Ryu Hankil and Petr Vrba had incidentally found out during Ryu Hankil’s tour in the Czech Republic, that they share surname: in Japanese characters, both would be written 柳 – YANAGI, which means willow. And so they continued exploring affinities in a friend’s home studio, which resulted in founding YANAGI duo. Their common interest in musical structures hidden in various and variously vibrating objects enables a very natural communication through rolling typewriter or toothpicks bouncing along a plastic plate.

Special guests Tomáš Procházka (federsel) and Marek Piaček (klangversuch) will accompany Yanagi duo in second part of the concert.

야나기 듀오

즉흥연주자인 류한길의 체코 투어 중에 우연히 패트레 블바와 동일한 의미의 성(버드나무)을 가지고 있음을 알게 된 이후로 시작된 프로젝트. 각자의 성을 일본어로 표현했을 때, 동일한 의미를 지닌다는 사실을 알게 되었다. 처음에는 일종의 우연적인 흥분으로 만남이 시작되었지만 곧 즉흥 연주를 통해 물체의 진동에 입각한 음악적, 음향적 관심사에서도 비슷한 경향을 가지고 있음을 알게 되어 현재까지 프로젝트를 지속하고 있다.

Ryu Hankil (1975)

Ryu Hankil comes from Seoul, South Korea. He played keyboard in two indie pop bands but soon got bored by the conventional music and sound creation. Hankil then released two albums as Daytripper, which was his solo electro pop project. He belongs to the first generation of Korean electronica. The experience with electronic music animates him to look for various new ways of creating sounds and different musical structures, emanating from found objects such as clockworks, typewriters, telephones and variety of vibrations. Since 2005 Hankil organizes regular monthly events called RELAY, he runs his own publishing The Manual, specialised on impovised music and independent, experimental publications. He is a member of a new Otomo Yoshihide’s project called FEN (Far East Network) and formed own project called A.Typist with Korean literature writers lowie, Kim Taeyong in 2010.

Petr Vrba (1974)

DJ at Radio 1 in Prague since 1994, temporary student of gamelan music at Institute of Art of Indonesia in Yogyakarta, since 2005 both passive (music journalist, promoter) and active (trumpets, clarinet, egg cutters, broom etc.) explorer of non-idiomatic improvisation. His first experiences with bands unwind from the cooperation with Eduardo Borsuci In Optima Forma, which resulted in Zvuková brigade (Sound brigade). In 2009, Chaos und Logos came into the world, which is a trio. A year later, he became one of the founding members of improvisation ensemble IQ+1. Petr has played with Martin Alacam, Georgij Bagdasarov, Michal Brunclík, Xavier Charles, George Cremaschi, Jana Kneschke, Carmen Lefrançois, Hugh Livingstone, Ivan Palacký, Miroslav Posejpal, Peter Stehlík (aka Transport Puzzle), Jaroslav Šťastný (aka Peter Graham), Alex Švamberk, Christopher Williams, Michal Zbořil and others.

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Concert is a part of the international project Karaoke Europe.