{"title":"Milan Knzk","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"aktual-univerzita-feat-opening-performance-orchestra","title":"Aktual Univerzita Feat Opening Performance Orchestra","description":"\u003cp\u003eMilan Knízak canonical text Aktual University, dating from 1967, contains ten short lectures outlining the university's character - On Conflict, On Dreams, On Revolutions, On Love, On Belief, On Art, etc. These lectures were to serve as inspirational schemes for lectures, seminars and discussions held at an ideal university. In the first piece, Aktual University, Milan Knízak reads his own text, with Opening Performance Orchestra providing the musical accompaniment. It was performed live in October 2019 at the MovementSound-Space festival in Opava, where this recording was made. The second track, titled Broken Suite, is a studio remix, in which Opening Performance Orchestra used fragments and quotations from Milan Knizák's compositions, conceived over the past fifty years, applying the \"broken\" method. The majority of them are made public for the very first time in the newly created Broken Suite.The booklet features English translations of ten Aktual University lectures, as well as Milan Knizak's contemporary initiation text.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sub Rosa","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50502286180683,"sku":"1139320","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/940f3414-c7bb-46d4-9ea5-e7b9cb4e655b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727790051"},{"product_id":"another-state-of-stagnation-piano-pieces-1991-2021","title":"Another State of Stagnation \/ Piano Pieces 1991-2021","description":"\u003cp\u003eMy piano compositions are a mixture of musical reminiscences and a confession of my love for disharmonic chords on the one hand, and lascivious melodies on the other. As in the case of almost all my pieces, I wrote them \"dry\", at a desk, without using any musical instruments. I only worked with memory and a little bit of imagination. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe compositions often come across as randomly taken out of a pot, which contains a blend of fragments of works of a variety of periods, styles and creators. (Milan Knízák, Mongrelised Piano) Another State of Stagnation contains six unreleased piano pieces by Milan Knízák, written between 1991 and 2021. Played by Czech piano virtuoso Miroslav Beinhauer in August 2020 and recorded in August 2021 at Czech Radio Ostrava under the Petr Bakla's recording direction. The author of the title and cover is Milan Knízák. Produced by re-set production. In the second movement, at least two references to Czech \"tramping\" (hiking, country) music can be read or heard: Ceka huãí and Táboráku, plápolej. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey are among the numerous references to other pieces, while they can concurrently be something else - for instance, a Beethoven minuet. Beinhauer pointed out: \"Milan KníÏák's piano works abound in these 'quotations', some of which are just very similar to well-known melodies, while others are true quotations Š Š I do not even recognise some of them at first listen, but that is not actually the point. If someone does identify these quoted fragments when listening, they can feel good about themselves or can even remember the whole piece better, but I myself do not deem it essential in the case of Milan's compositions. Alternation of styles is more important.\" - Boris Klepal, Score and Performance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sub Rosa","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50513048797515,"sku":"1166614","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/bf82593d-f4d2-4176-9ce2-b7ff1f9373d8_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727915216"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/milan-knzk.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}