CESSE Conference / REGION´S SOUNDSCAPES IN MY SITE-SPECIFIC MUSIC / Constantine the Philosopher University, Nitra / 10:30-10:50 /  29th November, 2018

Július Fujak (sometimes TJ Vjuga) Slovak experimental composer/comproviser, multi-instrumentalist, semiotician and organiser of unconventional intermedia events

founder of Slovak legendary alternative rock groups Teória Odrazu and Otras (1988-1998); he have created various music-intermedia pieces in ensemble tEóRia OtraSu (thEoRy Of Shake; 2000-2010) and still creates and participates in different intermedia and site-specific project in Slovakia and abroad;

he graduated University Comenius, Philosophical Faculty (aesthetics and musical science) in Bratislava (1990), he was researcher in Institute of Literary and Artistic Communication in Nitra (1996-2007), he lecture at Department of Cultural Studies in Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra (since 2007).

his compositions were performed or broadcasted in many countries of Europe, USA and China;

he cooperated with ensembles The California EAR Unit (USA), Palinckx (NL/UK), The Earthieves (CZ), and with Jon Rose (AUS), Veryan Weston (UK), Ludivine Allegue (F), Isabelle Duthoit (F), Zsolt Söres (H), Franz Hautzinger (A), Vladimír Merta, Jana Lewitová, Zdenek Plachý, David Šubík, Jan Kavan, Mikoláš Chadima (all CZ), Jozef Lupták, Marián Varga, Stano Palúch, J. B. Kladivo (all SK), among many others;

he performed at the festivals and stages as: Red Cat Theatre (Los Angeles), Audio Art (Krakow), Sound Bridges (Wien), Odeon 120 (Brussels), Barbica (London), Big Ear and /Cross/Hearing (both in Budapest), Kis Magyar Performance fesztivál (Szentendre), Alternativa (Prague), Exposition of New Music (Janáček Academy), Skleněná louka/Glass Meadows (both in Brno), Sound Off and TransArt Communication (Nové Zámky), Evenings of New Music, Euroart (Bratislava);

curator of international series of contemporary unconventional music Hermes´ Ear in Nitra (1999-2007), and international festival of intermedia arts PostmutArt (sound/image-gesture/tex;t since 2008).

SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY

Teória Odrazu. (LP, Globus International, 1991; CD reedition Hevhetia 2011)
Otras: Kysucký postindustriál. (CD, y.f.w., 1998)
Fujak – Macsovszky – Varso: Trojkolo: beh fiktivity (CD, Animartis, 2000)
tEóRia OtraSu: Puppet Regime of Sound (CD, Animartis, 2002)
tEóRia OtraSu: Nosferatu. (CD, Animartis 2002)
Julius Fujak & The California E.A.R. Unit: transPOPsitions! – intermedia wrestling (DVD, Hevhetia, 2006)
tEóRia OtraSu, Jana Lewitová a Vladimír Merta: Jánošík. (CD extra, Hevhetia, 2007)
Ján Boleslav Kladivo, Julo Fujak : Fluff Modulation (DVD, Vlna 2008)
Julo Fujak: Cursorily (Hevhetia, 2008)
Julo Fujak: Pocket Convergences (Hevhetia, 2010)
Mikoláš Chadima & Julo Fujak: XAFOO (Hevhetia 2012)
NE:BO:DAJ: Leter tu develoter (Hevhetia, 2015)
Franz Hautzinger – Julo Fujak – Zsolt Sörés: Live in Brussels (Hevhetia, 2013)
Július Fujak: Various Comprovisations (feat. Jon Rose, Amy Knoles, Jean-Michel van Schouwburg, etc., Hevhetia 2015)
Marián Varga & tEóRia OtraSu: Hudobné happeningy (Hevhetia, 2018)

BOOKS

In English language:
Musical Correla(c)tivity (ÚLUK UKF Nitra 2005)
Various Comprovisations. Texts on Music (and) Semiotics. (Acta Semiotica Fennica XLVII, University of Helsinki, 2015)

In Slovak language:
Tvorivosť v načúvaní hudobnému tvaru (Creativity of Listening to Musical Shape; ÚLUK UKF Nitra 2000)
Slovenské hudobné alternatívy (Slovak Music Alternatives; in cooperation with M. Kalinka and O. Rehák; ÚLUK UKF Nitra 2006)
Hudobné korela(k)tivity (Musical Correla(c)tivities; Department of Cultural Studiue, UKF Nitra, 2008)
Margonálie (Marginalia; Modrý Peter Levoča & Department of Cultural Studiue, UKF Nitra, 2013)
Vis-á-vis. Dialógy (nielen) o hudbe (Dialogues /not only/ about music, Vlna/Drewo a srd, 2018)
Emanácie hudobnej semiosféry (Emanations of Musical Semiosphere, UKF Nitra 2018)