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“The Invisible Life of the Mirna River”
“The Invisible Life of the Mirna River” is interdisciplinary project presented at64th Exhibition of the Poreč Annals under the curatorial direction of Jerica Ziherl and Suzana Marjanić resulting in group exhibition “Long live the animals! … And what would the animals say about us?”, with Marina Abramović, Đanino Božić, Nikolina Butorac, Ines Matijević Cakić, Hrvoje Cokarić, Tajči Čekada, Gundi Dietz, Rui Miguel Leitao Ferreira, Ivana Filip, Igor Grubić, Stanislav Habjan, Edgar Honetschläger, Kruno Jošt, Bianca Kennedy, Dan Oki, Ivana Ožetski, Davor Sanvincenti, Anna Spanlang, Šikuti Machine, Bojan Šumonja, Ivan Tripar, Zoran Unković i Saša Živković.
ILMR consists of videos captured by microscope enlarged microbial life of Mirna (Croatian for “quiet”) river that is situated next to Novigrad in Istria presented in two channel video installation together with audio composition created especially for Mirna’s microbiome.
Ode to Jerusalem Arthichoke
“Ode to Jerusalem Artichoke” was primarily created as a composition written for violin and clarinet consequentially developed as a performance with Matej Hermšćec on clarinet and Mija Dugandžić-Marić on violin in the Jerusalem artichoke field.
Composition was conceived and a musical notation was made for a plant from the family Helianthus tuberosus L., which botanically belongs to the family Asteraceae (Compositae). When creating the composition, the specie, the way of growth, the time when it blooms and the relationship it creates with the environment (pollinators, other plants and animals) and advantages of cultivation, (e.g. soil remedy and easiness of growing in permaculture) as well as tuberous growths used in human and animal nutrition were taken into account.
This plant is cultivated all over the world today due to its edible and medicinal tuberous root, and it was cultivated by Native Americans even before the arrival of European settlers. Jerusalem artichoke has a wide range of therapeutic effects: immunostimulating, sedative, tonic, atherosclerotic, hypoglycaemic, laxative. It stabilizes sugar and cholesterol, as well as metabolism, removes radionuclides, stimulates tissue regeneration and normalizes intestinal microflora, is a nutrient base and building material for intestinal epithelium and increases immunity and haemoglobin, increases absorption of calcium and magnesium ions which is important for osteoporosis prevention. reduces appetite and thus contributes to the rapid saturation of the body with food. It effectively satisfies the need for carbohydrates and does not increase blood glucose levels and stimulates insulin production, prevents obesity and salt deposition, neutralizes toxins and heavy metals.
The “Ode to Jerusalem Artichoke” project is primarily realized in its desire to transfer the feeling of biophilia and ecocentrism to “other-than-human” inhabitants of the environment. This project is designed on the theoretical aspects found in writing of Clair Bishop, Donna Harrraway, Aldo Leoplold, T.J. Demos, John k. Grande and others that advocates the decolonization of our environment, an attempt to realize the transition from the relationship humans have to the plant world where human is the subject and the plant the object to the subject-subject relationship.
Sound Art Inkubator 2013
Sound Art Inkubator curated by Kontejner and exhibited in Gallery Močvara in Zagreb on opening day brought together Ivan Jovanovac, Tin Dožić and Kruno Jošt. Their collaboration is exquisite 30 minutes ambient dream.
Alda
New Emphasis release under name Gliding Over All has a video for first song on the album named Alda.
Textil{e}tronics in Galženica Gallery, Velika Gorica, Croatia
Textil{e}tronics
From textile to electronic thread, from substance to fashion item
02.03.2012. – 01.04.2012.
Galženica Gallery, Velika Gorica, Croatia
http://www.galerijagalzenica.info/node/2819
‘Let’s now delve deep into the fluff’
Massimo Banzi, Getting Started with Arduino
‘Following the development of a simple thread into complex new media objects, the exhibition will touch upon recent developments in the areas of wearable technology and electronic sculpting through lumino light objects and the presentation of Arduino microcontrollers.
