Kateřina Zochová, David Landa / Veronika Vlková, Antonín Koutný, Vj Kolouch
Kateřina Zochová and David Landa
Their art is based on the tradition of cutout animation. The artists compose fine drawings, paper puppets, and objects live during the screening, using sampling and immediate digital postproduction in PureData. The various pieces of each frame are first sketched in stages just like in cinematic animation. Then they are scanned or shot by a camera and handled like virtual paper puppets. In this unusual artistic arrangement, the artists apply a nearly monochromatic color range and a combination of digital montage with actual physical alterations to the paper.
Veronika Vlková, Antonín Koutný and VJ Kolouch
The musical part of the program arose from past Vlková and Koutný’s past collaboration within the Teve project, which also liked to use overhead projectors and light projections. Today’s musical program skewed away from their usual psychedelic music towards a more uniformly improvised and atmospheric music. In the spirit of their other Brno projects, the trio creates intensive moods and emotions using clearly formulated visuals and intuitive musical improvisation.
- Hana was swallowed up by the fog,00:01:16.518
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- soft and tangible at the same time.00:01:20.879
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- Then he got wrapped up in his own shadow.00:01:25.274
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- The white light of the sun.00:01:30.270
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- The light with smoothly squirting softness.00:01:34.795
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- We prepared the visual part together00:01:41.430
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- and David is the one who handles it00:01:46.607
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- during the performance.00:01:50.414
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- It's based on a non-written script00:01:54.797
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- but a good deal of improvisation00:01:59.424
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- is also involved.00:02:02.424
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- In passages with speech00:02:04.965
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- we use samples prepared in advance00:02:07.965
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- but the rest is about making something00:02:12.169
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- out of nothing.00:02:15.669
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- The visual part is intended00:02:17.845
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- to go with music accompaniment.00:02:22.245
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- The sounds match the images.00:02:26.429
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- Ideally, the two parts00:02:32.849
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- should complement each other.00:02:35.349
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- The purpose is to tell00:02:39.259
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- a sort of unfinished story.00:02:42.259
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- This is Antonín Koutný00:04:37.886
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- and Veronika Vlková,00:04:40.960
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- authors of the musical project Teve.00:04:43.999
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- Today we saw here00:04:47.499
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- a live improvisation00:04:50.325
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- without connection to Teve.00:04:53.088
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- I was invited to this project as a guest.00:04:57.394
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- The visual essence of this performance00:05:02.211
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- consisted of Veronika's drawings and photos00:05:05.711
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- that I put into motion00:05:09.514
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- and connected into a microstory,00:05:12.640
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- also using some of my own creations.00:05:16.123
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- For me, VJing is a form of presentation00:05:19.763
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- of my ideas.00:05:23.228
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- Recently I've been interested00:05:26.117
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- in working with...00:05:31.959
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- I've been interested in working00:05:39.920
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- with this open, live format.00:05:42.920
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- In the future I'd like to try00:05:46.065
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- what Katka and David did here,00:05:49.065
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- to make an improvised animated video.00:05:52.065
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- This is very interesting for me.00:05:59.114
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- I used to sing in a choir00:06:02.479
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- and the loops give me the chance00:06:05.603
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- to use the elements of choir singing.00:06:10.855
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- This is different from what we usually do.00:06:17.801
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- Here we don't play songs,00:06:22.240
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- we rather wanted to try to use00:06:25.497
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- sonic textures without melody,00:06:28.497
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- to improvise.00:06:33.648
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- We had a rought concept of the story.00:06:37.545
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- We wanted it to contain00:06:41.302
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- elements of disintegration00:06:43.802
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- that would correspond with the video part.00:06:46.897