Echoes from Stone

Echoes from  Stone the concert project had been generated thanks to the festival of the same name held in an old quarry by Nečín village close to Prague.
The concert consists mainly of original music and improvisations of the Clarinet Factory. The ensemble had been inspired by an interweaving of genres characterised by expressions such as crossover, jazz, minimalism, ethno and electronics, no less important has been the merging with dance and theatre, and the trip of the Quartet to Senegal and Portugal, as well as the simple „analytical and philosophical" chat about music and other things.

 

Nečín quarry

The CD Echoes from Stone (Black Point Music) had been recorded in a studio in 2003 and from 2004 the project was presented in several versions in concerts. Computer projections of Jindra Trapl and the Artcom-Phase company the so-called V-jaying became a part of it. The picture is created from prepared material directly in real time of the concert reacting to the rhythmical, dynamic and pitches sound impulses of musical instruments and vice versa - in some instances the musicians add something to the atmosphere determined by creative perception.

The contemporary „festival" version of Echoes from a Stone takes place in token of the cooperation with the percussionist Alan Vitouš, who has already participated in the newly generated repertoire together with the contrabassist František Raba, Lukáš Hájek alias „DJ Jingle Bell", who softly mixes in his samples, and a string Epoque Quartet. The „Chamber" or „club" alternative has been an acoustic (or almost acoustic) meeting of the Clarinet Factory and Alan Vitouš. Each concert has a completely original appearance and its sound, image and dramaturgy is based on the given environment at that time.

Review of the history of Echoes from a Stone:

2001 - The first production of the project in Něčín Quarry
2003 - CD Ozvěny z kamene (Echoes from a Stone)
2004 - Premiere of the concert version in Lucerna Music Bar in Prague
2005 - Distribution of Black Point Music CD
2005 - Commencement of cooperation with Alan Vitouš
2006 - Orlík wins an award in the International Song-writing Competition in the category of Instrumental for the year 2005 in Nashville USA
2006 - Performance at the MHF Struny podzimu (Strings of Autumn), cooperation with Époque Quartet
2007 - For the first time - Echoes acoustically - Jazz Peak Festival in Sophia
2007 - Performance at the Out of Home festival, cooperation with Lenka Dusilová
2007 - Performance at MHF Moravský podzim (Moravian Autumn)
2007 - Echoes from a Stone within the framework of a non traditional cycle of Brno Philharmonic Orchestra working together with the members of the Brno Philharmonic Orchestra.