Vladan Radovanović
Vladan Radovanovic, Jahrgang 1932, ist Leiter des seit 1972 bestehenden Elektronski studio Radio Beograda. Seit fast 40 Jahren wird dort die Entwicklung avantgardistischer und experimenteller elektronischer Musik gefördert. Hauptkomponisten des Instituts sind Aleksandar Obradović, Srđan Hofman und Zoran Erić. Ein Vertreter der Musique concrete ist Ivo Malec.
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Born in Belgrade, September 5th, 1932. He graduated in composition at the Belgrade Music Academy in the class of Prof. Milenko Živković. In 1958, he participated in establishing the „Mediala“ group. He initiated the foundation of the Radio Belgrade Electronic Studio, and was its head from 1972 to 1999. In 1993 he initiated the SINTUM Open Group Project.
His creative domain is music as well as painting, literature, new media and polymedia synthesis. Coinciding with avant-garde streams, yet independently from them he researched in the field of the vocovisual, projectism (1954), tactile art (1956), polymedia and body action (1957), tape music (1960), electronic music (1966), computer music (1976), and computer graphics (1988). The central position in his creative poetics is reserved for the ART SYNTHESIS. He has authored over 250 theoretical texts on music and new tendencies in the arts.
He has worked in experimental music studios in Warsaw (1966), Paris (1969), Utrecht (1976) and Budapest (1987). Radovanović’s compositions were selected to represent Yugoslavia at three SIMC festivals (1969, 1976, 1988). He has had 24 individual exhibitions and performances at home and abroad.
He published 9 books and one map, 6 scores, 2 authorial records, 2 cassettes, and 4 authorial compact discs.
He has been the recipient of ten domestic and international awards for music (among them three first prizes at Yugoslav Radio Music Competition, October Award of the City of Belgrade 1971, Second Prize for electroacoustic music in Bourges 1979, Gianfranco Zafrani Award at Prix Italia 1984, First Prize at the International Review of Composers, Belgrade 1998), three awards for literature (one of them the award of the prestigious publisher Nolit in 1968) and six for visual arts (among them the First Prize of the Ministry of Culture for the best multimedia exhibition in 1992, the First Prize for video in Sao Paolo 1997, the First Prize of the City of Belgrade for visual arts in 2007, and the „Ivan Tabaković“ award for 2006/2008).
He is a member of the Serbian Composers Association and Serbian Fine Arts Association. Since 2001 he has been Guest Lecturer for Polymedia Arts at the University of Arts in Belgrade. In 2005 he received an honorary Ph D in music at University in Columbus, Ohio. In 2007 he received an honorary Ph D in Polymedia Arts at University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia.A
- Works
- Voice From The Loudspeaker, [Glas iz zvučnika, глaс из динамика], 1975. The work was premiered at Belgrade's Student Cultural Center in 1975. It is a conceptual text about the recorded voice, the magnetic tape medium and the loudspeaker's reproduction of the recording. In its use of self-referential speech, it is somewhat comparable to Alvin Lucier's I Am Sitting in a Room, save for the sound treatment. The English version was translated and read by Australian-born saxophonist Paul Pignon, who lived in Yugoslavia at the time and collaborated with contemporary music composers.
- A Short Autobiography, 1996
- Selected publications
- Vladan Radovanović, Vokovizuel (Vocovisual), Belgrade, Nolit, 1987.
- Vladan Radovanović, “Srpska avangarda u odlasku od muzike (1955–1980)” [Serbian Avant-garde in the Process of Leaving Music (1955–1980)], Gradina, 10, 1984, pp. 5–37
- Sintezijska umetnost Vladana Radovanovića [The Synthesic Art of Vladan Radovanović] monograph for his retrospective, 2005. Includes collection of essays by Dejan Đorić (The Founder of the Serbian Avant-Garde), Ješa Denegri, Nikola Šuica (on vocovisual), Ivan Rastegorac (On the Recording of Dreams and the Literary Works of Vladan Radovanović), Melita Milin (Metamusic and Music of Vladan Radovanović), Vladan Radovanović (Sintezijska umetnost / Synthesic Art); and catalogue of works. [1] [2]
- Vladan Radovanović, Muzika i Elektroakustička Muzika, Izdavačka knjižarnica Zorana Stojanovića, Novi Sad, 2010.
- See also
Serbia#Computer_and_computer-aided_art, Serbia#Electroacoustic_music
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