Martin Davorin-Jagodić
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Birth name | Martin Davorin-Jagodić |
Born | 16 December 1935 Zagreb, Croatia |
Genres | electroacoustic, Installation, Intermedia, Performance art |
Occupation(s) | composer, educator |
Martin Davorin-Jagodić is a Croatian contemporary music composer and educator born in Zagreb in 1935. His work includes theatre music, graphic scores, instructions for performances, multimedia installation art, radio art, electroacoustic music on tape as well as experimental film soundtracks.
Biography
Davorin-Jagodić studied music in Zagreb (Croatia) and Ljubljana (Slovenia), under Croatian composer Milko Kelemen, among others. He relocated to France in 1960 to study under Olivier Messiaen at Conservatoire de Paris and work at Pierre Schaeffer's Groupe de Recherches Musicales from 1967 to 1969.[1] His career as an educator started in 1969 as assistant and then lecturer at the music department of Université de Vincennes Paris 8, later also teaching stage design and scenography at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs from 1974 to 1988. In the 1990s, he taught musicology at Université de Saint-Denis, after the Université de Vincennes Paris 8 had relocated there in 1980.[2]
Graphic scores
Often relying on highly stylized, abstract graphic scores hardly offering any kind of musical clue in terms of instrumentation, actual notes to play or pitch, Davorin-Jagodić's work of the 1960s and 1970s encompasses Conceptual art and Fluxus performance art, for which the interpret is more like a collaborator or co-composer of the work. Graphic scores like Uberklavier, 1970 and Variations sur l'Opus 16, 1971,[3] make sure that, if performed, they will sound like nothing the composer has anticipated, thus welcoming aleatoricism and freeing the interpret from the tyranny of a score, in the John Cage tradition.
Performances of the 1970s
An emblematic work of the 1970s is Body Music, 1971, in which a pianist plays in an adjacent room, remote from the audience, with electric sensors fixed on his body around chest, arms and mouth. The P.A. system on stage amplifies the pianist's movements, bodily sounds and breath but not the actual music played – as an option, a camera may reproduce the image of the pianist's movements.[1]
In the 1970s, Davorin-Jagodić often performed in former Yugoslavia, including a personal exhibition at Galerija Studentskog Centra, Zagreb, Croatia, in 1971,[4] a performance during the Muzički Biennale Zagreb (Music Biennale Zagreb, directed by Milko Kelemen) in 1973, or his participation to the Aprilski Susret festival in Belgrade, Serbia,[5] in 1972 and 1974.[1]
In 1975, Davorin-Jagodić released a long-playing record in the avant-garde music series Nova Musicha of Italian label Cramps Records. Titled Tempo Furioso (Tolles Wetter) and produced by Walter Marchetti in Milan, the music is a collage of electronic and found sounds.[6]
Film and multimedia
Davorin-Jagodić composed music for several experimental films, starting with Environment in 1969, a film by Belgian directors L. Peire et J. Mil, for which he recorded an electroacoustic soundtrack at the IPEM - Institute for Psychoacoustics and Electronic Music, in Ghent, Belgium.[7][8] He also created music for According to... by French film director Yann Beauvais in 1981.[9]
Since the 1990s, Davorin-Jagodić collaborates with former student, developer, electronic and installation artist Elisabeth Son on multimedia installations, like their installation during the Media-Scape Symposium in 1999[2] or the interactive, immersive sound installation Orchestre Virtuel in 2003.[10]
Notes
- ^ a b c Caux 1974, pp. 30.
- ^ a b Media-Scape Symposium 1999 .
- ^ VH 101 1971 .
- ^ Galerija Studentskog Centra 1971 .
- ^ Festival organized by Studentski kulturni centar (Belgrade) (Student Cultural Centre), since 1971
- ^ Tempo Furioso (Tolles Wetter) 1975 .
- ^ Hein & Seelig 1996, pp. 158 .
- ^ See IPEM official website
- ^ Beauvais 1981 .
- ^ Orchestre Virtuel 2003 .
References
- Caux, Daniel (1974). "A la lisière de l'écoute". Chroniques de l’Art Vivant (in French) (51). Paris, France: published by Aimé Maeght: 30.
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(help) - "Graphies de Davorin-Jagodić". VH 101 (in French) (4). Paris, France: Editions Esselier. 1971.
- Hein, Folkmar; Seelig, Thomas (1996). Internationale Dokumentation elektroakustischer Music (in German). Saarbrücken, Germany: PFAU Verlag. p. 158. ISBN 3930735598.
- "Galerija Studentskog Centra" (online archive). solo exhibition. Zagreb, Croatia. 1971. Retrieved January 2013.
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(help) - "Media-Scape Symposium". Zagreb, Croatia. 1999. Retrieved January 2013.
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(help) - Tempo Furioso (Tolles Wetter) (long playing record). Martin Davorin-Jagodić. Italy: Cramps Records (Nova Musicha series #8). 1975.
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(help) - "Orchestre Virtuel" (in French). Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris: Le Cube, center for digital arts. Retrieved January 2013.
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