Petr Němec

Sound artist, composer, and researcher.

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Petr Němec develops a sound-based practice at the intersection of composition, performance, installation, and participatory situations. In his work, sound is understood not only as an acoustic phenomenon, but as a material force and a relational medium through which porous boundaries between the human body, technical systems, and the environment can be explored.

His long-term interests include collective listening, the corporeality of vibration, and the relationships between space and body, time and memory, presence and its traces. He is interested in how imaginatively composed situations can transform involuntary hearing into conscious listening, and how they can create conditions for more intense experiences of encounter.

His practice seeks to connect inner and outer landscapes of perception and to develop forms of shared attention in which imagination, participation, and sensitivity to environment become tools for a deeper lived experience.

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Selected Portfolio

Insects Listening Session - 8 Channel Improvisation


360 video documentation of my 8-channel live performance listening session at Kunstraum Reuter Gallery, Neukölln, Berlin that happened as part of 48 Neukölln Festival 2026.
2026

Role: performer, live electronics

hunger artist

Participation in a choreographic project presented at the KD Mlejn culture center in Prague.
2026

Role: composer, sound designer

Choreographer: Vladena Klimek

kostlivci v česneku

Spontaneous improvisation in the forest with friends. We made a xylophone from branches of a fallen tree and played together by the water spring.
2026

Role: improvisation

With: Filip Dobrocký, Hynek Čejka, Bedřiška Ponížilová

Cesta do království much (pre-release)

4-channel fixed media. Imaginative narrative composition inspired by a workshop with Yenting Hsu.
2025

Role: composer

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Research

Exconv

The exconv research introduces an experimental toolkit for 1D and 2D FFT-based convolution, providing a unified framework for sophisticated cross-modal mappings between audio, images, and video. Through techniques such as spectral sculpting, the project establishes a bi-directional dialogue where audio spectra shape visual parameters like radial filters and YCbCr channels, while video frames can reciprocally influence sonic textures. Positioned as a technologically pioneering form of sound art, this work utilizes the digital signal chain to reveal phenomena unrecognizable to the eye by embracing an aesthetics of failure, including glitches and unconventional algorithmic processes.

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