Vedran Peternel

Born in 1967 in Zagreb, Vedran Peternel has lived in Paris since 1978 where he is involved in music and radiophony. Peternel has collaborated in projects by such groups as Dirty Three, Hurleurs, Curl, Ezekiel, Theo Hakola, and is a co-founder of the Oko 3 group, as well as the illegal off-scene Garage. He also participates in the Pulsart organisation engaged in theatre and music projects with juvenile delinquents in French borstals. In the early 1990s Peternel created programming for a pirate radio station Radio Brod, operating from a vessel just inside international waters in the Adriatic; he also plays with the Orkestar Za Ubrzanu Evoluciju, an improvised sound ensemble, and since 2002 has been the member of the Darko Rundek & Cargo Orkestar. Vedran Peternel is the co-author and sound engineer for such radio documentaries as The Gate of Europe (Danish, Croatian and Bulgarian radio), Mars over Zagreb (ABC, Australia) and An ABC of the Night (BBC, London)