A steadily growing female/nonbinary artist archive curated by the artists and team of the Heroines of Sound Festival, featuring a collection of all performing artists as well as artists not yet presented at the festival.

Artist selection

New Music Unlisted 4 ( BabelScores ) A -J

Maja Bosnić

Unisons

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)

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

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

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

Alessandra Eramo 2014
from 7'' Roars Bangs Booms, released on Corvo Records

Borbottii - from "ROARS BANGS BOOMS", 2015

commissioned and performed by CexSaxo duo

Detonation

Victor Coltea - Hyper Atom

ZeeZicht ~ ale dagen hopen

A track made for the live coding #hacktpact and Steven

--ZeeZicht. TidalCycles code
d1 $ every 24 (density 4) $ jux (iter 4) $ striate 8 $ sound "d1"
        # gain "0.1"

d2 $ stack [striate 8 $ sound "clD"
    # gain "0.3"
    # cut "4"]

d3 $ every 8 (density 0.5) $ jux (iter 4) $ striate 8 $ sound "d2"
        # gain "0.1"

d4 $ every 12 (density 2) $ jux (iter 4) $ striate 8 $ sound "d3"
        # gain "0.1"

d5 $ sound " ~ h1*2 ~ h5"

d6 $ slow 1 $ sound "[808:1, 808:2*2, 909*2]"
    # gain "1.1"
    # speed "1"

hush

ZeeZicht

Blast - performed by Silke Strahl and Jessica Porter

Victor Coltea - Blast - for saxophones and drums

Cavitation is written for and performed by ensemble Belgrade Baroque (two baroque violins, baroque viola, viola da gamba and harpsichord).
The soundscapes of the piece show us how a propeller gets damaged by cavitation effect in real life. The work is inspired by photo of a damaged boat propeller by the effects of cavitation, as well as several videos of boat propellers captured and recorded under water.
The soundscape starts in still water that is soon interrupted by sound of motor engine and boat propeller that gradually starts to move (00:29). Once the propeller starts spinning and speeding up (01:05) it causes vapor bubbles to appear and cover the soundscape. All of a sudden (02:39), the soundscape is inside of one of the bubbles filled with vapor and we hear different situation filled with hisses and squeaky noise, as well as soft taping of other bubbles on the outside. There are two more abrupt changes of scenery to outside of the bubble (engine, propeller, bubbles) and back to its inside atmosphere. The third time the soundscapes moves deeper inside the bubble and stays there, while we begin to concentrate on bubble’s membrane and feel the water pressure getting stronger until the bubble implodes (05:17). Soundscape is back at the action of the engine, propeller and bubbles and we hear signs of malfunction due to propeller’s damage by cavitation (05:45). The piece ends with the propeller graduallt stopping and the water becoming still, again.
https://www.facebook.com/belgrade.baroque/

Cavitation for Belgrade Baroque ensemble (two violins, viola, viola da gamba and harpsichord) 2017

AGF Producktion: agfproducktion.com

instrumental version for spoken word/ rap artist Dalib:
https://agf-poemproducer.bandcamp.com/album/syntax-mirror

Syntax Mirror

DSCHUNGEL (instrumental)

Luceo - piece was written for my son Kostiantyn Tovstukha in 2007. Recording from Kyiv National Music Academy, Small Hall, 2008

Luceo for piano (2007), Kostiantyn Tovstukha_piano

RECon full episode: https://rec-on.org/sukitoaonamau.html

SUKITOA O NAMAU: the animal rights movement is a civil rights movement

✽
⟿ links to activist orgs ⤪
https://www.are.na/agf-poemproducer/animal-rights-movements

➤ book by Charles Patterson "Eternal Treblinka"
http://www.charleswpatterson.com/

☊ all music & recordings by Sukitoa O Namau

📨 contact artist

☞ connect with artist

✂ edited by AGF

episode release: 30 April 2020 
#feministsonictechnologies rec-on.org

RECon: audio-collectifness feat Sukitoa O Namau [excerpt]

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)

Block Chain - Victor Coltea

Jürg Henneberger - Conductor
Ensemble Phoenix Basel 
Live-Recording: 11 January 2020, Gare du Nord, Basel

Copyright SRF 2020

Block Chain (2020)

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.