Dealing with sculptural textile (J. Štefanec) and electronic thread (A. Klančić), designed substance and new meanings of objects (P. Dona), as well as socially responsible textile art (M. M. Pungerčar), the exhibition presents an overview of contemporary new media directions and questions the meaning of the medium as such. The social and emacipatory aspects of textile arts are clear – they invoke thoughts of industrial manufacturing, DIY subculture and self-sustained systems, especially in relation to recent similar developments in the fields of open source and wearable technology (Arduino, Body Pixel Studio).
The thread as a seemingly fragile, but basically all-pervasive, almost indestructible matter, and the wire as a conductor and an arbiter of electrons are hereby linked. Juxtaposed in a way, the materials provide the cohesive narrative for the objects presented. The exhibition examines this link from the microscopic amorphous shape and suppleness of the material, all the way to the subtle robustness of the objects. Mechanic perfection, be it the human body or a machine, is not a prerogative here, since the delightful awkwardness of mechanics does not comply with the projected reality. The uncertainty of the performance which accompanies every new-media art process, is quite well suited to the fragility of the textile thread.’
Text by Deborah Hustic
Guerilla knitters: Una Bauer, Ana Dadić a.k.a. ŠtrikAna, Vana Gaćina, Ivana Ivković, Antonija Letinić, Maja Kalogera, Marijana Rimanić, Maša Žarnić.
Curator: Deborah Hustić http://
DIY Arduino by Davor Jandrijević Emard
Curator’s assistant & organizer: Ana Kovačić
Design: Petra Zlonoga
Music: Kruno Jošt
SONIFICATION III event in Split
Noise event SONIFICATION III hosted noise musicians from Croatia and Italy. In culture centre Kocka in Split on 14th Novembre BRAINTOURNIQUET (Venice), NARAYAN (Sisak), GENTLEJUNK (Zagreb), VIŠESLAV LABOSH (Zagreb)
KARMAKUMULATOR + POWERSET AXIOM (Split) presented their audio-visual works that was questioning what is and how can therm Sonification be represented.

BRAINTOURNIQUET, Venice. Creating noise with el. magnetic fields.
New release on GentleJunk co. NetLabel
Impromondays: Tracery
Tracery is three piece recording filled with ostinatos. It traces atmospheres of Gothic churches in minimal manner. Not a usual Impromondays recording, this one has more harmonics, playfully shared by two guitars. Its seriousness and interest is everlasting
Impromondays crew:
Dragan Pajic – Pajo: noises, prepared frying pan, vocals, el. guitar and effects;
Kruno Jošt: el.guitar with effects, laptop, prepared instruments.
Impromondays are sessions recorded at ‘Silence Reservoir’ (Parainstitut Indoš) club in Zagreb. This sessions are dedicated to all who are interested in improvisation in its full sense, no matter if it is visual, musical or concerned with the body movement.
Recorded April 2010.
Edited by Dragan Pajić Pajo
GentleJunk co. NetLabel release ’10
Time: 25 min.
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Quasi Quasi album out at Narrominded
Dutch record label Narrominded release no.51 under name Quasi Quasi, a project by Gijs Borstlap and Kruno Jošt is out now.Quasi Quasi is a join project of Kaisergrutva and GentleJunk netlabels.
Here is short recap of the reviews:
The limited cd / free download Quasi Quasi by Kruno Jošt | Gijs Borstlap is only out for two weeks, but already received some raving reviews. Vital Weekly says their music is ’a curious hybrid of improvisation meeting noise meeting drone meeting rock’ and thinks that it’s ‘a trip that pays off.’ Subjectivisten / Caleidoscoop calls it a ‘fantastic project’ and Kindamuzik says that ‘the deconstructive Quasi Quasi shows that Narrominded, besides retro-electronics, is also deeply rooted in the current progressive improvisation music.’
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EEII’09

Mario Jaksic in interactive performace suit
In gallery Scheier, Čakovec, Croatia, on 05th December 2009, EEII’09 12 hour event brought together artists from Greece, Netherlands, Italy and Croatia.
Last Theater Show Ever
September started with THE LAST THEATER SHOW EVER, I-Camp theater, Munchen. Idea and methodology was to deconstruct traditional theater trough series of collaborative works where one work was supposed to lean on another, where each participant brings an idea and connects it to someone. International crew came around and investigated for 5 days in what might be called horizontal construction decision making and constant reevaluating of the final presentation that was constructed of three distinctive pieces.
