Magdaléna Manderlová

Selected projects
Fuglefotdelta
Kozmic Sounds
Leangenbukta
In a Salty Stream
The Field upon which I Walk is the Song
Straw Bales
HISS

Information
Kozmic Sounds
since 2021



Magdaléna Manderlová and Michal Kindernay

Commissioned by Bludný kámen

Live microphone radio.earth
Paper Journal of Sonic Studies
Activities
     ✺ Yealry symposium at Kozmické meadows
     27.09-03.10.2027
  
Previously participating artists 
Leon Billerbeck, Peter Cusack, Yvetta Ellerová, Kateřina Holá, František Hruška, Alexandra Cihanská Machová,  Ian Mikyska, Udo Noll, Lucie Páchová, Carina Pesch, Sabine Popp, Kasha Potrohosh, Martyna Poznańska, Martin Režný, Adéla Suchánková, Krystyna Jędrzejewska Szmek, Martin Šenkypl, Tomáš Šenkyřík, Anna Vohralíková, Martina Weber, Karen Werner, Claudia Von Hasselt & Nicolas Wiese, Michal Wróblewski, and Šárka Zahálková.

Previously participating scientists and experts
Adrian Czerník, Muzeum Hlučínska (Jiří Neminář and Jan Gromnica), Marie Hánová, Jan Hradecký, Vít Kašpar (geographer); Ivo Kupka, Jiří Siostrzonek,  Romana Malíková, Jan Malura,  Věra Manderlová, Emil Morav, Nikola Rácová and Lukáš Kleberc of Vila Vilekula collective, Silesian Ornithological Society, Ondřej Škrabal, Kozmice Meadows Bird Reserve (Kamil Lisal, Marie Vavrečková and Petr Bláha), Svatava Urbanová, and Miloš Zapletal
  





Kozmic Sounds investigates the sonic environments of the Opava region, a small area in the Moravian-Silesian region of northeastern Czech Republic, bordering Poland. Bludný kámen, a local art association active in the region since 1995 and long engaged with sound, commissioned us in 2021 to begin exploring the changes and transformations of these local sonic environments.

The project focuses on the environments shaped by the Opava River that flows through the region, the adjacent Kozmické louky (Kozmice Meadows) wetlands, and the privately owned Kozmické ptačí louky (Kozmice Meadows Bird Reserve). The wet meadows – once severely degraded and now one of only two remaining floodplain meadow ecosystems along the Opava River – are in an ongoing process of restoration. Plant and animal life gradually return as the wetland transforms, even though it continues to face broader ecological pressures. 

Kozmic Sounds listens closely to these shifts and actively participates in them by facilitating shared spaces, cultivating local relationships, inviting and commissioning local and international artists, and engaging with local communities. 

The current form of Kozmic Sounds, a yearly symposium dedicated to Kozmické meadows, is based on several years of artistic research. 
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