<script data-pm-proxy="intercept"></script><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[David Kollar]]></title><description><![CDATA[The award-winning guitarist and composer shares his diaries and thoughts.]]></description><link>https://davidkollar.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5AGB!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F22be13e1-edc0-4fbf-bb77-85a7e093ca8e_1280x1280.png</url><title>David Kollar</title><link>https://davidkollar.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:55:27 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[davidkollarband@gmail.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[davidkollarband@gmail.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[davidkollarband@gmail.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[davidkollarband@gmail.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]></title><description><![CDATA[Netflix]]></description><link>https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/one-hundred-years-of-solitude</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/one-hundred-years-of-solitude</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 09:20:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/4oQeQR1DEjw" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I started reading <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em> when I was nineteen. I remember that my copy was actually missing several pages and had no spine. The cover was slightly torn. Maybe someone before me had got just as lost in it as I did. It looked like the last day of Macondo. There were so many names: Jos&#233; Arcadio, Aureliano, another Jos&#233; Arcadio, another Aureliano... I started drawing a family tree just so I could keep track of who was who, but gradually my enthusiasm faded and somewhere around the middle I put the book down. I have no idea where it is now. Maybe it disappeared together with Macondo...</p><p>I was really excited when I saw some time ago that Netflix was preparing a series called <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em>. I hadn&#8217;t looked forward to a film or series this much in a long time.</p><div id="youtube2-4oQeQR1DEjw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;4oQeQR1DEjw&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/4oQeQR1DEjw?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>From the very first episode, I started remembering the atmosphere of the book. The circus, the cockfights and Melqu&#237;ades with his inventions.</p><p>I think they managed to bring all that magical realism to the screen at an incredibly high level. The story of Macondo from its very beginning immediately swept me away. The imagination, the way reality blends with dreams, desires, guilt, death, love and all kinds of other emotions fascinated me. I love it when a work of art confuses me or plays with my imagination. I couldn&#8217;t wait for the second season, which I have just finished watching.</p><p>And I&#8217;m writing down my feelings straight away.</p><p>I also wrote about the film <em>Frankenstein</em> and how it made me feel. About what a person&#8217;s surroundings can do to them. Who that person might have become if, in those first and most vulnerable moments of life, they hadn&#8217;t experienced human cruelty, rejection or humiliation. Frankenstein&#8217;s monster had potential, sensitivity, curiosity, a longing for closeness, and yet the world gradually turned him into something else.</p><p>With <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em>, I felt this even more deeply.</p><p><strong>To what extent am I what other people have made me, and at what point do I begin to become the author of my own life? Can I forget about it? Am I living my own life?</strong></p><p>Each of us is given some kind of &#8220;musical&#8221; material at birth. A family, a place, a time, genes, stories, fears, love, the mistakes of our parents, and perhaps the mistakes of their parents too. We don&#8217;t choose any of it. And then we have to compose with the material we&#8217;ve been given.</p><p>The Buend&#237;as keep repeating names, desires, mistakes, solitude, love and violence. It is as if every new generation is handed the sheet music of the generation before and, without even realizing it, starts playing the same motifs again. They move in a circle, or perhaps more accurately, in a spiral. Things keep repeating themselves, but in a different time, in another generation and in a slightly different form. It is important to keep the doors of our &#8220;inner Macondo&#8221; open.</p><p>Some scenes made me think about my own childhood and things I don&#8217;t normally think about. I realized that a person can be happy today and still carry something of the child they once were inside them. And perhaps adulthood also means gradually recognizing what we received from the people who came before us, what we want to keep, and what we no longer want to pass on. We cut through the spiral and open the doors. But it is very difficult. We are &#8220;only&#8221; human...</p><p>Jos&#233; Arcadio Buend&#237;a, a man who spent his whole life flying through his thoughts, discoveries and ideas, and who helped found Macondo, eventually ends up tied to a tree. Tied to the earth. The inner solitude of the individual characters is visible from the very beginning. Although the Buend&#237;as are always together in one house, although they have friends and families, they live in their own isolated inner worlds, places another person can never fully enter. &#218;rsula, the mother who knows them so well, seems to sense all of this.</p><p>Perhaps the strongest characters are Jos&#233;, the father, and &#218;rsula, the mother. &#218;rsula is always there for everyone. She takes care of the house, the children, the grandchildren and the great-grandchildren. She watches whole generations of her family and sees all the mistakes and terrible things that keep repeating themselves. She tries to protect them from making bad decisions, but she cannot. Jos&#233; Arcadio Buend&#237;a is a courageous, curious man with a hunger for knowledge. He is one of the founders of a new world, yet his enormous imagination gradually begins to separate him from the real one.</p><p>They are not symbols of perfect parents &#8212; such people probably don&#8217;t exist. <strong>They are symbols of love and understanding despite all our human flaws.</strong></p><p>&#218;rsula witnesses practically the entire story of the Buend&#237;as. She sees the names, personalities, solitude, wars, loves and mistakes repeating themselves. It is as if she gradually understands that time does not simply move forward, but that certain things within a family keep coming back.</p><p>And yet she stays. She cares. She loves.</p><p><strong>A family is not a place where everyone is supposed to be perfect. It is a place where a person should be loved in all their imperfection.</strong></p><p><strong>Human life is, in essence, a short period of consciousness between the time when we did not exist and the time when we will no longer exist. And during that time we are given the extraordinary gift of being able to feel, learn, love, create and affect the lives of others.</strong></p><p>It always makes me think of something my friend Rick Cox once said.</p><p>We were walking along Venice Beach in Los Angeles with his dog Edie. Rick suddenly looked around and said:</p><p>&#8220;David, what an incredible coincidence it is that we can be here together and talk. That there was the Big Bang, our bodies formed from carbon, we have consciousness, we can communicate with each other, and now we&#8217;re walking here talking about music. How beautiful the world could be if people didn&#8217;t hurt one another.&#8221;</p><p>I still think about that sometimes.</p><p><em>Frankenstein</em> made me sad. <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em> made me very sad at times, but at other moments it made me laugh. Some things opened up memories of my own. But what kind of world would it be if these powerful works of art made us feel nothing?</p><p><strong>To feel joy also means being capable of being deeply affected by something.</strong></p><p>Whole generations of Buend&#237;as love, fight, search for their path, trade, hate, invent, believe they are doing the right thing, start revolutions, bury their relatives, argue, search for happiness and repeat the mistakes of their ancestors.</p><p>And in the end, the ants and the wind arrive.</p><p>Macondo begins to disappear. The book can finally be read, but it is too late...</p><p>So what was it all for?</p><p><strong>Precisely because human life does not last forever, it matters how we spend the small amount of time we have. We want the best for our children. We want them to learn from our mistakes and find their way successfully through life, but in the end they will do things their own way anyway. Just as we did at their age. We want to protect them, but too much protection can hurt them too.</strong></p><p>A piece of music ends too. The last note fades away and never comes back. But that doesn&#8217;t mean the music had no meaning. I think about wanting to provide for my family and wanting enough financial security to last us several years...</p><p>But when I experience great works like these, I find myself asking different questions: Have I loved someone? Has someone loved me? Have I created something that didn&#8217;t exist before? Have I experienced the world? Have I broken through a spiral? Have I been myself?</p><p>And then there are the completely ordinary things in life.</p><p>Great food, a cat sitting by the window, going somewhere for no particular reason, a conversation with a friend, the smell of nature, music, morning after a long night, passion, laughter, and that moment in the evening when you lie down in bed and think: that was a great day.</p><p><strong>These are the important things.</strong></p><p>And I think all of this has been captured in an incredible way in the series <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em>. While watching it, I felt like several characters at once. At times I was someone trying to escape the world of his parents, and at other times someone unknowingly returning to it. Someone searching for something, afraid of something, loving something, while never quite knowing how much of who he is truly belongs to him and how much belongs to the people who came before him.</p><p>And perhaps that is why great works of art are so great.</p><p>They don&#8217;t answer our questions. They don&#8217;t tell us what to do. They don&#8217;t give us instructions for life. But for a moment, <strong>they reveal our dragon heart.</strong></p><p>So what is human life about?</p><p>I don&#8217;t know. It is difficult to be human, and even more difficult to be a good human being.</p><p>I know that one day life will end, and perhaps it is precisely because it is finite that <strong>it matters so much.</strong></p><p><strong>Perhaps we shouldn&#8217;t close ourselves inside our own Macondo, but open the doors both outward and inward.</strong></p><p><strong>David</strong></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sto rokov samoty ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Knihu Sto rokov samoty som za&#269;al &#269;&#237;ta&#357; v dev&#228;tn&#225;stich rokoch.]]></description><link>https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/sto-rokov-samoty</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/sto-rokov-samoty</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:12:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/4oQeQR1DEjw" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Knihu <em>Sto rokov samoty</em> som za&#269;al &#269;&#237;ta&#357; v dev&#228;tn&#225;stich rokoch. Pam&#228;t&#225;m si, &#382;e mi v nej  dokonca ch&#253;balo nieko&#318;ko str&#225;n a nemala chrb&#225;t. Obal bol mierne roztrhan&#253;. Asi sa v nej niekto predom nou str&#225;cal tak ako ja.  Vyzerala ako posledn&#253; de&#328; Maconda. Bolo v nej ve&#318;a mien: Jos&#233; Arcadio, Aureliano, &#271;al&#353;&#237; Jos&#233; Arcadio, &#271;al&#353;&#237; Aureliano... Za&#269;al som si kresli&#357; rodokme&#328;, aby som v&#244;bec vedel, kto je kto, ale postupne zo m&#328;a nad&#353;enie opadlo a niekde v polovici som knihu odlo&#382;il. Netu&#353;&#237;m, kde vlastne je. Mo&#382;no zmizla spolu s Macondom &#8230; </p><p>Bol som ve&#318;mi nate&#353;en&#253;, ke&#271; som pred &#269;asom na Netflixe uvidel, &#382;e pripravuj&#250; seri&#225;l s na&#378;vom <em>Sto rokov samoty</em>. Dlho som sa na &#382;iadny film alebo seri&#225;l takto nete&#353;il.</p><div id="youtube2-4oQeQR1DEjw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;4oQeQR1DEjw&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/4oQeQR1DEjw?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Hne&#271; pri prvom diele seri&#225;lu som sa za&#269;al rozpamat&#225;va&#357; na atmosf&#233;ru z knihy. Cirkus, koh&#250;tie z&#225;pasy a Melqu&#237;ades s jeho vyn&#225;lezmi.</p><p>Cel&#253; ten magick&#253; realizmus sa pod&#318;a m&#328;a podarilo prenies&#357; na obrazovku na ve&#318;mi vysokej &#250;rovni. Pr&#237;beh Maconda od jeho vzniku ma okam&#382;ite uniesol. Obrazotvornos&#357;, prel&#237;nanie skuto&#269;nosti, snov, t&#250;&#382;ob, v&#253;&#269;itiek, smrti, l&#225;sky a v&#353;etk&#253;ch mo&#382;n&#253;ch pocitov ma fascinovali. Milujem, ke&#271; ma dielo zm&#228;tie alebo sa hr&#225; s mojou predstavivos&#357;ou. Nevedel som sa do&#269;ka&#357; druhej s&#233;rie, ktor&#250; som pr&#225;ve teraz dopozeral.</p><p>A hne&#271; si zapisujem pocity.</p><p>P&#237;sal som aj o filme <em>Frankenstein</em> a mojich pocitoch z neho. &#268;o v&#353;etko dok&#225;&#382;e z &#269;loveka spravi&#357; jeho okolie. Ak&#253; by bol, keby pr&#225;ve v t&#253;ch prv&#253;ch a najzranite&#318;nej&#353;&#237;ch chv&#237;&#318;ach &#382;ivota neza&#382;il &#318;udsk&#250; krutos&#357;, odmietnutie alebo pon&#237;&#382;enie. Frankensteinovo mon&#353;trum malo potenci&#225;l, cit, zvedavos&#357;, t&#250;&#382;bu po bl&#237;zkosti a napriek tomu z neho svet postupne vytv&#225;ral nie&#269;o in&#233;.</p><p>Pri <em>Sto rokoch samoty</em> som to pre&#382;&#237;val e&#353;te hlb&#353;ie.</p><p><strong>Do akej miery som t&#253;m, &#269;o zo m&#328;a urobili druh&#237;, a odkedy u&#382; za&#269;&#237;nam by&#357; autorom svojho vlastn&#233;ho &#382;ivota? Dok&#225;&#382;em na to zabudn&#250;&#357;? &#381;ijem svoj vlastn&#253; &#382;ivot?</strong></p><p>Ka&#382;d&#253; z n&#225;s pri naroden&#237; dostane nejak&#253; &#8220;hudobn&#253;&#8221; materi&#225;l. Rodinu, miesto, dobu, g&#233;ny, pr&#237;behy, strachy, l&#225;sku, chyby na&#353;ich rodi&#269;ov, mo&#382;no aj chyby ich rodi&#269;ov. Ni&#269; z toho si nevyberieme. A potom z toho materi&#225;lu mus&#237;me komponova&#357;.</p><p>Buend&#237;ovci st&#225;le opakuj&#250; men&#225;, t&#250;&#382;by, chyby, samotu, l&#225;sky aj n&#225;silie. Akoby ka&#382;d&#225; &#271;al&#353;ia gener&#225;cia dostala noty tej predch&#225;dzaj&#250;cej a bez toho, aby o tom vedela, za&#269;ala znovu hra&#357; jej mot&#237;vy. Id&#250; v kruhu alebo sk&#244;r v &#353;pir&#225;le. St&#225;le sa veci opakuj&#250;, no v inom &#269;ase, v inej gener&#225;cii a v trocha inej podobe. Je d&#244;le&#382;it&#233; ma&#357; vo svojom &#8222;vn&#250;tornom Maconde&#8220; dvere otvoren&#233;. </p><p>Pri niektor&#253;ch sc&#233;nach som si spomenul aj na vlastn&#233; detstvo a na veci, o ktor&#253;ch be&#382;ne neprem&#253;&#353;&#318;am. Uvedomil som si, &#382;e &#269;lovek m&#244;&#382;e by&#357; dnes &#353;&#357;astn&#253;, no z&#225;rove&#328; v sebe st&#225;le nies&#357; nie&#269;o z die&#357;a&#357;a, ktor&#253;m kedysi bol. A mo&#382;no dospelos&#357; znamen&#225; aj postupne rozpozn&#225;va&#357;, &#269;o sme dostali od &#318;ud&#237; pred nami, &#269;o si chceme necha&#357; a &#269;o u&#382; nechceme posla&#357; &#271;alej. Pretneme t&#250; &#353;pir&#225;lu a otvor&#237;me dvere. Je to v&#353;ak ve&#318;mi ta&#382;k&#233;, sme, &#8220;len&#8221; &#318;udia&#8230;</p><p>Jos&#233; Arcadio Buend&#237;a, &#269;lovek, ktor&#253; cel&#253; &#382;ivot lietal vo svojich my&#353;lienkach, objavoch, predstav&#225;ch a zakladal Macondo, nakoniec skon&#269;&#237; priviazan&#253; ku stromu. Priviazan&#253; k zemi. Vn&#250;torn&#225; samota jednotliv&#253;ch post&#225;v je vidite&#318;n&#225; od za&#269;iatku. Hoci s&#250; Buend&#237;ovci v&#382;dycky v jednom dome, maj&#250; priate&#318;ov a rodiny, &#382;ij&#250; vo svojom osamotenom vn&#250;toronom svete do ktor&#233;ho sa ten druh&#253; nikdy &#250;plne nedostane. V&#353;etko to dok&#225;&#382;e vyc&#237;ti&#357; matka Ursula, ktor&#225; ich dobre pozn&#225;.</p><p>Mo&#382;no najsilnej&#353;ie s&#250; pr&#225;ve postavy otca Jos&#233;ho a matky &#218;rsuly. Ursula je tam st&#225;le pre v&#353;etk&#253;ch. Star&#225; sa o dom, deti, vnukov a pravnukov. Sleduje cel&#233; gener&#225;cie svojej rodiny a vid&#237; v&#353;etky tie chyby a zl&#233; veci, ktor&#233; sa opakuj&#250;. Sna&#382;&#237; sa ochr&#225;ni&#357; ich pred zl&#253;mi rozhodnutiami, no nedok&#225;&#382;e to. Jos&#233; Arcadio Buend&#237;a je odv&#225;&#382;ny, zvedav&#253; &#269;lovek, ktor&#253; t&#250;&#382;i po poznan&#237;. Je jedn&#253;m zo zakladate&#318;ov nov&#233;ho sveta, no jeho obrovsk&#225; predstavivos&#357; ho postupne za&#269;ne odde&#318;ova&#357; od sveta skuto&#269;n&#233;ho. </p><p>Nie s&#250; symbolom dokonal&#253;ch rodi&#269;ov (tak&#237; pravdepodobne neexistuj&#250;). <strong>S&#250; symbolom l&#225;sky a pochopenia napriek v&#353;etk&#253;m &#318;udsk&#253;m chyb&#225;m.</strong></p><p>&#218;rsula vid&#237; prakticky cel&#253; pr&#237;beh Buend&#237;ovcov. Vid&#237;, ako sa opakuj&#250; men&#225;, povahy, samota, vojny, l&#225;sky aj chyby. Akoby postupne pochopila, &#382;e &#269;as nejde iba dopredu, ale &#382;e sa niektor&#233; veci v rodine st&#225;le vracaj&#250;.</p><p>A napriek tomu zost&#225;va. Star&#225; sa. Miluje.</p><p><strong>Rodina nie je miesto, kde maj&#250; by&#357; v&#353;etci dokonal&#237;. Je to miesto, kde by mal by&#357; &#269;lovek milovan&#253; aj vo svojej nedokonalosti.</strong></p><p><strong>&#317;udsk&#253; &#382;ivot je vo svojej podstate kr&#225;tke obdobie vedomia medzi t&#253;m, ke&#271; sme neboli, a t&#253;m, ke&#271; zasa nebudeme. A po&#269;as neho m&#225;me zvl&#225;&#353;tny dar nie&#269;o c&#237;ti&#357;, pozn&#225;va&#357;, milova&#357;, tvori&#357; a ovplyvni&#357; &#382;ivoty in&#253;ch.</strong></p><p>St&#225;le mi pri tom napadaj&#250; slov&#225; m&#244;jho priate&#318;a Ricka Coxa.</p><p>Prech&#225;dzali sme sa spolu po pl&#225;&#382;i Venice Beach v Los Angeles a ven&#269;ili jeho ps&#237;ka Edie. Rick sa zrazu rozhliadol okolo seba a povedal:</p><p>&#8222;David, ak&#225; je to vlastne neuverite&#318;n&#225; n&#225;hoda, &#382;e tu spolu m&#244;&#382;eme by&#357; a rozpr&#225;va&#357; sa. &#381;e bol Ve&#318;k&#253; tresk, z uhl&#237;ka vznikli na&#353;e tel&#225;, m&#225;me vedomie, dok&#225;&#382;eme spolu komunikova&#357; a teraz sa tu prech&#225;dzame a rozpr&#225;vame sa o hudbe. Ak&#253; kr&#225;sny by mohol by&#357; svet, keby si &#318;udia navz&#225;jom neubli&#382;ovali.&#8220;</p><p>Odvtedy si na t&#250; vetu ob&#269;as spomeniem.</p><p>Pri <em>Frankensteinovi</em> mi bolo smutno. Pri <em>Sto rokoch samoty</em> mi bolo miestami ve&#318;mi smutno, ale miestami som sa aj zasmial. Niektor&#233; veci vo mne otvorili moje vlastn&#233; spomienky. Ale &#269;o by to bol za svet, keby &#269;lovek pri t&#253;chto siln&#253;ch dielach ni&#269; nec&#237;til?</p><p><strong>C&#237;ti&#357; rados&#357; znamen&#225;, &#382;e n&#225;s&#357; dok&#225;&#382;e aj nie&#269;o zasiahnu&#357;. </strong></p><p>Cel&#233; gener&#225;cie Buend&#237;ovcov miluj&#250;, bojuj&#250;, h&#318;adaj&#250; svoju cestu, obchoduj&#250;, nen&#225;vidia, vym&#253;&#353;&#318;aj&#250;, maj&#250; pocit, &#382;e konaj&#250; spr&#225;vne, robia revol&#250;cie, pochov&#225;vaj&#250; pr&#237;buzn&#253;ch, h&#225;daj&#250; sa, h&#318;adaj&#250; &#353;&#357;astie a opakuj&#250; chyby svojich predkov. </p><p>A nakoniec pr&#237;du mravce a vietor.</p><p>Macondo za&#269;ne mizn&#250;&#357;. Kniha sa d&#225; &#269;&#237;ta&#357;, ale je neskoro&#8230; </p><p>Na&#269;o to teda v&#353;etko bolo?</p><p><strong>Pr&#225;ve preto, &#382;e &#318;udsk&#253; &#382;ivot netrv&#225; ve&#269;ne, z&#225;le&#382;&#237; na tom, ako pre&#382;ijeme ten k&#250;sok &#269;asu, ktor&#253; m&#225;me. Chceli by sme to najlep&#353;ie pre na&#353;e deti, aby sa pou&#269;ili z na&#353;&#237;ch ch&#253;b a kr&#225;&#269;ali &#250;spe&#353;ne &#382;ivotom, no nakoniec to aj tak spravia pod&#318;a seba. Tak, ako sme to urobili my v ich veku. Chceme ich chr&#225;ni&#357;, ale prli&#353;n&#225; ochrana im m&#244;&#382;e ubl&#237;&#382;i&#357;.</strong></p><p>Aj skladba skon&#269;&#237;. Doznie posledn&#253; t&#243;n a u&#382; sa nikdy nevr&#225;ti. To v&#353;ak neznamen&#225;, &#382;e skladba nemala v&#253;znam. Prem&#253;&#353;&#318;am, ako by som chcel zabezpe&#269;i&#357; rodinu a chcem ma&#357; finan&#269;n&#250; istotu na nieko&#318;ko rokov&#8230; <br>No pri t&#253;chto ve&#318;k&#253;ch dielach si sk&#244;r poviem: Miloval som niekoho? Miloval niekto m&#328;a? Vytvoril som nie&#269;o, &#269;o predt&#253;m nebolo? Za&#382;il som svet? Pre&#357;al som nejak&#250; &#353;pir&#225;lu? Bol som s&#225;m sebou? </p><p>A potom s&#250; tu tie &#250;plne oby&#269;ajn&#233; veci v &#382;ivote.</p><p>V&#253;born&#233; jedlo, ma&#269;ka na okne, cesta niekam bez d&#244;vodu, rozhovor s priate&#318;om, v&#244;&#328;a pr&#237;rody, hudba, r&#225;no po dlhej noci, v&#225;&#353;e&#328;, smiech a ve&#269;er, ke&#271; si &#269;lovek &#318;ahne do postele a povie si, &#382;e to bol super de&#328;.</p><p><strong>Toto s&#250; tie d&#244;le&#382;it&#233; veci.</strong></p><p>A toto v&#353;etko je pod&#318;a m&#328;a neuverite&#318;n&#253;m sp&#244;sobom sfilmovan&#233; v seri&#225;li <em>Sto rokov samoty</em>. Po&#269;as sledovania som sa c&#237;til by&#357; nieko&#318;k&#253;mi postavami naraz. Raz &#269;lovekom, ktor&#253; chce utiec&#357; zo sveta svojich rodi&#269;ov, inokedy &#269;lovekom, ktor&#253; sa do&#328; nevedomky vracia. &#268;lovekom, ktor&#253; nie&#269;o h&#318;ad&#225;, nie&#269;oho sa boj&#237;, nie&#269;o miluje a pritom ani presne nevie, ko&#318;ko z neho samotn&#233;ho patr&#237; jemu a ko&#318;ko &#318;u&#271;om, ktor&#237; tu boli pred n&#237;m.