Birds Build Nests Underground

Birds Build Nests Underground was a Prague-based trio working in the fields of found sound and vision. Their basic tools was a double DJ set and 8mm, 16mm, 35mm and KP8 film and slide projectors. Their goal was, however, not a standard DJ/VJ entertainment muzak and screensaving but a deep dive into the very nature of sound and image. The turntablists of the band – Petr Ferenc and Michal Brunclík – manipulated records by keeping them off their covers, placing stickers on them, cutting, scratching and piling them on turntable plates in order to maket all the „mistakes“ and coincidental sound events equally important to the recorded sound. Martin Ježek, the filmmaker of the band, treated (not only) found footage the same way as the turntablists treat their records: he juxtaposed, collaged and edited the image to create a wholly new visual experience. Birds Build Nests Underground (BBNU) were not one of many bands that create „live soundtracks“ to an already existing filmwork. Their music and images interacted, coexisted and were created at the same time. Started in 2003, since 2007 a trio of Petr Ferenc, Michal Brunclík, Martin Ježek. Inactive since 2012.