Jonáš Gruska

As I started doing more drop-rig #FieldRecording this year for a long-term project, I wanted to design a no-compromise system that would last me a lifetime. I hike with this case through streams, mud, rain and snow, and it gets thrown around — so the gear inside needs to survive all of that. This is overkill for most use cases, but I'd rather over-engineer once than lose a recording I traveled/hiked many hours for to a failing equipment. https://jonasgru.sk/writing/Mid-sized+drop+rig+for+field+recording

TIME: 2025-08-13T12:49:22
SUBJECT: SEAGULLS
EQUIPMENT: LOM MIKROUSI WITH ULTRASONIC HORNS
LOCATION: DAUGAVGRIVA BREAKWATER, LV
COORDINATES: 57.062231, 24.016706

7 years ago I was honored to be a part of this documentary about field recording:
https://youtu.be/esfUwg1-xrI

2026-04-13 Lecture about ultrasound at Soundscopia, Vienna, Austria
2026-04-18 Lecture about fungi at LUFT festival, Ostrava, Czech Republic
2026-05-16 Lectures at SKWAT, Tokyo, Japan
2026-05-19 Lecture about my practice at Tama university, Tokyo, Japan
2026-05-23 Lectures at National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

SUBJECT: ROE DEER BARK
TIME: 2026-04-04T04:26:24
LOCATION: CERGOV, SK
COORDINATES: 49.2124267N, 21.1153514E
EQUIPMENT: TASCAM FR-AV2 + LEWITT LCT540S

After almost two years of work, last Friday we have opened a new exhibition with Matej Gavula in tranzit.sk gallery in Bratislava.
You can read an associated text about the history and some of my thoughts on oil extraction in western Slovakia here: https://jonasgru.sk/.../Man+Has+Emerged+Triumphant+(essay)
The exhibition will be open till 27th of March.
Photos by Adam Šakový

It is now 500 days since I started studying japanese.
500日間日本語を勉強しています

Got back to this site-specific piece from 2021 using rotating horns and parabolic dome designed by Juraj Gábor. Read more: https://jonasgru.sk/performances/Pre+Sphéru+(For+the+Sphere)

I talked (in Slovak) about our latest exhibition "The Man Has Emerged Triumphant" and accompanied field recordings at Rádio Devín: https://devin.stvr.sk/clanky/kulturny-dennik/433419/projekt-mateja-gavulu-a-jonasa-grusku-s-nazvom-clovek-zvitazil-arena-jana-medlena

Was honored to be a part of a discussion with Seiji Morimoto and Andrejs Poikāns at the Ooolong radio's "Dual Mono" event in Berlin. You can now watch in full here: https://youtu.be/DRx9IEiwa7M

Testing the new camera flash with outdoor Opiliones and indoor Pholcinae :)