Writer, composer, performer and artist. He was born in Brno (1965), graduated with a degree in Art History at Brno University (1988), and founded the following music bands: Z kopce (1985), Ošklid (1987), and A-Beat (1990).
After the end of their activities, he devoted himself primarily to the project of physical poetry (from 1991 - performances and recordings, from 1992 - drawings, visual poems, from 1993 - courses and workshops at various art schools and festivals).
He published, among others, a book of poetry and drawings with an accompanying audio cassette called Texty, básně, poémes physiques (Lyrics, poems, physial poems; Maťa/Black Point 1994) and a CD called Cirkus-Chaos-Minaret (Wolf Records 1998), a sound/visual "definition" of the physical poetry genre. After a years of solo performing, he founded the band Ty Syčáci (1999), with whom he released to date the albums Máj v dubnu (May in April; 2000), Lék a jed (Medicine and Poison; 2001), Samota, sláva, smrt a spása (Solitude, Glory, Death, Salvation; 2002), Lišák je lišák (The Fox is a Fox; 2005) and Bum bum bum (2007, all released on Indies Records). In 2007 he released, on the fifteenth anniversary of the creation of physical poetry, retrospective CD Manifesto (Black Point). Nowadays, he is occupied by his solo "opus in Trans-Latin" Tomvansong.
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