Music + Film Event

Ivo Bystřičan’s Invisible Landscapes with fyield’s Future Landcapes

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$20 | $15 Speed members

This evening’s event combines the documentary Invisible Landcapes about the audio recording of the sounds of climate change with a performance by the Czech and Icelandic musicians fyield who incorporate the recorded sounds into a composition from their debut album Future Landscapes performed by their trio live.

The documentary Invisible Landscapes features a group of musicians equipped with sensitive microphones and headphones as they explore places in the Czech and Icelandic countryside both marred by industry and untouched by man to discover and understand the sound of catastrophe in which one hears the effects of ongoing climate change.

Accompanied by field recordists Magnús Bergsson and Sara Pinheiro with special microphones, the sonic expedition set out to explore through sound the challenges to the world’s transformation posed by the technologies and systems on which modern civilization depends. Against the backdrop of the climate crisis, they capture the sonic atmospheres of the organs of geothermal, hydroelectric, or coal-fired power plants, a CO2 repository, an aquaponic farm, a lagoon created by melting glaciers, and an oil well.

Director Ivo Bystřičan captured the expedition in the film Invisible Landscapes which starts the evening and musicians Václav Havelka and Pan Thorarensen aka fyield bring the album Future Landscapes in concert performance with Kryštof Kříček. 2023, Czech Republic/Iceland, film: 44 minutes/concert: 40 minutes. Recommended for 12+

CINEMA+ With a post-screening discussion with the director and musicians following the film and live performance.

The program is made possible with support from Národní plan obnovy, Czech Republic Ministry of Culture, Czech Recovery Plan, ERA Productions, and Next Generation EU.