Slovakia and Hungary are neighbours not only geographically, but also in a cultural and intellectual sense. We now invite listeners to a virtual cultural journey that can only be brought to life through the means of contemporary music, here and now at the BMC in Budapest and at the Melos-Etos Festival in Bratislava, collaborating in the realization of the concert. Between works by two Slovak and two Hungarian composers, we will also stop at two contemporary compositions that have already become a classic: the Ballata No. 2 by Francesco Filidei and Fermata – pause, suspended time – by the recently passed Péter Eötvös, which was composed for UMZE. In this episode of the UMZE series, we can listen to the sounds between two countries, two cultures, and the silence between these sounds.