Lenkadu music and video

Lenkadu performances are immersive musical and visual worlds. Her music combines influences of electronic music, avant-garde sound art and various genres of live music, such as progressive metal and noise rock. She creates her beats, samples her field recordings, sings and plays multiple instruments such as kalimba, guitar, bass guitar and anything else that makes intriguing sounds.

Lenkadu plays video as one of the instruments in her musical and visual textures. Building on her experiences as a touring VJ, she mixes visuals live, creating a collage of her own and pirated imagery. Image and sound are closely interwoven in Lenkadu compositions.

Lenkadu is working on a 2011 album and DVD “Redshift” , a conceptual album about an imaginary tribe. It is a musical and visual journey with different tribe members to the darkest and lightest of our experiences.

Lenkadu Music and Visuals Live at PEX Summer Festival from Lenka Chludová on Vimeo.

here is a taste of Lenkadu 2010 music & video


blood on the tracks

blood on the tracks from Lenka Chludová on Vimeo.

feathers and leather

feathers and leather from Lenka Chludová on Vimeo.

speak softly from Lenka Chludová on Vimeo.

Lenkadu 2010 music Speak Softly Feathers & Leather

Music and Video Schedule

Upcoming
Lenkadu is working on a 2011 record. All shows postponed till January 2011.

Past
2010
Oct 30 Philadelphia Experiment Halloween Party, http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155005817863078
Oct 25 9:00 pm Zuzu, Cambridge, MA, 8pm, www.zuzubar.com
Oct 22 5.30-7 pm WZBC 90.3 FM
Oct 2 10:20 pm NY Times Square Arts Center, www.timessquareartscenter.com
Oct 1 8:30 pm with Mellow Bravo, Aficionado & Tik Tok @ROSEBUD'S DINER Davis Square 381 Summer St Somerville 21+ 8pm $10 http://rosebudbardavis.com/
Sept 17-19 Earthdance, Laytonville, CA
Aug 30-Sept 6 Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV
Aug 8 8:00 pm HMS Putnam DIY music space, http://www.undressmerobot.com/hmsputnam/
July 21 The House of Blues Boston front room, 11:30 pm
July 17 Lilly Pad, Inman Square, Cambridge, MA, with Avoxblue, 10:00 pm, www.lily-pad.net
July 7 PEX Summer Festival, Darlington, Maryland, http://pexsummerfestival.com/, main stage 7/4 9-10 pm
June 11-13 (11th 2-3 pm Chillout Stage) Coalesce Festival, Darlington, MD, http://www.coalescefest.com/
May 31 9:30 pm with Avoxblue, The Enormous Room, Cambridge, MA, http://enormous.tv
May 29 4:00pm Boom n BBQ Fundraiser, The Loom, 1087 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY
May 15 Black& Light Ball 5, Times Square Arts Center, NYC
May 2 music, The Good Bar, Ventura, CA
May 1 music, Ojai, CA
April 17 20,000 beats under the sea, Philadelphia, PA
April 12 9:00 pm The Enormous Room, Cambridge, MA, http://beatresearch.com
April 9 8pm- 5am Horned Ball #6 - Paleolithikk, At Warsaw Brooklyn, NY, http://www.kostumekult.com/events/hornedball/
April 1-4 North American Buggy Expo, Ivanpah Dry Lake, NV, http://nabx.net/
March 21 5 am Techglam, Brooklyn Urban Sanctuary, Brooklyn, NYC
March 20 10 pm-1am Glamtech, Warsaw at The Polish National Home, Williamsburg, NYC
March 8 9:00 pm The Enormous Room, Cambridge, MA, http://beatresearch.com
Feb 21 4 am BOOM Trike fundraiser, Brooklyn Urban Sanctuary, NYC
Feb 20 9:00 pm Bioluminescence II, Disorient, Queen of Hearts, NYC
Feb 19 10:00 pm Mad Breaks Tea Party, Brooklyn Urban Sanctuary, NYC
Feb 13 PEX Heartburn, Philadelphia, PA, http://thephiladelphiaexperiment.org
Jan 9, 2010 The Palace Theatre, Hilo, Hawaii
Jan 8, 2010 The Mixx Bistro, Kailua, Kona, Hawaii
Jan 7, 2010 Pahoa Village Cafe, Hawaii Electronic Music Festival, http://bigislandlove.com/hemf7/page.home.htm
2009
Dec 21, 2009 The Enormous Room, Cambridge, MA, http://beatresearch.com
Dec 11, 2009 Naughty - Snow Ball, Washington D.C., http://naughty.eventbrite.com/
Oct 31, 2009 The Philadelphia Experiment Halloween Ball, Philadelphia, PA, http://www.thephiladelphiaexperiment.org/
Oct 21, 2009 6.30 PM Taste of Philly, Crystal Tea Room, Philadelphia, PA
Oct 9-11, 2009 Venus Music Festival, Charlotte, NC, http://venusfestival.com/
Sept 25-27, 2009 Earthdance festival, Laytonville, CA, http://earthdancelive.com/
Sept 12, 2009 Avalon Hollywood, CA
Sept 4, 2009 Heart Space, Entheon Village, Burning Man, NV
The Philadelphia Experiment stage, Burning Man, NV
Sept 3, 2009 Heart Space, Entheon Village, Burning Man, NV
Sept 2, 2009 The Philadelphia Experiment stage, Burning Man, NV
August 17, 2009 Nacional Nightclub, Hollywood, CA
Aug 7, 2009, Crown Room, Portland OR
Aug 6, 2009, Roseland Theatre, Portland, OR
July 17-20, 2009, Emrgnsee Festival, Salem, OR, http://2009.emrgnsee.com
July 3-5, 2009, PEX Festival, Darlington, MD, http://www.pexsummerfestival.com/
June 15, 2009 The Enormous Room, Cambridge, MA, http://www.enormous.tv
June 5, 2009 The Vitamin Breaks, Brooklyn, NY, http://vitaminbreaks.com/