</p><p>A mo&#382;no pr&#225;ve preto s&#250; tie ve&#318;k&#233; umeleck&#233; diela tak&#233; ve&#318;k&#233;.</p><p>Neodpovedaj&#250; n&#225;m na ot&#225;zky. Nehovoria n&#225;m, &#269;o m&#225;me robi&#357;. Ned&#225;vaj&#250; n&#225;m n&#225;vod na &#382;ivot, ale na chv&#237;&#318;u odkryj&#250; na&#353;e dra&#269;ie srdce.</p><p>O &#269;om je teda &#318;udsk&#253; &#382;ivot?</p><p>Neviem. Je &#357;a&#382;k&#233; by&#357; &#269;lovekom a je e&#353;te &#357;a&#382;&#353;ie by&#357; dobr&#253;m &#269;lovekom.</p><p>Viem, &#382;e raz &#382;ivot skon&#269;&#237; a mo&#382;no pr&#225;ve jeho kone&#269;nos&#357; je d&#244;vodom, <strong>pre&#269;o na &#328;om tak z&#225;le&#382;&#237;.<br><br>Mo&#382;no sa neuzatv&#225;rajme do svojho Maconda, ale otvorme dvere smerom von aj dnu.</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>David</strong></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three Days in Brno with Erik Truffaz]]></title><description><![CDATA[And the Gustav Brom Radio Big Band]]></description><link>https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/three-days-in-brno-with-erik-truffaz</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/three-days-in-brno-with-erik-truffaz</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 11:15:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mdxR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F801d05b6-23df-436a-8861-fa2f16dec627_4032x3024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>I came back from Brno on Friday. I spent three days there, and the whole trip was quite a strong experience for me.</p><p>I played a concert with Erik Truffaz and the <a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozhlasov%C3%BD_Big_Band_Gustava_Broma">Gustav Brom Radio Big Band</a> at &#352;pilberk Castle. Honestly, I never imagined that one day I would be playing in something like this.</p><p>The week before the concert, I spent a lot of time preparing the passages I had to play. I recorded videos of myself playing them and sent them to Erik. I wanted to be as prepared as possible because I knew this was going to be a slightly different kind of concert than what I am used to.</p><p>Because of that, I listened to Miles Davis in great detail. Especially <em>Sketches of Spain</em>.</p><p>I had never listened to his playing this closely before.</p><p>What struck me most about Miles was his precision. He doesn&#8217;t really play anything unnecessary. No unnecessary playing around, no vibrato. Every note is very precise, and at the same time I find his playing quite aggressive. In a good way.</p><p>I have the feeling that when Miles plays, he is boxing with the trumpet.</p><p>And maybe that has something to do with the fact that he practiced boxing. It was an important part of his training and discipline.</p><p>I kept thinking about that while listening to him during my preparation for the concert.</p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mdxR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F801d05b6-23df-436a-8861-fa2f16dec627_4032x3024.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mdxR!, /__u/davidkollar.substack.com/w_424, /__u/davidkollar.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/davidkollar.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/davidkollar.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/davidkollar.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F801d05b6-23df-436a-8861-fa2f16dec627_4032x3024.jpeg 424w, 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from sheet music.</p><p>I am a very intuitive musician. My work comes from improvisation.</p><p>Since 2011, I have been recording my music myself and I have practically never needed to write down what I do.</p><p>When I look at sheet music, sometimes I feel like I am looking at music through bars.</p><p>It&#8217;s not that I can&#8217;t read music. My way of working is simply very different. And for me, it takes a very long time.</p><p>For example, a C is often not just a C.</p><p>In my case, it would probably need a manual:</p><p>play C, press the looper, record it for three seconds, feedback starts, turn the knob, react to what happened.</p><p>So my score would probably be more like a graphic score together with a manual.</p><p>:)</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/455e4916-fcea-41b6-9285-5fde8c7bd4d5_1640x2360.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3183329f-c098-4e41-a3c7-d3f41f68444e_1640x2360.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8f040462-4ddf-4181-89f9-6774020a5f7b_1640x2360.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;My sheet music&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0267735b-23fa-4f31-95d1-423f176e3d7e_1456x474.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p></p><p>So I told the conductor Vlad Valovi&#269; to just show me when I was supposed to play my solos.</p><p>And it worked.</p><p>The musicians in the Gustav Brom Big Band are great professionals and Vlad Valovi&#269; has an excellent ear. For me, it was interesting to be in this environment and at the same time find my own way of entering the music.</p><p>I gave Vlad a copy of my book <em><a href="https://davidkollar.com/product/1143678-o-hudbe-a-dobe-podpisana-kniha">O hudbe a Dobe</a></em>.</p><p></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;1b26754e-5d10-405c-a156-141a879ac901&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><div><hr></div><p>The concert took place at &#352;pilberk Castle and it was sold out.</p><p>I was very happy about that.</p><p>Especially because of the way music can bring completely different people together.</p><p>Me, Erik, the Gustav Brom Big Band, and people who had to walk all the way up to the castle and then sit in the rain wearing raincoats.</p><p>And they were still there.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>I think that is one of the best things about concerts.</p><p>There were also people at the concert who know KOMARA. Fans came from Poland and Slovakia, which made me very happy.</p><p>Sometimes you don&#8217;t really realize where your music travels.</p><p>You record something, release it, and then a few years later someone comes to a concert in Brno and tells you they know KOMARA.</p><div><hr></div><p>Erik and I had a lot of fun.</p><p>Basically, since the first time we met, we have mostly been laughing and making fun of each other.</p><p>Spending two days with him is always a lot of fun and also very inspiring.</p><p>I am very grateful to him for inviting me to be part of this concert.</p><p>It was a new experience for me and I learned a lot from it.</p><p>If you would like to listen to the concert, Czech Radio has published the full recording. The concert was broadcast on August 20 and will be available online until September 18, 2026.</p><p><a href="https://vltava.rozhlas.cz/erik-truffaz-david-kollar-a-rozhlasovy-big-band-gustava-broma-spolecne-oslavili-9633570?player=on">Recording of the concert &#8211; Erik Truffaz, David Kollar and the Gustav Brom Radio Big Band</a></p><p>You can hear me playing approximately from <strong>22:10 to 34:50</strong>, and then again <strong>from 1:32:20 until the end</strong>.</p><p></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/60c8d204-8698-47e9-b88d-b6b4d02718f2_2048x1365.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/107b5480-5008-4ce2-8417-abfb973864a1_2048x1365.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9c29329c-23be-4b45-8274-22b2936b6989_2048x1365.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/305c6cc9-fd73-471a-8e1e-5750c3d8d575_2048x1365.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/18cd61b6-436d-4f9a-81a3-f983d7e145e5_2048x1365.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0d13ce5d-d2c7-4a4b-b604-ec0268e60fe6_1456x1210.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><div><hr></div><p>I really like Brno.</p><p>I feel a little bit at home there.</p><p>I like Prague too, but Brno is different. Smaller, quieter, and I think it has a great atmosphere.</p><p>We also met with my friend V&#237;t Kalvoda from Ponava.</p><p>We talked about possibly doing an exhibition of my musical abstractions and a concert with Erik as a duo next year.</p><p>So we&#8217;ll see.</p><div><hr></div><p>My friend Peter Miga&#353; and my brother Miro were also with me in Brno.</p><p>The three days went by very quickly. I came home on Friday evening.</p><p>And there is another film waiting for me on my desk.</p><p>It&#8217;s called <em>&#352;&#237;pkari</em>, a Czech-Slovak comedy that should be released in cinemas next month.</p><p>So after Erik Truffaz, Miles Davis and the big band, I am back to film music.</p><p>The film <em>Kuko, Drob&#269;ek a Ra&#357;af&#225;k znovu zasahuj&#250;</em> is still in cinemas. If you have the time, go and see it. It&#8217;s a very nice film with a good idea behind it.</p><p>So that&#8217;s more or less what my last few days have looked like.</p><p>From one completely different world to another.</p><p>And actually, I like it that way.</p><p>I never wanted to do just one thing.</p><p>David</p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/three-days-in-brno-with-erik-truffaz?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/p/three-days-in-brno-with-erik-truffaz?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/three-days-in-brno-with-erik-truffaz/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/p/three-days-in-brno-with-erik-truffaz/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tri dni v Brne s Erikom Truffazom ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A Bigbandom Gustava Broma]]></description><link>https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/tri-dni-v-brne-s-erikom-truffazom</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/tri-dni-v-brne-s-erikom-truffazom</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:31:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!m5JG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff11bd2ac-ef97-427c-bddf-74355334a8ec_4032x3024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>V piatok som sa vr&#225;til z Brna. Bol som tam tri dni a cel&#253; ten v&#253;let bol pre m&#328;a dos&#357; siln&#253; z&#225;&#382;itok.</p><p>Hral som koncert s Erikom Truffazom a <a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rozhlasov%C3%BD_Big_Band_Gustava_Broma">Big Bandom Gustava Broma</a> na hrade &#352;pilberk. &#218;primne, nikdy by mi nenapadlo, &#382;e raz budem hra&#357; v nie&#269;om takom.</p><p>T&#253;&#382;de&#328; pred koncertom som sa ve&#318;mi intenz&#237;vne pripravoval na pas&#225;&#382;e, ktor&#233; som mal hra&#357;. Nahr&#225;val som si vide&#225;, ako ich hr&#225;m, a posielal som ich Erikovi. Chcel som ma&#357; v&#353;etko &#269;o najlep&#353;ie pripraven&#233;, preto&#382;e som vedel, &#382;e toto bude trochu in&#253; typ koncertu, ne&#382; na ak&#253; som zvyknut&#253;.</p><p>Ve&#318;mi podrobne som kv&#244;li tomu po&#269;&#250;val Milesa Davisa. 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Nehr&#225; tam takmer ni&#269; navy&#353;e. &#381;iadne zbyto&#269;n&#233; vyhr&#225;vanie a vibr&#225;to. Ka&#382;d&#253; t&#243;n je ve&#318;mi presn&#253;, no z&#225;rove&#328; je jeho hra pod&#318;a m&#328;a agres&#237;vna. V dobrom slova zmysle.</p><p>M&#225;m pocit, &#382;e ke&#271; Miles hr&#225;, tak z tej tr&#250;bky boxuje.</p><p>A mo&#382;no to s&#250;vis&#237; aj s t&#253;m, &#382;e sa boxu venoval. Bol to pre neho d&#244;le&#382;it&#253; sp&#244;sob tr&#233;ningu a discipl&#237;ny.</p><p>Ke&#271; som po&#269;&#250;val jeho hru pri pr&#237;prave na koncert, st&#225;le som nad t&#253;m rozm&#253;&#353;&#318;al.</p><div><hr></div><p>V stredu sme mali sk&#250;&#353;ku v &#268;eskom rozhlase.</p><p>Mal som trochu tr&#233;mu, preto&#382;e som nevedel, ako zapadnem do kolekt&#237;vu hudobn&#237;kov, ktor&#237; s&#250; zvyknut&#237; hra&#357; presne z listu.</p><p>Ja som ve&#318;mi intuit&#237;vny hudobn&#237;k. Moja tvorba vych&#225;dza z improvi&#225;cie.</p><p>Od roku 2011 si hudbu nahr&#225;vam s&#225;m a prakticky som nikdy nepotreboval zapisova&#357; veci, ktor&#233; rob&#237;m.</p><p>Ke&#271; vid&#237;m noty, niekedy m&#225;m pocit, &#382;e sa pozer&#225;m cez mre&#382;e na hudbu.</p><p>Nie je to tak, &#382;e by som noty nevedel &#269;&#237;ta&#357;. Sk&#244;r je m&#244;j sp&#244;sob pr&#225;ce &#250;plne in&#253;. Navy&#353;e mi to po t&#253;ch rokoch trv&#225; stra&#353;ne dlho.</p><p>Napr&#237;klad nota C pre m&#328;a &#269;asto nie je len C.</p><p>V mojom pr&#237;pade by k tomu mo&#382;no musel by&#357; e&#353;te manu&#225;l:</p><p>zahraj C, stla&#269; looper, nahraj ho na tri sekundy, pust&#237; sa sp&#228;tn&#225; v&#228;zba, oto&#269; gomb&#237;k, reaguj na to, &#269;o sa stalo.</p><p>Tak&#382;e moja partit&#250;ra by bola asi sk&#244;r grafick&#225; a spolu s &#328;ou by bol manu&#225;l.</p><p>:)</p><p></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8d8d79a9-47f7-4421-be0a-1dd60bf2c1b9_1640x2360.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2d397244-483a-41f0-808b-05ccf183dc56_1640x2360.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dbae7fee-154b-4b86-a5ef-2bd17860f186_1640x2360.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Moje noty&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f26afd53-37ac-4d61-ba34-808b85d39557_1456x474.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p>Dirigentovi Vladovi Valovi&#269;ovi som preto povedal, nech mi len uk&#225;&#382;e, kedy m&#225;m hra&#357; s&#243;la. Vlado je skvel&#253; &#269;lovek a profesion&#225;l.</p><p>Hudobn&#237;ci z Big Bandu Gustava Broma s&#250; v&#353;etci profesion&#225;li. Bolo pre m&#328;a zauj&#237;mav&#233; ocitn&#250;&#357; sa v tomto prostred&#237; a z&#225;rove&#328; si n&#225;js&#357; vlastn&#253; sp&#244;sob, ako do tej hudby vst&#250;pi&#357;.</p><p>Vlado som podaroval moju knihu <em><a href="https://davidkollar.com/product/1143678-o-hudbe-a-dobe-podpisana-kniha">O hudbe a Dobe</a></em><a href="https://davidkollar.com/product/1143678-o-hudbe-a-dobe-podpisana-kniha">.</a></p><div><hr></div><p>Koncert bol na hrade &#352;pilberk a bol vypredan&#253;.</p><p>Mal som z toho ve&#318;k&#250; rados&#357;.</p><p>Hlavne z toho, ako hudba dok&#225;&#382;e spoji&#357; &#250;plne r&#244;znych &#318;ud&#237;.</p><p>Ja, Erik, Big Band Gustava Broma a &#318;udia, ktor&#237; si museli vy&#353;lapa&#357; na hrad a potom sedie&#357; v da&#382;di v pr&#353;ipl&#225;&#353;&#357;och.</p><p>A aj tak pri&#353;li.</p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p></p><p>To je pod&#318;a m&#328;a jedna z najlep&#353;&#237;ch vec&#237; na koncertoch.</p><p>Na koncert pri&#353;li aj &#318;udia, ktor&#237; poznaj&#250; KOMARU. Boli tam fan&#250;&#353;ikovia z Po&#318;ska aj zo Slovenska, &#269;o ma ve&#318;mi pote&#353;ilo.</p><p>&#268;lovek si niekedy neuvedomuje, kam a&#382; sa jeho hudba dostane.</p><p>Nie&#269;o nahr&#225;te, vyd&#225;te a potom o p&#225;r rokov niekto pr&#237;de na koncert do Brna a povie v&#225;m, &#382;e pozn&#225; KOMARU.</p><p></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/607b3121-337e-4718-bced-087e9253cfc2_2048x1365.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4bbaf2a3-69d8-4236-8ded-7c9bc40fa43f_2048x1365.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9b8e25ed-cecf-47f4-bcc6-4f3d358697c8_2048x1365.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/33edc4bc-83b4-4737-a17b-1395a1331836_2048x1365.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3fe223b8-5e95-461c-8715-947075d317c7_2048x1365.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/edc00bcb-df97-433a-8238-13f3c75a6704_1456x1210.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><div><hr></div><p>S Erikom sme za&#382;ili kopec srandy.</p><p>V podstate od prv&#233;ho stretnutia sa len smejeme a rob&#237;me si zo seba srandu.</p><p>By&#357; s n&#237;m dva dni je v&#382;dy ve&#318;a z&#225;bavy a z&#225;rove&#328; ve&#318;a in&#353;pir&#225;cie.</p><p>Som mu ve&#318;mi v&#271;a&#269;n&#253;, &#382;e ma do tohto koncertu zavolal.</p><p>Bola to pre m&#328;a nov&#225; sk&#250;senos&#357; a ve&#318;a som sa pri nej nau&#269;il.<br><br>Ak si chcete koncert vypo&#269;u&#357;, &#268;esk&#253; rozhlas zverejnil cel&#253; z&#225;znam. Koncert bol odvysielan&#253; 20. augusta a online bude dostupn&#253; do 18. septembra 2026.</p><p><a href="https://vltava.rozhlas.cz/erik-truffaz-david-kollar-a-rozhlasovy-big-band-gustava-broma-spolecne-oslavili-9633570?player=on&amp;utm_source=chatgpt.com">Z&#225;znam koncertu &#8211; Erik Truffaz, David Kollar a Rozhlasov&#253; Big Band Gustava Broma</a></p><p><strong>Moje hranie n&#225;jdete pribli&#382;ne od 22:10 do 34:50 a potom od 1:32:20 a&#382; do konca.</strong></p><div><hr></div><p>Brno m&#225;m ve&#318;mi r&#225;d.</p><p>C&#237;tim sa tam ako doma.</p><p>Prahu m&#225;m r&#225;d takisto, ale Brno je in&#233;. Men&#353;ie, pokojnej&#353;ie a m&#225; skvel&#250; atmosf&#233;ru.</p><p>Stretli sme sa aj s moj&#237;m priate&#318;om V&#237;tom Kalvodom z Ponavy. </p><p>Rozpr&#225;vali sme sa aj o tom, &#382;e by sme na bud&#250;ci rok mohli urobi&#357; v&#253;stavu mojich hudobn&#253;ch abstrakci&#237; a koncert s Erikom vo dvojici.</p><p>Tak uvid&#237;me.</p><div><hr></div><p>V Brne bol so mnou aj m&#244;j priate&#318; Peter Miga&#353; a m&#244;j brat Miro.</p><p>Tri dni v Brne ubehli ve&#318;mi r&#253;chlo. Domov som sa vr&#225;til v piatok v podve&#269;er.</p><p>A na stole m&#225;m &#271;al&#353;&#237; film.</p><p>Vol&#225; sa <em>&#352;&#237;pkari</em> a je to &#269;esko-slovensk&#225; kom&#233;dia, ktor&#225; by mala &#237;s&#357; do k&#237;n u&#382; bud&#250;ci mesiac.</p><p>Tak&#382;e po Erikovi Truffazovi, Milesovi Davisovi a big bande som sp&#228;&#357; pri filmovej hudbe.</p><p>St&#225;le v kin&#225;ch be&#382;&#237; aj film <em>Kuko, Drob&#269;ek a Ra&#357;af&#225;k znovu zasahuj&#250;</em>. Ak si n&#225;jdete &#269;as, cho&#271;te si ho pozrie&#357;. Je to ve&#318;mi mil&#253; film s peknou my&#353;lienkou.</p><p>Takto nejako vyzeraj&#250; moje posledn&#233; dni.</p><p>Z jedn&#233;ho &#250;plne odli&#353;n&#233;ho sveta do druh&#233;ho.</p><p>A vlastne mi to vyhovuje.</p><p>Nikdy som nechcel robi&#357; iba jednu vec.</p><p>David</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">David Kollar is a reader-supported publication. 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I don&#8217;t want to analyze the cinematography, editing, or search for every reference to Homer. These are simply my personal thoughts after watching the film. Perhaps the perspective of a musician, a composer, and someone who is always more interested in what a work of art leaves behind than in whether it is technically perfect.</p><p>Before going to the cinema, I read many conflicting reviews. To be honest, I wasn&#8217;t even sure whether I should go.</p><p>Last year I watched <em>The Return</em> starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche. It was a completely different kind of film&#8212;slower, more intimate, focused on the return of a man coming home after years of war. I was fascinated by its pace, its performances, and the way it used an ancient story to reflect a world that seems to have lost its sense of order.</p><p></p><div id="youtube2-lrZqQBA9v3Q" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;lrZqQBA9v3Q&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/lrZqQBA9v3Q?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>I&#8217;ve always admired Ralph Fiennes. It&#8217;s funny because after watching <em>Schindler&#8217;s List</em> years ago, I remember telling myself I never wanted to learn his name. His portrayal of Amon G&#246;th was so convincing that it genuinely filled me with anxiety. The character stayed with me for years. Looking back, that&#8217;s exactly why I now realize what an extraordinary actor he is.</p><p>And then came Nolan&#8217;s <em>Odysseus</em>.</p><p>The first thing that completely drew me in was the atmosphere. Real locations, vast landscapes, the sea, the wind, and the feeling that human beings are tiny compared to the world around them. We&#8217;ve become so accustomed to green screens and CGI that it was refreshing to watch actors who actually seemed to be standing in places where the wind hit their faces and the sea determined their fate. I also read that Nolan looked to Tarkovsky&#8217;s <em>Andrei Rublev</em> for inspiration. Tarkovsky has always been my favorite filmmaker, so that made perfect sense to me.</p><p>As a musician, I was naturally very curious about Ludwig G&#246;ransson&#8217;s score. At first, I wasn&#8217;t sure what to think. But as the film unfolded, I realized this is one of those soundtracks that needs time. It doesn&#8217;t revolve around a memorable heroic theme, nor does it glorify its characters.</p><p>Instead, G&#246;ransson builds the score from rhythms, ancient instruments, and human voices. The vocals often sound as if they have been digitally bent, stretched between notes, or transformed in subtle ways. Initially I assumed these were electronic effects. Later I began wondering whether the singers had actually performed them that way. If so, it&#8217;s a brilliant way of merging ancient musical traditions with a thoroughly modern sonic language. I also loved the way he uses reverb, allowing the instruments to breathe and become part of the surrounding landscape.</p><p>Throughout the first half of the film I kept comparing it to <em>The Return</em>.</p><p>That lasted only until the Cyclops appeared.</p><p>At that moment I realized these two films are telling entirely different stories.</p><p><em>The Return</em> is about a king coming home.</p><p>Nolan&#8217;s <em>Odysseus</em> is about a man who has lost his way.</p><p>Odysseus keeps making one terrible decision after another. He leads his men into places where they anger the gods, break sacred rules, and gradually lose their companions. It&#8217;s not simply a journey across the sea. It&#8217;s the journey of someone drifting farther and farther away from himself. His crew follows him blindly, convinced he will eventually lead them home.</p><p>One particular idea stayed with me throughout the film.