RAD Performance – Along the line
Conny Zenk
RAD Performance – Along the Line is a performative sound project that reimagines music-making through mobility, collectivity, and spatial intervention. By using the bicycle as both instrument and medium, the project explores how experimental and electroacoustic compositions unfold across landscapes, with Mikulov and its surroundings forming a central stage. Audience members, equipped with mobile PA speakers, actively participate in this per- formative journey – becoming part of a spatial and sonic choreography that continually evolves as they move.
This edition engages in a unique dialogue with Radek Kroupa’s exhibition documenting the punk scene in Mikulov from 1980 to 2000. Kroupa’s archive captures a local culture of resistance: a network of underground concerts and DIY expression that thrived under socio-political constraints. RAD Performance draws on this spirit – not through nostalgia, but by continuing the legacy of using music to reshape public space, forge community, and challenge normative structures.
Routes become scores; roads, instruments. Start and end points of each journey define the temporal structure of the composition. The collective movement of cyclists creates a dynamic, shifting soundscape in which audience members are both receivers and co-creators.
In connecting Mikulov’s sonic past with contemporary performative practice, RAD Performance – Along the Line asks:
How can sound, movement, and memory activate space in new ways?
What echoes remain from a city’s underground voices – and how do we ride with them today?
This edition engages in a unique dialogue with Radek Kroupa’s exhibition documenting the punk scene in Mikulov from 1980 to 2000. Kroupa’s archive captures a local culture of resistance: a network of underground concerts and DIY expression that thrived under socio-political constraints. RAD Performance draws on this spirit – not through nostalgia, but by continuing the legacy of using music to reshape public space, forge community, and challenge normative structures.
Routes become scores; roads, instruments. Start and end points of each journey define the temporal structure of the composition. The collective movement of cyclists creates a dynamic, shifting soundscape in which audience members are both receivers and co-creators.
In connecting Mikulov’s sonic past with contemporary performative practice, RAD Performance – Along the Line asks:
How can sound, movement, and memory activate space in new ways?
What echoes remain from a city’s underground voices – and how do we ride with them today?
