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''For a theorist and media historian, see [[Tomáš Dvořák]].''
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Tomáš Dvořák alias Floex was born in 1978 in Prague. He studied The Institute of Foreign relations, than the sound at FAMU and in The new media group od Michael Bielický. He is a music producer, graphic designer. He prepares Interactive installations. His nickname Floex was made by connecting two words "float" and "experiment".  
  
'''Tomáš Dvořák''' alias '''Floex''' was born in 1978 in Prague. He studied at The Institute of Foreign Affairs, then sound at FAMU and at [[Michael Bielický]]'s new media department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He is a music producer, graphic designer. He prepares interactive installations. His nickname Floex was made by connecting two words "float" and "experiment". Firstly, he played clarinet, then he started to make experiments with the electronic instruments and he describes his music as the fusion of jazz, electronica, movie- and ambient music. His work brings together acoustic and electronic forms of music. His album ''Pocustone'' (Quasi Delict Reords) was awarded the Golden Angel in the Czech Republic. He examines the intersection of music and visual arts, collaborating with a wide range of artists like [[Federico Díaz]] on the installation ''Sakura'' and ''The Turbulence Project'', or recently with [[Tomáš Vaněk]] on the performance ''Live Score''. He is playing with the casualness of the art. He finds himself as a bridge between visual and music world.
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Firstly, he played clarinet, but then he started to make experiments with the electronical instruments and he describes his music like the fusion of jazz, electronica, movie and ambient music. He is connecting an acoustic and electronic forms of music. His album Pocustone (Quasi Delict Reords) in 2001 was awarded by the Golden Angel in Czech republic. He examines the overflow of music to the visual arts and that´s why he is collaborating with so many artists like Federico Díaz on the installation Sakura and The Turbulence project, or the freshest collaboration with Tomáš Vaněk on the performance "live score". He is playing with the casualness of the art. He finds himself a bridge between visual and music world.  
  
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During the years 2001 to 2007 he extended his musical activities by researching the field of new media. He was trying to find some other ways how to make, perform and interact with music. The projects that was made during this period of time are Candyski (2001), Geocit (2002) and Herb instrument (2004), those are the flash works from the early times and then he made also installations and performances such as Crossroad (2002), RGB research project (2003-2005) a Live score (2006-2007). All his works are still alive in the Internet on his blog. Now he signed the contract with Denovali Records which cooperates also with artists like Hidden Orchestra, Poppy Ackroyd and also with Bersarin Quartet and Alvaret Ensemble. This agency is going to book all his foreign concerts and thanks to this he is coming more and more popular in the world, nor just in Czech republic or Slovakia, where he still cooperates with the Bum Bum Satori records. His concerts are now planned also for Russia, Spain, Rumunia, etc.  
* Mikuláš Novotný, ''Mezi zvukem a obrazem: Pokus o kontextualizaci tvorby Tomáše Dvořáka'', Bakalářská diplomová práce, Brno: FF MU, 2007. (Czech) [http://is.muni.cz/th/150386/ff_b/text.pdf]
 
  
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His live acts are made together with artists Sára Vondrášková, Jiří Javůrek, Marián Petržala and Dominik Pecka. for the next year he is planning to spend a lot of time in the studio to produce the FLOEX EP and to make a new soundtrack for Amanita. You can find some more information about Floex on his official page http://www.floex.cz/, where you can also fing all his projects mentioned above and his music is here for you on his soundcloud  https://soundcloud.com/floex.
* [http://www.floex.cz/ Official website]
 
* [http://soundcloud.com/floex Soundcloud page]
 

Revision as of 12:52, 27 May 2013

Tomáš Dvořák alias Floex was born in 1978 in Prague. He studied The Institute of Foreign relations, than the sound at FAMU and in The new media group od Michael Bielický. He is a music producer, graphic designer. He prepares Interactive installations. His nickname Floex was made by connecting two words "float" and "experiment".

Firstly, he played clarinet, but then he started to make experiments with the electronical instruments and he describes his music like the fusion of jazz, electronica, movie and ambient music. He is connecting an acoustic and electronic forms of music. His album Pocustone (Quasi Delict Reords) in 2001 was awarded by the Golden Angel in Czech republic. He examines the overflow of music to the visual arts and that´s why he is collaborating with so many artists like Federico Díaz on the installation Sakura and The Turbulence project, or the freshest collaboration with Tomáš Vaněk on the performance "live score". He is playing with the casualness of the art. He finds himself a bridge between visual and music world.

During the years 2001 to 2007 he extended his musical activities by researching the field of new media. He was trying to find some other ways how to make, perform and interact with music. The projects that was made during this period of time are Candyski (2001), Geocit (2002) and Herb instrument (2004), those are the flash works from the early times and then he made also installations and performances such as Crossroad (2002), RGB research project (2003-2005) a Live score (2006-2007). All his works are still alive in the Internet on his blog. Now he signed the contract with Denovali Records which cooperates also with artists like Hidden Orchestra, Poppy Ackroyd and also with Bersarin Quartet and Alvaret Ensemble. This agency is going to book all his foreign concerts and thanks to this he is coming more and more popular in the world, nor just in Czech republic or Slovakia, where he still cooperates with the Bum Bum Satori records. His concerts are now planned also for Russia, Spain, Rumunia, etc.

His live acts are made together with artists Sára Vondrášková, Jiří Javůrek, Marián Petržala and Dominik Pecka. for the next year he is planning to spend a lot of time in the studio to produce the FLOEX EP and to make a new soundtrack for Amanita. You can find some more information about Floex on his official page http://www.floex.cz/, where you can also fing all his projects mentioned above and his music is here for you on his soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/floex.