violin+dejana sekulić (RS/BE)

Concert

violin+ is a performance woven out of curious, exciting, peculiar, adventurous music and wondrous sonar worlds of pieces for prepared violin, prepared bow, and other “+” coming from the extensions to the violin in the form of performative electronics. For this occasion, the program features pieces that use different everyday objects as means to change the violin’s sonic identity (as in pieces by Clara Iannotta and Julie Michael), as well as pieces that redefine what is and can be a bow, accentuating both the fragility of sound production and the energy of movement needed for the sound to exist (as in works by Wojtek Blecharz and Alessandro Perini). The final form of extending the instrument comes with pieces that rely on the use of electronics and video – using motion capture of a player to construct the video part of the piece (as in Johannes Kreidler’s work) or using a live-screen score based on migratory paths of birds and humans, hosted online, into which the live performer enters with their own live sound (as in sekulić’s own piece).

Featured works:

  • Clara Iannotta: dead wasps in the jam-jar (i) (2015-16), for prepared solo violin
  • Julie Michael: Junk Drawer (2022), for prepared violin
  • Alessandro Perini: on that day my left ear became a frog (2018), for violin with custom-made amplified bow
  • dejana sekulić: pathways (2022), a live screen-score for sound making performer
  • Wojtek Blecharz: Phenotype (2011-12), for prepared violin/bow
  • Johannes Kreidler: BOW (2020) for violin, audio, and video playback

Concert is realized with the support of WBM/WBI Wallonie-Bruxelles International.

dejana sekulić (RS/BE)

dejana sekulić, violinist, sound+silence explorer and performer, born at 43°18’58.5” N 21°54’39.5” E, is currently pursuing her PhD, Temporality of the Impossible, at the Centre for Research in New Music and the Research Centre for Performance Practices at the University of Huddersfield (UK). In 2022 Huddersfield Contemporary Records released her first solo violin CD under the same title. sekulić obtained her bachelor’s degree at the Faculty of Arts, University of Niš (RS), followed by a Master and post-Master specialization at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels (with Igor Oistrakh, Valery Oistrakh, and Bart Bouckaert), and an advanced program for contemporary music lead by ICTUS and Spectra ensembles at the School of Arts Gent (BE). She actively performs as a soloist, in violin and electronics duo with Gilles Doneux, with ensemble LAPS (BE), as a guest with Contemporary Insights (DE), and is part of the collective People Coming from NowHere. sekulić creates works in the fields of sound installations and multimedia.