Visuals in The Palace Theatre Hawaii January 9, 2010

music by Lee Mayjahs?
visuals by Lenkadu in collaboration with Jim Abrams
thanks to Hawaii Electronic Music Festival and Big Island Love community.

"gotta do another one": North American Buggy Expo 2009

"I'm just saying!" Interviews with NABXers 2009 Part 1

Interviews with participants of North American Buggy eXpo 2009
Ivanpah Dry Lake Nevada, USA
www.nabx.net
24 min total, part one 8:58
video: Lenka Chludová
www.lenkadu.com
interviewer: Garrett Freberg

"I'm just saying!" Interviews with NABXers 2009 Part 2

Interviews with participants of North American Buggy eXpo 2009
Ivanpah Dry Lake Nevada, USA
www.nabx.net
24 min total, part two 7:53
video: Lenka Chludová
www.lenkadu.com
interviewer: Garrett Freberg

"I'm just saying!" Interviews with NABXers 2009 Part 3

Interviews with participants of North American Buggy eXpo March 2009
Ivanpah Dry Lake Nevada, USA
www.nabx.net
24 min total, part three 7:44

video: Lenka Chludová
www.lenkadu.com
interviewer: Garrett Freberg

Impressions of PEX Summer Festival

Philadelphia Experiment Summer Festival 2009 from Lenka Chludova on Vimeo.

Visuals at the Halloween Ball of the Philadelphia Experiment

Video Installation's at PEX Decom 2009 from Peter Parker Brodhead on Vimeo.
in collaboration with
Peter Parker parkerism.com
Kevlar visualinfinity.com
and the Philadelphia Experiment Community http://www.thephiladelphiaexperiment.org/

Visuals at Emerg+N+See Summer Festival

Visuals by VJ Lenkadu for Sean Hayes's set
main stage at Emerg+N+See Summer Festival
July 17-20, 2009 MacLeay, OR
http://2009.emrgnsee.com/

Visuals at PEX Summer Festival

Visuals at the main stage
Philadelphia Experiment Summer Festival
July 3-6, 2009 Darlington, MD
http://www.pexsummerfestival.com/

How fast light travels

Nature of Things
performance of Dana Moser piece for John Holland
with Dana Moser, Glenna van Nostrand and Frank Lloyd

MFA Thesis Show Booklet

MFA Thesis Exhibition Booklet
click image to view the pdf file.

