Matěj Kotouček
Music and Sound Design
BIO
Matěj Kotouček is a musician and sound artist living in Prague. He is currently a member of the Noise Kitchen platform and makes music in the improv electro-acoustic duo Thistle, former AV project Sky to Speak, as a solo artist, and occasionally in various collaborations. He is also a member of the AVA kolektiv - a collective of like-minded producers, artists, and promoters. He had been a part of Bastl Instruments as a head of the Noise Kitchen store, directed the Nona Records label, and organized lectures, events and residencies at Vašulka Kitchen. In addition to his own work, he composes music and makes sound design for theater plays or video games.
Music Projects
Thistle
Loops of Decay
Moving Spaces
Sky To Speak
with John Clardy
with Freddie Hudson
Music & SOUND DESIGN FOR THEATER
Cena péče (Veronika Všianská, Gabriela Krečmerová-Ženatá, Sabina Machačová)
Mikro-teatro, 2025Nebezpečné známosti (Choderlos de Laclos, Jakub Čermák, Lenka Chválová)
Divadlo F. X. Šaldy Liberec, 2025Čtyři dny blízkosti (Pipsa Lonka, John Blondell, Otto Kaupinen)
Divadlo Láska, 2024Teoréma (Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jakub Čermák, Marta Ljubková)
Divadlo v Dlouhé, 2024O Polednách (Jakub Čermák)
Depresivní děti touží po penězích, 2024Přehlídka krutosti (J.G. Ballard, Lucie Ingrová, Otto Kaupinen)
Divadlo Láska, 2023Zde žijí lidé (Lucie Ingrová, Marika Smreková)
Divadlo Láska, 2022Jsme z toho města, které není (Lucie Ingrová and co.)
with Aliaksandr Yasinski
Divadlo Láska, 2022Odvaha k beznaději (Jiří Honzírek and co., Martin Vrba)
CO2 kolektiv, 2020Or to Be... (Markéta Stránská, Jean Gaudin)
Studio Alta, SE.S.TA, 2020Hals zu kurz (Johannes Hoffmann)
Divadlo Feste, 2019Display of the Shame (Karel Čapek, Jiří Honzírek and co.)
Divadlo Feste, 2019Nevěrní (Pavlo Arie)
Divadlo Feste, 2018Moc Bezmocných (Václav Havel)
Divadlo Feste, 2017Boží koně / Les Étoiles de Sidi Moumen (Mahi Binebine, Jakub Čermák)
Divadlo Feste, 2017Dítě. Člun. (Fredrik Brattberg)
Divadlo Feste, 2017Schauspiel (Jiří Honzírek and co.)
Divadlo Feste, 2017
Workshops and Education
Hledáme svůj zvuk - workshop for young people under 18 years
Collaboration with Mary C and Synth Library Prague for the Alternativa festival, 2022-continuingNoise Kitchen Open Jam @ Petrohradská
Monthly Music Jam open to any individual playing any musical instrument(s) of choice, 2023-continuingNoise Kitchen soldering workshops
2020-continuingSCHOLASTIKA - Introduction to Sound Design
Lectures, 2022-2023Vašulka Kitchen - Noise Kitchen Brno
workshops, lectures, residency, 2018-2019Scala cinema in Brno - electronic music workshop for children
2018
MEDIA
FILMS
Svlékat mlhy, 2023
musicTibor, 2022
sound editing, musicOr to Be..., 2021
sound, music
VIDEOGAMES
CRAVE, 2021-continuing
music, sound-designMorning Men, (2015-2017) production ceased
music
OTHER WORKS