{"id":11016,"date":"2023-01-24T15:41:12","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T14:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/?p=11016"},"modified":"2023-01-25T12:17:29","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T11:17:29","slug":"widerstand-und-funkenflug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/blog\/widerstand-und-funkenflug\/","title":{"rendered":"Resistance and flying sparks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On 29 January<\/a>, we will perform the world premiere of Milica Djordjevi\u0107’s work Nalet as part of our series “Musikfabrik im WDR” and at the ACHT BR\u00dcCKEN<\/a> festival we will be able to premiere solo compositions by the Serbian composer. Raoul M\u00f6rchen spoke with the her in anticipation and reveals how she creates a new piece.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n

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The new ensemble piece is far from being finished and Milica Djordjevi\u0107 has learned something important: It\u2019s better not to talk about it. \u201cIt has already happened that I announced things that I was later to entirely dismiss. For me composing is a process that is accompanied with slightly chaotic elements.\u201d Neither the concrete progression nor the end of the process follow a fixed scheme. The beginnings do not resemble each other either, and are fought for using differing strategies. Things don\u2019t fall into her lap, says Djordjevi\u0107. She has to repeatedly start from scratch, in order to extract ideas, sounds and material from her dark imagination, as a kind of murmuring with which she can then work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At the same time there is no shortage of inspiration. Since her school days she has loved both the natural sciences and the fine arts along with impulses from literature and political current events. Sometimes these fields are also super-imposed, such as with the percussion concerto <\/span>Jadarit, <\/span><\/i>that Milica Djordjevi\u0107 recently wrote for Musikfabrik\u2019s percussionist Dirk Rothbrust. Jadarit is an extremely rare mineral that was first discovered a few years ago, and has a close resemblance to the legendary kryptonite from the Superman cosmos. It was named after the only place where it was ever discovered, the Jadar valley in Serbia, and in addition to Boron, also contains lithium which is essential for battery production. It is supposed to be mined in Serbia and is a controversial political issue. Economy stands against ecology. The prospect of extreme profit against an almost unavoidable large-scale destruction of nature. All of these elements ultimately flowed into my work. The scientific fascination of the new element, the bizarre coincidence of the factual and fictitious and the concern for an ecological deforestation, that could potentially destroy almost a third of the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Incidentally Milica Djordevi\u0107 would like to reveal this much about the new piece: the new solo piece for Dirk Rothbrust, which is one of three commissioned works for members of Ensemble Musikfabrik, will be premiered at the Cologne Festival Acht Br\u00fccken in 2023 and will follow up on this complex. This will not only be from a thematic point of view, but also a musical one. \u201cI would like to implant material from the concert into the solo like stem cells.\u201d This is like in most or in fact all of her scores: \u201csparks fly from one score to the next.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n

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Milica Djordjevic \u00a9 Astrid Ackermann<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Whatever inspires Milica Djordevi\u0107, the idea never leads directly to the score but takes a detour via the illustrations. \u201cFor me personally, it is the most natural and intuitive way to imagine the sounds and forms is to draw them. At least I then have the clarity of what I will do next.\u201d Once the overall form has its rough outline, then she can heave out various other building sites. \u201cI don\u2019t have to start at the beginning and anyway do not work bar by bar or chronologically. Sometimes I begin in the middle and then jump back and forth.\u201d And the end? It is not necessarily the end. Milica Djordevi\u0107 loves to develop her work in collaboration with her performers, especially regarding solo works, and is absolutely willing to adjust details during rehearsals or even after performances and always reacts to observations or suggestions from others. \u201cMagical things can happen when closely collaborating with musicians.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Raoul M\u00f6rchen (Translation: Peter Veale)<\/em><\/p>\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Milica Djordjevi\u0107 reveals how a new piece is created. A text by Raoul M\u00f6rchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[107,108,106],"tags":[119],"class_list":["post-11016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-portrait","category-programmnote","tag-musikfabrik-im-wdr-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11016"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11062,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11016\/revisions\/11062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musikfabrik.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}