</p><p>Nolan seems to suggest that everything truly began in Troy.</p><p>The moment the Greeks entered the city hidden inside the Trojan Horse, it feels as though the old rules stopped applying. Honor disappeared. Morality disappeared. War became slaughter and plunder.</p><p>To me, this also speaks directly to the modern world.</p><p>If you want a war badly enough, you&#8217;ll always find an excuse. And once it begins, soldiers can easily become something else entirely.</p><div id="youtube2-Mzw2ttJD2qQ" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Mzw2ttJD2qQ&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Mzw2ttJD2qQ?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Even historians today often describe the Trojan War differently than they once did. Helen may have been only a pretext. Behind the conflict there were likely trade routes, political influence, and power.</p><p>Isn&#8217;t that strikingly similar to many wars today?</p><p>Another scene that remained with me long after the credits was the command not to kill the cattle of the Sun God.</p><p>The crew knows exactly what they must not do.</p><p>They know it will bring death.</p><p>And yet they do it anyway.</p><p>Isn&#8217;t that what we often do ourselves?</p><p>We know what is right.</p><p>We know what we shouldn&#8217;t do.</p><p>Yet when the crucial moment comes, we often choose otherwise.</p><p>Perhaps that&#8217;s why these ancient stories never die. Not because they contain monsters or gods, but because they understand human nature.</p><p>The film also reminded me of something else.</p><p>Respect for the dead.</p><p>Respect for the elderly.</p><p>And the ancient Greek belief that an ordinary old man, a beggar, or a traveler might actually be a god in disguise.</p><p>I find that idea deeply beautiful.</p><p>Treat every person with respect, because you never truly know who stands before you.</p><p>Once killing and looting become acceptable, once the most basic moral boundaries disappear, evil always finds its way back. Some call it fate. Others call it karma. Perhaps they&#8217;re simply the consequences of our own actions.</p><p>When I left the cinema, another thought wouldn&#8217;t leave my mind.</p><p>I&#8217;m genuinely saddened by the way we handle information today. How easily fear spreads. How quickly hatred is manufactured. How effortlessly strangers become enemies. Sometimes all it takes is a few carefully chosen words, a bit of manipulation, and suddenly a young person is handed a weapon, convinced they are fighting for the right cause.</p><p>You would think that after thousands of years of history, after countless wars, millions of deaths, and hundreds of books and films warning us where this path leads, we might have learned something.</p><p>Deep down, I sometimes feel that if more people devoted themselves to art, music, literature, or simply learning to understand one another, perhaps there would be fewer wars. It&#8217;s probably a naive thought.</p><p>History seems to move in cycles. Society grows dissatisfied, someone appears with simple answers, and sooner or later blood is spilled. Eventually the world settles down again... until the cycle begins once more.</p><p>The weapons change.</p><p>Technology changes.</p><p>Propaganda changes.</p><p>The way information spreads changes.</p><p>Human beings, however, remain painfully the same.</p><p>Perhaps that&#8217;s why <em>The Odyssey</em> still feels so relevant today. Not because it tells stories about Greek gods and mythical creatures, but because it tells a story about us. About pride, ambition, fear, weakness, and how difficult it is to remain human when the world around us begins to abandon its own rules.</p><p>I didn&#8217;t leave the cinema feeling that I had watched a film about a Greek hero.</p><p>I left feeling that I had watched a film about humanity itself.</p><p>For a brief moment I felt like Odysseus, his son, his mother, the worst soldier, the old abandoned dog, the blind old man, and even the Cyclops.</p><p>If a film leaves you carrying thoughts like these long after you&#8217;ve left the cinema, then it has done something truly worthwhile.</p><p>Watch both films.</p><p></p><p>&#8212; David</p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/odysseus-is-still-among-us?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/p/odysseus-is-still-among-us?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Odysseus je stále medzi nami.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Nie som historik ani filmov&#253; kritik.]]></description><link>https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/odysseus-je-stale-medzi-nami</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/odysseus-je-stale-medzi-nami</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:31:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/youtube/w_728,c_limit/Mzw2ttJD2qQ" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Nie som historik ani filmov&#253; kritik. Nechcem rozobera&#357; kameru, strih ani h&#318;ada&#357; v&#353;etky odkazy na Hom&#233;ra. Toto s&#250; len moje pocity po zhliadnut&#237; filmu. Mo&#382;no poh&#318;ad hudobn&#237;ka, skladate&#318;a a &#269;loveka, ktor&#233;ho v&#382;dy viac zauj&#237;ma, &#269;o v &#328;om dielo zanech&#225;.</p><p>Pred n&#225;v&#353;tevou kina som si pre&#269;&#237;tal mno&#382;stvo rozporupln&#253;ch recenzi&#237;. &#218;primne, v&#225;hal som, &#269;i v&#244;bec &#237;s&#357;.</p><p>Minul&#253; rok som videl film <em>The Return</em> s Ralphom Fiennesom a Juliette Binoche. Bol to &#250;plne in&#253; typ filmu. Pomal&#353;&#237;, komornej&#353;&#237;, viac s&#250;streden&#253; na n&#225;vrat &#269;loveka, ktor&#253; sa po rokoch vojny vracia domov. Zaujal ma tempom, hereck&#253;mi v&#253;konmi aj t&#253;m, ako cez antick&#253; pr&#237;beh nastavoval zrkadlo svetu v ktorom nieje poriadok.</p><p></p><div id="youtube2-lrZqQBA9v3Q" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;lrZqQBA9v3Q&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/lrZqQBA9v3Q?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Ralpha Fiennesa m&#225;m ve&#318;mi r&#225;d. Je zvl&#225;&#353;tne, &#382;e po Schindlerovom zozname som si kedysi povedal, &#382;e si jeho meno ani nechcem zapam&#228;ta&#357;. Zahral Amona G&#246;tha tak presved&#269;ivo, &#382;e vo mne vyvol&#225;val skuto&#269;n&#250; &#250;zkos&#357;. Tak silno vo mne zostala t&#225; postava zap&#237;san&#225;. Dnes si pr&#225;ve preto uvedomujem, ak&#253; v&#253;nimo&#269;n&#253; herec to vlastne je.</p><p><strong>A potom pri&#353;iel Nolanov </strong><em><strong>Odysseus</strong></em><strong>.</strong></p><p>Prv&#225; vec, ktor&#225; ma &#250;plne pohltila, bola atmosf&#233;ra. Re&#225;lne kulisy, obrovsk&#233; priestory, more, vietor a pocit, &#382;e &#269;lovek je vo&#269;i svetu len nepatrn&#225; bytos&#357;. Dnes sme zvyknut&#237; na zelen&#233; pl&#225;tna a po&#269;&#237;ta&#269;ov&#233; efekty. Tu som mal pocit, &#382;e herci naozaj stoja na miestach, kde ich vietor bi&#269;uje do tv&#225;re a more rozhoduje o ich osude. Navy&#353;e som sa do&#269;&#237;tal, &#382;e Nolan sledoval Tarkovsk&#233;ho Andreja Rub&#318;ova, ako predlohu. Tarkovsk&#233;ho m&#225;m najrad&#353;ej zo v&#353;etk&#253;ch. </p><p>Ako hudobn&#237;ka ma prirodzene ve&#318;mi zauj&#237;mala hudba Ludwiga G&#246;ranssona. Zo za&#269;iatku som bol trochu v rozpakoch. Po&#269;as filmu som si v&#353;ak uvedomil, &#382;e je to jeden z t&#253;ch soundtrackov, ktor&#253;m treba da&#357; &#269;as. Nem&#225; hlavn&#253; mot&#237;v, neheroizuje nikoho. </p><p>G&#246;ransson pou&#382;&#237;va mno&#382;stvo rytmov, dobov&#253;ch n&#225;strojov a &#318;udsk&#253;ch hlasov. Vok&#225;ly znej&#250;, akoby ich niekto digit&#225;lne oh&#253;bal, pos&#250;val medzi t&#243;nmi alebo menil ich farbu. Najsk&#244;r som si myslel, &#382;e ide o po&#269;&#237;ta&#269;ov&#233; efekty. Nesk&#244;r mi do&#353;lo, &#382;e je celkom mo&#382;n&#233;, &#382;e to spev&#225;ci jednoducho takto naspievali. Ak je to tak, je to pod&#318;a m&#328;a geni&#225;lny sp&#244;sob, ako spoji&#357; star&#233; hudobn&#233; trad&#237;cie s modern&#253;m zvukov&#253;m svetom. Ve&#318;mi dobr&#233; nar&#225;ba aj s reverbom na n&#225;strojoch.</p><p>Po&#269;as prvej polovice filmu som ho podvedome porovn&#225;val s <em>The Return</em>. A&#382; do chv&#237;le, ke&#271; sa objavil Kyklop.</p><p>Vtedy mi do&#353;lo, &#382;e tieto dva filmy vlastne nerozpr&#225;vaj&#250; ten ist&#253; pr&#237;beh.</p><p><em>The Return</em> je film o n&#225;vrate kr&#225;&#318;a.</p><p>Nolanov <em>Odysseus</em> je film o &#269;loveku, ktor&#253; stratil cestu.</p><p>Odysseus rob&#237; jedno nespr&#225;vne rozhodnutie za druh&#253;m. Dost&#225;vaj&#250; sa na miesta, kde hnevaj&#250; bohov, poru&#353;uj&#250; pravidl&#225; a postupne prich&#225;dzaj&#250; o svojich druhov. Nie je to len cesta po mori. Je to cesta &#269;loveka, ktor&#253; sa st&#225;le viac vz&#271;a&#318;uje od seba sam&#233;ho. Pos&#225;dka ho slepo n&#225;sleduje a ver&#237;, &#382;e sa dostane domov&#8230;</p><p>Ve&#318;mi silno vo mne zarezonovala jedna my&#353;lienka.</p><p>Nolan akoby nazna&#269;oval, &#382;e v&#353;etko sa za&#269;alo u&#382; v Tr&#243;ji.</p><p>Vo chv&#237;li, ke&#271; Gr&#233;ci vo&#353;li do mesta ukryt&#237; v tr&#243;jskom koni, akoby prestali plati&#357; pravidl&#225;. Prestala plati&#357; &#269;es&#357;, prestala plati&#357; mor&#225;lka a vojna sa zmenila na vra&#382;denie a rabovanie.</p><p>Je to pod&#318;a m&#328;a poh&#318;ad aj na dne&#353;n&#253; modern&#253; svet. Ke&#271; chce&#353; vojnu tak si z&#225;mienku n&#225;jde&#353; a z vojaka sa stane zver. </p><p></p><div id="youtube2-Mzw2ttJD2qQ" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;Mzw2ttJD2qQ&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/Mzw2ttJD2qQ?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Aj o tr&#243;jskej vojne dnes historici hovoria inak ne&#382; kedysi. Helena bola mo&#382;no len z&#225;mienkou. V pozad&#237; mohli by&#357; obchodn&#233; cesty, moc a politick&#233; z&#225;ujmy. Nie je to vlastne ve&#318;mi podobn&#233; dne&#353;n&#253;m vojn&#225;m?</p><p>&#270;al&#353;ia sc&#233;na, ktor&#225; vo mne zostala dlho po skon&#269;en&#237; filmu, bola z&#225;kaz zabi&#357; dobytok boha Slnka.</p><p>Pos&#225;dka presne vie, &#269;o nesmie urobi&#357;, inak zomrie.</p><p>A napriek tomu to urob&#237;.</p><p>Presne tak&#237; sme &#269;asto aj my.</p><p>Vieme, &#269;o je spr&#225;vne.</p><p>Vieme, &#269;o by sme nemali robi&#357;.</p><p>A predsa sa v rozhoduj&#250;cej chv&#237;li zachov&#225;me opa&#269;ne.</p><p>Mo&#382;no pr&#225;ve preto s&#250; antick&#233; pr&#237;behy st&#225;le &#382;iv&#233;. Nie preto, &#382;e v nich vystupuj&#250; bohovia alebo pr&#237;&#353;ery, ale preto, &#382;e rozpr&#225;vaj&#250; o &#269;loveku.</p><p>Film vo mne zanechal e&#353;te jednu ve&#318;mi siln&#250; my&#353;lienku.</p><p>&#218;ctu k m&#341;tvym.</p><p>&#218;ctu k star&#253;m &#318;u&#271;om.</p><p>A starogr&#233;cku predstavu, &#382;e oby&#269;ajn&#253; starec, tul&#225;k alebo pocestn&#253; m&#244;&#382;e by&#357; v skuto&#269;nosti prezle&#269;en&#253; boh.</p><p>Je to n&#225;dhern&#225; my&#353;lienka.</p><p>Spr&#225;vaj sa ku ka&#382;d&#233;mu &#269;loveku s &#250;ctou, preto&#382;e nikdy nevie&#353;, koho m&#225;&#353; pred sebou.</p><p>Ke&#271; sa za&#269;ne zab&#237;ja&#357;, rabova&#357; a &#269;lovek prestane re&#353;pektova&#357; z&#225;kladn&#233; pravidl&#225;, zlo sa vracia sp&#228;&#357;. Mo&#382;no tomu niekto hovor&#237; osud, niekto karma a niekto len d&#244;sledky na&#353;ich &#269;inov.</p><p>Ke&#271; som vy&#353;iel z kina, neprest&#225;val som myslie&#357; e&#353;te na jednu vec.</p><p>Je mi &#250;primne &#318;&#250;to, ako dnes nar&#225;bame s inform&#225;ciami. Ako &#318;ahko sa &#353;&#237;ri strach, nen&#225;vis&#357; a ako r&#253;chlo sa z &#318;ud&#237; st&#225;vaj&#250; nepriatelia. Sta&#269;&#237; zop&#225;r viet, zop&#225;r manipul&#225;ci&#237; a niekto pod&#225; mlad&#233;mu &#269;loveku do ruky zbra&#328; s presved&#269;en&#237;m, &#382;e bojuje za spr&#225;vnu vec.</p><p>&#268;lovek by si myslel, &#382;e po tis&#237;coch rokov dej&#237;n, po v&#353;etk&#253;ch vojn&#225;ch, po mili&#243;noch m&#341;tvych, po stovk&#225;ch kn&#237;h a filmov, ktor&#233; n&#225;s pred t&#253;m varuj&#250;, sme sa u&#382; mohli nie&#269;o nau&#269;i&#357;. Niekde vo n&#250;tri c&#237;tim, &#382;e keby sa ka&#382;d&#253; venoval umeniu, hudbe, &#269;&#237;tani kn&#237;h tak by tie vojny neboli, ale je to samozrejme naivn&#233;&#8230; V&#382;dy spolo&#269;nos&#357; dospeje do f&#225;zy, kedy je v&#228;&#269;&#353;ina nespokojn&#225;, pr&#237;de vodca a potom krv. Potom sa svet ako tak pouklad&#225; a tak to pr&#237;de zas.</p><p>Menia sa zbrane, technol&#243;gie, propaganda aj sp&#244;sob, ak&#253;m sa &#353;&#237;ria inform&#225;cie. &#268;lovek v&#353;ak zost&#225;va a&#382; bolestivo rovnak&#253;.</p><p>Mo&#382;no pr&#225;ve preto je <strong>Odysseia</strong> st&#225;le aktu&#225;lna. Nie preto, &#382;e rozpr&#225;va o gr&#233;ckych bohoch a b&#225;jnych bytostiach, ale preto, &#382;e rozpr&#225;va o n&#225;s. O na&#353;ej p&#253;che, t&#250;&#382;be po moci, strachu, slabostiach aj o tom, ak&#233; &#357;a&#382;k&#233; je zosta&#357; &#269;lovekom vo chv&#237;&#318;ach, ke&#271; okolo n&#225;s prest&#225;vaj&#250; plati&#357; pravidl&#225;.</p><p>Neodch&#225;dzal som z kina s pocitom, &#382;e som videl film o gr&#233;ckom hrdinovi.</p><p>Odch&#225;dzal som s pocitom, &#382;e som videl film o &#269;loveku ako tak&#233;mu. C&#237;til som sa ako Odyseus, ako jeho syn, ako jeho matka, ako ten najhor&#353;&#237; vojak, ako ten star&#253; a nechcen&#253; pes, ako star&#253; slepec a ako Kyklop&#8230;</p><p>Ak v n&#225;s po filme ost&#225;vaj&#250; tak&#233;to my&#353;lienky tak i&#353;lo o dobr&#253; film. Pozrite si obe.<br><br><br>david<br><br><br></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music From The Bag]]></title><description><![CDATA[Posledn&#253;ch desa&#357; rokov sa mi doma hromadila jedna pomyseln&#225; ta&#353;ka.]]></description><link>https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/music-from-the-bag-2ce</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/music-from-the-bag-2ce</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:47:17 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dmit!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac219c9c-3e52-40b8-a7de-4a55683128e1_8267x8267.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Posledn&#253;ch desa&#357; rokov sa mi doma hromadila jedna pomyseln&#225; ta&#353;ka.</p><p>Neboli v nej gitary ani efekty. Boli v nej n&#225;pady.</p><p>Kr&#225;tke riffy, nedokon&#269;en&#233; skladby, groove, dem&#225;. Niektor&#233; vznikli po&#269;as nahr&#225;vania filmovej hudby, in&#233; po koncertoch alebo po&#269;as sk&#250;&#353;ok. &#268;asto som si povedal: <em>k tomu sa raz vr&#225;tim.</em></p><p>Len&#382;e potom pri&#353;iel &#271;al&#353;&#237; album. &#270;al&#353;&#237; soundtrack. KOMARA. Spolupr&#225;ce s Arvem Henriksenom. A tie n&#225;pady zostali tam, kde boli.</p><p>V tej ta&#353;ke.</p><p>Niektor&#233; boli pr&#237;li&#353; rockov&#233;. In&#233; pr&#237;li&#353; fusion. Na albumy, ktor&#233; som v tom obdob&#237; robil, jednoducho nepatrili.</p><p>Po&#269;as zimy 2025 som si povedal, &#382;e je &#269;as t&#250; ta&#353;ku kone&#269;ne otvori&#357;.</p><div><hr></div><p>Pr&#225;ve v tom obdob&#237; ma za&#269;ali zauj&#237;ma&#357; aj nov&#233; mo&#382;nosti umelej inteligencie.</p><p>Nie sp&#244;sobom, ak&#253; dnes &#269;asto v&#237;dame na internete. Nemal som chu&#357; nap&#237;sa&#357;: <em>&#8222;vytvor mi skladbu.&#8220;</em> To ma nikdy nel&#225;kalo.</p><p>Zauj&#237;malo ma nie&#269;o in&#233;.</p><p>&#268;o sa stane, ke&#271; jej d&#225;m zvuk, ktor&#253; u&#382; existuje?</p><p>Nahral som napr&#237;klad tr&#250;bku Arveho Henriksena a sk&#250;&#353;al z nej vytvori&#357; bicie. Inokedy som pracoval s &#250;dermi na frame drum a sledoval, kam sa tieto zvuky dok&#225;&#382;u posun&#250;&#357;.</p><p>Niektor&#233; v&#253;sledky boli &#250;plne nepou&#382;ite&#318;n&#233;.</p><p>In&#233; ma &#250;primne prekvapili.</p><p>Za nieko&#318;ko mesiacov vzniklo pribli&#382;ne &#353;es&#357;sto experimentov.</p><p>V&#228;&#269;&#353;ina z nich skon&#269;ila v ko&#353;i.</p><p>Nieko&#318;ko si na&#353;lo cestu na tento album.</p><p>Niektor&#233; rytmick&#233; vrstvy vznikli s pomocou umelej inteligencie. T&#253;m sa v&#353;ak pr&#225;ca iba za&#269;ala. Nasledovali hodiny programovania, vrstvenia, editovania a h&#318;adania spr&#225;vnych kombin&#225;ci&#237;. V niektor&#253;ch skladb&#225;ch sa dokonca prepletaj&#250; dve rytmick&#233; vrstvy.</p><div><hr></div><p>&#268;asto prem&#253;&#353;&#318;am nad t&#253;m, ako pristupova&#357; k nov&#253;m technol&#243;gi&#225;m.</p><p>Pod&#318;a m&#328;a maj&#250; zmysel vtedy, ke&#271; sa stan&#250; n&#225;strojom v ruk&#225;ch autora. Samy osebe ni&#269; nevytvoria. To najd&#244;le&#382;itej&#353;ie sa deje a&#382; v rozhodnutiach, ktor&#233; rob&#237;me po&#269;as tvorby.</p><div><hr></div><p>Podobn&#253;m sp&#244;sobom vznikol aj obal albumu.</p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dmit!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac219c9c-3e52-40b8-a7de-4a55683128e1_8267x8267.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Dmit!, /__u/davidkollar.substack.com/w_424, /__u/davidkollar.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/davidkollar.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/davidkollar.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/davidkollar.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac219c9c-3e52-40b8-a7de-4a55683128e1_8267x8267.jpeg 424w, 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Tentoraz som namiesto pl&#225;tna zobral star&#253; notov&#253; papier a nakreslil na&#328; jednoduch&#250; kresbu uhl&#237;kom. Zdalo sa mi, &#382;e presne vystihuje charakter albumu &#8211; nie&#269;o zabudnut&#233;, trochu pokr&#269;en&#233; &#269;asom, &#269;o po rokoch op&#228;&#357; dostalo svoj priestor.</p><div><hr></div><p>Album som nazval <strong>Music From The Bag</strong>.</p><p>Preto&#382;e presne odtia&#318; pri&#353;iel.</p><p>Zo starej pomyselnej ta&#353;ky plnej n&#225;padov, ktor&#233; &#269;akali na spr&#225;vny &#269;as.</p><p>Dnes je t&#225; ta&#353;ka kone&#269;ne pr&#225;zdna.</p><p><strong>David Kollar</strong></p><p></p><p></p><div class="bandcamp-wrap album" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-the-bag&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Music From The Bag, by David Kollar&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;9 track album&quot;,&quot;thumbnail_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7d7a511e-4ec0-4cdb-840e-a19397f1d810_700x700.jpeg&quot;,&quot;author&quot;:&quot;David Kollar&quot;,&quot;embed_url&quot;:&quot;https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3724410869/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=333333/artwork=small/transparent=true/&quot;,&quot;is_album&quot;:true}" data-component-name="BandcampToDOM"><iframe src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3724410869/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=333333/artwork=small/transparent=true/" frameborder="0" gesture="media" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/music-from-the-bag-2ce?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/p/music-from-the-bag-2ce?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Music From The Bag]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the past ten years, I&#8217;ve been collecting musical ideas.]]></description><link>https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/music-from-the-bag</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/music-from-the-bag</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:44:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/26751e89-a798-47e3-b540-f599f44232c8_8267x8267.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For the past ten years, I&#8217;ve been collecting musical ideas.</p><p>Not guitars or pedals. Just ideas.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">David Kollar is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Short riffs, unfinished songs, grooves and demos. Some were written while working on film scores, others appeared during rehearsals or after concerts. I often thought, <em>I&#8217;ll come back to this one day.</em></p><p>But then another album came along. Another soundtrack. KOMARA. Collaborations with Arve Henriksen. Those ideas simply stayed where they were.</p><p>In the bag.</p><p>Some were too rock-oriented. Others leaned too much towards fusion. They just didn&#8217;t belong on the albums I was making at the time.</p><p>During the winter of 2025, I finally decided to open that imaginary bag.</p><div><hr></div><p>Around the same time, I became curious about artificial intelligence.</p><p>Not in the way it&#8217;s often presented today. I wasn&#8217;t interested in typing <em>&#8220;write me a song.&#8221;</em> That never appealed to me.</p><p>Instead, I wanted to see what would happen if I fed it sounds that already existed.</p><p>I recorded Arve Henriksen&#8217;s trumpet and experimented with turning it into drums. Other times I used recordings of my frame drum and explored how those sounds could evolve into new rhythmic textures.</p><p>Some results were completely unusable.</p><p>Others genuinely surprised me.</p><p>Over the following months, I created around 600 experiments.</p><p>Most of them ended up in the trash.</p><p>A few stayed with me.</p><p>Those eventually became the nine pieces on this album.</p><p>The work didn&#8217;t stop there. Some rhythmic layers were created with the help of artificial intelligence, but they were then programmed, layered, edited and developed further by me. On some tracks, two independent rhythmic layers run alongside each other.</p><div><hr></div><p>I often think about how we approach new technology.</p><p>To me, technology becomes meaningful only when it turns into a creative tool in the hands of an artist. By itself, it creates nothing. The important part is what we choose to do with it.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>The album artwork follows the same idea.