Important information about admission: You may only attend the event if you bring your own harmonica and smartphone. You can purchase a harmonica as part of the full-price ticket (250) or bring your own harmonica in D or A tuning and purchase a discounted ticket (150).
Ján Podracký: Harmony of Harmonicas
Ján Podracký’s composition for diatonic harmonicas is based on playing together while listening to oneself and others. A participatory concert that blends into breathing exercises and meditation. Heaps of humans, heaps of hubbub, heaps of harmony.
Matúš Kobolka: giltypležrs
Matúš Kobolka’s musical and sound event explores the feelings of shame, how to identify them and overcome them. An ensemble of smartphones will perform a composition based on a graphic score inspired by the karaoke format.
About the series Music for Musicians and Audiences
The concerts and musical events under this title are curated and composed by Ján Podracký. He invites collaborating artists to join this ongoing series, with whom he creates participatory musical events. Their form draws inspiration from folk tradition, situations of communal singing at work, in taverns, or in churches, as well as from works of popular and contemporary music such as Pauline Oliveros’ Sonic Meditations or the Fluxus movement’s audience pieces.
The series Music for Musicians and Audience explores the idea that listening and playing in parallel can be perceived as one of the most beautiful forms of musical experience. By combining the principles of sound meditation, ritual, and musical game—as well as playfulness and the joy of making music—it creates situations that deepen and expand the nature of the concert. In these situations, the audience is invited to actively participate, listening and playing at the same time.
AUTHORS
Ján Podracký
Ján Podracký is a Brno-based composer and musician, primarily self-taught. Alongside his studies in musicology, he took several years of private composition lessons with the Brno composer Pavel Zemek Novák and attended a number of masterclasses focused on composition and improvisation, including three editions of the institute and festival Ostrava Days (2015, 2017, and 2025). He is an active member of the experimental trio VÁL, the bizarre-pop band Parochňa, and the psychedelic-folk trio ŠVP (Šimanský Vaľko Podracký). After an eight-year hiatus, he also returned to composing last year, focusing exclusively on a series of compositions titled Music for Musicians and Audience. Among other things, he currently also serves as Vice-Dean for Internationalisation at the FFA BUT.
Matúš Kobolka
Matúš Kobolka (aka Bolka) is a composer and performer. Bolka’s practice has shifted from free-improvised electronic music to more rigorous tactics embracing comedy, “genre-bending”, and repurposing popular music techniques. He uses custom-made software in combination with naïve hardware solutions. In 2012, he released his debut split album with Jonáš Gruska (LOM). In 2016, he graduated from the Institute of Sonology in The Hague. In 2023 he released his debut solo album Smutné Stropy (LOM) followed by the EP Žiadzasamy (Weltschmerzen, 2024). His forthcoming record Schwarzkopf is due to be released in March 2026 on Slovak experimental music label Mappa. He is a part of the mladé zimy collective.