Liptov Release: Andrea Beton / Alexandra Cihanská Machová / Oliver Torr SK
Andrea Beton
Aka Marie Čtveráčková aka Mary C is a musician, DJ, curator, publicist, organizer and co-founder of Synth Library Prague. She enjoys exploring new sonic spaces, rumbling rhythmic compositions, restless flows of sound colours, bending recordings into different shapes and the possibilities of a new relationship to playing the violin. Her composition Suché lúky, part of the “Liptov” compilation, was included on the Wire magazine Below the Radar 36 compilation. As part of her performance at the Pohoda festival, she will develop the themes of this piece into a live set.
Alexandra Cihanská Machová
is a composer and sound artist from Sabinov, currently based in Prague. Her main means of expression is sound in various forms, from acoustic instruments, field recordings, to live coding and others, however, she often combines this with other media as well. She is currently more intensively involved with sounds in space, sound installation, and sound in virtual environments. Thematically, she examines post-digital sentiment, emotion in technology, sound ecology, and the recontextualization of the relationship between humans, nature, and technology.
Oliver Torr
In addition to Andrea Beton and Alexandra Cihanská Machová, the recording Liptov will also be presented by the Prague electronic producer, DJ, and audiovisual artist Oliver Torr. Oliver’ projects include TraumaTorr, GTA soundsystem, Black Tar Jesus, OGJ / Torr and he has collaborated with artists such as Chrysalism, Sunnbrella, Katarzia, Dukla and others. In late February, he released the album Fragility of Context and gained the attention of foreign media with the Trans Europe Postal Express project, in which artists recorded sounds on a travelling cassette tape following pre-given instructions.
In 2017, Oliver moved to Berlin to continue his studies in audiovisual arts. Instead, he found passion working in Berlin’s Patch Point synthesiser shop, where he learned to solder and make instruments by designers such as Serge Tcherepnin or Peter Blasser. His audiovisual installations have been seen in galleries in Prague, as well as in London and Berlin. He has also worked on various film and television projects. He studied in London at the British & Irish Modern Music Institute, where his mentor was producer Phelan Kane.