How is a music for emptiness being made? Don’t miss the unique (and last) opportunity to listen to the composition Music for VOID, composed on the occasion of the Jiří Příhoda VOID exhibition, directly at Galerie Rudolfinum.

The members of the The Affogato & Friends ensemble, together with the author of the composition, the bassoonist of the Czech Philharmonic, Martin Petrák, have expanded their repertoire with new pieces especially for this accompanying programme. At the concert, which will take place on August 18 at 6:00 pm in exhibition hall No. 2 (where Příhod’s installation Rig is located), you will be able to listen to the unique Music for VOID and other musical variations.

We cordially invite you to an evening connecting contemporary art and modern classics in the Neo-Renaissance ambience of Galerie Rudolfinum. Admission is free.

Programme:
Martin Petrák: Music for VOID
performed by members of The Affogato & Friends

1. Even the sand sings
2. Beneath the ocean surface
3. Up to heaven and back to earth
4. Retrospective – Breath waves

Performers:

Martin Petrák, bassoon (The Affogato)
Tadeáš Matucha, bassoon (The Affogato)
Tereza Matoušková, bassoon (The Affogato)
Martin Jirásek, bassoon (The Affogato)
Jiřina Marešová, organ positive
Ladislav Bilan, marimba
Petr Ries, double bass

Duration of the concert: approx. 50 minutes.

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Directly for the Jiří Příhoda VOID exhibition at Galerie Rudolfinum, Martin Petrák, bassoonist of the Czech Philharmonic, composed the Music for VOID composition for four bassoons, marimba, organ positive and double bass. The basic message of the composition, inspired by the exhibition, its space, light and depth, consists in providing a possible story without words to the entire exhibition, without explicit intervention into exhibited objects on the border of sculpture and architecture. More about the exhibition here.