Considerable attention in the program of this year’s vs. Interpretation Festival will be devoted to the Lebanese free improvisation scene, which has been steadily on the rise ever since the first freely improvised concert in the Middle East in 2000.

Iva Bittová performed on 22 July, 2014, at NoD as part of the 2014 vs. Interpretation Festival.

by Morgan Childs

Annie Gosfield and Roger Kleier performed on 18 July, 2014, at NoD as part of the 2014 vs. Interpretation Festival.

By Petr Slabý

Exhibition: February 5 – March 4, 2016Školská 28 Gallery, Fotograf Gallery and Ex Post Opening: February 4, 2016 from 6 pmŠkolská 28 Gallery and Fotograf Gallery Symposium: February 5–6, 2016French Institute in Prague

Now in its second iteration, vs. Interpretation is a festival of adventurous art, part of an ongoing transdisciplinary project promoting innovative improvised artistic projects and research. This year's festival will continue to focus on sound improvisation and offer performances, discussions, and workshops on the subjects of movement, sound art, film, visual art, and new concepts in music composition.

vs. Interpretation: An Anthology of Improvisation, vol. 1 is a compendium of essays edited by David Rothenberg. It is the first publication by the Agosto Foundation.

An interview with Lê Quan Ninh

vs. Interpretation, a festival of adventurous art, takes place from 27 April to 1 May, 2016 at Studio Alta and other venues in Prague, such as Alfred ve Dvore, and the National Gallery (Veletržní palác). Now in its second iteration, vs. Interpretation is organized by the Agosto Foundation and will keep its signature focus on sound improvisation, as well as offer related discussions and workshops. The festival will further extend its interdisciplinary reach into media such as movement, sound art, film, visual art, and new concepts in music composition.

Hear it now on the BBC Radio 3 web site

by Olga Pek This Australian collective continually entangles itself with the question “What is sound poetry?”

November playlist

Gosfield's recent performance has garnered widespread praise

Pauline Oliveros is a senior figure in contemporary American music. Her career spans fifty years of boundary dissolving music making.

The Agosto Foundation is proud to support percussionist Lukas Ligeti, double bassist James Ilgenfritz, and the experimental ensemble Stratocluster in performance at Punctum atelier in Prague next Monday evening.

Visual and performance artist Morgan O'Hara will present new work developed during her residency at the Agosto Foundation at a new exhibition opening September 2. The event includes a crash course in the martial art Aikido and the creation of one of O'Hara's well known Live Transmissions.

An artist of many media, O’Hara makes visible the time, space and movement aspects of the experience of living.

Update: the Wakushoppu series has moved house and currently takes place at Punctum, Krasová 803 in Praha-Žižkov.

Journeys of Improvised Music in Africa: A presentation from the vs. Interpretation Festival and Symposium in July 2014.

A presentation from the vs. Interpretation Festival and Symposium in July 2014

In light of Stratocluster’s August 31 collaboration with Lukas Ligeti and James Ilgenfritz, we asked the leader of the ensemble, Ian Mikyska, to arrange the first in our series of monthly curated playlists.

Keynote Presentation from the vs. Interpretation Festival 2014

vs. Interpretation Festival Keynote Presentation on Deep Listening