Phaerentz
Phaerentz (Petr Ferenc) is a Prague-based electronic musician, promoter and music journalist. He has been working with sound and different kinds of media, making use of various music players, particularly record- and tape players, but also minidiscs and portable CD players. He is the founding member of the Birds Build Nests Underground, a band which combined record player compositions and improvisation and record destruction with improvised 8mm, 16mm, 35mm and KP8 projections. He also played with Radio Royal, Z veselého světa, Prkvoj, MCH Band, PPPP, Biokovo etc. and co-founded HIS Voice magazine (2001), Stimul festival (2005) and Wakushoppu concert series (2011).
2024
Sub Rosa
The album includes Milan Knížák's 1973 private recording BROKEN MUSIC, released as a multiple of forty copies by Armin Hundertmark in 1983 on Edition Hundertmark, and a live version of BROKEN REBROKEN, performed in January 2020 at the Museum of Czech Music in Prague by Milan Knížák, Petr Ferenc (aka Phaerentz) and Opening Performance Orchestra.