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son:DA belogs to that area of art characterised by linking of various technologies and media, as well as a new approach to the group work. son:DA is active in the fields of space installations, computer drawings, audio-video performances and different gallery project. Since 2000 son:DA has shown their work internationaly.
Their solo exhibition were in Razstavnem salonu Rotovž Maribor, Kibla Maribor, Galeriji Meduza Koper, Likovnem salonu Celje, Galerij Kapelica Ljubljana, ARCO Madrid, Turner contemporary Margate, Kunstverein-Porschehof Salzburg, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Vienna and Salzburg, C-O Care of Milano, LaVitrine Maribor, AP4-Art Lugano, Mali galerija MOMA Ljubljana, Miklova hiša, Galerija Škuc, New Moment Gallery Belgrade and Bitforms gallery New York.
Among other places, they were part of group exhibitions in Essl Collection Vienna, Renaissance society Chicago, Tate Modern London, Museum of contemporary art St.Louis, The Kitchen gallery New York, Stedelijk museum Amsterdam, Museum of contemporary art Solun, Museum of contemporary art Novi Sad, ARCOS Benevento, Center for Visual Introspection Bucharest, Kunstraum Bethanien Berlin, The Cultural Centre of Liège, Press to exit Skopje, MACRO Rome, Institute for contemporary art Sofia, Sonambiente Berlin, Kunstlerhaus Vienna and Graz, Center for contemporary art Velan Torino, UGM Maribor, P74 Ljubljana, MOMA Ljubljana, MGLC Ljubljana and on animation film festivals in Izola, Zagrebu, Florence, Utrechtu and Hiroshima.
In 2009 son:DA became a foundation for theory and practice of audio-visual art. Their archive can be found on http://sonda.kibla.org
WEB LINK & CONTACT:
http://sonda.kibla.org/
MAIL: sonda9@gmx.net
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o projektu / about the project ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing):
ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing) is presenting the work of artists and music by sound researchers: Marko Batista, Luka Prinčič (Nova deViator), Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, SON: DA, Octex, Borut Savski, Irena Tomažin and Bojana Šaljič Podešva. ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing) is a production of a thematically related sound-art audioperformances of Slovenian composers and sound artists in podcast format. The project integrate audio-Slovenian intermedia scene, creating the field of contemporary music on musical theatrical, audio and internet-based field and internet research performances.
The project involves the authors of young and middle generations that generate predominantly creative approach to music and sound for various forms of contemporary art projects. Featured authors are actively flirting with exploratory attitude to sound, music and sound presence in the field of contemporary sound-art.
The project ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing) is produced by CONA institute in a co-production with RAM LIVE and co-curated by Ilari Valbonesi (intermedia curator, director RAM LIVE).
Project is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.
SONDA - "dubrovnik.008"
Luka Prinčič aka Nova Viator aka Nova deViator works in the field of sound and programming as a performer and composer. He is an artist, web-developer, dj, writer, critic, reverse engineer, part-time hacker and open source agent. Released numerous web-albums, worked at Ljubljana Digital Media Lab on various online, streaming and sound projects. Co-curated first Slovene digital moving image festival Scan Line.
WEB LINK: http://deviator.si/
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o projektu / about the project ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing):
ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing) is presenting the work of artists and music by sound researchers: Marko Batista, Luka Prinčič (Nova deViator), Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, SON: DA, Octex, Borut Savski, Irena Tomažin and Bojana Šaljič Podešva. ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing) is a production of a thematically related sound-art audioperformances of Slovenian composers and sound artists in podcast format. The project integrate audio-Slovenian intermedia scene, creating the field of contemporary music on musical theatrical, audio and internet-based field and internet research performances.
The project involves the authors of young and middle generations that generate predominantly creative approach to music and sound for various forms of contemporary art projects. Featured authors are actively flirting with exploratory attitude to sound, music and sound presence in the field of contemporary sound-art.
The project ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing) is produced by CONA institute in a co-production with RAM LIVE and co-curated by Ilari Valbonesi (intermedia curator, director RAM LIVE).
Project is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.
