Matěj Kotouček

Musician and Sound Artist

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 electro-acoustic duo Thistle, solo as Loops of Decay, and occasionally in other collaborations, for example with John Clardy (Tera Melos, Waterbased) or Freddie Hudson. He is also a member of the AVA kolektiv - a collective of like-minded producers, artists, and promoters based in Brno. He founded the audiovisual turned-band-later project Sky To Speak. He worked at 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 for theater plays (Divadlo Feste), video games and audiovisual projects.

Music Projects

Thistle
Loops of Decay
Moving Spaces
Sky To Speak
with John Clardy
with Freddie Hudson

Music & SOUND DESIGN FOR THEATER

  • Zde žijí lidé (Lucie Ingrová, Marika Smreková)
    Divadlo Láska, 2022

  • Jsme z toho města, které není (Lucie Ingrová and co.)
    with Aliaksandr Yasinski
    Divadlo Láska, 2022

  • Odvaha k beznaději (Jiří Honzírek, Martin Vrba)
    CO2 kolektiv, 2020

  • Or to Be... (Markéta Stránská, Jean Gaudin)
    Studio Alta, SE.S.TA, 2020

  • Hals zu kurz (Johannes Hoffmann)
    Divadlo Feste, 2019

  • Display of the Shame (Karel Čapek, Jiří Honzírek and co.)
    Divadlo Feste, 2019

  • Nevěrní (Pavlo Arie)
    Divadlo Feste, 2018

  • Moc Bezmocných (Václav Havel)
    Divadlo Feste, 2017

  • Boží koně / Les Étoiles de Sidi Moumen (Mahi Binebine, Jakub Čermák)
    Divadlo Feste, 2017

  • Dítě. Člun. (Fredrik Brattberg)
    Divadlo Feste, 2017

  • Schauspiel (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-continuing

  • Noise Kitchen Open Jam @ Petrohradská
    Monthly Music Jam open to any individual playing any musical instrument(s) of choice, 2023-continuing

  • Noise Kitchen soldering workshops
    2020-continuing

  • SCHOLASTIKA - Introduction to Sound Design
    Lectures, 2022-2023

  • Vašulka Kitchen - Noise Kitchen Brno
    workshops, lectures, residency, 2018-2019

  • Scala cinema in Brno - electronic music workshop for children
    2018

MEDIA

FILMS

VIDEOGAMES

  • CRAVE, 2021-continuing
    music, sound-design

  • Morning Men, (2015-2017) production ceased
    music

OTHER WORKS

Thistle

Sky To Speak

Compilations