forever walking after her own freedom

«and the furthest remoteness is nearest to the nearest closeness» – Ljubica. Marić, Zapisi (Scripts)  The Fantasia of Emancipated Expressiveness Whether coincidence or a sign, Ljubica Marić was born practically on then same day when the first atonal composition (Schoenberg’s Three Piano Pieces Op.11) was composed. In the time when music in Serbia was mainly focused on vocal…

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Yes! Sa(o)undE(a)rs

“… the physicality of the listening experience becomes all the more emphasised I think through working spatially. As composers we always think of course spatially, we don’t just hear this dry thing in our head, the music does not live until it is moving and it is being carried through space and the physicality of…

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… only the mobiles were exactly what they were, and nothing else.

“The man said: “That was what they were supposed to do… ” He said: “Everybody saw something different after all depending on the way they looked at the mobiles… only the mobiles were exactly what they were, and nothing else…” from “Works of Calder” by Herbert Matter Calder loved all kind of experiments… with music……

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Within Atoui’s Within

This is not usually a place I would write about a work/piece/performance I participated in (setting aside now the ongoing battle of thoughts on who is the performer who creator who recipient and if and how blurred those lines are…), but taking in account that it is an experience that had such an impact, and…

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