“Just before I started to concentrate on playing the amplified knitting machine exclusively, I was working with field recordings. While listening back to my work after a recording day, I realised that more than the real ‘sound image’ it was actually the acoustic mistakes I was interested in – the bits which weren’t very audible during the recording process. At that point, I started to manipulate these micro cuts extracted from some longer tracks using a pair of dictaphones and electronics. This track “Christmas Speech” is a manipulation with the recording of Christmas dinner preparations. Judging by my ears, it somehow catches the tension of that afternoon much more truthfully than the initial recording.”

Ivan Palacky (1967) is a musician and architect. In the 1980s and at the beginning of the 1990s, Palacky played with various groups and took part in several music projects. At the end of the 1990s he founded the guitar/double bass/bassoon group Slede, zive slede (Herring, live herring) and since 2003 he has performed in an audiovisual duo called Koberce, Zaclony/Carpets, Curtains (with VJ Vera Lukasova). He writes a sound diary of his journeys collecting excerpts of stories, weird sounds and various acoustic mistakes.

Since 2005 his main interest has been to dig out sounds from an amplified 1970s Dopleta 180 knitting machine.

Published in 2006 on the Danish-American label Errant Bodies, which focuses on contemporary experimental music and its overlapping into art, the DVD Carpets Curtains documents Palacky’s long collaboration with the video artist Filip Cenek.

In 2009 Palacky founded the label Uceroz and since then he has released two studio albums recorded with his most frequent collaborators. He lives in Brno, Czech Republic.

palacky.org
palacky.org/uceroz.html
carpetscurtains.fiume.cz