Floex aka Tomáš Dvořák, talented czech composer, musician and graphic artist. Floex has been playing and composing music since 1996 focusing on the collision of fine arts and music. In that time he has contributed to several compilations and released his demo Hub via the Internet. In 2001 he released his debut album Pocustone that bridges relatively isolated genres such as nu-jazz, electronic and modern contemporary music. The album was highly critically acclaimed in the Czech Republic and has seen tracks licensed and limited distribution throughout Europe along with Floex being asked to remix a wide range of well respected Czech artists. Art still plays an important role in the project with cover art by the man himself, among various other ongoing creative installations around the world. Catch him live for a musical insight and aural treat with visual projections making up an integral part of live performances.
His / her works
Дискография:
Machinarium Original Soundtrack (2009)
Samorost 2 Original Soundtrack (2006)
Floex – Pocustone (2001) – debut solo album
�грография:
Machinarium (2009)
Samorost 2 (2006)
Награды:
Czech Music Academy Awards 2002 (Angels) – Electronic music cathegory (Pocustone album)
DMAwards 2002 - The Best Project and The Best Newcomer by public choice plus The Best Album according to the specialists (Pocustone album)
Rock And Pop Mag Awards 2002- The Best Album and The Best Newcomer (Pocustone album)
Nomination to Europian Awardz (Qwardz) in the Discovery cathegory 2004 (Pocustone album)
Hlavka?s Foundation Award 2006 (Live Score)
Development grant by "tranzit" foundation 2006 (Live Score)
Flash Forward Festival Award 2006 / Original Sound Cathegory (Samorost II)
International Seoul Net Festival 2006 - Best Web-Work Award (Samorost II)
Independent Games Festival - San Francisco 2007 (Samorost II)
Machinarium (2009): Original Soundtrack, Sound Design, Voices Samorost 2 (2006): Recorded, mixed and mastered by, All tracks written, arranged & produced by, Game Music by, Game Sounds by Samorost (2003): Sound by
17.02.2010Interview with Tomáš Dvořák - Machinarium soundtrack composer
Tomáš Dvořák, progressive Czech electro-instrumentalist and also graphic artist and designer, has told Game-OST how the music for indie-blockbuster Machinarium was created.
The Machinarium soundtrack is an extraordinary work, it has just appeared but it has already become classics. Its like Peter McConnells music from the best games by LucasArts, like Terry Taylors immortal projects for The Neverhood and Skullmonkeys, like sound illustrations by Daniel Pemberton for Little Big Planet. The distinctive feature of Machinarium is not just in the fact that with all the variety of music sub-genres these tracks never disharmonize but also in providing a full immersion in the game world you start to believe irrevocably in a musical world created by Dvorak as a part of a graphic universe of Dvorsky.
Tomáš Dvorák, one of the most famous young Czech composers, is now working on a new full-scale adventure game called Machinarium from the independent Czech developer Amanita Design who is the creator of fabulous flash quest Samorost series. We are happy with Floex and he is happy to write music for our projects so there's no need to change it, said the leading game-designer of Amanita Design Jakub Dvorsky in his interview to the weblog IndieGames.com. According to Tomas Dvoraks words, soundtrack for Machinarium will be a sequel for Samorost 2s music and its very likely to be a separate release. Moreover even now you can listen to several tracks from Machinarium in a quest called Questionaut, created for the BBC by Amanita Design.
Tomáš Dvorák aka Floex is a talented Czech composer, musician, graphic artist.
Floex has been playing and composing music since 1996 focusing on the collision of fine arts and music. In that time he has contributed to several compilations such as Inform, Future Sound of Prague II and III represented by labels like Warp, GPR, Pork, Ninja Tune and released his demo Hub via the Internet.
Soon after that in 2001 he released his debut album Pocustone that bridges relatively isolated genres such as nu-jazz, electronic and modern contemporary music. The album containing live music was highly critically acclaimed in the Czech Republic and has seen tracks licensed and limited distribution throughout Europe along with Floex being asked to remix a wide range of well respected Czech artists, e.g. Ivan Kral, ZKA4T, Priessnitz, Monkey Business and The Ecstasy Of St.Theresa. Art still plays an important role in the project with cover art by the man himself, among various other ongoing creative installations around the world. Catch him live for a musical insight and aural treat with visual projections making up an integral part of his own live performances. A knack for art induced him to score musical soundtracks for a cult quest art-game Samorost and other projects by Amanita Design.
For further information please visit the official web site of the composer where you can find several awesome tracks from Pocustone and Samorost 2. Machinarium is set to arrive in the beginning of 2009. So check out the trailer available here.