All three were on collaboration but with different input and output models: one was following movements outside of theater and by computer calculations bringing it inside trough sound and visuals done with found (theater) hardware.
Another used sound in feedback communication that deconstructed viewers position and placement in theater, being done under the stage and audience sitting space.
Third one used virtual theater through on-line software with international particiants being projected on theater walls, together with orchestrated individual who brought event there.
Experiment was worth while intentions to discover what are group dynamics when artist are put together to work on something that calls for collaboration and sharing. Not to forget to mention that putting creativity with different bacgrounds into same place can be very frustrating and cathartic at the same time.
Futuresonic Fringe @ Arcspace, Hulme
Social Technologies Summit Futuresonic is international festival trying to answer questions of tomorrow: how will we interact with each other and nature around us in future. Futuresonic festivals fringe at Arcspace in St. Wilfrid’s Enterprise Center answered the question trough its grassroots movement created events that hosted, among many other events, CultureRobot installation.
Arcspace is situated in ex-church building that is turned into St. Wilfrid’s Enterprise Center since 1992 – a unique architecture where insides of the church are transformed into enterprise center for ethical businesses and NGOs. St. Wilfrid’s Enterprise Center is situated in Hulme, an area near to Manchester city center. Hulme was mapped not only as a territory but also as a specific part of the city with vibrant activist community and a history. ArcSpace was visited by people of different age and heterogeneous needs and activities, exchanging their beliefs, stories and producing new possibilities for exchange and collaboration in spirit of free culture.
Culture Robot installation was created by help of the community from the start to the end. Materials were collected or borrowed instead of purchased or rented, help with programing for interactive part of the installation was done by friends and volunteers, and installation debuted at Saturday on the open, community day, that hosted events inside and outside the Center.CR 3.0 installation created a new relationship between local community and this art piece. More than ever people were active in collecting material, discussing and managing to interconnect installation with other events during Futuresonic fringe.
CR 3.0 mapped more than just Hulme, it mapped its people, relationships, how they feel about city development, architecture, organizations working with art and culture in Manchester and how financing is a part of the culture and where does it lead culture to, it showed community strength and grassroots development. During the open days, all ethnic, age, academic and other walks of life were united and exchanged opinions, questions and ideas.
Guerrilla busking was happening in the city throughout the day, graffite artists were spraying on the vans and trailers (an identifiable vehicle in the Redbrick’s area of the Hulme – where travelers and free people of all sorts live). People from recycled biodiesel group, local bcycle repair man, drummers, community artists, foreign guests, local volunteers and experts were united to make a truly social event, creating bridges between cultures, people and technology in universal feeling of unity.
Read “Report From FutureSonic 2009” By Jonah Brucker on Rhizome.org
New release on GentleJunk co. NetLabel
Wonderful Industry
A compilation of two last sessions recorded at the “Silence Reservoir” venue in Zagreb, Croatia by Impromondays crew:
Dragan Pajic – Pajo: noises, prepared piano, vocals, el. guitar and effects;
Anna Ghallo: poetry, vocals with effects;
Kruno Jošt: el.guitar with effects, laptop, prepared instruments.
Sometimes scary, sometimes ironic, sometimes psychedelic but always elegant and educational relationship of inner world and outside technology specified in rhymes such as: ” I want to have sexual relationship with Bill Gatess” or using actively a passive digital recorder made mistakes and sel-edited cuts.
Recorded summer 2008.
Time: 30 min.
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Assorted Assault
Alexandre Torres Porres is a musician from Brazil with Master’s Degree in Composition and currently at a doctorate in Computer Music. Interested in many things from Brazilian Pop Music, Erudit to Noise. He also signs some of his stuff under Mental Osmosis and is the newest addition to LiveNoiseTupi.
In this compilation, you will find some assorted productions. He acts as a composer, performer, and gets sounds out of many instruments at his home studio, but really studies how to use the computer as an instrument, for productions and live performances. More on Torres Porres work http://porres.googlepages.com/.
Length: 20 min
Recorded at ATP home studio in 2007/08.
GentleJunk @ Free Radio: Stanica M.I.R. – StarMali live 2006
StarMali live @ FRSM 2006
‘GentleJunk @ Free Radio: Stanica M.I.R. – StarMali live 2006′ are live radio shows produced for ‘GentleJunk co. Free Radio’ that is member of internet radio network FRSM in Croatia.