</strong></p><p></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOjc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F52407703-7111-4e77-a3b0-788a7e0d1cb4_8267x8267.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOjc!, /__u/davidkollar.substack.com/w_424, /__u/davidkollar.substack.com/c_limit, /__u/davidkollar.substack.com/f_webp, /__u/davidkollar.substack.com/q_auto:good, /__u/davidkollar.substack.com/fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F52407703-7111-4e77-a3b0-788a7e0d1cb4_8267x8267.jpeg 424w, /__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NOjc!, 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For this cover, I drew directly onto an old sheet of manuscript paper. It felt like the perfect visual counterpart to the music&#8212;something forgotten, slightly worn by time, yet ready to find a new life.</p><div><hr></div><p>I called the album <strong>Music From The Bag</strong>.</p><p>Because that&#8217;s exactly where it came from.</p><p>An old imaginary bag filled with ideas waiting for the right moment.</p><p>Now it&#8217;s finally empty.</p><p><strong>David Kollar</strong></p><div><hr></div><div class="bandcamp-wrap album" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.bandcamp.com/album/music-from-the-bag&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Music From The Bag, by David Kollar&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;9 track album&quot;,&quot;thumbnail_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/436c3202-21f9-4182-bb87-6543f5e2c4bf_700x700.jpeg&quot;,&quot;author&quot;:&quot;David Kollar&quot;,&quot;embed_url&quot;:&quot;https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3724410869/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=333333/artwork=small/transparent=true/&quot;,&quot;is_album&quot;:true}" data-component-name="BandcampToDOM"><iframe src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3724410869/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=333333/artwork=small/transparent=true/" frameborder="0" gesture="media" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">David Kollar is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts from Kraków]]></title><description><![CDATA[Yesterday I returned from Krak&#243;w, a city my family and I visit almost every year.]]></description><link>https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/thoughts-from-krakow</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/thoughts-from-krakow</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:05:52 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HgWg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd7a00fcc-02fb-4833-886e-a0da0c6d9b04_3024x4032.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1></h1><p>Yesterday I returned from Krak&#243;w, a city my family and I visit almost every year. It&#8217;s one of those places where I genuinely feel at home. No matter how many times I go back, Krak&#243;w never gets old. There is always something new to discover&#8212;history, art, or simply wandering through its streets. Almost every caf&#233; has its own personality, style, and atmosphere.</p><p>This time we stayed in Kazimierz, a district I&#8217;ve grown to love even more over the years. We hardly ever go to the main square anymore. Instead, we prefer walking through the side streets, stopping for coffee, and simply watching everyday life unfold.</p><p>Kazimierz has a unique atmosphere. Around Plac Nowy you&#8217;ll find the famous Polish zapiekanki, small markets, independent caf&#233;s, clubs, and bars that have managed to keep their original character. We always stop by Alchemia, and Eszeweria is another favorite of mine. They&#8217;re more than just places to have a drink&#8212;they each have their own soul. It&#8217;s easy to lose track of time there. In the evenings, Kazimierz comes alive with music, conversations, and a kind of energy that&#8217;s becoming increasingly rare.</p><p></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d7a00fcc-02fb-4833-886e-a0da0c6d9b04_3024x4032.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dd942c10-3c8c-43db-860d-996174e5446c_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/71f3f3fa-1a7b-4ff2-8433-55e886d537ad_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d44c605d-3ba4-46cd-81e1-8277fcd95e56_1920x1080.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6bbb21ce-bb32-4392-b1b2-42c2a79333c6_1456x1456.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p>During these walks I had plenty of time to think. We walked around 22,000 steps every day, and I&#8217;ve realized that some of my best thoughts arrive while I&#8217;m moving. Walking creates a kind of space that I rarely find at home.</p><p>Every now and then I open social media to share something. But if I stay there for more than a few minutes, I usually end up feeling disappointed. It seems as if a kind of verbal poison has spread among people. Everyone claims to know what a moral compass should look like, yet very few actually follow one online. Empathy disappears quickly, and whenever there&#8217;s an opportunity to take a shot at someone, the comments start looking like an UFC fight or a football stadium during the World Cup final. Instead of having conversations, people compete to see who can shout the loudest.</p><p>I hope we&#8217;ll eventually learn how to disagree without trying to destroy each other.</p><p>Shortly before leaving for Krak&#243;w, I finished the score for the upcoming animated film <em>Kuko, Drob&#269;ek and Ra&#357;af&#225;k Strike Again</em>. It was a wonderful project to work on. For my generation it&#8217;s full of nostalgia, but it&#8217;s also a genuinely emotional story with a lot of heart. The film will be released in cinemas this August. If you&#8217;re curious, here&#8217;s the teaser:</p><div id="youtube2-LUPkFMCgqhI" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;LUPkFMCgqhI&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/LUPkFMCgqhI?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Around the same time I received another film offer, but I decided to turn it down. Some people probably imagine that I accept every film project that comes my way, but that&#8217;s simply not true. I genuinely love writing music for films, yet if I don&#8217;t connect with a project on a deeper level, I&#8217;d rather not do it.</p><p>Film scoring has become one of my most important sources of income, especially in a time when music streaming pays so little. Even so, I can&#8217;t say yes to everything. I need to believe in what I&#8217;m working on.</p><p>Last Thursday I performed a solo concert at the Gar&#225;&#382; Festival in Tren&#269;&#237;n. I spent the whole week preparing for it. After finishing a film score, it takes me a while to switch my mind back into the mindset of a performing musician. Those are two very different worlds.</p><p>Still, I see it as a privilege. One week I&#8217;m sitting alone in my studio writing music for a film, and a few days later I&#8217;m standing on a stage with my guitar, sharing music with an audience.</p><p>I also treated myself to something new recently&#8212;I bought a new mountain bike. Prices for traditional mountain bikes have dropped quite a bit lately, probably because so many people are switching to e-bikes.</p><p>I&#8217;ve been trying to ride for at least an hour every day. I live in Fintice, so my usual route goes uphill from the village towards the quarry, then on to Ter&#328;a and back. It&#8217;s not a particularly long ride, but the climbs are intense.</p><p>The older I get, the more I realize that movement is about much more than fitness. It&#8217;s a way to clear my head, organize my thoughts, and step away from the computer, the studio, and my phone. Honestly, without regular exercise, I&#8217;d probably go crazy.</p><p>Besides music, I&#8217;ve also started exploring something completely different over the past few months. I&#8217;ve been creating charcoal drawings, and several pieces have already emerged. I don&#8217;t really see them as traditional visual art. They&#8217;re more like musical abstractions&#8212;improvisations on paper. Just as with music, I try to trust intuition more than planning every detail.</p><p>If you&#8217;d like to have a look, you can find them here:</p><p><a href="https://davidkollar.com/visual-art">https://davidkollar.com/visual-art</a></p><p>One final thought.</p><p>The older I get, the more I appreciate the value of traveling. I don&#8217;t mean spending a week inside an all-inclusive resort. I mean walking through neighborhoods where local people actually live, sitting in small caf&#233;s, wandering streets that aren&#8217;t mentioned in guidebooks, and allowing yourself to become part of a place, even if only for a few days.</p><p>Those are the journeys that change me the most. Every time I come back home, I feel like I return as a slightly different person.</p><p>David</p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/thoughts-from-krakow?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/p/thoughts-from-krakow?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share David Kollar&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share David Kollar</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Myšlienky z Krakova]]></title><description><![CDATA[V&#269;era som sa vr&#225;til z Krakova, kam chod&#237;me s rodinou takmer ka&#382;d&#253; rok.]]></description><link>https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/myslienky-z-krakova</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/myslienky-z-krakova</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:03:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5f1e37be-7630-40ef-a324-000726bb9ff2_3024x4032.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p></p><p>V&#269;era som sa vr&#225;til z Krakova, kam chod&#237;me s rodinou takmer ka&#382;d&#253; rok. Je to jedno z miest, kde sa c&#237;tim naozaj dobre. M&#225;m pocit, &#382;e Krakov sa nikdy neopozer&#225;. V&#382;dy je &#269;o objavova&#357; &#8211; hist&#243;riu, umenie alebo oby&#269;ajn&#233; ulice. Takmer ka&#382;d&#225; kaviare&#328; m&#225; svoj vlastn&#253; charakter, &#353;t&#253;l a atmosf&#233;ru.</p><p>Tentoraz sme b&#253;vali v Kazimierzi, &#353;tvrti, ktor&#250; m&#225;m &#269;oraz rad&#353;ej. Do &#250;pln&#233;ho centra u&#382; takmer v&#244;bec nechod&#237;me. Sta&#269;&#237; sa len prech&#225;dza&#357; uli&#269;kami, zastavi&#357; sa na k&#225;vu a pozorova&#357; &#382;ivot okolo seba.<br><br>Kazimierz m&#225; neopakovate&#318;n&#250; atmosf&#233;ru. Okolo Placu Now&#233;ho n&#225;jdete legend&#225;rne po&#318;sk&#233; zapiekanky, mal&#233; trhy, mno&#382;stvo kaviarn&#237;, klubov a podnikov, ktor&#233; si za tie roky zachovali svoj charakter. V&#382;dy sa zastav&#237;me aj v Alchemii a m&#225;m r&#225;d aj Eszweriu. Nie s&#250; to len podniky, ale miesta s vlastnou atmosf&#233;rou, kde &#269;lovek &#318;ahko strat&#237; pojem o &#269;ase. Ve&#269;er cel&#253; Kazimierz o&#382;ije hudbou, rozhovormi a &#382;ivotom sp&#244;sobom, ktor&#253; sa dnes u&#382; nevid&#237; na mnoh&#253;ch miestach.</p><p></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b7eb40aa-23f3-4eda-9d43-1cd563d5465b_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/dbcab597-789d-4ed3-833f-7da12a574e83_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/610db5bb-6de0-4575-b748-4ce933dee8f4_1920x1080.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d042e730-f4bf-49a5-8cd9-336d253f76c1_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a7d0150b-bec1-4437-88d7-09b1cdc9e2d9_3024x4032.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/513ff548-ba7c-4deb-979d-82d4ee6790a6_1456x1210.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p>Po&#269;as t&#253;chto prech&#225;dzok som mal &#269;as prem&#253;&#353;&#318;a&#357;. Denne sme nachodili pribli&#382;ne 22-tis&#237;c krokov a pr&#225;ve pri ch&#244;dzi mi &#269;asto napadaj&#250; veci, na ktor&#233; si doma neviem n&#225;js&#357; priestor.</p><p>Ob&#269;as zapnem soci&#225;lne siete, aby som nie&#269;o zdie&#318;al. Ak sa tam v&#353;ak zdr&#382;&#237;m dlh&#353;ie, v&#382;dy zostanem trochu zasko&#269;en&#253;. Medzi &#318;u&#271;mi sa akoby &#353;&#237;ril slovn&#253; jed. Ka&#382;d&#253; presne vie, ako by mal vyzera&#357; mor&#225;lny kompas, no m&#225;lokto sa n&#237;m riadi pr&#225;ve tam. Empatia sa vytr&#225;ca a ke&#271; sa objav&#237; pr&#237;le&#382;itos&#357; kopn&#250;&#357; si do niekoho, diskusie &#269;asto pripom&#237;naj&#250; z&#225;pas v UFC alebo futbalov&#253; &#353;tadi&#243;n po&#269;as fin&#225;le majstrovstiev sveta. Namiesto rozhovoru sledujeme, kto koho hlasnej&#353;ie prekri&#269;&#237;.</p><p>D&#250;fam, &#382;e sa raz op&#228;&#357; nau&#269;&#237;me spolu nes&#250;hlasi&#357; bez toho, aby sme sa navz&#225;jom ni&#269;ili.</p><p>Kr&#225;tko pred odchodom do Krakova som dokon&#269;il hudbu k filmu <em>Kuko, Drob&#269;ek a Ra&#357;af&#225;k znovu zasahuj&#250;</em>. Bol to ve&#318;mi pr&#237;jemn&#253; projekt. Pre moju gener&#225;ciu je to nostalgia, ale z&#225;rove&#328; je to film s ve&#318;k&#253;m srdcom a mno&#382;stvom em&#243;ci&#237;. V auguste pr&#237;de do k&#237;n a ak v&#225;s zauj&#237;ma, m&#244;&#382;ete si pozrie&#357; teaser:<br></p><div id="youtube2-LUPkFMCgqhI" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;LUPkFMCgqhI&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/LUPkFMCgqhI?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Popritom som dostal e&#353;te jednu filmov&#250; ponuku. Nakoniec som ju odmietol. Ob&#269;as m&#225; niekto pocit, &#382;e filmov&#250; hudbu rob&#237;m ako na be&#382;iacom p&#225;se, ale tak to v&#244;bec nie je. T&#225;to pr&#225;ca ma st&#225;le ve&#318;mi bav&#237;, no ak s projektom nie som vn&#250;torne stoto&#382;nen&#253;, jednoducho do&#328; nejdem.</p><p>Filmov&#225; hudba je dnes, popri streamovan&#237;, jedn&#253;m z mojich najd&#244;le&#382;itej&#353;&#237;ch zdrojov pr&#237;jmu. Napriek tomu nem&#244;&#382;em prija&#357; v&#353;etko. Potrebujem ma&#357; pocit, &#382;e tomu, na &#269;om pracujem, ver&#237;m.</p><p>Vo &#353;tvrtok som odohral s&#243;lov&#253; koncert na festivale Gar&#225;&#382; v Tren&#269;&#237;ne. Cel&#253; t&#253;&#382;de&#328; som sa na&#328; pripravoval. Po intenz&#237;vnej pr&#225;ci na filme mi chv&#237;&#318;u trvalo prepn&#250;&#357; hlavu sp&#228;&#357; do re&#382;imu koncertn&#233;ho hudobn&#237;ka. Je zvl&#225;&#353;tne, ako ve&#318;mi sa tieto dva svety odli&#353;uj&#250;.</p><p>Napriek tomu to vn&#237;mam ako privil&#233;gium. M&#244;&#382;em sedie&#357; cel&#233; dni v &#353;t&#250;diu a sklada&#357; hudbu pre film a o p&#225;r dn&#237; st&#225;&#357; s gitarou na p&#243;diu pred publikom.</p><p>Urobil som si aj jednu rados&#357;. K&#250;pil som si nov&#253; horsk&#253; bicykel. Ceny klasick&#253;ch bicyklov i&#353;li v poslednom obdob&#237; v&#253;razne dole, pravdepodobne aj preto, &#382;e &#269;oraz viac &#318;ud&#237; prech&#225;dza na elektrobicykle.</p><p>Sna&#382;&#237;m sa ka&#382;d&#253; de&#328; n&#225;js&#357; aspo&#328; hodinu na jazdu. B&#253;vam vo Finticiach, tak&#382;e moja ob&#318;&#250;ben&#225; trasa vedie od stredu obce hore ku kamenolomu, &#271;alej smerom na Ter&#328;u a sp&#228;&#357;. Nie je to ve&#318;a kilometrov, ale prev&#253;&#353;enie je poriadne.</p><p>Za&#269;&#237;nam si uvedomova&#357;, &#382;e pohyb je pre m&#328;a ove&#318;a viac ne&#382; len &#353;port. Je to sp&#244;sob, ako si vy&#269;isti&#357; hlavu, usporiada&#357; my&#353;lienky a na chv&#237;&#318;u sa odpoji&#357; od po&#269;&#237;ta&#269;a, &#353;t&#250;dia &#269;i telef&#243;nu. &#218;primne, bez pravideln&#233;ho pohybu by som sa asi zbl&#225;znil.</p><p>Popri hudbe som sa v posledn&#253;ch mesiacoch pustil aj do nie&#269;oho &#250;plne nov&#233;ho. Za&#269;al som robi&#357; uhl&#237;kov&#233; kresby a postupne vzniklo u&#382; nieko&#318;ko obrazov. Nevn&#237;mam ich ako klasick&#233; v&#253;tvarn&#233; diela. S&#250; to sk&#244;r hudobn&#233; abstrakcie &#8211; improviz&#225;cie na papieri. Podobne ako pri hudbe, aj tu sa sna&#382;&#237;m viac po&#269;&#250;va&#357; intu&#237;ciu ne&#382; pl&#225;nova&#357; ka&#382;d&#253; detail.</p><p><strong>Ak v&#225;s zauj&#237;maj&#250;, n&#225;jdete ich tu:</strong><br><a href="https://davidkollar.com/visual-art">https://davidkollar.com/visual-art</a></p><p>Na z&#225;ver e&#353;te jedna my&#353;lienka.</p><p>&#268;&#237;m som star&#353;&#237;, t&#253;m viac si uvedomujem, ak&#233; d&#244;le&#382;it&#233; je cestovanie. Nem&#225;m na mysli dovolenku v rezorte, kde &#269;lovek cel&#253; t&#253;&#382;de&#328; neopust&#237; hotel. Bav&#237; ma pozorova&#357;, ako &#382;ij&#250; miestni &#318;udia, sadn&#250;&#357; si do oby&#269;ajnej kaviarne, prejs&#357; sa ulicami, ktor&#233; nie s&#250; v turistick&#253;ch sprievodcoch, a na chv&#237;&#318;u sa sta&#357; s&#250;&#269;as&#357;ou in&#233;ho mesta.</p><p>Pr&#225;ve tak&#233;to cesty mi d&#225;vaj&#250; nov&#253; poh&#318;ad na svet aj na vlastn&#253; &#382;ivot. M&#225;m pocit, &#382;e zaka&#382;d&#253;m, ke&#271; sa vr&#225;tim domov, vr&#225;tim sa aj trochu ako nov&#253; &#269;lovek.<br><br>David</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[From EPs to an Album.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tu m&#225;&#353; preklad &#8211; dr&#382;al som tvoj t&#243;n, len som to spravil prirodzenej&#353;ie po anglicky, aby to znelo ako text, nie preklad:]]></description><link>https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/from-eps-to-an-album</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/from-eps-to-an-album</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 06:21:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ISrr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5aeb6201-e786-4cab-aed3-5c0b63f72002_4032x3024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Tu m&#225;&#353; preklad &#8211; dr&#382;al som tvoj t&#243;n, len som to spravil prirodzenej&#353;ie po anglicky, aby to znelo ako text, nie preklad:</p><div><hr></div><p>Hello,</p><p>It&#8217;s 7:48 in the morning. I&#8217;ve just recorded another Guitar Story.<br>I already have over an hour of music.</p><p>Some of these pieces were released as EPs &#8212; short albums. It works well on streaming platforms; it shows that I have something new out. But over time I realized this isn&#8217;t my path. I&#8217;m not Michael Jackson. I don&#8217;t need to release seasonal singles.</p><p>I&#8217;d rather wait and release a full album.</p><p>So, a small change: the three Guitar Stories EPs that are already out will stay as they are. But I&#8217;m preparing an album with significantly more material &#8212; including pieces that haven&#8217;t been released anywhere else.</p><p>It will be released by Trey Gunn from King Crimson, through his 7D Media label in the US.</p><p>My bubble is small. My audience &#8212; for which I&#8217;m grateful &#8212; already knows me. But I need to move further. Trey has a much wider distribution network, and the music can reach people who haven&#8217;t discovered it yet.</p><p>At the same time, I&#8217;ve finished another album. It will be more prog-rock, even experimental. It will also be released on 7D Media.</p><p>It&#8217;s a pity that Hevhetia is gone.</p><div><hr></div><p>Last week I was supposed to receive a rough cut of a film with the working title <em>KUKO</em>. Nothing arrived, so I started painting.</p><p>I bought new paints and began working on canvas. I&#8217;m doing completely spontaneous abstractions. The process is very similar to how I make music &#8212; trying to capture energy. Maybe even something that can&#8217;t really be named.</p><p>In the end, I found myself working with charcoal on white paper.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5aeb6201-e786-4cab-aed3-5c0b63f72002_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/65f51bd4-7e6a-4859-934e-e222a03b694e_1086x1448.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1dd4f03c-cdd1-4b13-a919-5a9c279f4711_1086x1448.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/169f2c20-57c0-4b21-b464-c4edce388d02_1122x1402.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/88493e59-400c-4fa1-9213-315d5692a1bd_1378x1142.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6af47c5e-9477-4efe-a7a7-6139ace369b2_1086x1448.png&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c934a01c-a39e-45c0-b2b0-330b4750c56f_1456x964.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p>Out of around 70 drawings, I selected about 15. This format is also more economically accessible than large canvases, and the risk is smaller.</p><p>Some of them are now on my website and available for purchase.</p><p>People buy far fewer CDs today, and digital sales are also declining. So I&#8217;m creating artifacts &#8212; something physical that can accompany my music.</p><div><hr></div><p>I&#8217;ve also started reading again after a few months&#8217; break.</p><p>I had the feeling I was getting slower. Remembering less. Going less deep.</p><p>I use AI for translations and grammar corrections &#8212; it&#8217;s a great tool. But reading and working on my own thinking is essential for what I do.</p><p>I&#8217;m currently reading Gogol&#8217;s <em>The Portrait</em> and Lem&#8217;s <em>Solaris</em>.</p><div><hr></div><p>Summer is slowly approaching.</p><p>I&#8217;m looking forward to cycling. And to evenings when we all sit on the terrace as a family and talk.</p><div><hr></div><p>Today I&#8217;ll finish mastering the latest Guitar Story and send it to Trey.</p><p>Wishing you a good week.</p><p>David</p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/from-eps-to-an-album?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/p/from-eps-to-an-album?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/from-eps-to-an-album/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/p/from-eps-to-an-album/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.davidkollar.com/home&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Official web&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.davidkollar.com/home"><span>Official web</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Charcoal, Silence, and Waiting]]></title><description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been finishing my open cycle Guitar Stories.]]