Nova deViator: "fragments on radio art / tetsuo kogawa / xl experiment"
Bojana Šaljić Podešva
She closed studies composition at the AG in Ljubljana and studying electroacoustic composition in Vienna. The basic means of her expression is composing electroacoustic music - which covers both fixed two - or multi - channel compositions as well as "real-time" processing instrumental works - vocal sounds or sound installations. For her work she received many awards from slovenian and international competitions - both for concert works - (such as Gustav Mahler Kompositions Preis 32, international competition of Electroacoustic music Bourgesu in france, as well as music for film and theater (eg . Vesna - music from the film Children of Petrick).
photo: Matjaž Pihler
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SLO:
Bojana Šaljić Podešva je zaključila študij kompozicije na AG v Ljubljani in študij elektroakustične kompozicije na Dunaju. Temeljno izrazno sredstvo skladateljice je elektroakustična glasba, s čimer zajema tako fiksno izdelane dvo- ali večkanalne kompozicije kot tudi »real-time« obdelavo instrumentalno – vokalnega zvoka ali zvočne inštalacije. Za svoje delo je bila večkrat nagrajena na slovenskih in mednarodnih komponističnih natečajih; tako za koncertna dela (npr. Gustav Mahler Kompositions Preis, 32. Mednarodno tekm. elektroakustične glasbe v Bourgesu (FRA)), kot tudi za glasbo za film in gledališče (npr. Vesna za glasbo iz filma Otroci s Petrička).
foto: Matjaz Pihler
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o projektu / about the project ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing):
ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing) is presenting the work of artists and music by sound researchers: Marko Batista, Luka Prinčič (Nova deViator), Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, SON: DA, Octex, Borut Savski, Irena Tomažin and Bojana Šaljič Podešva. ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing) is a production of a thematically related sound-art audioperformances of Slovenian composers and sound artists in podcast format. The project integrate audio-Slovenian intermedia scene, creating the field of contemporary music on musical theatrical, audio and internet-based field and internet research performances.
The project involves the authors of young and middle generations that generate predominantly creative approach to music and sound for various forms of contemporary art projects. Featured authors are actively flirting with exploratory attitude to sound, music and sound presence in the field of contemporary sound-art.
The project ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing) is produced by CONA institute in a co-production with RAM LIVE and co-curated by Ilari Valbonesi (intermedia curator, director RAM LIVE).
Project is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.
BOJANA SALJIC PODESVA
MARKO BATISTA is Ljubljana based mixed-media artist born in 1976 in Tito's Yugoslavia. At the end of the year 1997 he is accepted to ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS in Ljubljana under the guidance of professor BOJAN GORENEC. The result of collaboration with professor Borut Vogelnik, Bojan Gorenec, Joze Barsi, Sreco Dragan and artists Vasja Lebaric, Andrej Kamnik was a participation at the LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 50th International Art Exhibition: VV2 in June 2003. Texts, discussions and photo documentation was published in a book entitled PHOTOFINISH (Batista M., Kamnik A., Lebaric V.; 2004) in collaboration with Tomaz Kucer. In 1998 together with Miha Horvat (son:DA) founded multimedia group KLON:ART:RESISTANCE. Exploring moving images and digital sound environments they presented several projects at festivals, galleries and different urban places.In December 2000 FORUM STADTPARK (Gratz - Austria) and YOUTH CULTURAL CENTER (Maribor - Slovenia) invited Klon:Art:Resistance members in Gratz as a part of the introducing young conceptual artists of slovenian contemporary video art;
WEB LINK & CONTACT:
http://www.project-data.info/
sko (at) siol (dot) net
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o projektu / about the project ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing):
ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing) is presenting the work of artists and music by sound researchers: Marko Batista, Luka Prinčič (Nova deViator), Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, SON: DA, Octex, Borut Savski, Irena Tomažin and Bojana Šaljič Podešva. ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing) is a production of a thematically related sound-art audioperformances of Slovenian composers and sound artists in podcast format. The project integrate audio-Slovenian intermedia scene, creating the field of contemporary music on musical theatrical, audio and internet-based field and internet research performances.
The project involves the authors of young and middle generations that generate predominantly creative approach to music and sound for various forms of contemporary art projects. Featured authors are actively flirting with exploratory attitude to sound, music and sound presence in the field of contemporary sound-art.