‘StarMali’ shows are live recordings using mostly digital equipment and free and non-free software. Sounds in each session vary from drone, long dreamy sounds, broken beats, clicks and noises.
GentleJunk co. NetLabel release 19/02/09
Recorded during 2006
Duration: 62 minutes
LiveNoiseTupi
LNT has had 6 performances since November 2008 until end of February 2009. It is project that was born under exchange of open culture between Croatia and Brazil and established by Ricardo Palmieri, by making PD patch under name od ‘I Love Noise’. Since than history is in making. LNT performed in Ljubljana, Zagreb, Dubrovnik, Sao Paulo and Sao Caetano. Audio visual performance are bricolage of noise, circuit bending and prepared instruments sounds, improvisation, collaboration with local artists and spoken word on Tupi lenguages, a similarity of languages most of west coast South American natives are speaking.
For your viewing pleasure performance recorded at Sao Caetano in two parts.
Part one:
Part two
New release on GentleJunk co. NetLabel
The Closet
Tapes mixed, analogue overdubbed with noises, voices, on the top of that old records (maybe pulled out of the closet?). Noise bricolage from suicidal genius that goes by the name POLYGRAPH .
3 pieces ‘The Closet’ are about coming out of one, or digging deep into one… decide on your own.
126 minutes of noise bricolage at it’s best, uncut, pure, serious and with no stops.
GentleJunk co. NetLabel release 18/12/07
Recorded somewhere 2005
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New release on GentleJunk co. NetLabel
Colossus
Another noise bricolage from suicidal genius that goes by the name POLYGRAPH compiled on feelings of old records, found sounds, whispers, etc. Polygraph is using couple of old tape recorders, microphones, record player, old synth…
Colossus is a greater than Colossus computer used for breaking codes in WWII, but has it’s own code breaking quality. Colossus is grand in its 2 hours of sound statue.
120 minutes of noise bricolage, uncut, pure, serious and with no stops.
GentleJunk co. NetLabel release 16/12/07
Recorded somewhere 2005
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New release on GentleJunk co. NetLabel
CipHER
HEIKE FIEDLER: vocals and lyrics, traverse flute, melodia
STEVE BUCHANAN: 2nd line, electronics, el. guitar, alto sax
KRUNO JOST: laptop, classical guitar, el. guitar, melodia
RECORDED 2007, GENEVA
MASTERING BY GIJS BORSTLAP @ KAISERLABEL.COM
RUNNING TIME: 26 TRACKS, 25:23 min (here all as one track)
GentleJunk co. rec. 08. http://gentlejunk.net
PUBLISHED BY: URBAN CULTURE AND EDUCATION www.uke.hr
EDITION: 100
COVER: Kruno Jost
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New release on GentleJunk co. NetLabel
LiveNoiseTupi @ MAMA
‘LNT live at MAMA’ are Cristiano Rosa (Pan&Tone – prepared electronics), Ricardo Palmieri (VJPalm – FOSS software) and Kruno Jošt (GentleJunk – prepared el., FOSS software).
Recorded and edited by Kruno Jošt November 2008 at MAMA club, Zagreb.
Time: 23 min
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New release on GentleJunk co. NetLabel
34.in.C++
Improvised noise session of 3 numbers ranging from whitenoise to travel sound to freeimpro piano.
Done in FOSS with PD, arduino as controller, Jack Rack and Qsynth.
Musicians: GentleJunk and VJPalm.
Recorded summer 2008 in Krizevci, Croatia
New releases on GentleJunk co. NetLabel
GentleJunk – Margini Sonori II (live at Barrio’s caffe)
GentleJunk recorded live at Barrio’s Caffe during second edition of non conventional music program ‘Margini Sonori’ in Milan, Italy was an audio visual performance. GentleJunk NetLabel releases audio track that still remains in passages of visual narrative. Dreamy piano, noisy electric wire, glitches and digital clicks.
Time 45 min.
Recorded on 05.02.2008. by ODRZ.
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Third I – “This is our post postapocalypse”
follows Third I first album “When Tomorrow Hits”.
