What is the difference between the Czech and the Austrian approaches to contemporary music?
Diametrically opposite. I never stop being surprised at how completely different the two cultures and aesthetics. When I arrived in Graz in 1991 Professor Prel took one look at my pieces and said: “das ist eine ganz andere sthetik”. I wondered what he was talking about, but he meant it in a very friendly spirit. This doesn’t mean that a Czech performer cannot play their music or that an Austrian performer can’t play what is written in this country, but it indicates the difference between the two cultures. In Austria the whole microworld of contemporary Austria is utterly different. It is also differently organised, differently financed, and differently perceived. This is not just a problem peculiar to contemporary music, but relates to the whole concept of the artist, as it is perceived in Austria and the Czech Republic. In this country if I go around claiming to be an artist, people will think that I’ve escaped from some psychiatric clinic or that I’m trying to create some weird image
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