Today I have started the field recording in Brno, Czech Republic for “Kraków to Venice in 12 hours” project.
The project is based on the structure of a 12-hour clock, with time as a connecting element between several locations. 12 hours of multichannel audio will be composed from a collection of recordings made during the journey; capturing the rhythms of the cities’ soundscapes and reflecting the passage of time. In the final composition the language recorded throughout the journey – captured in the snippets of conversations, station announcements and songs of street performers – will mark the transition from one country to another and will serve as a spatial and temporal orientation reference. Polish, Czech, Slovak, German, Slovenian and Italian will be placed alongside Roma dialects.
Brno’s recordings will correspond to 12-1 pm hour on the project’s clock.
Brno is a second largest city in Czech Republic and it’s a capital of Moravia region with a extremely interesting history including some gruesome battles such as Austerlitz.
Modern Brno began to take shape after the Brno to Vienna railway was completed in 1839 and then the city developed into a major industrial centre. Brno is a university town with 89,000 students and it is one of Europe’s leading venues for trade fairs. “Despite having a population of less than 400, 000, Brno behaves like a cosmopolitan capital and stately boulevards make it feel like Paris” (Lonely Planet)