The project ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing) is produced by CONA institute in a co-production with RAM LIVE and co-curated by Ilari Valbonesi (intermedia curator, director RAM LIVE).
Project is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.
MARKO BATISTA
TAO G. VRHOVEC SAMBOLEC is a sound artist and musician based in Amsterdam and Ljubljana. His works encompass audiovisual and mixed media installations, sound interventions in public spaces, composed and improvised (electro)acoustic music, sound design for video, and music for silent film.
Born in 1972 (Ljubljana – Slovenia), he received BA - main subject clarinet - at Trondheim Music Conservatory (Norway), BA in music composition and MA at Interfaculty Image and Sound – ArtScience, both at The Royal Conservatory in The Hague - The Netherlands, where he also followed Sonology course.
His works were shown and performed in various art galleries, museums and music festivals across Europe. Among others: Public Space With a Roof Gallery - Amsterdam, State Museum of Contemporary Art - Thessaloniki - Greece, Ars Electronica - Festival for Art Technology and Society - Linz - Austria, De Appel - Amsterdam, Madrid Abierto - Madrid, Museum of Modern Art - Ljubljana, Kapelica Gallery -Ljubljana, SKUC Gallery - Ljubljana, Musica a Metronom - Barcelona, Gaudeamus Music Week – Amsterdam, Forum neuer Musik - Köln, EuroJazz Festival - Tomar – Portugal, festival of contemporary music Contemporanea 2004 – Udine, AV Festival - Newcastle Upon Tyne, CMMAS - Morelia, Mexico ...
He was commissioned pieces by Barton Workshop Ensemble (Amsterdam), Percussion Group The Hague and Slovenian Cinematheque.
In 1996 he formed together with Tomaz Grom electroacoustic improv duo TILT, with which he performs live.
As improviser he has performed with Will Guthrie, Alzheimer Trio, Riccardo Massari Spiritini, The Same Girl (Gilles Aubry, Nicolas Field), Sabine Vogel, Dirk Bruinsma, ...
So far he has released two CDs with duo Tilt.
He is founder of international cycle of sound events, lectures and workshops Bitshift in Kapelica Gallery - Ljubljana, which started in 2001.
In 2008 he got awarded Startstipendium from The Netherlands Fundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture - Fonds BKVB.
WEB LINK: http://www.taogvs.org/
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o projektu / about the project ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing):
ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing) is presenting the work of artists and music by sound researchers: Marko Batista, Luka Prinčič (Nova deViator), Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, SON: DA, Octex, Borut Savski, Irena Tomažin and Bojana Šaljič Podešva. ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing) is a production of a thematically related sound-art audioperformances of Slovenian composers and sound artists in podcast format. The project integrate audio-Slovenian intermedia scene, creating the field of contemporary music on musical theatrical, audio and internet-based field and internet research performances.
The project involves the authors of young and middle generations that generate predominantly creative approach to music and sound for various forms of contemporary art projects. Featured authors are actively flirting with exploratory attitude to sound, music and sound presence in the field of contemporary sound-art.
The project ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing) is produced by CONA institute in a co-production with RAM LIVE and co-curated by Ilari Valbonesi (intermedia curator, director RAM LIVE).
Project is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.
TAO G. VRHOVEC SAMBOLEC
she is a dancer and singer, mostly performing in dance-theater performers and she has choreographed four performances of my own. She has worked with many choreographers and theater directors in Slovenia and also abroad (all mentioned in biography) with whose She has received many rich experiences. She gain my dance education in Intakt studio of Ljubljana, Dance theater Ljubljana, in education programs of En knap group in Laboratory and Agon and in Emanat (Maja Delak) and in many workshops (Ann Populis, Wendy Huston, Iztok Kovač, Joseph Nadj...) also abroad.
In 2004 she got the scholarship for DanceWeb (Gavin Webber, Barbara Mayr, Judith Grodowitz, Gustavo Miranda, Risa Steinberg, Antony Rizzi, Ori Flomin, Agelique Willkie, Mark Tompkins, Nuno Rebelo, Franz Poelstra, Robert Stein, Ko Murobushi) in Vienna.
