'Starci na chmelu' had a premiere,"00:00:09.016
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• "so let's celebrate, with a song at lips."00:00:13.408
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• "The day is beautiful,"00:00:17.567
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• "the day is beautiful,"00:00:21.853
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• "the day is beautiful." The presentation here in Plzeň00:00:26.319
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• shows two poles I work with.00:00:30.579
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• One of them refers to work with archive and the forgotten things,00:00:34.649
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• which I revive in some way.00:00:38.895
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• And the other one refers to some intervention,00:00:42.973
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• a work with something unpredictable and lively,00:00:47.051
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• like, for example, the translator lady. "Weather:"00:00:51.417
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• "In the night it will be somewhat cloudy, in the morning here and there cloudy"00:00:57.184
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• "with low cloudiness or fogs and temperature between 14 and 11 degrees..."00:01:01.470
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• It is an effort to make a kind of a reduced broadcast,00:01:05.762
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• an effort to uncover, in a way, the broadcasting schedule00:01:10.073
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• and it's done by that fact that there is a simultaneous translator00:01:14.276
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• sitting in a box and she is not translating,00:01:18.576
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• but she tells over, from Czech to Czech,00:01:22.627
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• she reduces what she is listening to, she reduces the actual Czech Radio broadcast.00:01:26.910
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• "Hrochův Týnec desires me, I am loved in Hoštice,"00:01:31.161
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• "everyone wants me but the one, but then it's me who wants her,"00:01:35.255
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• "the girl with a strange taste, named Dvořáková Milada."00:01:39.342
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• "The girl with a strange taste, named Dvořáková Milada."00:01:45.896
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• The curtain you see behind me is a replica.00:01:53.887
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• It's a reconstruction of a curtain that hanged here00:01:58.951
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• since, roughly, middle of 1960s to, say, the beginning of 1980s;00:02:03.319
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• nobody remembers exactly how it was anymore.00:02:07.755
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• It was colorful originally,00:02:11.980
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• but since only the black and white photographs were preserved,00:02:16.310
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• and I didn't want to make up those colours, so it ended up being this monochromatic.00:02:20.706
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• After all, I believe it's fine, because it's like...00:02:25.022
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• it reminds me even Picasso's Guernica.00:02:29.236
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• The curtain had a purpose, because there were stereo speakers being tested in here,00:02:33.280
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• and in order to keep the producers of the speakers anonymous,00:02:37.363
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• the loudspeakers were hidden behind the curtain00:02:41.574
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• and the committee (it had some ten members)00:02:45.695
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• was scoring and judging each pair of the speakers.00:02:49.840
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• "Stereo. Stereo."00:02:58.109
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• "Yes, stereo. You are listening to our Czechoslovak introductory stereophonic record."00:03:04.031
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• "Stereophonic sound record is the next essential step"00:03:10.916
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• "in the recording and reproduction technology."00:03:15.169
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• "While listening to such record we hear sounds from various places in space..."00:03:19.388
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• "excuse me, please..." Beside the fact that I have hanged the curtain00:03:23.478
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• in the original place, I am playing historical stereo-test00:03:27.604
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• that is, an introductory record for stereophonic listening00:03:31.827
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• with Jiří and Olga, who demonstrate the technology00:03:36.243
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• and give advice about loudspeaker setup.00:03:40.623
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• "- Hello, Jiří. - Listen, Olga, what does it suppose to mean?"00:03:46.709
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• "You are chasing me from one door to another. - Don't be angry, Jirka,"00:03:50.902
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• "I could have entered right away, of course, but I heard you talking about stereo,"00:03:55.161
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• "so I wanted to enter stereophonically. - Well, thanks for that."00:03:59.420
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• The thing that interests me about it the most, is probably the pattern,00:04:03.513
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• which, to a certain extent, possibly illustrates a kind of an age-old complex of broadcasting00:04:07.621
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• based on the fact that radio lacks image.00:04:11.920
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• And it's so intricate and complex that one can look at it for quite a long time.00:04:16.138
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• As a matter of fact, the listeners were looking at it00:04:20.561
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• for some 15 or 20 years, for sure, and that's what fascinates me,00:04:24.737
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• when I exhibit it, and, indeed, it was shown outside this space, in a gallery.00:04:29.083
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• So the question is, whether the curtain can withstand it, on its own,00:04:36.203
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• without the context we see here,00:04:40.626
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• whether the pattern has in itself the sovereignty.00:04:45.020
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• I believe it does.00:04:49.737
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• I decided that in the evening I will be faithful to the radio broadcast,00:04:57.455
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• and, instead of moving images, I will play, again, only sounds.00:05:01.729
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• The evening event will be moderated by a culture editor of Czech Radio Plzeň, Petra Hynčíková,00:05:06.189
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• and we will play samples from the Czech Radio archive00:05:13.012
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• that had influenced me in some way or other, or that I find them interesting,00:05:17.464
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• for example a report from deer rutting.00:05:22.466
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• "- That's it, that's it. - I've been just saying it... like by request, indeed."00:05:28.009
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• "It's letting itself be heard, and you've heard it. Did you hear it for the first time in your life?"00:05:32.291
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• "- First time in my life. - How do you feel about it?"00:05:36.518
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• "- Well, it's quite bizarre."00:05:40.645
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• Or it's the voice of Jindřich Chalupecký,00:05:44.759
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• who made a call to Jan Rejžek's Critical Club programme.00:05:49.006
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• "- Probably the main duty of critique doesn't lie in sentencing and making judgments,"00:05:53.207
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• "but above all the art of defending."00:05:57.686
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• "- Thank you. - That was quite strange,"00:06:01.849
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• "as if someone from the archive has spoken. - Yes, yes..."00:06:06.009
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• Or the voice of director Jiří Horčička. All of them are icons00:06:10.090
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• that interest me, in some way, or they influenced me, or they are in some relation to me.00:06:14.264
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• "... and here, kindly take note of this, this is interesting, here, on the right,"00:06:19.079
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• "is a wall as well. And here, behind you, right behind you,"00:06:23.509
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• "is, again, a wall. And in this wall,"00:06:27.858
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• "there is a door leading to a room with carpets"00:06:32.049
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• "that mean 'air',"00:06:36.325
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• "as it was said by someone before it occurred to me."00:06:40.418

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