Prague Spring

Every Czech is a musician

How to take the 79th edition of the Prague Spring Festival beyond concert halls? We wanted to engage random passersby and festival visitors day and night. The best solution was an interactive audiovisual installation placed right in front of the Rudolfinum A compact piece combining music, light, and movement.

We divided the rectangular layout of the installation at Palach Square into a regular grid of 16 fields with light columns in the center. The glow of each column shines through cut-out typography in the 79th edition of the Prague Springs design, readable from all sides.

As people pass through, they create unique variations of original musical sequences.

When a visitor approaches one of these columns, it activates its unique sound track accompanied by a colorful visualization of the composition’s frequency spectrum.

We drew from three pieces of Czech classical music, supplemented by background tracks. The classical piece Vltava by Bedřich Smetana from 1874 is accompanied by a contrasting glockenspiel to emphasize its motifs without distortion. Excerpts from two contemporary compositions, Vábení by Kryštof Mařatka and Superorganism by Miroslav Srnka, were selected along with the background track in collaboration with the individual authors.

Interactive audiovisual installation for Prague spring festival in front of Rudolfinum
Interactive audiovisual installation for Prague spring festival in front of Rudolfinum
Interactive audiovisual installation for Prague spring festival in front of Rudolfinum