In 2007 she was in Wroclaw in Grotowsky institute and she had a chance to work for one month with many great artists as Pioter Borowsky, Maisternia Pisni, Theater Zar, Zigmund Molik, Jaroslaw Fret…All the time she is visiting different kind of workshops for movement and dance and in last five years she has been working intensely also on voice trough the work sessions with Diego Ross, Brina Vogelnik Saje, Lejla Radovan, Agelique Willkie, Charmain le Blanc, Nhandan Chirco, Anne Marie Blink, Gey Pin Ang, Maud Robard, Maisternia Pisni, Zar thetre, Zygmud Molik, Jonathan Hart Makwaia…
she has made four projects of her own up till now: Hitchcock’s metamorphosis, Caprice, Caprice (re)lapsed and “like a drop of rain into the mouth of silence” and many more in the collaboration with other dancers, actors and directors (Dragan Živadinov, Mala Kline, Maja Delak, Emil Hrvatin, Sebastian Horvat…)
she is working on voice in solo project named “iT” – for voice and three dictaphones, with which she was touring also abroad ( http://www.myspace.com/torarobit ). she is also a member in a band of Aldo Ivančič (Borghesia) Bast Kolektiv ( http://www.myspace.com/bastkolektiv ) - we made album retinal Circus together.
she is a teacher of dance in High school of dance in Ljubljana, teaching dance techniques
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o projektu / about the project ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing):
ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing) is presenting the work of artists and music by sound researchers: Marko Batista, Luka Prinčič (Nova deViator), Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, SON: DA, Octex, Borut Savski, Irena Tomažin and Bojana Šaljič Podešva. ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing) is a production of a thematically related sound-art audioperformances of Slovenian composers and sound artists in podcast format. The project integrate audio-Slovenian intermedia scene, creating the field of contemporary music on musical theatrical, audio and internet-based field and internet research performances.
The project involves the authors of young and middle generations that generate predominantly creative approach to music and sound for various forms of contemporary art projects. Featured authors are actively flirting with exploratory attitude to sound, music and sound presence in the field of contemporary sound-art.
The project ZVO.ČI.TI. (so.und.ing) is produced by CONA institute in a co-production with RAM LIVE and co-curated by Ilari Valbonesi (intermedia curator, director RAM LIVE).
Project is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.
IRENA TOMAŽIN
Radio Saloman - 88.7 FM - Ljubljana, Slovenia
Octex, Jernej Marušič, (text by: Luka Zagoričnik)
Hidden behind the name Octex is the Ljubljana-based artist Jernej Marušič, who started appearing under this name, a shorter version of Organic Crackle and Tone EXperiments, in the late nineties of the previous century – as a follower of contemporary currents in electronic music and a lover of analogue sound synthesisers. His first released composition ‘Nigljana’ was included in a varied compilation of Slovene electronic music Elektrotehnika Slavenika from the year 2000, which was issued with wide acclaim as a supplement to the British music monthly The Wire. His LP debut ‘Idea Lashna’, by and large one of the most groundbreaking and creative achievements in the Slovene electronic scene, was released in 2002 under Tehnika Records label, having wide reverberations also abroad. The critics recognised it as a top-notch product following the stripped-down aesthetic characteristic of musicians signed under the German label Basic Channel, while the album offered a finely tailored mix of techno, ambient music, and dub as an echo and a reaction to contemporary, nervous sound landscape of urban circles. The album earned Marušič the then influential Slovene music award ‘Bumerang’, awarded by Studio City programme of the Slovene National Television, while in France it was voted one of the ten finalists for the electronic music award presented by Radio France International. That said, Marušič’s music making does not stick to proven recipes and a solidified sound aesthetic. In an on-going, restless search for a new sound, Octex absorbs various trends that schizophrenically spring from the field of electronic musics, incorporating them again and again in its own music in a distinctly unique and recognisable manner. Already with his next album ‘Variations’, released by RX:TX in 2005, Marušič found himself in an altogether new world, which drew on a tense and intense techno connection between Berlin and Detroit, traversed by dub, soft sound textures, and complex, seemingly unstructured rhythms, with which he stepped out of the prescribed matrix 4/4 and which have today become a trademark for Marušič’s work. Around that