“Acousmatic Foley” is a practice-based research on sound dramaturgy that bridges Musique Concrète and Foley Art. It proposes a perspective on creating, performing and listening to sound which emerges from both traditions. 
On the one hand, the main principle of acousmatic music is to disengage sound from its visual source. On the other hand, foley is the covering of an action with sounds that are visually justifiable, although they may not naturally belong there. Nevertheless, what links an acousmatic composer to a foley artist is that the latter makes use of objects for their layout, for a sonic construction that matches visually what we expect to hear, rather than the concrete visual matter. The argument is that every foley artist is an acousmatic composer.
To this end, the project is based on the concepts of sound-motif, sound-prop and sound-actors, in order to propose a dramaturgic practice specific to sound terms.

theory

• Vanessa Theme Ament, the author of Foley Grail, has kindly invited me to her podcast Whole-y Foley;
• “Foley gesture: Towards a theory of acousmatic foley” was presented at Nova Contemporary Music Meeting (NCMM), April 2023 and published in New Sound International Journal of Music 61, I/2023;
• “Acousmatic Foley: son-en-scène” was presented at XXVII International Film and Media Studies Conference (November 2020) and published in The International Journal of Film and Media Arts. Vol. 7 No.2, 2023;
• The sound of saute ma ville is published in Iluminace (December, 2019);
• Acousmatic Foley: Staging Sound Fiction is published in Organised Sound, Cambridge Journal (December, 2016);
• Acousmatic Foley, Sound-Actors was presented at Klingt Gut! (Hamburg – May, 2016);
• Acousmatic Foley, Soundmotifs was presented in “Sound/Image – colloquium” (London – Nov, 2015);
• Staging Sound Fiction was presented at Sonorities (Belfast – April, 2015);
• An essay on “soundmotifs” is published on interact magazine (FCSH – March, 2015);

practice

• ASYNCH premiered in PAF, Dec 2024;
• Acousmatic Echoes of Ruchový archiv, curated by Jonáš Kucharský NFA Prague for Archival Assembly #3 (Berlin);
• SLAM premiered at Ponrepo, Prague in Nov 2023. It was also screened at the Eletroacoustic Music Festival, Bangor – Wales, UK in Feb 2024 and at the at the Portuguese Cinemateca in Lisbon (June, 2024);
• Chantal Akerman’s first short movie, ‘Saute Ma Ville’ (1968), my residency project at “q-02 gallery” (Brussels – December, 2016) has been performed in PAF (2018) and Ponrepo (2019);
• “something to hold onto” is a live performance that looks into the idea of sound-acting. It was premiered in Barcelona and Lisbon (April, 2016). Performed at Performance Crossings in Prague (May, 2017);
• “Live Foley” was staged at Radio Serpentine (London – Nov, 2015);
• A study on “sound objects” was commissioned by RadioCustica (Prague – September, 2015);