"running. out of tune" (2013)
für 2 Cembali und Elektronik (Zuspiel und Transducer) -
Cembalo 1 (zweimanualig): temperiert gestimmt / Cembalo 2 (einmanualig): mitteltönig gestimmt

Petteri Pitko und Marianna Henriksson, Cembali

Matthias Erb, Tonmeister

Mitschnitt vom 27.10.2013 TAK Berlin, Projekt "Cembaloille" von Klangnetz e.V. und Uferbüro (Berlin)

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"running. out of tune" - for two harpsichords and electronics (tape and transducer) - harpsichord 1 well tempered, harpsichord 2 meantone tempered

"running. out of tune" (2013) - two harpsichords and electronics

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)

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

This peace is made out of audio recording of Kurt Weill singing and playing his Speak Low. The Weill recording is truly wonderful. Intimate, sentimental, simple, nostalgic. It takes me to times I have never experienced and love stories that were and weren't mine.
Just by slowing down and focusing on a single moment, Weill's whispery s and an old tape open a door to a whole new universe. I travel from microcosmos of an archive recording to a macrocosmos of layers of choirs, voices and echoes of space, something distant, polymorphous and universal. It is a love song.

speak low 1

A performance of Michael Finnissy's 'Young Brethren' (2005) at the Sounds New Festival 2012.
Note: 
This piece was written for a project initiated by Tacet Ensemble in Brighton, to create responses to Sussex folksong material collected by the Cropper family. I found traces of the song I had selected in the American 'Sacred Harp' collections, and so began with a kind of hymn-singing. The remainder of the piece consists of variations of this material, some quiet and reflective (with bowed percussion) and others more boisterous. Although explicitly notated, the music is not vertically aligned, the players in effect spontaneously 'conversing' with each other to determine the rhetorical ebb and flow.

Finnissy 'Young Brethren'

Live BBC Radio 3 broadcast of Sarah Nemstov's Central Park / Manhattan from Kings Place, London. 17.09.18

Central Park / Manhattan By Sarah Nemstov

Live recording of a performance by Eva Zöllner (accordion) at eavesdropping on 24 January 2020.

Recorded for eavesdropping by John Croft.

Sarah Nemtsov 'SKOP'

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.

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

Maja Bosnić

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