Live Video Demo

Live Video Demo 1 and 2 are two live video (VJ) samples of what I create during my live video sets on the fly where i also incorporate live video feed.
They are collages of original footage, fragments of movies, videos and graphics, all processed and mixed using Max MSP/Jitter software and video mixer.
Music:
Demo 1 'Time' by Benny Benassi
Demo 2 'Weapon of Choice' by Fatboy Slim
Made June 2009 before Summer Tour. NEW DEMOS COMING IN OCTOBER 09.

Live Video Demo 1 'Time' from Lenka Chludova on Vimeo.

Live Video Demo 2 from Lenka Chludova on Vimeo.

Misplaced Survival: Thesis Exhibition May 17-30

Misplaced Survival: Adaptation

sound performance
APRIL TUESDAY 14, 2009
7.30 PM


Pozen Center for Interrelated Media
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
621 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115


photo by Gregory Vershbow. http://www.gregoryvershbow.com/

Production assistance:
Josiah Simmons
Gregory Vershbow
Chris Carroll
Kevin Clancy
Noah Stout
Jonathan Rand

Video Documentation

Adaptation is a performance by Lenka Chludová focusing on the interaction between our actions and the environment. Each action is at first meaningful for our survival (cover, water, food, warmth, shelter) but overdone to the extent where we struggle to survive the consequences of what we began to do in order to survive in the first place. This is "Misplaced Survival". The environment in this performance piece is manifested primarily in the sounds in the space. The materials and the order of the five actions were decided according to the their sonic properties and amplified in a way that these sounds begin to feedback on themselves as each action escalates. The feedback grows throughout the performance to the point of unbearable, forcing the performer to adapt to the environment and change the course of action, go back in pursuing these tasks, in an attempt to calm down the environment and to return, now transformed, to the original state. The audience too, despite being equipped with ear plugs, is exposed to the increasingly damaging sonic environment.

Intro To What We Do When We On A Lakebed

North American Buggy eXpo
March 31-April 5, 2009
Ivanpah Dry Lake, California

music: Radiohead~National Anthem
video: Lenka Chludová

Kite Bike Love

Kite Bike Love from Lenka Chludova on Vimeo.



for Olivia Harris and Blake Pelton for their 3rd year anniversary
April 7, 2009
music by Feist~My Moon, My Man
video by Lenka Chludová

Live Music Schedule

Upcoming Shows 2010
Upcoming
July 17 Lilly Pad, Inman Square, Cambridge, MA, with Avoxblue, 10:00 pm, www.lily-pad.net
July 21 The House of Blues Boston front room, 11:30 pm
Aug 30-Sept 6 Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV
Sept 17-19 Earthdance, Laytonville, CA

Past

2010
July 7 PEX Summer Festival, Darlington, Maryland, http://pexsummerfestival.com/, main stage 7/4 9-10 pm
June 11-13 (11th 2-3 pm Chillout Stage) Coalesce Festival, Darlington, MD, http://www.coalescefest.com/
May 31 9:30 pm with Avoxblue, The Enormous Room, Cambridge, MA, http://enormous.tv
May 29 4:00pm Boom n BBQ Fundraiser, The Loom, 1087 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY
May 15 Black& Light Ball 5, Times Square Arts Center, NYC
May 2 The Good Bar, Ventura, CA
May 1 Ojai, CA

2009
June 15 The Enormous Room, Cambridge, MA, http://www.enormous.tv

NebeZemě

NebeZemě

The sky could be the earth and the earth could be the sky. In Czech, Nebe is the sky and Země the earth, but written together it means 'not without me'. This video piece is a space for our imagination, without which the earth could not be the sky and the sky the earth. In NebeZemě imagination gains power from our ability to constantly reconfigure our spatial understanding of ourselves in the environment.

This video is part of the Misplaced Survival Series.

Lenkadu & Kalimba Sound System Spring 09 Demo

joint music project with Eric Freeman, aka Kalimba Sound System
more Kalimba Sound System music on: http://www.myspace.com/kalimbasoundsystem

Blood on the Tracks

Supposed To

Before You Know

Bala Long Wave

Into the Sun

Water for Dreams