Sound Inequalities in Local Landscapes (soundwalk by Marie Čtveráčková & Tamara Spalajković)
What to expect:
The sound walk will connect active listening with reflection on the historical, structural, and political layers of the urban sound environment. Sound artists Marie Čtveráčková and Tamara Spalajković will lead participants to focus on how sound shapes our perception of space, our relationship with the environment, and how power structures are reflected in our acoustic environment.
The walk will also include a discussion on the history of sound instruments developed in the context of the war industry and the traces these technologies have left in our everyday acoustic experience. Participants will be guided to find their own approach to conscious listening without technical mediation (audio recorders).
Participation is free but spaces are limited (20 people).
Urobors festival 2025: Permeating Noise
The soundwalk is organised as part of the Uroboros 2025 festival programme, this year following the theme Permeating Noise, inviting artistic investigations of boundary moments in space and time where different ways of knowing, doing and being interweave, transforming or dissolving one another into new forms.
Through a two-day programme featuring sound walks, multisensory lectures, art–science conversations, noise workshops, and a nocturnal dancing set, the festival seeks to explore the intersections and collisions between art and science, discipline and intuition, the human and the other-than-human.
How might we move through these porous spaces of knowledge to make sense with each other — sensibly, playfully, gracefully — and arrive at new understandings of our individual and shared worlds? What happens when we, even momentarily, abandon existing categories and canons? How can we learn to dance together – across species, contexts, disciplines?
Full Uroboros 2025 festival program: uroboros.design.
Artists' bios:
Marie Čtveráčková, alias Mary C is a sound artist, curator, lecturer, and music journalist. She is the co-founder of Synth Library Prague, a space for sharing, creating, discussing, and experimenting in the field of electronic music and sound. Together with composer and producer Martin Hůla, under the name Kreaton, they started organizing music workshops and lectures for children and adults more than 6 years ago, focused on popularizing new ways of listening and music creation, as well as the possibilities of music technologies. As a curator of music-educational events, she has collaborated with the Goethe-Institut, Akropolis Palace, MeetFactory or the Lunchmeat festival. At Synth Library Prague, she formed the Trigger collective of female musicians, which also published a magazine of the same name focused on the experience and position of women in the field of electronic music and music technologies. In her activities, she also deals with the socio-economic context of sound and music, accessibility, and breaking stereotypes on the music scene and in the field of music technologies. As a sound artist, she has collaborated with artists such as Eva Koťátková, Lucie Rosenfeldová, and Tereza Silon.
Tamara Spalajković is an artist and researcher. As part of her doctoral studies at FaVU VUT, she is dedicated to creating docu-fiction videos based on artistic research whose subject is the impact of urbanization on interspecies coexistence. She occasionally organizes music events, workshops, and has been working as an assistant in the Audiovisual Technology Department at FaVU since September 2025. Tamara is part of the research collective 360+ lab, the music collective favu label, and the band Keiko Sei with Daniel Rajmon.