Sounds on Screen: Zdeněk Liška - 11th November 2025
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An unsung innovator of film scoring and a pioneer of electroacoustic music in the Eastern Bloc. Zdeněk Liška (1922-1983) was both prolific and radically inventive, often scoring up to eight feature films a year alongside shorts and television work. A key collaborator of the 1960s Czech New Wave, including surrealist Jan Švankmajer and filmmaker František Vláčil, Liška developed a distinct sonic language that shaped the rhythm and pacing of the films themselves.
When a project demanded it, he built new tools or processes to achieve sounds from the distant past or an imagined future. From the 1970s onward he worked out of the Studio for Electronic and Experimental Sound at the Barrandov film complex, pushing early electronic techniques into something entirely his own.
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