time, Marušič also started to regularly appear live; he did remixes for well known artists, like Laibach and Ultra-Red, while reverberations of his work also took him across our borders. He performed, for example, in a London-based series Sprawl, in Club Transmediale in Berlin, in Dispatch in Belgrade, and at Exit Festival in Novi Sad. With the album in question, Octex also signed to the home RX:TX label, in the frame of which he performed alongside artists under labels such as Raster-Noton, contributed tracks to two international compilations ‘Progress’ and ‘Progress EX 0.4’, both released by the mentioned label, and was featured on a highly appreciated Slovene compilation ‘Trans Slovenia Express Vol.2’, dedicated to the cult band Kraftwerk and released by the British Mute Records. Earlier this year, RX:TX released Octex’s long-awaited new album titled ‘Every Sound Tells a Story’, which is this time lined more explicitly with an analogue sound of modular sound synthesisers, sifted through digital technology. Individual tracks from the album were inspired by fieldwork recordings, which are in a processed form blended into each track. Dino Lalić, a music critic for Radio Student, wrote the following about the album. ‘Its sound readily admits techno, dub, and ambient influences, with none of them standing out in particular. The fact that these influences remain merged offers a myriad of interpretations. Nobody is right and whoever says he is – is inevitably wrong’. These words fitly capture the essence of the restless, yet sound-wise well-tailored creativity of Jernej Marušič, which he lately also incorporates into improvisation, both in his solo performances and in his work in the trio Ago Tela, which includes, besides Marušič, also DJ Dojajo and Mario Marolt, while at the same t
Octex (Jernej Marušič) - ZVO.ČI.TI (So.und.ing) 2010
Co-effectuation: Maja Delak and Luka Prinčič alias Wanda & Nova deViator (text by: Tea Hvala)
The collaboration between Maja Delak and Luka Prinčič began last year with the performance Ways of Love and continued with Frozen Images – the latter was credited to pseudonyms Wanda and Nova deViator. Maja Delak is this year’s recipient of the Prešeren Foundation Award, a choreographer and dancer, who has behind her a considerable number of collaborations with different musicians, dancers, actors, and choreographers. The same goes for the musician, DJ, and intermedia artist Luka Prinčič, who first appeared as a performer precisely in the joint projects with Maja Delak, while in this exchange, Wanda picked up the microphone for the first time, wrote the lyrics for their trippy electro tracks, and also sang them.
Their projects intertwine many – often colliding – languages: rhythm, voice, music, noise; video, photography, theory; manifestoes, poetry. It seems that their reparatory investigation, this courageous picking up from all over, wagered on the possibility of their own surprise over the outcomes of their collaborative process and over what may emerge from their overlapping, dissonances, resonances, slips, and congruencies. It seems that their wager is won – as they have offered to the home audiences a new aesthetics and politics; well, at least to that part of the audience who had missed or overlooked the Ljubljana-based queer dissidents from the 80s.
Maja Delak and Luka Prinčič's performative events scream with punk ethics and kitchy porn chic aesthetics, which come together also in Western grassroots or DIY feminism of the “third wave”. I was reminded of the fact that this feminism skirted the borders of our country precisely at their appearance at the International Feminist and Queer Festival Red Dawns, where Frozen Images resonated as a genuine manifesto! It was a moment of relief and joy and empowerment, because the authors intentionally and unbendingly, passionately and sexily, approached the themes that are rarely dealt with in our space, certainly not at the same time: lust for enjoyment, anxiety, hypersexualisation and pornification of our bodies, violence, idealisation of love, and of course – the motor of everything – consumerism.
Ways of Love meander between the sampled, or temporarily “frozen”, scenes of two types of gender roles: those marked with violence and those founded on consensual submission and dominance. The insight into how to become aware of the power relations in relationships and how to break the vicious circle of violent love is disclosed in the performance precisely with the emptying of form – which could not be other than violent and painful. The second performance event, Frozen Images, raised a possibility of stirring up and overcoming the violence we exert over ourselves under the pressure of buy-and-sell images of Sex Appeal, Beauty, Health, Youth, and Success – with laughter. With lust. With objectifying to our own taste. With our own perverseness and again – with love.
