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Cave Acoustics

by Lucie Vítková

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In 2018, New York based composer and improviser Lucie Vítková made recordings in caves in the Czech Republic and an abandoned Gothic church in Slovakia. Their album Cave Acoustics combines a beguiling exploration of the physicality and acoustics of these unique locations with profoundly personal themes of family legacy and roots.

Lucie performed with their sisters in Výpustek Cave – an underground system of tunnels and former Soviet-era bunker. The choreography-based piece creates crescendos of metallic noise as the trio moves around the spaces. It begins with echoing clanks of tins and coins and accelerates towards a rattling cacophony with distant singing floating up from deep in the shadows. Bearing in mind the siblings had never performed together before, their frenzied kinetic outpourings seem even more special, a wordless cohesion forming between them. Lucie clearly doesn’t shy away from a physically full on experience; they embarked on a Fitzcarraldo-style journey to carry heavy props up a steep hill and across a river to reach the less accessible Jáchymyka Cave.

‘Hair Score’ is an attempt to process the death of the siblings’ mother through a serene then slightly unsettling swaying ritual, with rising and falling waves of wailing and emergency siren sounds growing in intensity as they emerge from their mourning mouths.

After the cavernous acoustics, ‘Stones’ by American experimental classical composer Christian Wolff feels more immediate with its textural sounds and fast, insistent rhythms, as we hear different sized stones knocked together rapidly, following the composer’s instructions not to break anything.

‘Inside the Ritual’ was a “transformative” experience for Lucie, where they felt their body merge with the forest and hills in Slovakia. The 23-minute long track is hypnotic, listening to cowbells and chirping insects at the end of a hot summer’s evening. Things get stranger as metallic clatter is punctuated with Lucie’s voice and reedy tones from their Japanese hichiriki flute.

The album is a calm, contemplative but also energetic and moving reflection of these rare and unheard environments and Lucie’s reunion with the people and places that have shaped them.

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released July 11, 2023

Trash Trio – Výpustek Cave, composed by Lucie Vítková
performed by Lucie Vítková, Klára Vítková, Dominika Vítková (Matysková)
(movement, sound costumes, voices, preparation)

Hair Score – Výpustek Cave, composed by Lucie Vítková
performed by Lucie Vítková, Klára Vítková, Dominika Vítková
(voices, prepared cans)

Stones – Jáchymka Cave, composed by Christian Wolff
performed by Lucie Vítková, Klára Vítková, Dominika Vítková (Matysková), Radim Kolář, Radim Hanousek, Adam Hrubý, Filip Johánek
(stones)

Inside the Ritual – Rybník, performed by Lucie Vítková (improvisation)
(movement, hichiriki, voice, sonic costume)


Performed and recorded in Výpustek Cave and Jáchymka Cave (Czech Republic), Rybník Church (Slovakia) in 2018-2020
Thanks to Eva Vítková (posthumously) and Aleš Vítek for providing their fallen hair for the Hair Scores. Thanks to all participants for their prompt cooperation and spontaneity which they brought to the project.

Design by Jozef Ondrik
Photography by Adam Hrubý (Výpustek Cave, Jáchymka Cave) and Nina Pacherová (Rybník Church)
Liner notes by Lucie Vítková, Jakub Juhás, Ján Solčáni
Mixed & mastered by Filip Johánek
Side A recorded by Filip Johánek
Side B recorded by Ján Solčáni
Annotation by Claire Sawers
Release photography Lukáš Rohárik

Release is produced as a collaborative project of the friendly labels mappa and Skupina.

Released by mappa & Skupina as SKUMAP001 in 2023

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