![[photo by Scasnak.jpg]] Born in Czechoslovakia. Studied at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague (Netherlands) and at the Music Academy in Cracow (Poland). His main focus is chaotic and polymetric rhythms, unconventional tunings, exploration of psychoacoustic properties of sound and field recording. He has created several site-specific sound installations, based on resonant properties of spaces and materials. He has given workshops on sonification, field recording, electromagnetic listening, and programming for artists. He is the creator of Elektrosluch – an electromagnetic listening device. In 2011 he started a label and instrument manufacturing company [LOM](https://lom.audio) focused on East/Central European experimental art and music. Since 2013 he has been organizing ZVUK, an outdoor festival dedicated to experimental music. In 2018 he opened [LOM space](http://space.lom.audio), a place for contemporary sound in Bratislava. In 2019 he established the bioLOM/[mykoLOM](http://myko.lom.audio) platform dealing with amateur mycology, lichenology and broader fungal perspectives. He established the mykoLOM lab with professional equipment for mushroom cultivation and culture work. In 2019 he started the [mykoLOM](http://myko.lom.audio) festival, intersecting arts, mycology and foraging traditions. In 2021 he published a book about lichens growing in Petržalka district in Bratislava, Slovakia. In 2022 he started the first Slovak portal dedicated to lichens — [lisajniky.sk](http://lisajniky.sk). In 2025 he finished the first contemporary introduction guidebook to lichens of Slovakia, "Aha, lišajník!". Since 2019 he has been [[Mycology & lichenology|doing lectures]] on citizen science, lichens and DIY mycology around Europe. Performed and exhibited his work in Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States; on festivals such as Sonic Acts (Netherlands), Borealis (Norway), Kraak (Belgium), Unsound (Poland), Norberg (Sweden), Sonic Experiments @ ZKM (Germany), Audio Art (Poland), Mélos-Ethos (Slovakia), Parallel Vienna (Austria), Ultrahang (Hungary) or Next (Slovakia). In 2012–2015 Jonáš Gruska worked as [a mastering engineer](https://www.discogs.com/artist/3027667-Jonáš-Gruska?superFilter=Instruments+%26+Performance) at [Lunar Mastering studio](http://lunar.audio). In 2014 he ran a podcast called [Rozvuk](https://www.mixcloud.com/rozvuk/uploads/). **2026** - `2026-02-17` Performing at [Mestské Divadlo Žilina](https://divadlozilina.eu/podujatia/jonas-gruska-axis-mundi-sound-distribution-system/), Slovakia - `2026-02-06 → 2026-03-27` [[Man Has Emerged Triumphant]] – exhibition at Tranzit, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2026-03-10` [[Man Has Emerged Triumphant]] – guided tour at Tranzit, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2026-04-13` Lecture about ultrasound at Soundscopia, Vienna, Austria **2025** - `2025-02-21` Performing at SB34 Manchester, Brussels, Belgium - `2025-02-22` Lecture at Kaska-DKO, Antwerp, Belgium - `2025-04-24 → 2025-06-09` [[Zvon]] sound installation at [Hear Here](https://hearhere.be/en/), Leuven, Belgium - `2025-04-28` Performing at T3, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2025-05-16` Performing at Toast, Florence, Italy - `2025-05-18` Performing at Povera, Turin, Italy - `2025-06-07` [Talk and performance at Dock11](https://www.instagram.com/p/DKH2TsCocfT/), Berlin, Germany - `2025-08-14` Performing in Bolderāja, Riga, Latvia - `2025-08-16` Performing at Luksfery festival, Gdynia, Poland - `2025-10-11` Performing at 先行一車 Senko Issha, Taipei, Taiwan - `2025-10-19` Performing at 海馬迴 光畫館 Fotoaura institute of photography, Tainan, Taiwan - `2025-10-19` Lecture at 海馬迴 光畫館 Fotoaura institute of photography, Tainan, Taiwan - `2025-11-25` Lecture about ultrasound at AVU, Prague, Czechia - `2025-12-02` Lecture about ultrasound in Munich, Germany - `2025-12-07` Performing at MEX Keller, Dortmund, Germany - `2025-12-14` Performing at Nová Cvernovka, Bratislava, Slovakia **2024** - `2024-01-26 ` Performing with MSHR, Brno, Czechia - `2024-02-02 → 2024-03-10 ` "Žaburina", reworked tape piece at Sonic Acts, Amsterdam, Netherlands - `2024-02-22 ` Performing at Default #13, The Hague, Netherlands - `2024-03-05 ` Performing at Petrohradská kolektiv, Prague, Czechia - `2024-03-12` Performing at Kunstraum Walchturm, Zurich, Switzerland - `2024-03-13` Lecture at Zurich University of the Arts, Zurich, Switzerland - `2024-04-10` Lecture at prison in Dubnica, Slovakia - `2024-04-23 → 2024-04-28` [[Zvon II]], [sound installation at AFO](https://program.afo.cz/59/programme#AF5909047), Olomouc, Czechia - `2024-05-05` Performing at [Oscillation festival](https://oscillation-festival.be/2024/), Brussels, Belgium - `2024-06-13 → 2024-09-15` [[Zvon]], sound installation, Krems, Austria - `2024-07-18 → 2024-07-21` Performing + sound installation at N:ear festival, Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia - `2024-07-20` Performing at Parken, Vienna, Austria - `2024-08-02` Performing at [Borderline festival](https://www.facebook.com/events/1567505817386009/), Poland - `2024-08-18` Performing at [Less is sound](https://www.facebook.com/events/2565931526928105), Bratislava, Slovakia - `2024-10-04` Performing at [Signal2Noise](https://s2n.cashmereradio.com), Berlin, Germany - `2024-10-23` Lecture at TAMA University, Tokyo, Japan - `2024-10-25` Performing at 七針 nanahari, Tokyo, Japan - `2024-11-02` Performing at 落合 ochiai soup, Tokyo, Japan **2023** - `2023-04-21` Lecture at Institute of Sonology, The Hague, Netherlands - `2023-04-21` Performing in The Hague, Netherlands - `2023-07-05` Lecture at Xhurch, Portland, OR, USA - `2023-07-19` Lecture at Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA, USA - `2023-07-24` Lecture in New York, NY, USA - `2023-11-09` Performing at PAKT, Bratislava, Slovakia **2022** - `2022-05-07` Performing at INA GRM, Paris, France - `2022-06-24` Performing at Order of Sonic Chaos: Preliminary connection, Brno, Czechia - `2022-08-18 → 2022-09-09` Curating "Order of Sonic Chaos" exhibition, Terén, Brno, Czechia - `2022-12-15` Performing at Velak Gala, Vienna, Austria **2021** - `2021-05-02` "Lichen", commissioned tape piece for Oscillation Festival, Brussels, Belgium - `2021-10-11` [Public video-interview](https://fb.watch/8AcTHHE6ib/) @ Malý Berlín (online) - `2021-10-16` Performing at Synagóga, Žilina, Slovakia - `2021-10-10 → 2021-10-24` Solo exhibition at Hot Dock Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2021-10-23` Performing at Malý Berlín, Trnava, Slovakia **2020** - `2020-02-22` Performing at Sonic Acts Academy 2020, Amsterdam, Netherlands - `2020-02-29` Performing as Mrkva/Bolka at Kafara, Brno, Czechia - `2020-07-16` Performing at Parken, Vienna, Austria - `2020-07-23 → 2020-07-26` Sound installation at Kiosk, Žilina, Slovakia - `2020-07-30` Site-specific performance "Plot", Bratislava, Slovakia - `2020-08-15` Performing at Bučení, Lubná, Czechia - `2020-08-24` Performing at Mushroom fountain, Bratislava, Slovakia **2019** - `2019-01-24` ShSssh It'll Be OK! performance, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2019-02-17` Performing at AVA Vardagsrum Session, Brno, Czechia - `2019-03-09` Introduction to field recording, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2019-03-30 → 2019-03-31` ShSssh It'll Be OK! performance, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2019-04-13` Performing at FUGA, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2019-04-18` Performing at Listen!, Brussels, Belgium - `2019-04-20` Performing at Table Dance, Antwerp, Belgium - `2019-04-24` Performing at AFO, Olomouc, Czechia - `2019-05-03` Performing as Mrkva/Bolka, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2019-06-15` Performing at LOM, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2019-08-24` Performing at Důl Michal, Ostrava, Czechia - `2019-09-13` ShSssh It'll Be OK! performance, Nitra, Slovakia - `2019-09-18` Field recording workshop + presentation at Plato, Ostrava, Czechia - `2019-10-01` Talk at "Towards the Unsecure Horizon", Prague, Czechia - `2019-10-04` Performing & talk at JAMA, Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia - `2019-10-19` DIY electromagnetic workshop, Pardubice, Czechia - `2019-10-30` Lecture at Praha, Brno, Czechia - `2019-11-16` Performing at Eluzína, Banská Štiavnica, Slovakia - `2019-11-21` Workshop for VŠVU students, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2019-11-26` Lecture at Institute of Sonology, Netherlands - `2019-11-27` Performance at STUK, Leuven, Belgium - `2019-11-28` Performance at De Player, Rotterdam, Netherlands - `2019-12-15` Workshop at ZVUK, Praha, Czechia **2018** - `2018-02-24` Performing at FUGA, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2018-03-03` Performing as Mrkva/Bolka at Kraa in A4, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2018-04-06` Performing at Noční směna, Ostrava, Czechia - `2018-04-14` Amplióny performance, Nástupište 1-12, Topolčany, Slovakia - `2018-05-11` Performing as Mrkva/Bolka at Cykolkuchyňa, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2018-05-31` Listening workshop at train station at "Been there together", Bratislava, Slovakia - `2018-06-21 → 2018-07-29` "Triaxial magnetic chant" sound installation, Plusmínus gallery, Žilina, Slovakia - `2018-09-01` Performing at "Mischief and Tenderness" book launch, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2018-09-15` Performing at Batyskaf 000, Čunovo, Slovakia - `2018-11-24` Performing at Silent Night, Prague, Czechia - `2018-12-16` Performing at T3, Bratislava **2017** - `2017-01-19 → 2017-02-19` Site-specific installation, Meetfactory, Prague, Czechia - `2017-01-28` Elektrosluch Mini City workshop, Stockholm, Sweden - `2017-03-10` Site-specific installation/performance @ Borealis, Bergen, Norway - `2017-03-11` Elektrosluch Mini City workshop @ Borealis, Bergen, Norway - `2017-03-12` Electromagnetic room with Laurie Lax @ Borealis, Bergen, Norway - `2017-04-21` Elektrosluch Mini City workshop @ Resonate, Belgrade, Serbia - `2017-05-04` Guest lecture/workshop at FAVU, Brno, Czechia - `2017-05-13 → 2017-05-14` Electromagnetic workshop, Katowice, Poland - `2017-06-29 → 2017-07-02` Site-specific installation "Riečně" with Alexandra Cihanská Machová, Luhačovice, Czechia - `2017-07-15` Field recording workshop, FUGA, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2017-08-15 → 2017-09-15` Site-specific installation, Opava, Czechia - `2017-09-02` Electromagnetic listening workshop, Eufonic festival, La Ràpita, Spain - `2017-09-09` Lúky performance at Ruiny III., Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia - `2017-09-23` Elektrosluch workshop, Supercluster festival, Brussels, Belgium - `2017-09-25` Performing at Mikrozvuk, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2017-09-30` Public field recording trip, Trnava, Slovakia - `2017-10-14` Performing with Jon Gibson Group, Unsound, Cracow, Poland - `2017-10-28` Site-specific performance, Jihlava, Czechia - `2017-11-14` Field recording workshop, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia - `2017-11-28` Mrkva/Bolka live at A4, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2017-12-11` Performing at Apart, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2017-12-16` Mäkko -- ASMR workshop & listening event, Bratislava, Slovakia **2016** - `2016-02-23` Lecturing at VSVU, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2016-03-11` Performing at A4, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2016-03-20` Electromagnetic listening workshop at Klinika, Prague, Czechia - `2016-05-04` Performing at Frameless, Munich, Germany - `2016-06-07` Lúky sound installation, Topolčany, Slovakia - `2016-06-11` Electromagnetic trolleybus - live performance in a trolleybus, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2016-06-22` Performing at Venin, Paris, France - `2016-06-26` Performing at Harvest, London, United Kingdom - `2016-07-15` Performing at Au rora o raura! festival, Hranice, Czechia - `2016-07-16` Electromagnetic listening workshop, Hranice, Czechia - `2016-09-08 → 2016-10-16` Site-specific sound installation at OGV, Jihlava, Czechia - `2016-09-10` Site-specific sound installation at Zastávka 194, Choteboř, Czechia - `2016-09-17 → 2016-09-18` Zvuky mesta - field recording workshop, Trnava, Slovakia - `2016-09-21` PechaKucha Night Trnava vol. 19, Slovakia - `2016-09-22` Performing at Sound