[rohrpost] Do Pixels Dance the Polka? Exploring Czech, Slovak and Eastern European Music Scenes Through Music Clips and Audiovisual Music Czech Center Berlin, June 26, 7 p.m.

[Natalie Gravenor]

Do Pixels Dance the Polka?

Exploring Czech and Slovak Music Scenes Through Music Clips and 
Audiovisual Music

Special guests: Lucia Udvardyová and Peter Gonda (Easterndaze)

While Central and Eastern European artists of the 20th century pioneered 
many techniques for marrying sound and vision such as Laterna Magika or 
the ANS synthesizer, music videos from this region are strangely absent 
from the clip canon and rarely screened at international festivals.

Easterndaze, a platform for up-and-coming independent Eastern European 
arts and music scenes based in Prague and Budapest, aims to map this 
terra incognita. Lucia Udvardyová and Peter Gonda from Eastnerdaze are 
now invited to Berlin to present their project featuring recent music 
clips and audiovisual music from cities in the Czech Republic (Prague, 
Brno, Zlín, Ostrava, Ustí na Labem) and Slovakia (Bratislava, Košice) as 
well as from Easterndaze's travels to other Central and East European 
countries.

Musical styles encompass hip hop to witchhouse, experimental electronics 
to modern interpretations of traditional sounds. The audiovisual 
approaches are equally diverse: surreal concept clips, absurd comedy 
sketches, found footage, trippy animation and live performances captured 
on cellphone. Udvardyová and Gonda complement the selection with their 
analysis and anecdotes from the music and arts scenes in which the clips 
were produced.

Admission free

Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 7 p.m.

CZECHPOINT - Czech Center Berlin/Tschechisches Zentrum Berlin

Wilhelmstraße 44, Eingang Mohrenstraße

10117 Berlin

http://berlin.czechcentres.cz/
www.easterndaze.net