></description><link>https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/charcoal-silence-and-waiting</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/charcoal-silence-and-waiting</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:14:11 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IVpB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd894fa7-645f-4024-bfc0-fb427cb6fb94_1086x1448.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been finishing my open cycle <em>Guitar Stories</em>.<br>At the same time, I&#8217;m preparing to release all parts on CD &#8212; a limited edition of only a few dozen copies, including bonus tracks.</p><p>After that, everything will come out together as one album on Bandcamp.</p><p></p><div class="bandcamp-wrap album" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.bandcamp.com/album/guitar-stories-vol-iii-ep&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Guitar Stories (vol. III) EP, by David Kollar&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;4 track album&quot;,&quot;thumbnail_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d3a2af7a-5330-4319-b9e7-2c2a64d70ee6_700x700.jpeg&quot;,&quot;author&quot;:&quot;David Kollar&quot;,&quot;embed_url&quot;:&quot;https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=555739572/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=333333/artwork=small/transparent=true/&quot;,&quot;is_album&quot;:true}" data-component-name="BandcampToDOM"><iframe src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=555739572/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=333333/artwork=small/transparent=true/" frameborder="0" gesture="media" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><div><hr></div><p>This past week, I had some unexpected time off.<br>The film I&#8217;m working on is currently in the editing phase, so I decided to slow down for a moment.</p><p>That didn&#8217;t last long.</p><p>I started painting.<br>Abstract works.</p><p>I destroyed around ten canvases before something began to make sense.</p><div><hr></div><p>I realized I have to approach painting the same way I approach music.<br>From the inside.</p><p>No planning, no composition in the traditional sense &#8212; just movement, gesture, decision.</p><p>The same applies to my charcoal improvisations on paper.</p><p>Charcoal is more forgiving.<br>You throw the paper away and start again.</p><p>Canvas is a more expensive lesson.</p><p></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bd894fa7-645f-4024-bfc0-fb427cb6fb94_1086x1448.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/79d5a0ef-9bf0-4657-8c42-3f0ba374aac7_1086x1448.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/75e8d8ec-c0d5-41b7-b32a-5e4eca4baf24_1122x1402.png&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ad5b9163-fff8-4596-add0-6e58958dc63c_1070x1470.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e289d123-52fc-465d-87e1-c430921838a8_1456x1456.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><div><hr></div><p>Right now, my ratio is about 1 out of 10.<br>One piece out of ten feels right &#8212; something appears, some kind of atmosphere.</p><p>It&#8217;s similar with paintings, just more costly.</p><div><hr></div><p>I won&#8217;t be making prints from these charcoal works.<br>Only originals, unframed.</p><p>If you want to see them, they are here:<br><a href="https://www.davidkollar.com/visual-art">https://www.davidkollar.com/visual-art</a></p><div><hr></div><p>In the age of streaming, supporting a musician has become almost invisible.<br>Streaming pays nearly nothing, and CDs are mostly for collectors now.</p><p>That&#8217;s also why I started creating other forms &#8212;<br>visual works, mixed technique paintings, charcoal drawings, clothing.</p><p>If you want to support what I do, you can do it here:</p><p><br><a href="https://www.davidkollar.com/merch-books">https://www.davidkollar.com/merch-books</a></p><p><br><a href="https://david-kollar.tpopsite.com/?page=1">https://davidkollar.com/wear-the-noise-t-shirts-and-more</a></p><div><hr></div><p>The short week is coming to an end.<br>I&#8217;m planning to grill something over the weekend, walking in the forest, trying to slow down a bit&#8230;</p><p>and honestly, I can&#8217;t wait for them to send me the film,<br>because I&#8217;m running out of space for all these drawings.</p><p>David</p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[#55. Koľko nás stojí kultúra – a prečo to ľudí štve]]></title><description><![CDATA[Cel&#233; to za&#269;alo t&#253;mto videom]]></description><link>https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/kolko-nas-stoji-kultura-a-preco-to</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/kolko-nas-stoji-kultura-a-preco-to</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:39:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/192489250/97623abc4272162a5945b21e02839ea1.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Pred p&#225;r d&#328;ami som dal ironick&#233; video o tom, &#382;e umelci by si mali n&#225;js&#357; &#8222;norm&#225;lnu robotu&#8220;.<br>Rozbehla sa ve&#318;k&#225; debata.</strong></p><p>V tomto podcaste to rozober&#225;m pokojne a bez em&#243;ci&#237;:</p><ul><li><p>ko&#318;ko n&#225;s re&#225;lne stoj&#237; khttps://linktr.ee/davidkollar?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&amp;ltsid=2e596010-d763-444b-b691-6377b596748ault&#250;ra</p></li><li><p>pre&#269;o to &#318;ud&#237; tak triggeruje</p></li><li><p>&#269;i m&#225; kult&#250;ra fungova&#357; &#269;isto trhovo</p></li><li><p>a &#269;o by sa stalo, keby neexistovala podpora</p></li></ul><p>Toto nie je &#250;tok na mainstream.<br>Je to pokus vysvetli&#357;, ako veci funguj&#250; v realite.</p><div><hr></div><p>&#127916; <strong>Prv&#233; ironick&#233; video:</strong><br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/reel/937622535666050">https://www.facebook.com/reel/937622535666050</a></p><p>&#127916; <strong>Druh&#233; video &#8211; ko&#318;ko n&#225;s stoj&#237; kult&#250;ra:</strong><br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Z9fnjTDTS/">https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Z9fnjTDTS/</a></p><div><hr></div><p>&#127928; <strong>Viac o mne / hudba / projekty:</strong><br><a href="https://linktr.ee/davidkollar?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&amp;ltsid=2e596010-d763-444b-b691-6377b596748a">https://linktr.ee/davidkollar?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&amp;ltsid=2e596010-d763-444b-b691-6377b596748a</a><br><br><strong><a href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/p/podporte-moju-tvorbu-svojimi-2-z">2% z dan&#237;:</a></strong><a href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/p/podporte-moju-tvorbu-svojimi-2-z"> </a></p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;9a8cf8a7-4115-46cd-841e-c02ccf4f7e28&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Mil&#237; priatelia,&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Podporte moju tvorbu svojimi 2 % z dan&#237;&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:97287153,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;DAVID KOLLAR&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Slovak award winner guitarist, experimenter, film music composer. 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Somewhere between music, reality, and things you can&#8217;t explain with a simple answer. About doubt&#8212;and why it all still makes sense.]]></description><link>https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/notes-from-the-last-few-days</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/notes-from-the-last-few-days</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:46:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f4b15654-d870-49d3-ae57-79258197a305_896x1195.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I haven&#8217;t written anything on my Substack for a while.</p><p>Part of it is the work I&#8217;ve been doing &#8211; and still am &#8211; on a really beautiful Slovak film directed by Juro &#352;lauka, the director of <strong><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10453318/">Punk Never Ends!</a></strong></p><p>I can&#8217;t say much about it yet, but it&#8217;s a film featuring the puppets from my childhood &#8211; <strong>Kuko, Ra&#357;af&#225;k Plachta, Drob&#269;ek</strong> and others.</p><p>I&#8217;m really enjoying working on it. And on top of that, I&#8217;m doing something I&#8217;ve never done before &#8211; using synthesizers from the 80s and 90s.</p><div id="youtube2-hCf9BWbCFBw" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;hCf9BWbCFBw&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/hCf9BWbCFBw?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>Completely unexpectedly, I also got into cooking. Some of you might know that I went to a private hospitality school. I hated it back then. It was all about peeling potatoes &#8211; at least that&#8217;s how I remember it. Maybe the teachers showed us interesting recipes and techniques, but my head was somewhere else, deep in music. And when you&#8217;re a teenager, it&#8217;s really hard to focus on something you don&#8217;t naturally want to do, but have to.</p><p>I follow a few cooks on Facebook and I&#8217;ve been trying recipes that feel doable.</p><p>I even thought about helping out in an Italian restaurant for a while, just to learn how to make proper pizza. My last dough wasn&#8217;t great.</p><p>But somehow, I really started to enjoy it.</p><p></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d937ad11-7924-4b15-89be-ef5a7c20a5c3_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5743a144-7bec-472d-83ee-68182c7b8f8a_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f3f8da60-d424-48e6-9d43-1dd75f3abd0b_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ede2a29a-1cfc-4cb1-97ad-6fc4ac927edb_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c6630a0a-2d70-4dac-9c00-99424eb53fe6_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4e8abe0d-d59f-4045-b79c-4f97a6a2a88e_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f96098e9-2159-4390-afe7-6defa3f002f3_1456x964.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p>And honestly, if something really bad were to happen in the world &#8211; which sometimes feels closer than I&#8217;d like to admit, even though I still hope it won&#8217;t &#8211; cooking or working in a kitchen might actually be what keeps me going. I feel like in times like that, art would be pushed aside, and you wouldn&#8217;t be able to pay the bills with it anyway. That thought doesn&#8217;t leave me calm. From where I stand as an artist, the situation in the world feels pretty alarming.</p><p>When the war in Ukraine started, my first instinct was to leave. Go somewhere else &#8211; maybe Italy. Paolo would let us stay in his apartment and move back with his parents. Over time, we started to feel safe here again. But when I look at our prime minister and the way he acts, I see one thing &#8211; someone doing everything he can to secure impunity for himself and his people. Maybe he wouldn&#8217;t even mind if we got sanctioned by the EU and drifted closer to Russia.</p><p>I don&#8217;t want to talk about politics, but that&#8217;s honestly how it feels to me. The government just keeps pushing its own agenda at any cost, slowly breaking down our small, beautiful country &#8211; already poor and drained. In Pre&#353;ov they&#8217;re building a new Ministry of Interior hospital, but there are already rumors that they&#8217;ll just finish the skeleton and leave it like that. I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s true, but the overall atmosphere feels pretty hopeless.</p><p>I&#8217;m also really sad about what&#8217;s happening in culture. Instead of fixing things, everything is being systematically dismantled. The old system definitely had its problems, but alongside them, a lot of things actually worked really well. For example, we wouldn&#8217;t be able to play concerts with KOMARA here if clubs and cultural organizations weren&#8217;t supported in some way. The same goes for my solo shows and workshops. Film music, and filmmaking in general in Slovakia.</p><p></p><div id="youtube2-SAVUSmhYzMs" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;SAVUSmhYzMs&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/SAVUSmhYzMs?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>But there&#8217;s not much I can really do about it. Sometimes people ask me why I don&#8217;t talk about this stuff on social media. The truth is, I tried a few times and it only brought negative reactions. Social media doesn&#8217;t really help anything. Everything is split into two camps. And even those who have already given up and say things like &#8220;they all stole before, and they&#8217;ll all steal again, I don&#8217;t care anymore&#8221; are, in a way, part of the problem. Indifference and inaction are also forms of action.</p><p>I&#8217;ve been to protests, even when I didn&#8217;t agree with everything. I usually leave when the protest songs start. I vote in every election. I talk to a few close friends. And that&#8217;s about all I can do. The opposition has to do its job, stay united, and actually have a plan.</p><p>I even got a message asking if I wanted to apply for support from Slovak public funds &#8212; that it would basically make me a collaborator with this government. Some people compare it to Stalinism.</p><p>These thoughts still come back to me sometimes, even after films like <em><strong>MIKI</strong></em> and <em><strong>&#268;ERN&#193;K</strong></em>. For years, I dreamed of composing music for a mafia film based on real events. Maybe even a big detective story. I imagined how the music would sound in a cinema, maybe one day even on Netflix. I gave everything to those two films.</p><p>But the hate directed at me made me constantly remind myself of that dream out loud. When Netflix picks up one of those films, I have to convince myself &#8212; out loud &#8212; that I&#8217;m happy.</p><p></p><div id="youtube2-RD4d5XB6h2k" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;RD4d5XB6h2k&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/RD4d5XB6h2k?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div id="youtube2-T-8XU4HUIAI" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;T-8XU4HUIAI&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/T-8XU4HUIAI?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div><hr></div><p></p><p>Recently, when I bought another kettlebell and was trying more demanding exercises, I caught myself thinking something strange. For a moment, out of frustration, I found myself wishing that something in my arm would snap. That I wouldn&#8217;t be able to play anymore. Because the thing that gives me joy often brings problems too.</p><p>And then I stopped. I told myself no!</p><p>Creating and searching &#8212; that&#8217;s my purpose in life. I&#8217;m one of the luckiest people on this planet, and I need to stay healthy &#8212; for myself and for my family.</p><p>But what am I supposed to do when there are fewer and fewer concerts, films are struggling, clubs don&#8217;t have money, and ticket prices can&#8217;t realistically be 50 euros just to cover costs and pay me something?</p><p>I&#8217;ve been invited to the Music Academy of Liverpool and to an academy in Johannesburg, South Africa. They want me to give a masterclass on AI in music and play concerts with Jonathan Crossley.</p><p></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/077e78f1-c83a-4da8-9eca-29e972d7608c_1148x1560.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d1b0ffd3-bfc7-40ee-8da1-075cc4c26f9b_568x814.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/67ea26e2-150b-4acd-868a-96739773e27d_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p></p><p>To make this happen, I simply need support &#8212; for travel and living expenses. That&#8217;s just how it works. It&#8217;s a huge opportunity, but I have to apply for funding based on these invitation letters.</p><p>The only thing that really helps me stay mentally afloat is sport. Sometimes I train twice a day &#8212; I run in the morning and work out with my favorite kettlebells in the evening.</p><p>I&#8217;ll share some videos here if you&#8217;d like to try it. It&#8217;s great for functional strength and you can do it in a one-square-meter space. (If you want, just message me and I&#8217;ll explain how it all works.)</p><p></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0575dc3c-32cf-4039-a5c4-e26b37d001d0_1179x1982.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c6e80577-0040-4fdd-8fdd-2a2ad42ca53e_1160x1958.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/41fb50cd-dda4-4c8e-9f27-e0ccb713c962_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><div id="youtube2-CG4lE_cj9nU" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;CG4lE_cj9nU&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/CG4lE_cj9nU?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><div><hr></div><p></p><p>I was even asked if I&#8217;m part of the &#8220;<strong>manosphere&#8221;</strong> or some kind of <strong>toxic masculinity</strong>. I had to look up what that even means.<br><br><strong>Wikipedia:</strong> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manosphere">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manosphere</a></p><p><strong>I only have one answer to that.</strong></p><p>While writing this blog, my laundry just finished, and in a moment I&#8217;m going to cook beef in a pressure cooker. I&#8217;ve been writing this text for almost two hours. So according to that theory, I guess I&#8217;m a weak male. A &#8220;real man&#8221; probably shouldn&#8217;t be doing these things.</p><p>I work out to stay healthy, to balance out my own bad habits &#8212; like when I have a few too many beers and a cigarette. But mostly, I do it for my mental health.</p><div><hr></div><p></p><p><strong>I have to admit,</strong> I&#8217;m also feeling burned out. Maybe it&#8217;s just spring fatigue. I&#8217;m 42 now, and I&#8217;ve never felt it this intensely before. It&#8217;s like a strong jet lag, like when I came back from Los Angeles. And I still go to bed early, usually between 8:30 and 9:00 pm.</p><p>I&#8217;m trying not to read the news. I&#8217;ve realized it&#8217;s all just commentary on the current state of things &#8212; which can change by tomorrow &#8212; and I tend to experience it all very intensely.</p><p>I&#8217;ve been overloaded with podcasts. Listening while shopping, listening to English podcasts to improve my language, then podcasts about health, training, psychology, art&#8230;</p><p>I had to stop. Now I&#8217;m trying to just be. To focus on one thing at a time.</p><p>I don&#8217;t sit in front of my recording software for 9&#8211;10 hours straight anymore. I try to work in waves &#8212; 2&#8211;3 hours, then I go cook for a couple of hours, then back again for another 2&#8211;3.</p><p>I&#8217;ve been listening to short stories by Karel &#268;apek.</p><p>I also started writing things down again &#8212; with a pen on paper, or with a stylus on my iPad.</p><p>Even ChatGPT is starting to wear me out. I honestly feel like, as great as it is, it might also be making people dumber.</p><p>A journalist writes an article using ChatGPT, and then a reader puts the link into ChatGPT to get a summary. The machine is doing the work for both of them.</p><p>Strange, isn&#8217;t it?</p><p>And yet, we&#8217;re supposed to have more time now. But for what?</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>I&#8217;d also like to share a misunderstanding that happened to me recently.</strong></h3><p></p><p>During my campaign for the album <em>CALLS</em>, I ran a crowdfunding campaign on Donio.sk. Doing a campaign as a musician today isn&#8217;t easy. You have to offer different rewards.</p><p>For example &#8212; if you offer a &#8220;just for support&#8221; option for 10 euros, you need 200 people to reach 2000 euros. You can also offer physical items, like a CD for 20 euros. But if you produce even just 50 copies, each one costs you around 5 euros, plus artwork, packaging, and shipping. You&#8217;re at roughly 9 euros in costs. So out of 20 euros, you&#8217;re left with 11.</p><p>That&#8217;s why I started making visual works.</p><p>I use a technique that suits me best &#8212; as someone who&#8217;s not a classically trained painter. I was inspired by my friend Rick Cox. I photograph objects, then process them digitally using different techniques, and print the final result on high-quality paper.</p><p>Besides smaller prints that I sell for around 100 euros, I also started creating larger pieces, which my friend, painter Peter Popelka, called &#8220;graphic artifacts.&#8221;</p><p>It&#8217;s quite a time-consuming process for me. I photograph brush strokes, edit them digitally, print them, and in some cases I also paint into them by hand. The final piece is mounted onto a PVC board, placed in a wooden frame, and finished with varnish.</p><p>I included these works in the Donio campaign. One of the pieces was sold &#8212; together with a limited-edition USB stick. It was a significant part of the support.</p><p>I personally delivered the artwork in Nov&#233; Mesto nad V&#225;hom, at the Blue Note club, after a concert by Pat Mastelotto.</p><p>About three quarters of a year passed.</p><p>Last Friday, I received a message from the buyer on Facebook. He said it was hard for him to write, but he told me I had &#8220;cheated&#8221; him. That I had only given him a print of an original. He had it evaluated by a friend &#8212; a conservator in the US &#8212; who said its value was around 10 euros.</p><p>But the value of a work is not the same as the cost of its materials.</p><p>There&#8217;s one more thing I want to add.</p><p>Of course, I did make a mistake. I forgot to send him the <strong><a href="https://www.davidkollar.com/merch-books">USB with my full discography</a></strong>, which was part of the package.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/39e234cb-a3b3-440b-86f1-bf0c0243499e_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9573c467-6c6c-43fa-870b-f9280e671e18_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/98544631-4147-4062-8db5-2f43b5f35a4b_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/931bc83c-32f8-43f2-98c5-014b40ab7cd2_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8024f0d5-71ef-4287-8f75-f6a4dd634e20_3024x4032.