An initiative of the
Breathless. A Documentary Film Project /
Vùng biên giới. A Theatre Project with Rimini Protokoll /
rádio d-cz. A Radio Art Project /
Vùng biên giới. A Theatre Project with Rimini Protokoll /
rádio d-cz. A Radio Art Project /
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Transforming City-Sounds
“The Favorite Sounds of Prague” – a Radio Exploration of Everyday Acoustics
By Miloš Vojtěchovský, Peter Cusack
“For us, all that remained of the city were fleeting hints. Remains of peripheral paving overgrown by grass; corners where the village green infiltrated among the last blocks of the city that engulfed it; forgotten walls and chimneys of factories that had ceased producing anything long ago; overgrown buildings the city had rejected; jungle-like forests that had grown up around them; hedges and fences once delimiting land, but now jutting without reason into space. We didn't need the city itself for our great race – for us it remained as an invisible centre to which we paid homage – but at the same time we carelessly left it to its own devices.” (Jan Štolba, “Absent City”)
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