Martin Davorin-Jagodic --> bio, Elisabeth Son --> bio,
will present miscellaneous research :
1: On 'ecritures musicales' (musical writing) - notation and score, process and forms - in matter with the languages of the computer and their interfaces. Some of these studies set out the principle of interactivity, these of the musician who would manipulate these scores and deduce out of it other mode of interpretation ('traduction'). And these of the audience whose intervention will be limited to make hearing some prerecorded sequences and their combinations by chosing different path.
2: Some short pieces for piano and pictures- extract from "Scènes de la vie d'un piano" (Lebenszenen eines Klavier*), concieved for Digital Video Disk, then interactive. Some could be performed also as concerts.
3: Fragments of "Promenade parfaite": It is a set of musical score, graphic variations of this score, other drawings and pictures in which also briefs video sequences takes place. These elements in 2D and 3D, interpenetrate and influence each other, to create contexts, and generate germs of little stories continuously renewed.
In collaboration with Elisabeth SON for computer graphics and editing and the main participation of : Eric ATLAN, Francois PETITPAS and Frederic FENOLLABBATE for programming
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- Highschool, musical and academic education in Zagreb (Croatia),
Ljubljana (Slovenia), Paris(France)
- Diploma of Composition, Master in Philosophy and Doctorate in
Philosophy / Aesthetic
- Different teaching activities and researches: Conservatoire
de musique d'Auteuil (Paris), CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique), University of PARIS 10, Dpt. of Scenography at
the 'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Décoratifs'(74-88);
Was also invited to teach in the Department of music of the State
University of New York at Albany (78). Maître de Conferences
at the Dpt. of Music in the University Paris 8.
since 1969
- Research and personnal works in the field of relations between
the visual and the music.
- Has performed concerts (individual and group concerts) from
the sixties, most of them included, in the integrality or partly,
musical pieces with different kinds of projections, (video, films,
diapositives...) performances and electroacoustics manipulations.
Some works with other artists, composers -particularly with John
Cage-, painters, film and stage directors ... . Also realised
some works in studios for electroacoustic and electronic musics,
participate to individual and group exhibitions, some of his texts,
scores and various theoretical articles has been published.
Martin DAVORIN JAGODIC 's works: visual music, musical scenography
...
In parallel to and simultaneously with the composition per se
( he has been composing both instrumental and electronic works
since 1960), and strictly in line with the notion of interpenetration
between music and extra-musical elements or non-sounds, and in
which the composer develops specific techniques, with images as
an integral part of the music, he combines various technologies,
including computers, to synthesize images, drawing on the mixing
and interactive possibilities that they offer. The impact of the
image and the environment, the times during which the different
events occur, are partly the result of the original, precisely
musical, way in which natural events, places and architectures
are perceived by the composer. The starting point for the actual
composition are situations, place or series of places perceived
in terms of a mixture of sounds and visual elements. One word
of caution, however: whatever affinities or relationships may
exist between a perception and its transformations and which may
give rise to a musical interpretation of an image, in many cases
it is both elements -musical and non-musical - which generate
new perceptions -ones which are variable, hence interactive -
of the two media. We feel it, as though there were some common
denominator making their fusion possible. For some pieces of music/image,
the starting point is an idea, musical thought or gesture which
needs to be "prolonged" through a new medium. For others,
the image is like the condensed form of a scenario which is to
be developed over time, creating links, a structure or even the
whole musical form.
Moreover, alongside the composer's recent projects and compositions are several older works which objectively prefigured this form of composition, or way of doing things, and which thanks to the development of new technologies enabling direct and realtime intervention and transformation of both images and music, can now assume their just dimensions, also with the technical and artistic collaboration of Elisabeth SON.
Elisabeth SON
-Diploma of Scenography of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des
Arts Decoratifs in Paris (78), Master in Philosophy/Aesthetic,
in La Sorbonne (83), Master in New Technologies at the University
of Paris 8 (86) Realise scenographies for theatre (since 76),
Operas and also for exhibitions and museums.
Works with teams of architects for simulations of building projects.
Since 90, sharing realisations of Martin Davorin Jagodic's works,
for 2D and 3D computer-graphics, scenography, editing...
Has been invited by a new institution: Le Metafort d'Aubervilliers,
(a place to experiment projects on new technologies and new medias),
to elaborate a program of training for artists and other publics
on new medias.