Patrik Kako / Ink Still Wet 2024

Patrik Kako (1998) studies composition at the faculty of music at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague in the class of Luboš Mrkvička, Michal Rataj and (Hanuš Bartoň 2017-2019), he participated in the Erasmus exchange program at the University of Music and Theatre «Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy» in Leipzig in the class of Fabien Lévy and electroacoustic music with Prof. Ipke Starke. 

His current compositional work is based on the principles of analysis and various transformations of sound recordings, the result of which serves as inspiring, coherent material in various elements. The result of the analysis is combined at various points in the traditional composition (instrumentation, combination of instruments, chordal timing, etc.). The formal aspect is the simultaneous combination of multiple harmonic layers and their realization over time. In his work we can hear a summary of avant-garde information from the second half of the twentieth century, a post-Webern tradition and also inspirations from spectral music. An integral part of his work is the use of advanced tool techniques and their hierarchization in the compositional process.

Since 2020, he has been leading the student ensemble Ensemble Terrible, with whom he premiered his chamber opera finitika, a chamber opera about the end of human evolution. A recent success was the guest performance by soloist Martin Adámek. In 2022, he presented two projects with 12 new works by composers from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and the USA. He led the project eroica > re:destructed, in which he performed new compositions of Beethoven's Eroica.

• Cooperation with the Klangforum Wien (Prague offspring 2022), MDI ensemble (masterclasses with F. Bedrossian + Marco Stroppa (june 2023), Festival Mixtur (2023). Compositional - orchestra experiences - Philharmonic Hradec Králove (2021), North Czech Philharmonic (2020). 
   
• Director and conductor - Ensemble Terrible (2020—2023), where I composed a chamber opera .finitika (2020), and created a dramaturgy plan (new composition of Beethovens Eroica).
   
• His compositions are being regularly performed at various Slovakian and Czech festivals, such as Asynchronie, a project of SOUNDME. Recently, his audiovisual compositions were performed in concerts by the Swedish group FMT Musik-SPETRA in Sweden, Brazil, and Malaysia.
   
• Masterclass: Frank Bedrossian, Hector Parra, Tristan Murial, Mark André, Miguel Azguime, Marco Stroppa, Ivo Medek, Anders Flodin, etc.

«This selection of that fantastic music represents the most important compositions of my life. The first one - from the compositional heart of Georg Friedrich Haas, or my beloved Eroica which I re:desctructed also.»

Patrik Kako about his playlist