introduction
This is the personal homepage of Zlatko Baracskai, he lectures in Digital Audio Effects, Interactive Music Systems and Sound Synthesis and Sequencing at the Birmingham City University's School of Digital Media Technology and he is completing his PhD at the Music Department of the University of Birmingham. Here you can find information, free plugins and music. Zlatko is developing AU - AudioUnit plugins using Gerard Roma's extension for SuperCollider and other random max4live devices that can be found in the plugins section. You can find his contemporary electronic music here: noises, his scratchy funk in odd meters here: beats, and his free improvisation recording sessions here: fes.
events
2010
- Sarajevo - 28-30.10 - Music in Society Symposium.
- Birmingham - Hare&Hounds - 7.8 - Little Chill.
- Amsterdam - Kwik Fiets Festival - 29.7 - Rodrigo & Zlatko.
- Nijmegen - De Affaire - 23.7 - Blazin' Quartet.
- Rotterdam - North Sea Jazz - 10.7 - Blazin' Quartet.
- Amsterdam - Brug9 - 8.7 - Blazin' Quartet.
- Amsterdam - Schijnheilig - 3.7 - WK.
- Bodrum - Cura - 11.5-20.6 - Tactical Media Workshop.
- Amsterdam - Schijnheilig - 6.5 - Blazin' Quartet.
- London - Novotel London West - 22-25.5 - 128th AES Convention.
- London - Butchers Corner - 13.5 - Noise=Noise.
- Birmingham - The Created in Birmingham shop - 8.5 - Scratchdown.
- Birmingham - The Rainbow - 7.5 - Skele&Dolhasz+.
- London - Butchers Corner - 28.4 - Noise=Noise.
- Amsterdam - NEL - 4.4 - Blazin' Quartet.
- Amsterdam - De Badcuyp - 1.4 - Blazin' Quaertet.
- Amsterdam - De Badcuyp - 30.3 - Instrument Extension with Max4Live Workshop.
- Den Haag - Stichting Centrum - 27.3 - Noise.
- Birmingham - Elgar Concert Room - 26.3 - FES.
- London - The Foundry - 13.3 - Noise=Noise.
- Birmingham - Elgar Concert Room - 26.2 - FES.
- Birmingham - Hare&Hounds - 13.2 - Skeleton&Dolhasz+.
- Birmingham - The Rainbow - 22.1 - Skeleton&Dolhasz+.
- Budapest Gödör Klub - 17-20.1 - Utveszto.
- London - QMUL - 22.12 - Digital Music Research Network.
- Bratislava - Next Festival - 5.12 - Sound Lab Show.
- Birmingham - Elgar Concert Room - 27.11 - FES.
- Birmingham - Elgar Concert Room - 30.10 - FES.
- Birmingham - Elgar Concert Room - 25.9 - FES.
- Sarajevo - Collegium Artisticum Gallery - 19.8 - Custom Percussions with Walt Shaw.
- Sarajevo - Collegium Artisticum Gallery - 3.8-19.8 - Black Balloon Installation.
- Paris - Jazz Festival - 11.7 - Expatriots Bojan Z.
- Birmingham - Elgar Concert Room - 3.7 - Birmingham Improvisers Orchestra @ FES.
- Birmingham - Elgar Concert Room - 26.6 - FES.
- Birmingham - CBSO - 29.5 - BEAST.
- Belfast - SARC - 26.5 - Two Thousand + Nine symposium on performance technologies.
- Birmingham - Elgar Concert Room - 24.4 - FES.
- Birmingham - Elgar Concert Room - 27.3 - FES.
- Birmingham - Elgar Concert Room - 25.3 - DMU@BEAST presentation on rephrasing.
- Plymouth - Southside Café - 28.2 - Extended Shakuhachi.
- Birmingham - Elgar Concert Room - 27.2 - FES.
- Birmingham - Elgar Concert Room - 30.1 - Birmingham Improvisers Orchestra @ FES.
- Birmingham - Elgar Concert Room - 3.12 - FRIMP@FES.
- Birmingham - Elgar Concert Room - 28.11 - FES.
- Birmingham - Elgar Concert Room - 31.10 - FES.
- Birmingham - Millenium Point Atrium - 25.10 - Birmingham Improvisers Orchestra.
- Birmingham - Millenium Point Atrium - 23.10 - BEAST.
- Birmingham - Conservatoire - 7.10 - Destroy Powerpoint.
- Birmingham - Elgar Concert Room - 26.9 - FES.
- Toulouse - Rio Loco Festival - 21.6 - Expatriots Bojan Z.
- Toulouse - Mandala - 20.6 - Expatriots Bojan Z.