city days, Košice, Slovakia - `2016-09-23` Performing at UH Fest warm-up in Budapest, Hungary - `2016-09-25` Fontána -- site-specific performance, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2016-10-16` Elektrosluch Mini City workshop, Cafe Oto, London, UK - `2016-10-16 → 2016-10-23` Presenting field recordings at Unsound Festival, Cracow, Poland - `2016-10-25` Presenting my work at Listening club, Bergen, Norway - `2016-11-05` Elektrosluch Mini City workshop at Rack Rash, Vienna, Austria - `2016-11-12` Elektrosluch Mini City workshop, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2016-11-15` Lecture at VSVU, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2016-11-19` Listening session, Prague, Czechia - `2016-11-24` Field recording lecture and electromagnetic workshop, Prague, Czechia - `2016-12-13` Lecture at Krakatoa, Bratislava, Slovakia **2015** - `2015-01-23` Leading workshop about digital audio and Supercollider, JAMU, Brno, Czechia - `2015-03-13` Leading workshop about field recording, JAMU, Brno, Czechia - `2015-03-27` Performing at Nástupište 1-12, Topolčany, Slovakia - `2015-04-17` Performing at Easterndazed, Budapest, Hungary - `2015-04-24` Performing at Školská 28, Prague, Czechia - `2015-05-07` Performing at Stanica, Žilina, Slovakia - `2015-05-09` Performing at Batyskaf, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2015-05-19` Site-specific installation "Dvere" and performance at 7. Zlínsky Salon Mladých, Zlín, Czechia - `2015-06-26` Performing at LOM+VELAK, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2015-07-03` Performing at Sonic Experiments, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany - `2015-09-23 → 2015-09-27` Site-specific installation "Site Specific Resonances V" at Parallel Vienna, Austria - `2015-10-09` Site-specific performance "Lúky" at Nástupište 1-12, Topolčany, Slovakia - `2015-11-07` Performing at Hundred Years Gallery, London, United Kingdom - `2015-11-09` Elektrosluch Mini workshop at Cafe OTO project space, London, United Kingdom - `2015-11-11` Performing at Cafe OTO, London, United Kingdom - `2015-11-14` Elektrosluch Mini workshop at Progressbar, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2015-12-01` Elektrosluch Mini workshop at Platoon, Berlin, Germany - `2015-12-02` Site-specific performance at Platoon, Berlin, Germany - `2015-12-05` Performing at PAF, Olomouc, Czechia - `2015-12-06` Elektrosluch Mini workshop, Brno, Czechia **2014** - `2014-02-15` Performing at Kraa festival, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2014-02-17` Performing with MSHR in FUGA, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2014-03-13` Performing in Brussels, Belgium - `2014-03-13 → 2014-03-14` Leading workshop on home-brew circuit boards design and etching at OKNO, Brussels, Belgium - `2014-04-04` Performing as ZVOM, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2014-05-10` Performing at "The Blank Stare" event, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2014-05-17` Performing with ::.: as 75 cyklov, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2014-05-30` Performing "Rúry", Bratislava, Slovakia - `2014-06-05` Performing "Rúry", Bratislava, Slovakia - `2014-07-25` Performing at Norberg festival, Norberg, Sweden - `2014-10-12 → 2014-11-02` Leading Supercollider workshop, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2014-10-31` Binmatu performance, Pardubice, Czechia - `2014-11-01` Performing in Praha, Brno, Czechia - `2014-11-11` Performing at Velak Export, Vienna, Austria **2013** - `2013-01-10` Binmatu performance at Ephemere, The Hague, The Netherlands - `2013-01-18` Performing at Art's Birthday, Brussels, Belgium - `2013-02-07` Binmatu performance at Institute of Sonology, The Hague, The Netherlands - Performing at Haguestock, The Hague, The Netherlands - `2013-02-25` Performing at LOM label showcase, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2013-03-02` Performing at Kraak festival, Aalst, Belgium - Performing with Bolka, The Hague, The Netherlands - `2013-03-16` Performing in Gemak gallery, The Hague, The Netherlands - `2013-05-22` Performing in Dystopia, The Hague, The