Episode 7 – Planet

Aneta Kováčová is a musician, an educator, and a music event organizer. She graduated from performing arts high school and afterwards she spent some time in London. Currently she resides in Prague and until recently she was organizing regular jam sessions at the Cross Club where she was also participating mainly as a vocalist. During this summer she started performing with her solo project Planet. Her musical production is mostly the result of improvisation and she frequently uses the loop station which helps her build a whole song with just her vocals. What is it about solo and group improvisation that she finds so enriching? What is it like to find your way back to music after uncomfortable experiences? What are her thoughts on music education that she went through and what is her approach to music lessons? Does she feel a connection to the Roma musical tradition? And what are the stereotypes related to Roma musicians that our society upholds?

LIST OF REFERENCES
Planet – Csisco (Sketch)
Planet – Forgiveness (Sketch)
Planet – Thoughts

Concept & narration: Mary C
Title music: Mary C
Translation: Anna Oravcová
Dubbing: Faolán McGowan
Visuals: Vladyslav Afanasiev & Jan Brož

MY EMANCIPATION DON’T FIT IN YOUR EQUATION

Podcast series that maps the revolutionary and emancipatory thoughts in current music presented by Mary C and Institute of Anxiety.

Let’s explore revolutionary thoughts and strong emotions in contemporary music, that have the power to move our society. They have always been here but are very often neglected. However, there still are places where they thrive, where new provocative and strong realities emerge and where new pop music arises, along with new revolutions.

Let’s explore the process of evolution and emancipation of electronic dance music and rap.
How do artists, especially those from african diaspora, create? Is it even possible to create when the art should be an absence of fear? What can artists help us learn and unlearn and how can we become connected and free ourselves through listening? Meet the artists who produce music as well as important knowledge, bring communities together and organize a variety of initiatives. How does their emancipation diverge from the current normative equation? The title of the podcast is inspired by Lauryn Hill’s lyrics 'My emancipation don't fit your equation.' appears in her song Lost Ones.

Marie Čtveráčková aka Mary C is a curator, musician, music journalist, producer, and cofounder of ZVUK and Synth Library Prague. From 2011 to 2020 she worked at public Czech Radio Wave as the creator and host of Scéna s Mary C (The Scene with Mary C), which focused primarily on rap, its context, and its contemporary forms. As a curator and lecturer at Synth Library Prague she is currently focusing on informal music education and music technology. In 2018 she founded the collective Trigger, which aims to connect women and trans* people in electronic music. She is interested in the potential of community organizing and inspired by feminist theory as well as the knowledge of Hip Hop culture.