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1a2ce37f-544e-422a-828a-f47d83f4a6ea_1456x1210.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p>For a long time, I kept apologizing to people for not sending it yet, because I didn&#8217;t really have a clear idea of how to make it. I didn&#8217;t want to just send a plain USB stick. I finally figured it out sometime in November &#8212; I got an idea. Then I left for the US, gave one to Rick Cox and I think one to Thomas Newman as well. And of course, I forgot to send it to him.</p><p>I apologized to the man and sent the USB immediately. I also included a book (<em>On Music and Time</em>) as an extra gift and wrote an apology inside.</p><p>I tried to explain that it&#8217;s a mixed technique and a digital print. That it&#8217;s an original piece by me, signed, and that only one exists. A lot of musicians today also create visual work &#8212; images, objects, artifacts. Warhol used screen printing, and Banksy works with stencils.</p><p>But he stood by his opinion.</p><p>I&#8217;m writing about this also because maybe people don&#8217;t realize that I do all of this on my own. I don&#8217;t have a team. I ship CDs and prints myself, I write blogs, record podcasts, compose music, plan concerts, prepare workshops, manage my website &#8212; and live a normal life on top of that.</p><p>Sometimes I forget things. When I get deeply into something, everything else goes aside. That&#8217;s how I work &#8212; in waves of inspiration.</p><p>It&#8217;s happened before. Usually people just write to me politely, asking if I might have forgotten. I reply, send what they ordered, and often include something extra.</p><p>After that message, I felt like destroying all the artworks and prints I&#8217;ve made. Like I was just creating bad energy. Something similar to that moment with the kettlebell&#8230;</p><p>Then I realized those pieces are out there &#8212; with my friends and listeners. In Japan, in the US, in Norway, in the Czech Republic. And they have value for them &#8212; my story in music.</p><p>The sentence that hit me the most was this: if I feel the world isn&#8217;t fair, maybe I should look at myself.</p><p>I&#8217;m writing about this because I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s just about one misunderstanding. It&#8217;s also a reflection of the time we live in.</p><p>Instead of a simple question, there&#8217;s blame. Instead of trying to understand, there&#8217;s judgment.</p><p>We can&#8217;t communicate like this.</p><p>Maybe what&#8217;s really destroying us is something very simple.</p><p>A kind of blindness, deafness &#8212; and envy. That quiet satisfaction when something doesn&#8217;t work out for someone else. I&#8217;m not even talking about that one person specifically.</p><p>I understand where it comes from. From frustration. Pressure. The feeling that things aren&#8217;t working the way they should.</p><p>But if we keep going like this, it will eat us all.</p><p>I&#8217;m also thinking about what people often say about art &#8212; &#8220;they should get a real job.&#8221;</p><p>Art is hard work. It&#8217;s a job. Sometimes much harder than it looks from the outside.</p><p>Maybe it wouldn&#8217;t take that much to change things.</p><p>Less judging. Less moralizing. More asking. More trying to understand what we don&#8217;t see.</p><p>And to stop pulling each other down.</p><p>Despite all of this, I still feel the need to create. Music, images, things that might not make immediate sense &#8212; but I love working on them. That&#8217;s how I live.</p><p>Maybe that&#8217;s the only thing that really makes sense to do.</p><p>These are difficult times. We should be careful with how we treat each other.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Over the past few days, I&#8217;ve released two new tracks.</strong></h3><p><br><em><strong>Unamused</strong></em> &#8212; featuring my cat Kiki on the artwork. It&#8217;s one of ten tracks from my upcoming album: </p><div class="bandcamp-wrap album" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.bandcamp.com/album/unamused-single&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Unamused (Single), by David Kollar&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;1 track album&quot;,&quot;thumbnail_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2e708756-258c-4b3d-8135-bb03cf75ad82_700x700.jpeg&quot;,&quot;author&quot;:&quot;David Kollar&quot;,&quot;embed_url&quot;:&quot;https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1038843654/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=333333/artwork=small/transparent=true/&quot;,&quot;is_album&quot;:true}" data-component-name="BandcampToDOM"><iframe src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1038843654/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=333333/artwork=small/transparent=true/" frameborder="0" gesture="media" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p><em><strong>Art Is Never Alone</strong></em> &#8212; using words by Czech philosopher Miroslav Pet&#345;&#237;&#269;ek, created as part of a musical tribute for his 75th birthday: </p><div class="bandcamp-wrap album" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.bandcamp.com/album/um-n-nen-nikdy-samo-single&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Um&#283;n&#237; nen&#237; nikdy samo (Single), by David Kollar&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;1 track album&quot;,&quot;thumbnail_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/04b0e31c-217d-4818-af5c-0e0991ab2994_700x700.jpeg&quot;,&quot;author&quot;:&quot;David Kollar&quot;,&quot;embed_url&quot;:&quot;https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2587449578/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=333333/artwork=small/transparent=true/&quot;,&quot;is_album&quot;:true}" data-component-name="BandcampToDOM"><iframe src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2587449578/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=333333/artwork=small/transparent=true/" frameborder="0" gesture="media" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p>Maybe that&#8217;s the point.</p><p><strong>Art is never alone.</strong></p><p>We are in it together &#8212; artists, listeners, viewers, readers.</p><p><strong>And to be means to be together.</strong></p><p>If you&#8217;d like to support me, you can <strong><a href="https://www.davidkollar.com/merch-books">buy my music, my visual works, or my books.</a></strong><br>And if you&#8217;re based in Slovakia, you can also support my work through the 2% tax donation system for my civic association.</p><p>Thank you,</p><p>David</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Poznámky z posledných dní.]]></title><description><![CDATA[P&#225;r pozn&#225;mok o pr&#225;ci, svete a tom, pre&#269;o m&#225; zmysel pokra&#269;ova&#357;. Medzi hudbou, realitou a t&#253;m, &#269;o sa ned&#225; vysvetli&#357; jednou odpove&#271;ou. O pr&#225;ci, pochybnostiach a tom, pre&#269;o to cel&#233; m&#225; zmysel.]]></description><link>https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/poznamky-z-poslednych-dni</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/poznamky-z-poslednych-dni</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:18:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0406a654-92e4-4e88-a316-47916dda8b7b_896x1195.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>U&#382; dlh&#353;ie som nenap&#237;sal &#382;iadny text na m&#244;j Substack.</p><p>M&#244;&#382;e za to aj pr&#225;ca, ktor&#225; st&#225;le trv&#225; &#8211; na ve&#318;mi peknom slovenskom filme, ktor&#253; re&#382;&#237;ruje Juro &#352;lauka, re&#382;is&#233;r filmu <em><strong>Punk je hneD</strong></em>.</p><p>Nem&#244;&#382;em o tom prezradi&#357; ve&#318;a, ale ide o film, v ktorom &#250;&#269;inkuj&#250; b&#225;bky m&#244;jho detstva &#8211; Kuko, Ra&#357;af&#225;k Plachta, Drob&#269;ek a &#271;al&#353;&#237;.</p><p>Ve&#318;mi ma bav&#237; pr&#225;ca na tomto filme, navy&#353;e rob&#237;m zasa nie&#269;o, &#269;o som predt&#253;m nerobil &#8211; pou&#382;&#237;vam syntetiz&#225;tory z 80. a 90. rokov.</p><p>&#218;plne ne&#269;akane ma chytilo aj varenie. Niektor&#237; z v&#225;s mo&#382;no vedia, &#382;e som nav&#353;tevoval s&#250;kromn&#250; hotelov&#250; akad&#233;miu. Nen&#225;videl som t&#250;to pr&#225;cu, bolo to v&#353;etko o &#353;&#250;pan&#237; zemiakov &#8211; teda aspo&#328; si to tak pam&#228;t&#225;m. Mo&#382;no n&#225;m aj u&#269;itelia ukazovali a u&#269;ili n&#225;s nejak&#233; zauj&#237;mav&#233; recepty a techniky, ale ja som mal vtedy hlavu ponoren&#250; v hudbe. A v t&#237;ned&#382;erskom obdob&#237; &#382;ivota je naozaj &#357;a&#382;k&#233; koncentrova&#357; sa na nie&#269;o, &#269;o prirodzene nechcete, ale mus&#237;te.</p><p>Sledujem zop&#225;r kuch&#225;rov na Facebooku a recepty, o ktor&#253;ch m&#225;m pocit, &#382;e by som ich zvl&#225;dol, postupne sk&#250;&#353;am.</p><p>Prem&#253;&#353;&#318;al som, &#382;e by som i&#353;iel aj do nejakej talianskej re&#353;taur&#225;cie na v&#253;pomoc, aby som sa nau&#269;il robi&#357; dom&#225;cu pizzu. Moje posledn&#233; cesto nebolo ni&#269; moc.</p><p>A&#382; tak ve&#318;mi ma to za&#269;alo bavi&#357;.</p><p></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/da3be522-601e-4ef8-8e15-1f1ae543d3b0_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/86ff196c-876f-4c32-9a3f-d2093d785b27_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/685b62d8-8ad5-4279-b21e-ba6af6397414_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8896b3d3-09b2-4108-8ac5-782925d5acb7_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e5a1c850-5c7d-42df-b397-a17f12d6563a_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/443577c1-3383-4156-8047-89a2c6b33429_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/08f50d7f-7c67-485d-8ba7-40669d17c728_1456x964.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p>Nakoniec, ak by sa nie&#269;o stra&#353;n&#233; vo svete zomlelo &#8211; &#269;o je pod&#318;a m&#328;a na spadnutie, no st&#225;le ver&#237;m, &#382;e to nespadne &#8211; by ma mo&#382;no pr&#225;ve varenie alebo v&#253;pomoc niekde v kuchyni mohli u&#382;ivi&#357;. Mysl&#237;m si, &#382;e v tak&#253;ch &#269;asoch by i&#353;lo umenie bokom a &#250;&#269;ty by sa zaplati&#357; nedali. T&#225;to predstava ma naozaj nenech&#225;va chladn&#253;m. Situ&#225;cia vo svete je, v pozorovan&#237; umelca, a&#382; alarmuj&#250;ca.</p><p>Moje prv&#233; my&#353;lienky v prvej f&#225;ze &#250;tokov na Ukrajinu boli, &#382;e ute&#269;ieme pre&#269; &#8211; do Talianska. Paolo by n&#225;m nechal byt a &#353;iel by b&#253;va&#357; k rodi&#269;om. Postupne sme sa tu zasa za&#269;ali c&#237;ti&#357; bezpe&#269;ne, no ke&#271; vid&#237;m n&#225;&#353;ho premi&#233;ra a jeho spr&#225;vanie, vid&#237;m len jedno &#8211; &#269;loveka, ktor&#253; rob&#237; v&#353;etko preto, aby sebe a svojim &#318;u&#271;om zabezpe&#269;il beztrestnos&#357;. Mo&#382;no by mu aj vyhovovalo, keby n&#225;s sankcionovala E&#218; a pridali by sme sa k Rusom.</p><p>Nechcem hovori&#357; o politike, ale toto jedno mi z toho vych&#225;dza. Proste za ka&#382;d&#250; cenu si vl&#225;da ide svoje a rozklad&#225; na&#353;u pekn&#250; a mal&#250; krajinu &#8211; chudobn&#250; a rozkradnut&#250; krajinu. V Pre&#353;ove stavia ministerstvo vn&#250;tra nemocnicu, no u&#382; sa povr&#225;va, &#382;e dokon&#269;ia len skelet a nechaj&#250; to tak. Neviem, &#269;i je to pravda, ale atmosf&#233;ra je ve&#318;mi bezn&#225;dejn&#225;.</p><p>Mrz&#237; ma aj to, &#269;o sa deje v kult&#250;re. Namiesto toho, aby sa veci opravovali, sa v&#353;etko systematicky ni&#269;&#237;. Ur&#269;ite mal star&#253; syst&#233;m nejak&#233; probl&#233;my, ale popri nich fungovalo naozaj skvele kopec in&#253;ch vec&#237;. Napr&#237;klad koncerty s KOMAROU by sme tu nemohli hra&#357;, keby nejakou formou podpory neboli podporen&#233; kluby alebo kult&#250;rne organiz&#225;cie. To ist&#233; moje s&#243;lo koncerty a workshopy. Hudba k filmom a vlastne aj tvorba filmov na Slovensku.</p><div id="youtube2-SAVUSmhYzMs" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;SAVUSmhYzMs&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/SAVUSmhYzMs?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p></p><p>Neviem s t&#253;m v&#353;ak ni&#269; urobi&#357;. Ob&#269;as mi niekto nap&#237;&#353;e, pre&#269;o o tom nep&#237;&#353;em na soci&#225;lnych sie&#357;ach. Nerob&#237;m to preto, lebo som sa o to pok&#250;sil dvakr&#225;t, trikr&#225;t a mal som len zl&#233; reakcie. Soci&#225;lne m&#233;di&#225; ni&#269;omu nepom&#225;haj&#250;. V&#353;etko je rozdelen&#233; na dva t&#225;bory. A aj t&#237;, &#269;o u&#382; rezignovali a hovoria &#8222;aj hent&#237; kradli, aj tamt&#237; bud&#250;, mne u&#382; je v&#353;etko jedno&#8220;, tomu vlastne prispievaj&#250;. Nez&#225;ujem a ne&#269;innos&#357; je takisto druh aktivity.</p><p>Chodil som na protesty, aj ke&#271; som tam s niektor&#253;mi vecami nes&#250;hlasil. Odch&#225;dzam, ke&#271; pr&#237;de protest song. Chod&#237;m na ka&#382;d&#233; vo&#318;by, ktor&#233; s&#250;. Rozpr&#225;vam sa s mojimi p&#225;r priate&#318;mi a to je tak v&#353;etko, &#269;o m&#244;&#382;em urobi&#357;. Mus&#237; pracova&#357; opoz&#237;cia, by&#357; jednotn&#225; a ma&#357; koncept.</p><p>Dokonca som dostal spr&#225;vu, &#269;i chcem &#382;iada&#357; o nejak&#250; podporu zo slovensk&#253;ch fondov &#8211; &#382;e to vlastne znamen&#225;, &#382;e som kolaborant tejto vl&#225;dy. Porovn&#225;vaj&#250; to so Stalinizmom.</p><p>Tie my&#353;lienky sa mi st&#225;le ob&#269;as vracaj&#250; aj po filmoch ako <em>MIKI</em> a <em>&#268;ERN&#193;K</em>. Roky som t&#250;&#382;il po tom, aby som mohol zlo&#382;i&#357; hudbu k mafi&#225;nskemu filmu pod&#318;a skuto&#269;nej udalosti. Mo&#382;no k ve&#318;kej detekt&#237;vke. Predstavoval som si, ako by v &#328;om znela hudba v kine a mo&#382;no ak by bol raz aj na Netflixe. Dal som do t&#253;chto dvoch filmov v&#353;etko.<br>No ten hejt okolo mojej osoby ma n&#250;til nahlas si svoj sen pripom&#237;na&#357;. Ke&#271; mi Netlfix jeden z dvoch filmov pon&#250;kne, mus&#237;m sa nahlas presvied&#269;a&#357;, &#382;e som &#353;&#357;astn&#253;.</p><p>Ke&#271; som si ned&#225;vno k&#250;pil &#271;al&#353;&#237; kettlebell a sk&#250;&#353;al n&#225;ro&#269;nej&#353;ie cviky, pristihol som sa pri zvl&#225;&#353;tnej veci. V jednej chv&#237;li som si v zlosti v duchu prial, aby mi nie&#269;o v ruke prasklo. Aby som u&#382; nemohol hra&#357;. Preto&#382;e to, &#269;o rob&#237; rados&#357; mne, mi &#269;asto prin&#225;&#353;a aj probl&#233;my.</p><p>Hne&#271; nato som sa v&#353;ak zastavil.</p><p>Povedal som si, &#382;e nie.</p><p>Tvorba a h&#318;adanie s&#250; m&#244;j zmysel &#382;ivota. Som jeden z naj&#353;&#357;astnej&#353;&#237;ch &#318;ud&#237; na tejto plan&#233;te a potrebujem by&#357; zdrav&#253; &#8211; pre seba aj pre svoju rodinu.</p><p>K t&#253;m fondom. &#268;o m&#225;me robi&#357;, ke&#271; koncertov je menej a menej, filmy maj&#250; probl&#233;my, kluby nemaj&#250; peniaze a l&#237;stky nem&#244;&#382;u st&#225;&#357; 50 eur, aby sa zaplatili n&#225;klady na koncert a nejak&#253; honor&#225;r?</p><p><strong>M&#225;m pozv&#225;nku na Music Academy of Liverpool a Akad&#233;miu v Johannesburgu v Afrike.</strong> Chc&#250;, aby som robil masterclass o AI v hudbe a odohral koncerty s Jonathanom Crossleym.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="/__u/substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EN2T!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3364d04e-cb3a-41e4-8a2b-0fb9e5105187_1148x1560.png" 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Takto to funguje. Je to obrovsk&#225; pr&#237;le&#382;itos&#357;, no mus&#237;m &#382;iada&#357; fondy o podporu na z&#225;klade t&#253;chto listov. No na niekoho to posob&#237;, &#382;e som kolaborant s&#250;&#269;asnej vl&#225;dy&#8230;</p><p>Jedin&#233;, &#269;o mi pom&#225;ha pre&#382;i&#357; psychicky, je &#353;port. Niekedy cvi&#269;&#237;m aj dvakr&#225;t do d&#328;a &#8211; r&#225;no beh&#225;m a ve&#269;er cvi&#269;&#237;m s mojimi ob&#318;&#250;ben&#253;mi kettlebellmi.</p><p>Prid&#225;m sem aj vide&#225;, ak by ste si to chceli vysk&#250;&#353;a&#357;. Je to super na funk&#269;n&#250; silu a d&#225; sa s t&#253;m cvi&#269;i&#357; na jednom metri &#353;tvorcovom. <em>(Ak chcete, nap&#237;&#353;te mi a vysvetl&#237;m v&#225;m, ako to cel&#233; funguje)</em></p><p></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b8afb6ae-6ae5-4e45-88c9-08cadeeeef17_1179x1982.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/606c8bba-e277-4c59-9a11-8ee9d838d42e_1160x1958.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ecd7dfee-ac4e-46e4-a705-ccda84b086f4_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><div id="youtube2-CG4lE_cj9nU" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;CG4lE_cj9nU&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/CG4lE_cj9nU?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p><em><br></em>Dostal som aj ot&#225;zku, &#269;i som s&#250;&#269;as&#357;ou <strong>manosf&#233;ry</strong> alebo a&#382; <strong>toxickej maskulinity</strong>. Musel som si najprv vyh&#318;ada&#357;, &#269;o to vlastne znamen&#225;.<br><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manosf%C3%A9ra">https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manosf%C3%A9ra</a></p><p><strong>M&#225;m na to len jednu odpove&#271;.</strong></p><p>Pr&#225;ve po&#269;as p&#237;sania tohto blogu mi doprala pr&#225;&#269;ka a o chv&#237;&#318;u idem vari&#357; hov&#228;dzie m&#228;so v tlakovom hrnci. Tento text p&#237;&#353;em u&#382; skoro dve hodiny. Tak&#382;e som pod&#318;a tejto te&#243;rie slab&#253; samec. &#8220;Naozajstn&#253; chlap&#8221; tak&#233; veci nem&#225; robi&#357;.</p><p>Sna&#382;&#237;m sa pozera&#357; na veci zo v&#353;etk&#253;ch uhlov, ale u&#382; to nech&#225;vam tak. Nebudem reagova&#357;.</p><p>Cvi&#269;&#237;m, aby som bol zdrav&#253;, aby som si zrovnal neduhy &#8211; ke&#271; si d&#225;m niekedy viac p&#237;v a k nim cigaretu. A hlavne kv&#244;li psychike.</p><p></p><p></p><div><hr></div><p></p><p>Prizn&#225;m sa, &#382;e c&#237;tim aj vyhorenos&#357;. Je to asi jarn&#225; &#250;nava. U&#382; m&#225;m 42 rokov a nikdy som to takto intenz&#237;vne predt&#253;m nec&#237;til. Je to ako siln&#253; jetlag, ke&#271; som sa vr&#225;til z Los Angeles. A pritom chodievam spa&#357; u&#382; medzi 20:30 &#8211; 21:00.</p><p>Sna&#382;&#237;m sa ne&#269;&#237;ta&#357; spr&#225;vy. Pochopil som, &#382;e to s&#250; v&#353;etko len koment&#225;re na s&#250;&#269;asn&#253; stav, ktor&#253; m&#244;&#382;e by&#357; zajtra in&#253; a v&#353;etky ich pre&#382;&#237;vam ve&#318;mi intenz&#237;vne.</p><p>Som zahlten&#253; podcastmi po&#269;as nakupovania, anglick&#253;mi podcastmi, aby som si zlep&#353;il angli&#269;tinu, a potom v&#353;etky podcasty o zdrav&#237;, cvi&#269;en&#237;, psychol&#243;gii, umen&#237;...</p><p>Musel som to stopn&#250;&#357; a sk&#250;&#353;am len tak <strong>by&#357;</strong>. S&#250;stredi&#357; sa na jednu vec, ktor&#250; teraz rob&#237;m.</p><p>Nesed&#237;m pri nahr&#225;vacom programe 9&#8211;10 hod&#237;n v kuse. Sna&#382;&#237;m sa pracova&#357; vo vln&#225;ch &#8211; 2&#8211;3 hodiny, potom idem vari&#357; na 2 hodiny a tak zase 2&#8211;3 hodiny.</p><p>Po&#269;&#250;vam poviedky Karla &#268;apka.</p><div id="youtube2-566cW-DZYyQ" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;566cW-DZYyQ&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/566cW-DZYyQ?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>A za&#269;al som si p&#237;sa&#357; veci perom na papier alebo perom do iPadu.</p><p>Unavuje ma u&#382; aj ChatGPT. Naozaj m&#225;m pocit, &#382;e tak ako je to skvel&#225; vec tak bud&#250; &#318;udia z&#225;rove&#328; hl&#250;pnu&#357;.</p><p>Novin&#225;r p&#237;&#353;e &#269;l&#225;nok s ChatGPT a &#269;itate&#318; d&#225; link z &#269;l&#225;nku do ChatGPT, aby mu urobil s&#250;hrn. Za oboch pracuje robot. Divn&#233; nie? Ale m&#225;me viac &#269;asu (na&#269;o?)</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Chcel by som v&#225;m poveda&#357; aj o jednom nedorozumen&#237;, ktor&#233; sa mi ned&#225;vno stalo.</strong></h3><p>Po&#269;as mojej kampane na album <em>CALLS</em> som robil zbierku na Donio.sk. Robi&#357; dnes zbierku pre muzikanta nie je jednoduch&#233;. Mus&#237;te do nej da&#357; r&#244;zne dary.</p><p>Napr&#237;klad &#8211; ak d&#225;te dar &#8222;pre dobr&#253; pocit&#8220; za 10 eur, potrebujete 200 &#318;ud&#237;, aby ste sa dostali na sumu 2000&#8364;. M&#244;&#382;ete tam da&#357; aj fyzick&#233; veci, napr&#237;klad CD za 20 eur. Len&#382;e ke&#271; chcete vyrobi&#357; &#269;o i len 50 kusov, jeden v&#225;s vyjde okolo 5 eur, plus grafika, plus ob&#225;lka a po&#353;tovn&#233;. Ste pribli&#382;ne na 9 eur&#225;ch n&#225;kladov. Z 20 eur v&#225;m zostane 11.</p><p>Preto som za&#269;al robi&#357; aj grafiky.</p><p>Pou&#382;&#237;vam techniku, ktor&#225; mne &#8211; neakademick&#233;mu maliarovi &#8211; sed&#237; najviac. In&#353;piroval ma m&#244;j priate&#318; Rick Cox. Fotografujem objekty, n&#225;sledne ich upravujem v po&#269;&#237;ta&#269;i r&#244;znymi technikami a fin&#225;lny v&#253;sledok tla&#269;&#237;m na kvalitn&#253; papier. </p><p>Okrem graf&#237;k, ktor&#233; pred&#225;vam pribli&#382;ne za 100 eur, som za&#269;al robi&#357; aj v&#228;&#269;&#353;ie veci, ktor&#233; m&#244;j priate&#318; a maliar Peter Popelka nazval &#8222;grafick&#233; artefakty&#8220;.</p><p>Je to pre m&#328;a zd&#314;hav&#253; proces. Fot&#237;m &#357;ahy &#353;tetcom, upravujem ich v po&#269;&#237;ta&#269;i, tla&#269;&#237;m a do niektor&#253;ch potom e&#353;te ru&#269;ne zasahujem. V&#253;sledok sa vytla&#269;&#237; a prilep&#237; na PVC dosku, vyrob&#237; sa blind r&#225;m a nakoniec sa to nalakuje.</p><p>Tieto veci som dal aj do Donio kampane. Jeden z t&#253;chto obrazov sa predal &#8211; spolu s grafikou na limitovanom USB k&#318;&#250;&#269;i. Bola to v&#253;znamn&#225; &#269;as&#357; podpory.</p><p>Obraz som osobne odovzdal v Novom Meste nad V&#225;hom, v klube Blue Note, po koncerte Pata Mastelotta.</p><p>Ubehol asi tri&#353;tvrte rok.