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11 Nov 2025
Sounds on Screen: Zdeněk Liška
Focus on Zdeněk Liška
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.
This edition of Sounds on Screen highlights Liška’s output as his archives begin to be systematically explored and restored.
Selected & mixed by Miloš Hroch.
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Tracklist
- Dir. Oldřich LipskýExcerpt From Jáchyme, Hoď Do Stroje (1974)
- Dir. Karel KachyňaMalá Mořská Víla (1976) (Taken From Reissue Of The Little Mermaid Released By Finders Keepers)
- Dir František VláčilSmoke On The Potato Fields (1976) (Taken From Music To Films By František Vláčil
- Dir. František Vláčil Markéta Lazarová (1967)Rajská Sonáta
- Markéta Lazarová (1967)Straba
- Dir. Karel Kachyňa Malá Mořská Víla (1976)Witches Firewall
- Dir. Jindřich PolákIkarie XB 1 (1963)
- Dir. Jan Švankmajer Don Juan (1969) (Taken From Music To Films By Jan ŠvankmajerZdeněk Liška Archives Vol. 1)
- Dir. Karel Kachyňa Malá Mořská Víla (1976)King Of The Ocean