- Birmingham Conservatoire 6.6 - BEAST.
- Pecs University 28.5-30.5 - Spidron Sonification Symposium.
- Budapest Merlin 27.3 - UH Fest.
- Birmingham George Cadbury Hall 10.1 - 25 years of BEAST.
- Birmingham IKON 12.10 - Lecture on the Weather by John Cage.
- Budapest Siraly 22.09 - Zu Sammen.
- Novi Sad EXIT 13.07 - Tripcycle quartet.
- Pecs Setater 28.06 - Mete Erker, Xavier van Wersch & Zlatko Baracskai.
- Pecs Barbakan Bastya 27.06 - Fejes Istvan & Szabo Reka vs. Sensordome feat. Mete Erker.
- Pecs Hard Rak 26.06 - Upgrade Jam.
- Pecs 17.06 - SPIDRON exhibition opening with Sipdroton.
- Budapest Merlin 20.05 - SHARE.
- Novi Sad Route66 29.04 - Tripcycle quartet.
- Vrbas Pablo 28.04 - Tripcycle quartet.
- Petrovaradin Brvnara 27.04 - Tripcycle quartet.
- Budapest UltraHang Festival 22.03 - Solo performance with small acoustic sound sources and live electronics.
- Novi Sad Arena 16.03 - Tripcycle quartet.
- Plymouth New Music Festival 25.02 - Michael McInerney performs the extended shakhuachi for the 3rd time. Zlatko lectures and leads an open workshop allowing different instrumentalists to develop and play with electronic instrument extensions.
- Budapest Making New Waves Festival 18.02 - MAE ensemble performs 'Cue' conducted by Zlatko.
- Essen 17.01 – pressure sensors mounted on the dancefloor are made an electronic instrument for the dancer Sebastian Gibas to form a prepared improvisation duo with Mete Erker playing wind instruments with electronics.
- Budapest Tilos Radio – Live improvisation with Xavier van Wersch (laptop, violin, melodica) and Attila Dora (saxophone).
- Budapest International Architecture Conference - live laptop improvisation with Kristian Kelner playing guitar and electronics and Gyorgy Vostenak dancer at the L1 company in Budapest.
- Geneve Conservatoire Superieure - performance of the 4 channel tape piece 'Table'.
- Budapest RS9 and Bem Mozi - Budacolor Abstract Nights
- Pecs Orokseg Festival – live laptop improvisation with Prell and Tigrics. Duo with Kristian Kelner playing guitar and electronics.
- Amsterdam Zaal 100 – Sonsoles Alonso performes with a piano keyboard controlling sound synthesis.
- Budapest Making New Waves Festival - Andrea Ladanyi performs by interrupting laser rays to trigger sound processes programmed by Zlatko. Michael McInerney processes the sound of Shakhuachi with sensors controlling processes designed for improvisation.
- Dartington College of Arts – 2nd performance of extended Shakhuachi by Michal McInerney, lecture on electronic instrument extensions.
- Mexico City 3rd International Contemporary Film Festival FICCO - De-Fuse installation gets hosted.
- Den Haag Korzo Theatre - Luciana Mancini and Stephanie Pan performed the ‘STHD’ piece consisting of self-controlled live processing of their voices, Gilad Wolstovitch performed the arranged improvisation named ‘Puck’ with an electronic drumkit controlling percussive electronic sounds; Sasha Agranov improvised the - ‘Two Ladies in a Bulldozer’ for Zlatko's degree concert.
- Den Haag Filmhuis - Zlatko designs and builds sensor system for the De-Fuse interactive installation for Ricardo Giraldo.
- Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum – Sonsoles Alonso premieres the piece Leopold for a piano keyboard controlling a computer.
- Den Haag Tag - Zlatko's Odd Trio performs with Cedric Brunet on drums and Rodrigo Reyers on double bass.
- Den Haag Tag - Sasha Agranov (cello) performed solo with an instrument extension Zlatko developed for him. Sasha controlled transformations of the sounds made with his instruments by using buttons and pedals.
- Paris, Den Haag, Voorburg and Den Bosch - Zlatko performs as a turntablist with the band ‘Codex’.
- Den Haag Het Paard - Requested by ‘Tag’ artist community Zlatko mounts sensor constellation on Yehudit Mizrahi (dance). She performs solo inducing various sound synthesis processes with tilt switches wired on her arms and legs, and her shoes equipped with pressure sensors. Wireless sensor digitizer was mounted to her waist allowing free movement.
- Den Haag White Space White Noise and Nieuwe Kerk - Zlatko performes solo with a computer using custom built controllers.