Fero Király + Nenad Brankovič + Erik Pánči

Fero KIRÁLY
Slovak author, performer, performer and educator.
He is engaged in artistic projects with an overlap into performance, sound art, installations, interpretations of contemporary music, musical reinterpretations of artworks, as well as educational projects in the field of music, music composition and sound art. In doing so, he uses new frontier experimental positions, creates his own digital instruments and enjoys collaborating on projects with other artists with a multidisciplinary focus. He has dedicated himself to mapping the early works of minimal music by Philip Glass, most of which he has premiered in Slovakia – from clubs to the two largest cathedrals (Košice, Bratislava). Recently he has been working on microtonality and livecoding with digital media. With his recent sound installations Chronika and Water Music III, he has been exploring the themes of language and time. Among his best-known projects is the Cluster ensemble (together with Ivo Šiller and Zuzana Biščáková), where he has co-created a number of performances. Cluster has won several awards and strong reviews in the Guardian and Pitchfork for the album Cluster ensemble plays Philip Glass. Fero Király has had several residencies (Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Druskininkai, Ljubljana, Poznan) and has collaborated with artists such as Dano Matej, Karolina Kubik, Mišo Matejka, Milan Adamčiak, Michal Murin, Maja Osojnik, Anat Ben David, Juraj Bartusz, Zbynek Prokop, Juraj Vajó, Jakub Pišek, Petra Fornayová, Zuzana Žabková, Peter Mazalán, Eva Šušková, Martin Derner, Ján Šicko, Martin Piaček, Svätopluk Mikyta and others. His works have been presented in cities such as New York, San Francisco, London, Prague, Berlin, Passau, Vienna, Oslo, Copenhagen, Trebišov and others.For his work he uses free open-source software such as JACK and SuperCollider on Linuxw. Free software is and always has been an important part of his work and ethics. He is the author of Zvukodrom, an audiovisual musical instrument for children and music/music teachers, as well as the collection Botanical Garden, which contains graphic pertitles, compositions and music-sound games for children. The collection has recently established itself in the space of Slovak primary art schools and has become part of children’s music education. Fero Király is a graduate of the Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava where he studied piano. As an external lecturer he taught at the Comenius University in Bratislava, Faculty of Arts and Pedagogy, subjects related to new media artistic instruments, where he also defended his PhD degree with the dissertation New Media in Art Education in Primary Schools. He works as a freelance artist.
He is currently teaching a course at the Academy of Arts in Banská Bystrica called Numerontools , which deals with creative programming in SuperCollider.
https://www.ferokiraly.com/

Nenad BRANKOVIĆ
Nenad was born in Smederevo, Serbia, but has lived in Bratislava since 1997. He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Visual Communication in the studio of prof. Ľubomír Longauer. He works mainly in the field of graphic design, specializing in the creation of corporate and product identity, design of printed materials and others. After many years of experience in established domestic advertising agencies and design studios, he founded his own creative studio Nenbra, whose main credo is to find a balance between art and compelling visual communication. In his spare time he works with painting, photography, illustration and experimental music. Over the last decade he has been involved in several musical projects (Metrom, Atranenia, Beard, Phragments) in which he explores different shades of light and dark, sound and noise. He loves experimentation, cracks in ordered structures and improvisation.
https://metrom.bandcamp.com
https://exitab.exitmusic.org/track/nagant

Erik PÁNČI
He comes from Ružomberok. He studied intermedia and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts. In his work he uses an analogue modular system with a combination of playing the piezoelectric piano.
He says of himself:
“For the last year, mainly because of the corona, I’ve been making a living as an arborist, that is, climbing trees and sawing branches and thinking about philosophy. Music is a manifestation of internalism. It’s a way of fighting my own resentment. I embody a sense of unity through composition. Like a religious belief in superhumanity, where finding proof of superhumanity degrades the very idea… that the things hidden from us are something more than they are. It’s also the main reason I can’t rehearse the show ahead of time and repeat it. I have to forget who I am on stage in order to become someone I can be.”
https://soundcloud.com/user-503540023/legin-onaip?ref=clipboard&p=a&c=1&utm_campaign=social_sharing&utm_medium=text&utm_source=clipboard