</p><p>Minul&#253; piatok som dostal od toho p&#225;na spr&#225;vu na Facebooku. P&#237;salo sa mu to vraj &#357;a&#382;ko, ale nap&#237;sal mi, &#382;e som ho &#8222;podviedol&#8220;. &#381;e som mu dal len v&#253;tla&#269;ok origin&#225;lu. Dal to ohodnoti&#357; kamar&#225;tke &#8211; re&#353;taur&#225;torke v USA &#8211; a t&#225; povedala, &#382;e to m&#225; hodnotu 10 eur.</p><p>Hodnota diela sa predsa nerovn&#225; hodnote materi&#225;lu.</p><p>E&#353;te jedna vec, ktor&#250; chcem dopoveda&#357;.</p><p>Samozrejme, urobil som aj chybu. Zabudol som mu posla&#357; <strong><a href="https://davidkollar.com/product/1165973-david-kollar-complete-discography-2006-2025">USB s kompletnou diskografiou</a></strong>, ktor&#233; bolo s&#250;&#269;as&#357;ou toho bal&#237;ka.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e1da080c-bd06-4150-a12d-f4955a7ae321_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/76fe42bf-ba44-41e0-85c7-367c775682ec_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/17856b1e-7656-444b-9309-d007afd7064c_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/9b884a38-3396-4c71-bfda-b19350ea8e46_3024x4032.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/24123c6a-1e7e-4c8d-b9f7-4577608ac92f_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/0ac7907d-dbb3-4d02-89bf-f54d64eedf37_1456x1210.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p>Dlho som sa &#318;u&#271;om ospravedl&#328;oval, &#382;e som ho e&#353;te neposlal, preto&#382;e som nemal jasn&#250; predstavu, ako ho vyrobi&#357;. Nechcel som posiela&#357; iba USB k&#318;&#250;&#269;. Nakoniec som to spravil a&#382; niekedy v novembri. Dostal som n&#225;pad. Potom som odi&#353;iel do USA, jedno som dal Rickovi Coxovi a jedno tu&#353;&#237;m aj Thomasovi Newmanovi. Samozrejme som USB zabudol posla&#357;.</p><p>Tomu p&#225;novi som sa ospravedlnil a USB som mu okam&#382;ite poslal. Pribalil som aj knihu <strong><a href="https://davidkollar.com/product/1143678-o-hudbe-a-dobe-podpisana-kniha">O hudbe a dobe</a></strong> ako extra dar a nap&#237;sal som do nej ospravedlnenie.</p><p>Sna&#382;il som sa mu vysvetli&#357;, &#382;e ide o kombinovan&#250; techniku a digit&#225;lnu tla&#269;. &#381;e je to origin&#225;l odo m&#328;a, podp&#237;san&#253;, a existuje len jeden kus. Dnes ve&#318;a muzikantov rob&#237; aj vizu&#225;lne veci, obrazy alebo grafick&#233; artefakty. Ve&#271; Warhol pou&#382;&#237;val sie&#357;otla&#269; a Banksy pracuje so &#353;abl&#243;nami.</p><p><strong>St&#225;l si v&#353;ak za svoj&#237;m.</strong></p><p>P&#237;&#353;em o tom aj preto, &#382;e mo&#382;no si &#318;udia neuvedomuj&#250;, &#382;e toto v&#353;etko rob&#237;m s&#225;m. Nem&#225;m t&#237;m &#318;ud&#237;. S&#225;m posielam CD-&#269;ka, grafiky, p&#237;&#353;em blogy, rob&#237;m podcasty, sklad&#225;m hudbu, pl&#225;nujem koncerty, pripravujem workshopy, spravujem web a popri tom &#382;ijem norm&#225;lny &#382;ivot.</p><p>Ob&#269;as na nie&#269;o zabudnem. Ke&#271; sa do nie&#269;oho ponor&#237;m, v&#353;etko ostatn&#233; ide bokom. Takto fungujem, vo vln&#225;ch in&#353;pir&#225;cie.</p><p>Stalo sa mi to u&#382; viackr&#225;t. V&#228;&#269;&#353;inou mi &#318;udia norm&#225;lne nap&#237;sali, &#269;i som n&#225;hodou nezabudol. Odp&#237;sal som, poslal veci, ktor&#233; si k&#250;pili a &#269;asto som pridal nie&#269;o navy&#353;e.</p><p>Po tejto spr&#225;ve som mal chu&#357; v&#353;etky obrazy a grafiky, ktor&#233; som vyrobil, zni&#269;i&#357;. Mal som pocit, &#382;e t&#253;m rob&#237;m len zl&#250; energiu. Nie&#269;o ako s t&#253;m kettllebelom&#8230;</p><p>Potom som si uvedomil, &#382;e tie veci maj&#250; doma moji priatelia a fan&#250;&#353;ikovia. S&#250; v Japonsku, v USA, v N&#243;rsku, v &#268;esku. A maj&#250; pre nich hodnotu - m&#244;j hudobn&#253; pr&#237;beh.</p><p>Najviac ma zasiahla jedna veta, ktor&#250; mi nap&#237;sal: <strong>ak m&#225;m pocit, &#382;e svet nie je spravodliv&#253;, mal by som sa zamyslie&#357; nad sebou.</strong></p><p>P&#237;&#353;em o tom aj preto, &#382;e to pod&#318;a m&#328;a nie je len o jednom nedorozumen&#237;. Je to aj obraz doby, v ktorej &#382;ijeme.</p><p>Namiesto jednoduchej ot&#225;zky pr&#237;de v&#253;&#269;itka. Namiesto snahy pochopi&#357; pr&#237;de s&#250;d.</p><p>Takto spolu nem&#244;&#382;eme komunikova&#357;.</p><p>Mo&#382;no n&#225;s nakoniec najviac ni&#269;&#237; nie&#269;o &#250;plne oby&#269;ajn&#233;.</p><p>Hluchota, slepota a z&#225;vis&#357;. Tich&#225; rados&#357; z toho, ke&#271; sa niekomu nie&#269;o nepodar&#237;. T&#253;m nenar&#225;&#382;am na toho p&#225;na.</p><p>Ch&#225;pem, odkia&#318; to prich&#225;dza. Z frustr&#225;cie. Z tlaku. Z pocitu, &#382;e veci nefunguj&#250; tak, ako by mali.</p><p>Ale ak v tom budeme pokra&#269;ova&#357;, zo&#382;erie n&#225;s to v&#353;etk&#253;ch.</p><p>Nar&#225;&#382;am aj na to, &#269;o sa &#269;asto hovor&#237; o umen&#237; &#8211; &#8222;nech si n&#225;jdu poriadnu robotu&#8220;.</p><p>Umenie je drina. Je to pr&#225;ca. Niekedy ove&#318;a &#357;a&#382;&#353;ia, ne&#382; sa zvonku zd&#225;.</p><p>Mo&#382;no by sta&#269;ilo m&#225;lo.</p><p>Menej s&#250;di&#357;. Menej moralizova&#357;. Viac sa p&#253;ta&#357;. Viac sa sna&#382;i&#357; pochopi&#357; veci, ktor&#233; nevid&#237;me.</p><p>A presta&#357; si navz&#225;jom podkop&#225;va&#357; nohy.</p><p>Aj napriek tomu v&#353;etk&#233;mu m&#225;m st&#225;le chu&#357; tvori&#357;. Hudbu, obrazy, veci, ktor&#233; mo&#382;no ned&#225;vaj&#250; okam&#382;it&#253; zmysel, ale milujem pracova&#357; na nich, &#382;ijem.</p><p>Mo&#382;no je to pr&#225;ve to jedin&#233;, &#269;o m&#225; zmysel robi&#357;.</p><p>Doba je zl&#225;. D&#225;vajme si na tieto veci pozor.</p><p></p><div><hr></div><p></p><h3><strong>V posledn&#253;ch d&#328;och som vydal aj dve nov&#233; skladby.</strong></h3><p><strong>Unamused</strong> &#8211; na obr&#225;zku je m&#244;j koc&#250;r Kiki. T&#225;to skladba je jednou z desiatich z pripravovan&#233;ho albumu:<br></p><div class="bandcamp-wrap album" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.bandcamp.com/album/unamused-single&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Unamused (Single), by David Kollar&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;1 track album&quot;,&quot;thumbnail_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ab6fc1d5-1242-4365-872f-d1a0dce717d8_700x700.jpeg&quot;,&quot;author&quot;:&quot;David Kollar&quot;,&quot;embed_url&quot;:&quot;https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1038843654/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=333333/artwork=small/transparent=true/&quot;,&quot;is_album&quot;:true}" data-component-name="BandcampToDOM"><iframe src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=1038843654/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=333333/artwork=small/transparent=true/" frameborder="0" gesture="media" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p><strong>Umen&#237; nen&#237; nikdy samo</strong> &#8211; pou&#382;il som slov&#225; Miroslava Pet&#345;&#237;&#269;ka, v&#253;znamn&#233;ho &#269;esk&#233;ho filozofa, ku ktor&#233;ho 75. narodenin&#225;m vznikol tento hudobn&#253; projekt:<br></p><div class="bandcamp-wrap album" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.bandcamp.com/album/um-n-nen-nikdy-samo-single&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Um&#283;n&#237; nen&#237; nikdy samo (Single), by David Kollar&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;1 track album&quot;,&quot;thumbnail_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/510d4cf4-199d-4fa7-97e7-f001731d223b_700x700.jpeg&quot;,&quot;author&quot;:&quot;David Kollar&quot;,&quot;embed_url&quot;:&quot;https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2587449578/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=333333/artwork=small/transparent=true/&quot;,&quot;is_album&quot;:true}" data-component-name="BandcampToDOM"><iframe src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=2587449578/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=333333/artwork=small/transparent=true/" frameborder="0" gesture="media" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen="true"></iframe></div><p>Mo&#382;no pr&#225;ve to je pointa.</p><p><strong>Umenie nie je nikdy samo.</strong></p><p>Sme v &#328;om spolu &#8211; umelci, posluch&#225;&#269;i, div&#225;ci, &#269;itatelia.</p><p><strong>A by&#357; znamen&#225; by&#357; spolu.</strong></p><p></p><p>Ak ma m&#244;&#382;ete a chcete podpori&#357; tak m&#244;&#382;e k&#250;pi&#357; <strong><a href="https://davidkollar.bandcamp.com/music">digit&#225;lne moju hudbu</a></strong>, <strong><a href="https://www.davidkollar.com/visual-art">moje grafiky</a></strong>, <strong><a href="https://www.davidkollar.com/merch-books">moje knihy</a></strong><a href="https://www.davidkollar.com/merch-books"> </a>alebo aj <strong><a href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/p/podporte-moju-tvorbu-svojimi-2-z">2% z dan&#237;</a></strong> pre moje ob&#269;iansk&#233; Zdru&#382;enie. <br><br><br>&#270;akujem v&#225;m, </p><p></p><p>David</p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/poznamky-z-poslednych-dni?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/p/poznamky-z-poslednych-dni?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/poznamky-z-poslednych-dni/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/p/poznamky-z-poslednych-dni/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Milan for a Few Days (Olympic Games)
]]></title><description><![CDATA[I just got back from Milan.]]></description><link>https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/milan-for-a-few-days-olympic-games</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/milan-for-a-few-days-olympic-games</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 16:08:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wctP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbd0a73ef-53c3-4770-b8d4-dc9cb97aa9f3_1179x687.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just got back from Milan. It was a short trip, really short. We went to see the Slovakia&#8211;Finland hockey game and, completely by chance, ended up at a match people will probably talk about for a long time. Slovakia beat Finland after 22 years.</p><p>When I bought the tickets, I was sure we&#8217;d lose. I didn&#8217;t mind. I just wanted to experience it live. And I have to admit, hockey in person is a completely different sport than on TV.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">David Kollar is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Commentators influence my feelings too much. Live, the game is faster, tougher, sometimes almost chaotic, but at the same time very pure in its energy. You hear the sound of the skates, the hits, the silence just before a shot.</p><p>And the atmosphere&#8230; it was great. At one point the whole stadium stood up, someone started clapping and everyone joined in. There was no anger, no tension, more like a shared rhythm. Strong, but not aggressive.</p><p>We were sitting among Finnish fans, but there was no hostility, nothing like at some local football matches. At one moment it crossed my mind how good life on this planet could be without wars and anger.</p><p></p><h2><strong>The Stadium and the Crowds</strong></h2><p>The Santa Giulia arena is very well organized &#8212; you could feel it right from the entrance, during ticket checks and moving around inside. Everything worked, everything had its order. And the sun was shining.</p><p>At the same time I realized one thing &#8212; big crowds aren&#8217;t really my environment.</p><p>I don&#8217;t really go to big concerts. Only when my daughter Barbora pulls me out to one.</p><p>Rammstein in Tren&#269;&#237;n.<br>M&#246;tley Cr&#252;e in Budapest.<br>Slipknot in Prague.</p><p>And now hockey in Milan.</p><p>Maybe it&#8217;s age, maybe just my nature. I don&#8217;t know. I just know I don&#8217;t look for big crowds and I feel better in smaller environments. Even a crowded Lidl can feel overwhelming to me now. And when my daughter is with me, I sometimes worry whether something might suddenly happen. Because of that, I often can&#8217;t fully relax at big events.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bd0a73ef-53c3-4770-b8d4-dc9cb97aa9f3_1179x687.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4c141916-9543-4e4b-8a61-8e9d6e0e482b_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;   Me and father&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/36a28ccc-962c-4d9d-b7df-960d34b41942_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;f9903f19-3280-4c8f-8d77-66e5bef4bc82&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p></p><h2><strong>The Trip Was Also a Bit of a Logistics Game</strong></h2><p>The whole trip was a bit of a logistics game.</p><p>About eight months in advance we booked three different places to stay, each for three days, with the payment scheduled only for February 2, 2026. It meant one thing &#8212; we had options open but weren&#8217;t risking anything.</p><p>When the schedule for Slovakia&#8217;s games was announced, we cancelled the other reservations and kept only the one that matched the game against Finland. We bought the tickets in advance and suddenly the plan became a real date in the calendar.</p><p>I like this kind of thing. When a plan slowly takes shape and then suddenly starts to work.</p><p>As a small bonus, the husband of the apartment owner turned out to be a King Crimson and TOOL fan, so I even got a 10% discount &#8212; and I left them a KOMARA vinyl as a gift.</p><p>The drive from Pre&#353;ov to Milan took about 13 hours with breaks, and about 12 hours on the way back. Long and tiring, but worth it.</p><p>Highways give you time to think. Sometimes those hours between point A and point B matter in their own way.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/aead20ef-4fff-40a9-a0f5-c7ff04b87c59_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f0657816-c576-4726-87a8-e3a4d5d50944_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/576a62e9-00f9-4517-b70f-c274399b4d7a_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/271ded0a-12fd-4076-b036-c88a3fb700c7_1456x474.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><h2><strong>Getting Around, the City, and Small Moments</strong></h2><p>We got to the stadium by public transport. First bus number 43, about seven stops to the M3 metro, then roughly fifteen more stops, and finally shuttle buses that carried fans straight to the arena.</p><p>Every now and then you could hear that chant &#8212; &#8220;Slovenskoooo, Slovenskoooo, heja heja hej Slovensko.&#8221; I always find it a bit cheesy, but I caught myself shouting it too once we started winning.</p><p>The worst part is probably the food lines. If you want to buy something during the break, you basically don&#8217;t stand a chance. But I guess that&#8217;s the same everywhere.</p><p>After the game we couldn&#8217;t get an Uber near the stadium, so we walked north for about twenty minutes. Then tram number 27, after ten stops bus 91, and after another fifteen stops bus 81, which finally took us back to the apartment.</p><p>There was a small local pub nearby where we sat for a while, and later we went back to the apartment to watch more games.</p><p>On the last day in Milan I told myself I had to try local focaccia. We walked through the city center, bought some discounted sunglasses, and just wandered around.</p><p>In the end, those four days were simple: two days of travel, one day of hockey, and one day of wandering around Milan.</p><p>It was great.</p><p></p><p>David</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/18dfb5d6-01fb-42c7-9233-138e57a33165_3840x2160.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5f6bf39f-338d-4ff4-99c2-8715faf911ab_3840x2160.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f471f8f5-8f94-4e1c-a012-7589b1a4dbce_1600x1200.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ecb369e0-146c-481e-8713-8837fa009049_1456x474.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">David Kollar is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miláno na pár dní (Olympijské hry)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Vr&#225;til som sa z Mil&#225;na.]]></description><link>https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/milano-na-par-dni-olympijske-hry</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/milano-na-par-dni-olympijske-hry</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:57:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!i6-Z!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd6881355-45a7-4d4b-a5ca-d38bf8efa7d2_4032x3024.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Vr&#225;til som sa z Mil&#225;na. Bol to kr&#225;tky v&#253;let, ve&#318;mi kr&#225;tky. I&#353;li sme pozrie&#357; hokej Slovensko &#8211; F&#237;nsko a &#250;plnou n&#225;hodou sme sa ocitli na z&#225;pase, o ktorom sa bude e&#353;te dlho hovori&#357;. Slovensko porazilo F&#237;nsko po 22 rokoch.</p><p>Ke&#271; som kupoval l&#237;stky, bol som presved&#269;en&#253;, &#382;e prehr&#225;me. Nevadilo mi to. Chcel som to za&#382;i&#357; na&#382;ivo. A prizn&#225;m sa, &#382;e hokej na&#382;ivo je &#250;plne in&#253; &#353;port ne&#382; v telev&#237;zii.</p><p>Koment&#225;tori pr&#237;li&#353; ovpliv&#328;uj&#250; moje pocity. Z&#225;pas na&#382;ivoje r&#253;chlej&#353;&#237;, tvrd&#353;&#237;, miestami a&#382; chaotick&#253;, ale z&#225;rove&#328; ve&#318;mi &#269;ist&#253; v energii. Vn&#237;mate zvuk kor&#269;&#250;&#318;, n&#225;razy, ticho pred strelou.</p><p>A atmosf&#233;ra&#8230; t&#225; je skvel&#225;. V jednej chv&#237;li sa cel&#253; &#353;tadi&#243;n postavil, niekto za&#269;al tlieska&#357; a ostatn&#237; sa pridali. Nebol v tom hnev ani nap&#228;tie, sk&#244;r spolo&#269;n&#253; rytmus. Siln&#225;, ale nie agres&#237;vna.</p><p>Sedeli sme medzi F&#237;nmi, ale nebol tam &#382;iaden vz&#225;jomn&#253; hnev, ako na lok&#225;lnom futbalovom z&#225;pase. V jednej chv&#237;li mi napadlo, ak&#253; skvel&#253; by bol &#382;ivot na tejto plan&#233;te bez vojen a hnevu.</p><div><hr></div><h2>&#352;tadi&#243;n a davy</h2><p>&#352;tadi&#243;n Santa Giulia je ve&#318;mi dobre zorganizovan&#253; &#8212; &#269;o bolo c&#237;ti&#357; u&#382; pri pr&#237;chode, pri kontrole l&#237;stkov aj pri presunoch po &#353;tadi&#243;ne. V&#353;etko fungovalo, v&#353;etko malo svoj poriadok. Navy&#353;e svietilo slnko.</p><p>Z&#225;rove&#328; som si uvedomil jednu vec &#8212; ve&#318;k&#233; davy nie s&#250; prostredie, ktor&#233; vyh&#318;ad&#225;vam.</p><p>Na ve&#318;k&#233; koncerty v podstate nechod&#237;m. Vlastne len vtedy, ke&#271; ma vytiahne moja dc&#233;ra Barbora.</p><p>Rammstein v Tren&#269;&#237;ne.<br>M&#246;tley Cr&#252;e v Budape&#353;ti.<br>Slipknot v Prahe.</p><p>A teraz hokej v Mil&#225;ne.</p><p>Mo&#382;no je to vekom, mo&#382;no povahou. Neviem. Len viem, &#382;e ve&#318;k&#233; davy nevyh&#318;ad&#225;vam a je mi bli&#382;&#353;ie men&#353;ie prostredie. Dokonca preplnen&#253; Lidl mi u&#382; rob&#237; probl&#233;m. Navy&#353;e, ke&#271; je so mnou dc&#233;ra m&#225;m aj obavu, &#269;i sa tam nie&#269;o nezomelie. Pr&#225;ve kv&#244;li tomu si tieto ve&#318;k&#233; podujatia &#269;asto neu&#382;ijem naplno.</p><p></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e6dee51e-0530-4845-bebb-c49010c744f9_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/20dbc10a-450f-4630-9c43-596bf0e407da_1179x687.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;na &#318;avo s otcom&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/50119bbc-b0e1-42c6-8e87-7691af4a9087_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;0bd5c2b0-a64b-402f-8f7e-247b925acf9d&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><div><hr></div><h2>Logistika a cesta</h2><p>Cel&#253; v&#253;let bol trochu aj logistick&#225; hra. </p><p>Asi osem mesiacov dopredu sme si zarezervovali tri r&#244;zne ubytovania po sebe, ka&#382;d&#233; na tri dni, s t&#253;m, &#382;e platba mala prebehn&#250;&#357; a&#382; 2. febru&#225;ra 2026. Znamenalo to jedin&#233; &#8212; mali sme otvoren&#233; dvere, ale ni&#269; sme neriskovali.</p><p>Ke&#271; zverejnili term&#237;ny z&#225;pasov Slovenska, zru&#353;ili sme ostatn&#233; rezerv&#225;cie a nechali len t&#250;, ktor&#225; sedela na z&#225;pas proti F&#237;nsku. L&#237;stky sme k&#250;pili v predstihu a zrazu sa z pl&#225;nu stal konkr&#233;tny bod v kalend&#225;ri.</p><p>Tak&#233;to veci m&#225;m r&#225;d. Ke&#271; sa pl&#225;n pomaly sklad&#225; a potom zrazu za&#269;ne fungova&#357;.<br>Navy&#353;e man&#382;el majite&#318;ky apartm&#225;nu je fan&#250;&#353;ik King Crimson a TOOL tak som dostal e&#353;te 10% z&#318;avu a nechal som im KOMARA vinyl ako dar&#269;ek.</p><p>Cesta z Pre&#353;ova do Mil&#225;na autom trvala asi 13 hod&#237;n, sp&#228;&#357; 12. Dlh&#233; a &#250;navn&#233;, ale st&#225;lo to za to.</p><p>Na dia&#318;niciach m&#225; &#269;lovek &#269;as prem&#253;&#353;&#318;a&#357;. Niekedy s&#250; pr&#225;ve tie hodiny medzi bodom A a bodom B d&#244;le&#382;it&#233; samy osebe.</p><p></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d6881355-45a7-4d4b-a5ca-d38bf8efa7d2_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/fe025a2a-d943-4db6-b0c0-aaf0e033c7c5_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/65d1bea7-28da-4b75-9510-0f69a1534773_1456x720.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><div><hr></div><h2>Presuny, mesto a mal&#233; momenty</h2><p>Z ubytovania sme sa na &#353;tadi&#243;n pres&#250;vali verejnou dopravou. Najprv autobus &#269;&#237;slo 43, asi sedem zast&#225;vok na metro M3, potom &#271;al&#353;&#237;ch pribli&#382;ne p&#228;tn&#225;s&#357; zast&#225;vok a nakoniec shuttle busy, ktor&#233; prev&#225;&#382;ali fan&#250;&#353;ikov priamo k &#353;tadi&#243;nu.</p><p>Ob&#269;as sa oz&#253;val ten pod&#318;a m&#328;a trochu tr&#225;pny pokrik &#8222;Slovenskooooo, Slovenskoooo, heja heja hej Slovensko&#8220;. A potom som sa pristihol, &#382;e ke&#271; sme za&#269;ali vyhr&#225;va&#357;, kri&#269;&#237;m ho spolu s ostatn&#253;mi.</p><p>Asi najhor&#353;ie s&#250; rady k bufetom. Ke&#271; si chcete cez prest&#225;vku nie&#269;o k&#250;pi&#357;, v podstate nem&#225;te &#353;ancu. Ale to je asi rovnak&#233; v&#353;ade.</p><p>Po z&#225;pase sa n&#225;m k &#353;tadi&#243;nu nepodarilo zavola&#357; Uber, tak sme sa vybrali pe&#353;i na sever, asi dvadsa&#357; min&#250;t. Potom elektri&#269;ka &#269;&#237;slo 27, po desiatich zast&#225;vkach autobus &#269;&#237;slo 91 a po &#271;al&#353;&#237;ch asi p&#228;tn&#225;stich zast&#225;vkach autobus 81, ktor&#253; n&#225;s doviezol k ubytovaniu.</p><p>Ne&#271;aleko bola mal&#225; pivn&#225; kr&#269;ma, kde sme si na chv&#237;&#318;u sadli, a potom sme sa vr&#225;tili do apartm&#225;nu pozera&#357; &#271;al&#353;ie z&#225;pasy.</p><p>Posledn&#253; de&#328; v Mil&#225;ne som si povedal, &#382;e mus&#237;m ochutna&#357; miestnu focacciu. Pre&#353;li sme sa centrom, k&#250;pili sme si zlacnen&#233; okuliare a len tak chodili mestom.</p><p>V podstate sa tie &#353;tyri dni daj&#250; rozdeli&#357; jednoducho: dva dni cesty, jeden de&#328; hokej a jeden de&#328; vo&#318;n&#253; program v Mil&#225;ne.</p><p>Bolo to super.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7594becd-c6ca-414c-8aae-86c2fd0bea5e_1600x1200.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/30d59137-ec97-4100-ad33-5f029fa797f2_3840x2160.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/01ab2599-3877-47d0-8f9b-69b8026ac64a_3840x2160.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e0efc702-f986-42cd-bf6d-9cc577ba7263_1456x474.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><div><hr></div><h2>Rozhovor o umelej inteligencii</h2><p>Po&#269;as cesty a rozhovorov, ktor&#233; vznikaj&#250; mimo be&#382;n&#233;ho prostredia, sa &#269;asto otvoria t&#233;my, ku ktor&#253;m by som sa doma mo&#382;no ani nedostal. Jedna z nich sa t&#253;ka umelej inteligencie.</p><p>Pr&#225;ve z Mil&#225;na sme nahrali rozhovor pre Ars Musica o umelej inteligencii. O tom, ako ju pou&#382;&#237;vam, pre&#269;o sa ju sna&#382;&#237;m pochopi&#357; a pre&#269;o si z&#225;rove&#328; mysl&#237;m, &#382;e je d&#244;le&#382;it&#233; nestrati&#357; vlastn&#233; myslenie, &#269;&#237;tanie a pochybovanie. Druh&#253;m hos&#357;om bol m&#244;j priate&#318; Peter Katina.</p><p>Ak m&#225;te chu&#357;, m&#244;&#382;ete si ho vypo&#269;u&#357; tu:<br><a href="https://www.stvr.sk/radio/archiv/1247/2734191">https://www.stvr.sk/radio/archiv/1247/2734191</a></p><p>David</p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/milano-na-par-dni-olympijske-hry?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/p/milano-na-par-dni-olympijske-hry?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/milano-na-par-dni-olympijske-hry/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/p/milano-na-par-dni-olympijske-hry/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><div class="community-chat" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/davidkollar/chat?utm_source=chat_embed&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;davidkollar&quot;,&quot;pub&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:952257,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;David Kollar&quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;DAVID KOLLAR&quot;,&quot;author_photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-ISI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbe05d1ee-6e2b-465b-8a03-2d6dd182368c_1920x1280.jpeg&quot;}}" data-component-name="CommunityChatRenderPlaceholder"></div><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[POZNAŃ, ARVE AND ESCAPE PLANS
