Come and experience world premiere of a unique piece of music Communicating Vessels (United Vessels)created by five outstanding personalities of Czech contemporary music: Radim Hanousek, František Chaloupka, Ian Mikyska, Kristýna Švihálková and Michal Wróblewski. The concert takes place as part of 36th Exposition of New Music Festival and will take place in a breathtaking setting Water reservoirs on the Yellow Hill in Brno. Witness a unique event that will add another dimension to Vodojemy and fill it with contemporary music.

What's in store for you?

Communicating Vessels is a collective composition written to suit the acoustically and architecturally unique space of a pair of water towers, whose atmosphere and support an innovative approach to music. The piece thematises the storage of different physical states - from water to air to human thoughts - and highlights how various vessels and their contents are an indispensable part of our everyday lives. Like a jar or a bucket, the human mind functions as a container that can be filled with different contents. What is important, however, is not the quantity, but the depth and the ability to hold the given content, which the musicians symbolically connect to the specific space of the Waterworks. 

Authors and performers:

Radim Hanousek - saxophone, bass clarinet

František Chaloupka – electric guitar

Ian Mikyska – microtonal electric guitar

Kristýna Švihálková – drums

Michal Wróblewski - saxophone

Each of these composers, in synergy with the others, has created an original work that reflects the uniqueness of the Vodojemy space, and together they combine music and space into a harmonious whole. Don't miss this unique and original musical event, for which this monumental technical landmark offers the ideal setting.

Tickets are available on the website of the Brno Philharmonic, the organizing organization of the Exposition of New Music festival. The concert is part of the Year of Czech Music 2024.