By The USB-C
or: The Underwater Skiffle Band – Collaboration
— BTW: Better Than Underground! —
For the annual KRA participation in the worldwide annual online Réveil initiative, we developed a contribution within our preoccupation with water and the surrounding highlands.
Hranice 3-4 May 2025
Briefly, we are worried about water, how we use and destroy it, how it is being reduced also in the arts to a theme, or project, or material. Around us we see the lands drying out, agriculture neglecting and polluting it, people wasting it. Maybe a deeper understanding of water as a necessary environmental thing and a creative approach can make us care more in our daily life as well. So that is why we started to think of different ways of sonifying waterstreams and ponds, rivers and canals, lakes and seas.
The USB-C is working together with international as well as local artists and audience, which can vary in participation. It can go from building DIY underwater instruments to simply recording, streaming online, spatializing different streams/recordings, working on analysis and synthesis. But most of all: while being performative and creative and for sure: in and around the water!
Throughout 2025-26 we will perform in several locations and make new instruments, find new sonifications, listen to more diverse natural situations, and most of all: perform along, online and onsite. If you are interested in participating as a musician, organizer, listener or whatever, let us know! Welcome…
Further information
For Réveil, see https://soundtent.org/reveil.html
For KRA’s 2025 participation, click https://streams.soundtent.org/2025/streams/utc0_-9a9ae85f-c866-45a5-8d44-7f9ca3dd990f