Music Is Obsolete

Artists: Shafeeq Alsadi, Michal Cáb, Jano Doe, Leonhard Euler, Jakub Hájek & František Hanousek, Marek Hlaváč, Matúš Kobolka, Sara Pinheiro, Heiko Wommelsdorf

Date: 29 October – 30 November 2024
Location: Opening: 29 October 2024, 6 p.m. GAVU (Veletržní 826/61, Prague 7) Opening hours: Tue-Sat: 13:00-18:00

Can music age? Has the overproduction of background sounds so desensitized our ears that they have lost the ability to recognize music? Will we resign ourselves to listening to “music” composed for us by advanced systems? Is there such a thing as an aural landscape beyond silence?

https://youtu.be/jJUO5RC0EL4

These and similar questions are addressed by the manifesto Music Is Obsolete and by the associated collective sound-art exhibition. Working in the spirit of this manifesto, the art (not just sound art) presented at the exhibition loosely comments on changes in musical thinking.

Curated by: Miloš VojtěchovskýTechnical support: Matěj Smrkovský