A personal space where music, technology, photography, and travel meet. By Milan Vodrážka.https://milanvodrazka.com/en-ushttps://milanvodrazka.com/blog/motivating-the-modern-student/https://milanvodrazka.com/blog/motivating-the-modern-student/Elán and Žbirka didn't give me piano technique. They gave me a reason why it was worth using at all.Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://milanvodrazka.com/blog/two-pairs-of-hands/https://milanvodrazka.com/blog/two-pairs-of-hands/It wasn't a better method that finally brought me closer to music. It was a second pair of hands at the same keyboard.Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://milanvodrazka.com/blog/difficult-child/https://milanvodrazka.com/blog/difficult-child/The most enjoyable part of playing was always the same: finding the music with my fingers, without the score, without the fingering. My teacher was not pleased.Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://milanvodrazka.com/blog/mad-scientist/https://milanvodrazka.com/blog/mad-scientist/Say out loud that music is mathematics, and people look at you like you've announced the Earth is flat — but the octave alone gives you a ratio you can verify with a measurement.Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://milanvodrazka.com/blog/maresia/https://milanvodrazka.com/blog/maresia/A quiet piano miniature, written for an album's opening track, turned out to be the first new composition I'd written in twenty-six years.Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://milanvodrazka.com/blog/computers-and-music/https://milanvodrazka.com/blog/computers-and-music/An old ATARI and a Korg M1 once taught me the difference between imagining music and truly hearing it — a lesson IT would repeat decades later, in an entirely different language.Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://milanvodrazka.com/blog/camera/https://milanvodrazka.com/blog/camera/A camera doesn't teach you to take photographs. It teaches you to stop — and that changes everything you see afterward.Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://milanvodrazka.com/blog/phone-call/https://milanvodrazka.com/blog/phone-call/Some phone calls change everything, and you only realize it much later. This is the story of music that waited thirty-six years for me — without my knowing it existed.Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://milanvodrazka.com/blog/overture/https://milanvodrazka.com/blog/overture/Sometimes it takes years to understand why you actually want to share something. This is the answer I'd been waiting for.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT