This double CD edition contains a selection of recordings made during two concerts held in Novi Sad, at the Cultural Center of Vojvodina "Miloš Crnjanski", and at the Youth Center CK13, as the result of the artistic residency of the composer Maja Bosnić (21.11 - 4.12.2022). The first audio disc presents us with compositions from the portrait concert with Bosnić’s works, written for classical instruments and ensemble formations, infused with conceptual content adapted from everyday life phenomena, that are being expressed through compositions for solo and duo performances, music theater for chamber orchestra and audience participation through playing on their smartphones. On the other hand, the recordings on the second audio disc capture a concert presentation of the "Music – the Art of Readymade(s)" workshop, where the participants (from the alternative music scene, as well as those without any playing experience) had the opportunity to develop and deepen their creative intuition through improvisational exercises with objects, as well as imitations of everyday sounds with music instruments. The inclusiveness and accessibility of the musical content are important determinants of the compositions and contribute to the artistic, educational, and political intention of the project to critically question the exclusivity of serious music and hierarchies in music production, by erasing the border between composer, performer, and audience.

Published by CK13 Novi Sad

CD I – performers:
Ensemble of the Zabuna Association

Jelena Vujnović – flute
Milan Savić – saxophone
Jovan Savić – trumpet
Branko Džinović – accordion
Maja Bosnić – piano, voice
Tamara Marinković Tomić – viola
Aleksandar latković – cello
Boban Stošić – double bass

CD II – performers and participants of the workshop "Music - The Art of Readymade(s)"
Teodora Vlku – keyboard
Zoja Maričić – kalimba, crotales, bells, keys, etc. 
Geza Vereckei – drum set
Nikola Ilić – el. bass guitar
Bojan Ožegović – kitchenware, spray, sponge, etc.
Stribor Bihorac – el. cello, sweater sleeves.
Iva Niculović – DIY electric board
Pavle Kuntić – el. guitar, glass ashtray
Maja Bosnić – smartphone, ledders, radiator, hammer, pen, etc.

Music leadership: Maja Bosnić

Technical support, recording, mixing and mastering: Dimitrije Jakovljević
Coordination: Ozren Lazić
Photography: Anica Ilijin
Design: Borislav Prodanović
Production: Youth Center CK13

Project supported by: Heartefact, Gradska uprava za kulturu Grada Novog Sada, Ministarstvo kulture i informisanja Srbije.

Maja Bosnić: A Portrait Of A Composer (CD2)

Music: the art of readymade(s) - for objects and instruments (2022) by workshop participants

One Hit Wonder - for used strings and ladders (2022) by workshop participants

Menuet4phoneS - for audience and video (2019) by 4/Phones Collective

Maja Bosnić: A Portrait Of A Composer (CD1)

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Published by CK13 Novi Sad
This double CD edition contains a selection of recordings made during two concerts held in Novi Sad, at the Cultural Center of Vojvodina "Miloš Crnjanski", and at the Youth Center CK13, as the result of the artistic residency of the composer Maja Bosnić (21.11 - 4.12.2022). The first audio disc presents us with compositions from the portrait concert with Bosnić’s works, written for classical instruments and ensemble formations, infused with conceptual content adapted from everyday life phenomena, that are being expressed through compositions for solo and duo performances, music theater for chamber orchestra and audience participation through playing on their smartphones.  On the other hand, the recordings on the second audio disc capture a concert presentation of the "Music – the Art of Readymade(s)" workshop, where the participants (from the alternative music scene, as well as those without any playing experience) had the opportunity to develop and deepen their creative intuition through improvisational exercises with objects, as well as imitations of everyday sounds with music instruments. The inclusiveness and accessibility of the musical content are important determinants of the compositions and contribute to the artistic, educational, and political intention of the project to critically question the exclusivity of serious music and hierarchies in music production, by erasing the border between composer, performer, and audience.

Published by CK13 Novi Sad

CD I – performers:
Ensemble of the Zabuna Association

Jelena Vujnović – flute
Milan Savić – saxophone
Jovan Savić – trumpet
Branko Džinović – accordion
Maja Bosnić – piano, voice
Tamara Marinković Tomić – viola
Aleksandar latković – cello
Boban Stošić – double bass

CD II – performers and participants of the workshop "Music - The Art of Readymade(s)"
Teodora Vlku – keyboard
Zoja Maričić – kalimba, crotales, bells, keys, etc. 
Geza Vereckei – drum set
Nikola Ilić – el. bass guitar
Bojan Ožegović – kitchenware, spray, sponge, etc.
Stribor Bihorac – el. cello, sweater sleeves.
Iva Niculović – DIY electric board
Pavle Kuntić – el. guitar, glass ashtray
Maja Bosnić – smartphone, ledders, radiator, hammer, pen, etc.

Music leadership: Maja Bosnić

Technical support, recording, mixing and mastering: Dimitrije Jakovljević
Coordination: Ozren Lazić
Photography: Anica Ilijin
Design: Borislav Prodanović
Production: Youth Center CK13

Project supported by: Heartefact, Gradska uprava za kulturu Grada Novog Sada, Ministarstvo kulture i informisanja Srbije.

A Portrait Of A Composer: CD1

A/C Modulations for (mostly inside of the) piano (2018)

pneumothorax (ˌnjuːməʊˈθɔːræks) - for soprano saxophone and piano (2020)

Unity.projections[001=>2] - for accordion and cello (2020)

Vessels (160935km) - for amplified piano strings, video and smartphone (2020)

The Upgrade - for musicians with phones (2017)

Live performance video: https://youtu.be/wDzrDdd6mv4

The concept for "AC Modulations" was extracted from definition and various descriptions of Alternating Current, its creation and the elements of process involved in and around it. The idea was to start off from imagining an electric generator (air stream, mechanical energy, metal and wires), moving of electrons through wires, changing directions of alternating current, discovering of different circuits (different types of waves) and frequencies (pitches and vibrations), that are then being exposed to modulations, and in the very end manage to transfer information of the instrument that it is being played on by its most typical sound (pressing the keys) and transcribed signature of the original creator of the concept: TESLA (T=Ti/B note, ES=E flat, LA = A note).

http://majabosnic.net

AC Modulations for piano (2018)

unity.projections[001=>2]  - for accordion and cello (2020)
/live recording/

Branko Džinović (accordion)
Aleksandar Latković (cello)

Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra Hall
10 March 2020

unity.projections[001=>2]  - for accordion and cello (2020)

Commissioned and performed by the ensemble Metamorphosis

Plucked. for harpsichord and strings(2019)

Maja Bosnić is a composer from Belgrade. She is drawn to impossible missions, absurd solutions, limited material, playfulness, uncertain outcomes, audience participation, treating instruments as ready-made objects of expression, and treating real-life objects as musical instruments. She obtained a PhD degree in music composition at Goldsmiths, University of London (UK), supervised by prof. Roger Redgate, and is currently working as Assistant Lecturer in Composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. She writes pieces for solo, chamber, ensemble, and orchestra performances, as well as, projects for electronics, multi-media, and interactive settings with audience participation. Bosnić’s works have been performed in festivals, such as Musikverein, Musikprotokoll, Impuls (Austria), CTM Festival, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Festival Jünger Kunstler Bayreuth (Germany), Spiel! Festival (Switzerland), Distat Terra Festival (Argentina), IYAF in Kingston upon Thames, London Composers Forum (United Kingdom), Tzlil Meudcan (Israel), Spazio Musica (Italy), Delian Academy of New Music (Greece), Sites + Subjects (Bulgaria), Timsonia Festival (Romania), Music Here and Now, KOMA, International Review of Composers, April Meetings, and S.U.T.R.A. Festival (Serbia). Her works have been performed with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, Secretariat for Culture of the City of Belgrade, Goethe-Institut, Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, the Austrian Ministry of Culture and European Cultural Foundation. She was awarded Stipendium Progetto Positano by Ensemble Mosaik from Berlin (2023), third prize at the international composition competition New Music Generation in Kazahstan 2020, honorable mention at the Thailand New Music and Arts Symposium, Delian New Music Academy in 2019, Donaueschinger Muziktage 2014, and scholarships, and annual grants by the Ministry of Youth of the Republic of Serbia (2007-2015). Since 2010, she’s been organizing workshops and concerts of contemporary music in Serbia with organization Zabuna.

Maja Bosnić

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