Concert for Animals

Format: open-air performance
Technique: recorded as if it were a live radio transmittion in the landscape,
Place: Beskid Mountains, Czech Republic
Year: 2020
Awarded as The Best European Radio Music Programme, Prix Europe 2021

The conceptual event which took place in the open landscape of mountain meadows and pools in the Beskids, as a non-public gesture of saying thank you to the nature as well as silence for being parts of the environment in which we, humans, can survive. The music was very quiet with some of its parts being hardly perceptible to the human ear. The event started in early evening and after about a half of its several hours the sun set and the sound environment started changing slowly. For a moment the weather was windless and the loud voices of crickets and grasshoppers were heard. Despite their loudness, it was a moment of quieting. Everyone sat silent, listening to the sunset.