Konzert: gobi__10k | František Hruška

gobi_10k (Alec Gordon) blends Scotland’s rural landscapes with post-industrial noise, working across performance, sound installation, and custom instrument design. They use Max/MSP, generative deep learning, and DIY electronics to explore spectrum saturation via web-scraped data and adversarial networks. Emerging from Glasgow’s underground harsh noise scene with the ensemble SSDHD, they relocated to The Hague to study at the Institute of Sonology, where they now live and work. Their process harvests digital artifacts through algorithms, transforming them via recursive neural processing into evolving sonic worlds that disrupt linear time. Performances are intense and unrepeatable, fusing noise aesthetics with real-time machine learning, processed feedback, and data-driven synthesis into dense textural soundscapes.

František Hruška (1998), born in Ostrava, lives in Brno. He is a sound artist, musician, composer, poet… He studied Sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, then spent some time developing synthesizers for Bastl Instruments and now works in sound, music and related fields. František Hruška’s live improvised sound and light performances focus on the concepts of playfulness in music, communication issues and sound ecology. He plays on the listener’s imagination and on analogue electronic instruments, most often of his own making. From organic analogue abstraction, through pulsating electro-confrontation, to the depths of colourful sound eruptions. His electro-acoustic, acousmatic, fixed-media and other compositions often focus on sound ecology, in an attempt to draw attention to the act of conscious active listening and to the mundane and colorful poetics of sound using obscure physical and sound objects. František refers to his work as “stirring through sound the fabric of time”.