This sumptuous and made-for-all-senses multimedia work by Maja Delak and Luka Prinčič is a genuine cut’n’paste, a swift image and sound collage that allows for many readings and listenings, many feelings and reflections. But only after one tears away from the fleeting images and voicings; only after one dances to the wild riot grrrl version of You Don’t Own Me, with Wanda and deViator jumping all over the stage. And this may very well be the most beautiful achievement or co-effectuation Maja Delak and Luka Prinčič’s collaboration: their accessibility and clarity – despite the work’s decentredness – makes their work is inspiring and empowering. Ultimately also because the “you” from You Don’t Own Me does not refer to a man made of flesh and blood but rather to Martell or some other corporation that imposes patriarchal patterns of behaviour for everyday use.
Wanda & Nova deViator - ZVO.ČI.TI (So.und.ing) 2010
Vasja Progar - (text by Luka Zagoričnik)
Born in 86, Vasja Progar is one of the youngest makers in the field of contemporary music in Slovenia, an insightful and critical thinker, a graduate of biotechnology and a former student of composition and music theory under Uroš Rojko at the Academy of Music in Ljubljana, whose radicality and faithfulness to his own expression made him quit this institution to embark on a study of cognitive systems and interactive media at the University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. This compact sentence only neatly discloses Progar’s creativity in the area of music. Young as he is, Progar already presented his compositions in the Slovenian Philharmonic in the frame of the festival Slowind in 2009 and at the Slovene Music Days in the year 2010. His transition from the 2008 composition for choir ‘Ay, Green Are All the Highlands’, a remake of the Slovene folk song, to his later works is abrupt, incorporating and illustrating the tendencies of certain other young Slovene composers, Progar’s colleagues, Matej Bonino and Petra Strahovnik for example, with whom Progar collaborated in the intermedia performance for chamber ensemble, a dancer/singer, live electronics, and video, meaningfully titled ‘Futturismo Hurra!!’, which in its core paid tribute to the historical movement of futurism via the futurist poem of the same title by Luciano Folgore. The intermedia nature of the work, which combines dance, movement, environmental and electronic sounds, and sounds of acoustic instruments, reveals the tendencies of the three young artists, who used to organise discussions, round tables, workshops, and other gatherings together with their colleagues from Škuc Gallery, with which they were boldly breaking down the stuck-up and conservative ways of thinking that overwhelmingly prevail in Slovene classical music. Vasja Progar goes farthest among his colleagues. His 2009 composition ‘Close to Silence’, performed by the acclaimed Slovene contemporary wind ensemble Slowind, is anchored in the current reflections on silence, which are – following John Cage – unwinding in contemporary music for the past twenty years. In this four-part composition, Progar constitutes silence through different perceptions: as a resonance, as latent energy, as absence in relation to sound, as tension and abstraction in relation to music. Which can also be non-music, a reflection, bound to the listener and his/her perception. And it is precisely here that Progar touches upon his idea, which he presents as ‘a focus on research and an unveiling of human perception through art form’. Today, Progar enacts this idea, this search in numerous art environments, besides the music and sound ones, also in multimedia and interactive performances. These include video artists, dancers, and poets, as for example in collaborations with Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, and Lebanese poets presented at the Ljubljana-based festival Live Literature in the years 2009 and 2010. Progar has opened up the thresholds of our perception and the senses even more in his interactive installation ‘Threshold’, where he – negotiating the limits of our perception – researches and reveals the boundary lines between perception and interpretation, pursuing an interpretation that is pushed into the elusive sphere of the illogical by the working of the installation itself. In his work ‘Sub / Consciousness’, Progar investigates the space between the conscious and the unconscious by using different audiovisual stimulants, which take the form of pre-prepared sound textures, measurements of the heartbeat rate or body’s blood pressure, and other visual stimuli mediated by the video by Ana Čigon and Rot Pulojva. These are then submitted to further sound manipulation and positioned into the space of the conscious and the unconscious, into a space through which we enter and exit the real and the virtual. The piece was presented at the exhibition and series of sound events, installations, and perf
Vasja Progar - 7 skladateljev ZVO.ČI.TI (So.und.ing) 2010
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