]]></title><description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sitting in the audience.]]></description><link>https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/poznan-arve-and-escape-plans</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/poznan-arve-and-escape-plans</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:31:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2e42afe1-e9e0-441c-8d20-abd61b955947_3088x2316.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>(The audio is a <strong>podcast-style</strong> <strong>summary</strong> generated by Google NotebookLM)</em></p><div><hr></div><p></p><p>I&#8217;m sitting in the audience. People around me. Silence. Anticipation.</p><p>The students in Pozna&#324; came up with the idea that the concert wouldn&#8217;t start on stage, but right among the listeners. A spatial effect. Sound that surrounds you before you even see its source. Arve told me one condition beforehand: &#8220;Don&#8217;t play any specific notes.&#8221;</p><p>So we began. In a fog of uncertainty, where the substance of sound wins over melody.</p><p>Then a little girl, Helena, came onto the stage. She sang a folk song. It was a very powerful moment. This purity of tradition was later complemented by Patryk Rynkiewicz and his quartet.</p><p>After that came a duo: saxophone (Kacper Krupa) and drums (Andrzej Konieczny) with electronics &#8212; a completely different world, raw and technological. I love these contrasts. An acoustic prehistoric feeling in the audience, a folk song, and then a futuristic charge. And then me and Arve Henriksen with our own musical world.</p><p><strong>Videos from my iPhone:</strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;79ffb3d4-f70d-4ed5-b750-22892486f9e5&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;df4f2607-593c-430d-9a1b-5749a2cfbf75&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;65ada279-9742-4138-8b67-ab66246849d9&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><h2><strong>ARVE AND MY INSECURITIES</strong></h2><p>Arve is an absolutely essential figure for me. Not only musically, but also as a human being. He&#8217;s a musician who can completely dissolve sound and transform space. And then suddenly he starts to sing. It&#8217;s the kind of moment when you simply lay down your weapons. His musical palette is incredibly rich and powerful. Arve is just special &#8212; he&#8217;s walking music.</p><p>And yet he keeps encouraging me.</p><p>It might not look like it, but on stage I&#8217;m often insecure. I can get blocked. I cut myself off from creativity and start to grope in the dark.</p><p>That&#8217;s when I reach for a piece of paper where I&#8217;ve written my &#8220;escape plan.&#8221; Points I hold on to when I&#8217;m getting lost. Arve senses it and opens doors in me that I didn&#8217;t even know existed. Over the years, this has helped me immensely.</p><p>I often wonder where my insecurity comes from. Is it a natural part of my personality? Or is it the result of years of criticism and resentment in the environment I live in? I don&#8217;t know.</p><p>But Arve shows me that insecurity isn&#8217;t an enemy &#8212; it&#8217;s energy that needs to be learned how to control. He&#8217;s a genius and a fighter for the right principles. He knows what&#8217;s fair. I&#8217;ll write about that another time.</p><div><hr></div><h2><strong>A STORY OF CHOPPING WOOD AND SELLING INSURANCE</strong></h2><p>The workshop with Polish guitar students at the Academy of Music in Pozna&#324; was just as powerful for me as the concert. We talked for more than two hours.</p><p>I told them my &#8220;life story&#8221; &#8212; without embellishment. How I got married at eighteen, left school, and chopped wood. How I sold ice cream and tried to work as an insurance agent, while everyone around me kept hammering into my head that my music would never amount to anything.</p><p>We traced the path from the moment I &#8220;left&#8221; Slovakia musically, because I didn&#8217;t see a future for myself there as a musician &#8212; even though physically I stayed living at home. Through Hungary &#8212; collaborations with &#193;d&#225;m Mark&#243; and Gerg&#337; Baranyi &#8212; all the way to Gergo Borlai. Then projects in Italy with Paolo Raineri, collaborations with Pat Mastelotto and Trey Gunn from King Crimson, Erik Truffaz, Fennesz, a story with Adam Jones from Tool, and Nils Petter Molv&#230;r &#8212; leading up to my film music. From its beginnings in amateur films to box-office hits like <em>MIKI</em> and <em>&#268;ERN&#193;K</em>. I also mentioned Rick Cox, Thomas Newman, Steven Wilson&#8230; and even the projects that didn&#8217;t work out, like my &#8220;Hans Zimmer story.&#8221;</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;33a1ce55-bdc6-4221-9e41-498d654f34ac&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;I share this story because I have mentioned it several times in my workshops on film music. I've mentioned it in several interviews, discussed it with my musical colleagues and with my children. My daughter Barbora, who is a huge music lover (and a young 12 year old bass player), told me to write this story in English as well.&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Read full story&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;showDescription&quot;:true,&quot;showImage&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;lg&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;My Hans Zimmer story&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:97287153,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;DAVID KOLLAR&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Slovak award winner guitarist, experimenter, film music composer. 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Seeing that spark in their eyes. I felt like I had come dirty and scraped from a battlefield to a university to pass on experience to students.</p><div><hr></div><h2><strong>YOU ARE NOT INFLUENCERS. YOU ARE MUSICIANS.</strong></h2><p>The next day we had a workshop together with Arve. He spoke about improvisation as a compositional technique. He showed them his sound palette and we all played together.</p><p>We wanted only one thing from them: to be curious, playful, and unafraid.</p><p>At the end I told them one thing: forget about social media and follower counts. You are not influencers. You are musicians. You need to practice, explore, and live music. Post what you need to, but don&#8217;t torture yourselves with numbers.</p><p>I gave them the example of Thomas Newman. He might have two thousand followers on Instagram, but the whole world knows him, and millions listen to him on Spotify. That&#8217;s reality &#8212; not colorful bubbles.</p><p>Arve closed with a beautiful thought. He told the students to value the fact that they can study for free. To make the most of it and show the Polish community that investing tax money in them was worth it. To play together, experiment, and compose as much as possible while they are still at the university.</p><p>Then he pointed out the window. To the world we both came from &#8212; and the one they will soon enter. Out there, everything has a price.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;8c19b255-2ce6-4033-bfde-54ec192e8bab&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><h2><strong>A VIEW ACROSS THE BORDER</strong></h2><p>Poland is growing incredibly &#8212; economically, culturally, and in terms of infrastructure. Highways across the whole country, confidence, development.</p><p>For me, it&#8217;s unbelievable and at the same time sad, because Slovakia feels like the exact opposite. We&#8217;re moving in the other direction. That&#8217;s simply how it is. Not to mention the support for culture.</p><p>Still, I&#8217;m grateful that we are neighbors. That this energy from Poland is within reach. I believe more collaborations will open up in the future.</p><p>That&#8217;s what it&#8217;s really about &#8212; connection, breaking through insecurity, joy, inspiration, and music.</p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c18bf816-56d5-459a-a84a-21173c44ad1d_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2fb67d6e-4649-470a-8326-568244cb4ca0_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/af98a34d-3979-494f-ad9c-db4757c55974_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3fdd3eec-1e00-4d65-ab27-207bcd060eed_3088x2316.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/5ad0bfd3-1ae2-4a51-840e-b58b7fb3a165_3024x4032.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d047f59f-451d-4fa3-b7f3-b8cd092db440_1456x1210.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><h2><strong>Poland joining 20 largest world economies, IMF figures show:</strong></h2><p></p><p>LINK: <a href="https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/10/15/poland-joining-20-largest-world-economies-imf-figures-show/">https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/10/15/poland-joining-20-largest-world-economies-imf-figures-show/</a></p><p></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/poznan-arve-and-escape-plans?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/p/poznan-arve-and-escape-plans?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[POZNAŇ, ARVE A ÚNIKOVÉ PLÁNY]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sed&#237;m v publiku.]]></description><link>https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/poznan-arve-a-unikove-plany</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/poznan-arve-a-unikove-plany</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2026 13:56:57 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6e174660-2d4b-4ae1-b3e7-059325c927fa_3088x2316.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>(AI Prerozpr&#225;vanie)</em></p><div><hr></div><p></p><p>Sed&#237;m v publiku. Okolo m&#328;a s&#250; &#318;udia, ticho, o&#269;ak&#225;vanie.</p><p>&#352;tudenti v Poznani vymysleli, &#382;e koncert neza&#269;neme na p&#243;diu, ale priamo medzi posluch&#225;&#269;mi. Priestorov&#253; efekt. Zvuk, ktor&#253; &#357;a obklop&#237; sk&#244;r, ne&#382; uvid&#237;&#353; jeho zdroj. Arve mi predt&#253;m povedal jedin&#250; podmienku: &#8222;Nehraj &#382;iadne konkr&#233;tne t&#243;ny.&#8220;</p><p>A tak sme za&#269;ali. V hmle neur&#269;itosti, kde hmota zvuku v&#237;&#357;az&#237; nad mel&#243;diou.</p><p>Potom pri&#353;lo na p&#243;dium mal&#233; diev&#269;atko, Helena. Zaspievala folkov&#250; piese&#328;. Bol to ve&#318;mi siln&#253; moment. T&#250;to &#269;istotu trad&#237;cie nesk&#244;r doplnil Patryk Rynkiewicz so svoj&#237;m kvartetom.</p><p>N&#225;sledne pri&#353;lo duo: saxof&#243;n (Kacper Krupa) a bicie (Andrzej Konieczny) s elektronikou &#8211; &#250;plne in&#253; svet, drav&#253;, technologick&#253;. Milujem tieto kontrasty. Akustick&#253; pravek v publiku, &#318;udov&#225; piese&#328; a potom futuristick&#253; n&#225;klad. A potom ja a Arve Henriksen s na&#353;&#237;m hudobn&#253;m svetom.</p><p><strong>Vide&#225; z m&#244;jho Iphonu:</strong></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;1f6f4830-bb49-4f35-86a4-aab0f7fcc408&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;9c7b3a95-8f1f-4e21-b2f0-a286925257bf&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;1eb2ee74-50a7-4715-aa16-1dc013f43392&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p></p><p></p><h2>ARVE A MOJE NEISTOTY</h2><p>Arve je pre m&#328;a absol&#250;tne z&#225;sadn&#225; postava. Nielen hudobne, ale aj &#318;udsky. Je to hudobn&#237;k, ktor&#253; dok&#225;&#382;e zvuk &#250;plne rozpusti&#357; a zmeni&#357; priestor. A potom zrazu za&#269;ne spieva&#357;. Je to moment, ke&#271; jednoducho zlo&#382;&#237;te zbrane. Jeho hudobn&#225; paleta je ve&#318;mi pestr&#225; a siln&#225;. Arve je proste &#353;peci&#225;lny, je to chodiaca hudba.</p><p>A pritom ma st&#225;le povzbudzuje.</p><p>Mo&#382;no to tak nevyzer&#225;, ale na p&#243;diu som &#269;asto neist&#253;. Dok&#225;&#382;em sa zablokova&#357;. Odstrihnem sa od tvorivosti a t&#225;pam.</p><p>Vtedy siaham po papieri, na ktorom m&#225;m nap&#237;san&#253; svoj &#8222;&#250;nikov&#253; pl&#225;n&#8220;. Body, ktor&#253;ch sa chyt&#237;m, ke&#271; sa str&#225;cam. Arve to c&#237;ti a otv&#225;ra vo mne dvere, o ktor&#253;ch som ani netu&#353;il, &#382;e existuj&#250;. Ve&#318;mi mi to za tie roky pomohlo.</p><p>&#268;asto prem&#253;&#353;&#318;am, odkia&#318; sa t&#225; moja neistota berie. Je to prirodzen&#225; s&#250;&#269;as&#357; mojej povahy? Alebo s&#250; to roky kritiky a neprajnosti v prostred&#237;, v ktorom &#382;ijem? Neviem.</p><p>Arve mi v&#353;ak ukazuje, &#382;e neistota nie je nepriate&#318;, ale energia, ktor&#250; treba vedie&#357; ovl&#225;da&#357;. Je to g&#233;nius a bojovn&#237;k za spr&#225;vne princ&#237;py. Vie, &#269;o je f&#233;r. O tom ale nap&#237;&#353;em inokedy.</p><p></p><h2>PR&#205;BEH O R&#218;BAN&#205; DREVA A POISTK&#193;CH</h2><p>Workshop s po&#318;sk&#253;mi gitaristami na Akademia Muzycna v Poznanu bol pre m&#328;a rovnako siln&#253; ako koncert. Rozpr&#225;vali sme sa vy&#353;e dvoch hod&#237;n.</p><p>Povedal som im svoju &#8222;life story&#8220; &#8211; bez pr&#237;kras. Ako som sa v osemn&#225;stich o&#382;enil, odi&#353;iel zo &#353;koly a r&#250;bal drevo. Ako som pred&#225;val nanuky a sk&#250;&#353;al by&#357; pois&#357;ovac&#237;m agentom, zatia&#318; &#269;o mi v&#353;etci dookola t&#314;kli do hlavy, &#382;e z mojej hudby nikdy ni&#269; nebude.</p><p>Pre&#353;li sme t&#250; cestu od momentu, ke&#271; som zo Slovenska &#8222;odi&#353;iel&#8220; hudobne, lebo som tu ako hudobn&#237;k nevidel svoju bud&#250;cnos&#357; &#8211; fyzicky som v&#353;ak zostal &#382;i&#357; doma. Cez Ma&#271;arsko &#8211; spolupr&#225;ce s &#193;d&#225;mom Mark&#243;m a Gerg&#337;m Baranyim &#8211; a&#382; po Gerga Borlaia. Potom projekty v Taliansku s Paolom Rainerim, spolupr&#225;ce s Patom Mastelottom a Treyom Gunnom z King Crimson, Erikom Truffazom, Fenneszom, story s Adamom Jonesom z Tool &#269;i Nilsom Petterom Molv&#230;rom &#8211; a&#382; k mojej filmovej hudbe. Od jej za&#269;iatkov v amat&#233;rskych filmoch a&#382; po bestsellery MIKI a &#268;ERN&#193;K. Spomenul som Ricka Coxa, Thomasa Newmana, Stevena Wilsona&#8230; aj tie projekty, ktor&#233; nevy&#353;li, ako moju &#8222;Hans Zimmer story&#8220;.</p><p>Bolo to in&#353;piruj&#250;ce aj pre m&#328;a. Vidie&#357; t&#250; iskru v ich o&#269;iach. Mal som pocit, &#382;e som pri&#353;iel &#353;pinav&#253; a odret&#253; z bojov&#233;ho po&#318;a na univerzetu odovzda&#357; sk&#250;senosti &#353;tudentom.</p><p></p><h2>NIE STE INFLUENCERI, STE HUDOBN&#205;CI</h2><p>Druh&#253; de&#328; sme mali workshop s Arvem spolo&#269;ne. Hovoril o improviz&#225;cii ako o technike komponovania. Uk&#225;zal im svoju zvukov&#250; paletu a hrali sme v&#353;etci spolu.</p><p>Chceli sme od nich len jedno: aby boli zvedav&#237;, hrav&#237; a neb&#225;li sa.</p><p>Na z&#225;ver som im povedal jednu vec: vyka&#353;lite sa na soci&#225;lne siete a po&#269;ty followerov. Nie ste influenceri. Ste hudobn&#237;ci. Potrebujete cvi&#269;i&#357;, objavova&#357; a &#382;i&#357; hudbou. Postujte, &#269;o potrebujete, ale netr&#225;pte sa &#269;&#237;slami.</p><p>Uviedol som im pr&#237;klad Thomasa Newmana. Na Instagrame m&#225; mo&#382;no dvetis&#237;c followerov, ale pozn&#225; ho cel&#253; svet a na Spotify ho po&#269;&#250;vaj&#250; mili&#243;ny. To je realita, nie farebn&#233; bubliny.</p><p>Arve to uzavrel kr&#225;snou my&#353;lienkou. Povedal &#353;tudentom, aby si v&#225;&#382;ili, &#382;e m&#244;&#382;u &#353;tudova&#357; zadarmo. Aby to vyu&#382;ili naplno a dok&#225;zali po&#318;skej komunite, &#382;e sa z ich dan&#237; oplatilo do nich investova&#357;. Aby spolu hrali, experimentovali, komponovali &#269;&#237;m viac, k&#253;m su na univerzite. </p><p>Potom uk&#225;zal von z okna. Do sveta, z ktor&#233;ho sme my dvaja s Arvem pri&#353;li a kde &#269;oskoro pr&#237;du. Tam sa u&#382; za v&#353;etko plat&#237;.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;57fbf629-2641-4be7-9f7a-bf723351c7a9&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p></p><p></p><h2>POH&#317;AD CEZ HRANICU</h2><p>Po&#318;sko neskuto&#269;ne rastie &#8211; ekonomicky, kult&#250;rne aj infra&#353;trukt&#250;rou. Dia&#318;nice naprie&#269; celou krajinou, sebavedomie, rozvoj.</p><p>Je to pre m&#328;a neuverite&#318;n&#233; a z&#225;rove&#328; smutn&#233;, lebo Slovensko mi pripad&#225; ako prav&#253; opak. Ideme opa&#269;n&#253;m smerom. Teda je to jednoducho tak. O podpore kult&#250;ry nehovoriac.</p><p>Som v&#353;ak v&#271;a&#269;n&#253;, &#382;e sme susedia. &#381;e t&#225;to energia z Po&#318;ska je na dosah. Ver&#237;m, &#382;e sa v bud&#250;cnosti otvoria &#271;al&#353;ie spolupr&#225;ce.</p><p>Presne o tom to je &#8211; o prepojen&#237;, o b&#250;ran&#237; neistoty, radosti, in&#353;pir&#225;cii a o hudbe. <br></p><div class="image-gallery-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;gallery&quot;:{&quot;images&quot;:[{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f448be2a-27d7-4388-928d-feeae130ec4b_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d246b563-0e7b-4c65-81a2-a6bdc30e862e_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;},{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1199cba3-bbd4-40a5-96eb-6516324b3b68_4032x3024.jpeg&quot;}],&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;staticGalleryImage&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ccd261d1-9c68-4887-bafa-2e5b24880533_1456x474.png&quot;}},&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true}"></div><p></p><p><strong>Po&#318;sk&#225; ekonomika st&#250;pa:</strong> <a href="https://www.sme.sk/index/c/polsko-ekonomika-investicie-eurofondy-reformy">https://www.sme.sk/index/c/polsko-ekonomika-investicie-eurofondy-reformy</a><br><br><br></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/subscribe"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/poznan-arve-a-unikove-plany?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="/__u/davidkollar.substack.com/p/poznan-arve-a-unikove-plany?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=share&amp;action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[#54 - Čo mám pod kontrolou]]></title><description><![CDATA[Popis epiz&#243;dy]]></description><link>https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/54-co-mam-pod-kontrolou</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://davidkollar.substack.com/p/54-co-mam-pod-kontrolou</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[DAVID KOLLAR]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:20:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/184752533/677d59ab4c3f979e960675bb7b8bc88b.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Popis epiz&#243;dy</h3><p>V tejto epiz&#243;de sa kr&#225;tko obzriem za rokom 2025 a hovor&#237;m o veciach, na ktor&#233; m&#225;me skuto&#269;n&#253; vplyv &#8211; o &#269;ase, discipl&#237;ne, pozornosti a o tom, &#269;omu sa oplat&#237; venova&#357; energiu. 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