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Michal Rataj (1975) is not only a composer, but also a musicologist and a radio producer. When he talks about music it is clear that he doesn't just create it but also reads a great deal about it and thinks about in on a theoretical level. He is realising his vision of how contemporary music should be presented in the civic association S.H.O.C.K. (Soudoba hudba otevrena cele kulture--Contemporary Music Open to the Whole Culture), and on Czech Radio, in "his" Prime Edition Radioatelier (Radio studio) he is creating a space for the radiophonic output of his contemporaries. In fact "radiophony" and "ars acustica", and electro-acoustic music in general is also Rataj's main interest in composition.
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At Czech Radio, where you work, you initiated the intermedia project rAdioCUSTICA, which includes not only the brilliantly operated Internet portal http://www.rozhlas.cz/radiocustica, but also the programme Radioatelier, broadcast by Cro 3--Vltava. Can you explain the impulses that led to this project? What inspired you to it? And what exactly is rAdioCUSTICA trying to achieve?
Let me just clear up the nomenclature. Every week from Friday to Saturday Vltava broadcasts the programme Radioatelier as an experimental slot for new radio compositions. As a producer, every month I'm given what is known as a PremEdice (Prime Edition) of Radioatelier designed exclusively for premieres of pieces by Czech composers (mainly the younger) who have created new projects specially for this slot. My aspiration--and I admit it's not exactly humble--is to create something through this longer-term production work that might in the future be called a Czech ars acustica scene--with crossovers into visual art, the web, multimedia and so on. rAdioCUSTICA is the virtual extension of Radioatelier in the form of a database on the broadcast projects, photos,...
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