“THIRD I started by the end of 2005. It brings you industrial, dark ambient, (harsh) noise, dark electro, experimental, ambiental, drone, low-fi sounds… We are constantly working on our new stuff and we have few demos waiting to be released. We are open for split releases or any kind of colaboration and direct communication with noisy / experimental / harsh / noisecore / grind / power-electronics / industrial bands, labels, distro, radio shows, zines… Labels contact us if you are interested in releasing any of our works in any format (3″/5″ CD/CDr, 5″/7″/10″/12″ vinyl, tape, DVD, net release etc). On this page you can find our complete discography and download most of our releases for free. THIRD I is into DIY and we are strongly chained to DIY ethics.”
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“Bad Seed of Cuprija noise scene”
“Ko ne plati na mostu platiće na Ćupriji” or “Bad Seed of Ćuprija noise scene” is 3way split:
Endless Conflict – experimental / noise ilija666 at gmail.com
Oil – dark electro / experimental alequ83 at yahoo.com
Third I – industrial / noise hellycherry at gmail.com www.hellycherry.cjb.net
CDR was released by Zvukovina and you can get FREE cds at viktorliebezeit at yahoo.com. Net Release was done by numerous net labels such as Kaos Ex Machina, Neurotic Mind, Deadknife,…
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NOPLACARD FESTIVAL
GentleJunk is sharing a virtual stage with Julie Rousse on upcoming noplacard festival, Sunday 17th February, 2 o’clock in the morning.
noplacard is a mix in between the (((NOMUSIC))) festival and the placard headphone festival that lasts for 24 hours in Paris at la menagerie de verre during the Economie0 event.
(((NOMUSIC))) started on June 2001, according to the principle that a diffusion site on Internet should correspond to the representation of the singular performances of a new generation of artists, musicians, performers and other actors of the electronic scene. The creation of this open diffusion site proved to be necessary because of today’s difficulty to perform disembodied concerts of electronic music on stage, in a classical frontal (actor/audience) representation space. Nowadays, these emerging new multimedia performances allow everybody to approach music in a more singular way, with a different listening practice and on a more sharing scene.
New release on GentleJunk co. NetLabel
A recording from EEII ’07 festival that took place in Cultural Center Lamparna in Labin, Croatia. EEII ’07 started on 19th of October 2007 and lasted for 33 hours. It is, sadly, only event of this kind in Croatia.
EEII stands for Experimental Electronic Interventions, a DIY project occasionally helped by breadcrumbs and leftovers.
EEII festival experiments with the instruments (self-made, retro, digital, analog, mix…), with ways how to play, with improvisation in every way. Hope you will enjoy it, and will ask for more!
Released at GentleJunk NetLabel december 2007.
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A=V *AUDIBLEIMAGE=VISIBLESOUND* festival
Theramin session, radio hacking session, joined work, theramin audio installations, live acts and performances and cellular automata music presentation (more than installation) could be seen at opening in Kunsarkaden gallery on Saturday 24th of November 2007.
“An annual mini a=v FESTIVAL features workshops, live sound-visual acts, improvisational concerts/performances, audience-interactive installations and other live and non-passive forms of audio-visual uncommercial communication. It aims to present and promote independent artistic developments and encourage experimental *do it yourself* activities.”
Many hands joining together to create chaos out of, sometimes too structured, north-west-European culture, de-constructing old radios and constructing improvisational sound sessions (concerts) for large number of culture consumers in rich spoiled west. Human Theramin antenna was controlled by visitors joining hands – the first art gallery opening where I have had the pleasure to see something similar.
New release on GentleJunk co. NetLabel
Munich Radio Hacking Orchestra aka circuit bending workshop participant’s concert was recorded and relesed on GentleJunk Netlabel.
Circuit-bending / radio-hacking workshop participants and performers are: Daniel Door/de, Guenther Gessert/at, Heike Siegert/de, Jordi Sanchez Puig/es, Judith Egger/de, Jakob Doering/de, Kruno Jost/hr, Michael Kurz/de, Martin Krejci/de, Natalia Borissova/ru de, Anna Sobczak/pl de.
Workshop leaders: Sarah Washington/uk de, Knut Aufermann/ de.
Edite by Kruno Jošt, published on GentleJunk co. NetLabel November 2007.
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