Netherlands - `2013-05-24` Performing in Autonom Centrum, The Hague, The Netherlands - `2013-05-27` Performing in Loos Studio, The Hague, The Netherlands - `2013-06-16` Performing in Villa K, The Hague, The Netherlands - `2013-06-20` Performing and presenting compositions at Sonology Final Exam, The Hague, The Netherlands - `2013-09-08` Performing at ZVUK festival, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2013-09-28` Performing at A.live festival, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2013-10-03` Sound installation and performance at Prádelna Bohnice, Prague, Czechia - `2013-10-15` Artistic presentation at "Kreatívne ráno", Bratislava, Slovakia - `2013-11-09` Special performance on urban bells in Bratislava, Slovakia - `2013-11-09` Performing with Zavoloka at Mélos-Ethos festival, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2013-11-16` Performing with Angakok Thoth, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2013-11-30` Binmatu performance, Prague, Czechia - `2013-12-12 → 2013-12-13` Leading workshop about building pocket amplifiers, Košice, Slovakia - `2013-12-31` Mrkva/Bolka performance, Bratislava, Slovakia **2012** - `2012-01-24` Performing with Krakow Active Ensemble in Alchemia, Krakow, Poland - `2012-03-02` Binmatu performance on Progressbar birthday party, Bratislava, Slovakia - Artistic residency at OKNO, Brussels, Belgium - `2012-03-26` Performing at OEN, Krakow, Poland - `2012-04-13` Artistic presentation and performance at Multiplace festival, Brno, Czechia - `2012-04-26` Binmatu performance in Academy of Music, Krakow, Poland - `2012-05-12` OSMOGAS exhibition at TIK festival, Brussels, Belgium - `2012-05-12` OSMOGAS exhibition at Open House festival, Brussels, Belgium - `2012-05-12` Binmatu performance at TIK festival, Brussels, Belgium - `2012-05-19` Binmatu performance at "Queerowy maj", Krakow, Poland - `2012-05-21` Performing with Krakow Active Ensemble in Alchemia, Krakow, Poland - `2012-06-01` Performing with Krakow Active Ensemble at "Index errorum dzieciorum" installation opening, Krakow, Poland - `2012-06-08` Phasolume installation with Agnes Szelag, Krakow, Poland - `2012-06-15` Binmatu performance at Dietla 449, Krakow, Poland - `2012-06-16` Leading workshop on digital audio, Pure Data and programming at Young composers festival, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2012-06-17` Binmatu performance at Slovak Radio, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2012-06-29` Binmatu performance at NK, Bratislava, Slovakia - `2012-07-03` Binmatu performance at Day of Sound, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland - `2012-09-11` Performing at Haguestock, The Hague, The Netherlands - `2012-11-16` Performing with Luke Deane and Eugene Kim, The Hague, The Netherlands - `2012-12-07` Binmatu performance at NEXT festival, Slovakia **2011** - `2011-01-23` Participating in workshop of Seijiro Murayama and playing in A4, Bratislava - `2011-02-22 → 2011-03-06` Exhibiting Finnish version of Basen at Live Herring 2011 festival in Finland - `2011-05-20` Solo exhibition - interactive installation about 4 modes of listening at Royal Conservatory, The Hague - `2011-07-02 → 2011-07-07` Leading 4-day workshop on untraditional ways of city sonification - `2011-11-14` Leading workshop on Pure Data, audio programming and Processing and performing on Intermedia festival in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia - `2011-11-22` Performing on AudioArt festival, Cracow, Poland - Exhibiting live sound installation Sonodump - `2011-11-30` Performing on NEXT festival, Bratislava, Slovakia **2010** - `2010-01-16` Performing on Art's birthday in Okno (Brussels) with gnd, Brussels, Belgium - Composing music for Donaudrama theatre play. - `2010-11-01` Won a competition with my interactive poem. - Working 9 months as a technician in a cultural center A4 (Bratislava) - `2010-03-15` Artistic presentation on Gucha event in A4 cultural center , Bratislava, Slovakia - `2010-04-14` Technical concept and support for Play Cultures exhibition - `2010-04-15` Performing during Multiplace festival workshop with Cericka, Bratislava, Slovakia