Vital Weekly 513 (Feb. 2006)
IVAN PALACKY & VJ VERA LUKASOVA aka CARPETS CURTAINS (DVD by Errant Bodies); JARROD FOWLER - TRANSLATION AS RHYTHM (CD by Errant Bodies)
First I must apologize for not writing correctly the names of the two artists mentioned above. They require dashes and other marks that I do not have readily available in plain text. Secondly I must state that I was very pleasantly surprised by this release. The DVD contains five tracks, all with a very strong minimalist approach to sound and image. Main concern of both artists, Ivan Palacky the musician and Filip Cenek (aka Vera Lukasova) is the play with mistakes occurring during live situations or the glitches originating from flaws in hard- or software. This underlying concept is expressed very minimally, with a keen sense of spacing and timing and plenty of attention to detail. The music is very quiet, with lots of (near) silences, giving enough space to the imagery to stand on its own. The same thing can be said the other way around: Cenek's visuals are quiet and evocative textures based on almost negligible scenes from daily life with enough space for the music to be worth listening to. So maybe audiovisual collaborations are the future after all...
So, yes, this is something different: a conceptual artwork relating to music and music practice, seen from a philosophical and percussive perspective. Fowler's disc is a hermetic universe of thoughts about music and its practice expressed in sound. Interesting? Hell yes! Difficult to understand and get into? Hell yes! I just had to check out his site (www.jarrodfowler.com) and learn more. Did I? Hell no! So, what have we here? We have serious art, packed in a normal CD case, presented to the public as music. Is it? You tell me!
But it is certainly enticing en gets on one's nerves... (MR)

spazioinwind.libero.it (May 2006)
A delightful mixture of reductionist sonic crumbles and live video manipulations, this DVD showcases the talents of two Czech artists whose cross-pollination of genres is the guarantee of excellent developments in a spartan - but very effective - multimedia approach to composed and improvised materials. While Palacky generates microsounds from dictaphones, guitars, a knitting machine and contact microphones, he seems to look for disguised meanings in simple forms of life; long moments of near-silence are carefully yet unpredictably alternated with a course of modified voices, humming tranquillities and prepared strings. These small aural pleasures constitute a gorgeous soundtrack to Filip Cenek's aesthetic of contraction and expansion of photographs and still pictures; both in polychromatic combinations or black and white entrancing sequences, VJ Lukasova fights a silent battle against the expected, his successions of images as a transliteration of a REM state for our too relaxed retinas. (Massimo Ricci)
http://spazioinwind.libero.it/extremes/touchinghome.htm