OFFSCREEN TRIO at Echofluxx 21, Paralelní Polis, Prague September 2022

Michal Rataj: live electronics/cymbal
Jan Trojan: amplified metal sheet, electronics
Ivan Boreš: acoustic/electric guitar

The OFFSCREEN TRIO showcases an emotional interaction between composition and live improvisation and has evolved from a combination of instrumental virtuosity, sound imagination and music instrument design. All are artists from the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. Ivan Boreš studied classical guitar with Štěpán Rak, and has also directed all kinds of experimental guitar performances and virtuosic metal music performances. Michal Rataj graduated from musicology and composition programs led by Ivan Kurz and Milan Slavický. Thanks to his interest in electronic music, he became engaged in radio and film based sound design and composition and has been discovering their relationships to classical chamber and orchestral music, as well as the contemporary improv-scene. Jan Trojan graduated from the same composition programs, his main focus being acoustic ecology within a frame of contemporary sound art. This path took him slowly into all kinds of hardware hacking, recycling and connecting the unconnectable.

See Echofluxx.org