See dense music & Timothée Quost

Photos of last year's Alternativa festival. Karel Šuster sees, hears and hopefully photographs music so that those who see his photos can hear it. Anna Baštýřová likes to photograph concerts, cemeteries, meadows and forests. She prefers photographic impressionism to realistic photography. Ever since she has been photographing concerts, she hates red darkness with all her heart.

The young French musician Timothée Quost first studied classical music and then earned a degree in jazz, but his interest soon shifted to free improvisation and the possibilities offered by extended techniques. As an improviser, composer and trumpeter, he has collaborated with a wide range of groups and musicians, such as improvising composers Alvin Curran and Fred Frith, French classical improvisers Jean-Luc Guionnet and Michel Doneda, and Czech trombonists Jan Jirucha and Štěpán Janoušek. Quosta is characterised by its desire to overcome the apparent and unwritten boundaries between approaches, which includes bridging jazz, free improvisation and composed works, with orchestral projects breaking down the barriers between the conservatory tradition and contemporary music. His playing and compositions are characterized by a patient exploration of instrumental timbres and a specific work with contact microphones that allows for an unconventional, one might say intimate, spatial positioning of the trumpet sound.

Free admission.

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