Electronic Studies by Nikola Vetnić is composed of six tracks Scintillations, Epitaph, The Birth Canal, 5ENT.OKOH, An Afterthought, AlphaCygni (Deneb). Created in a space of five years, each of them is a separate and rounded whole with a striking meaning only as part of a larger, proposed conception.
Electronic Studies is the author's harmoniously and carefully designed contribution to the combination of modern musical language and mysticism. Using sounds and colors that anticipate the landscape of the East, the author writes each of the compositions using the principle of painting sound images. With each of them, he achieves an individual musical effect that, with the help of tonal transformations from the natural to the artificial sphere of musical coloring, creates the effect of a meaningful roundness. The beginning and end of a musical idea is not in individual examples, because they follow each other with a logical shift, building a unique structure that only as a whole provides a complete sense of sound and meaning. The richness of the musical language is revealed in the free use of modern compositional means and techniques of expansion of the musical mass and highlighting of inherent micro details in macro structures, a combination of the modes of mysticism and modernity in the perspective of portraying an experimental, poetic and surreal ambience.
The concept of Electronic Studies is understood as an innovation and play of contemporary artistic musical forms whose interpretation does not have to be linear. The uniqueness and enchantment of the musical images, from the first to the fifth, have the same effect by switching places. The micro form is "decomposable" and thus gives the listener the freedom to combine tracks and connect them without fear of losing sound and meaning. The last track Alpha Cygni (Deneb) with its wealth of musical language, dynamic nuances, unites all previous ideas into one in which clear rules are recognized in an apparently free formal interpretation. Her place, impressive even at the end of the album, is the seal of a multi-year creative process of research, pushing one's own artistic boundaries and maturing Vetnić as an artist.
The multidirectional interpretation of Electronic Studies, as its essence, is the author's window to the listener into a completely new world in which the law of decoding is recognized in the game as a combination of clear rules hidden in combinatorics and freedom.
Nikola Pacek-Vetnić obtained a doctorate in composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade in 2017 under prof. Zoran Erić,
while previously studying in Novi Sad with prof. Milan Mihajlović.
Primarily interested in application of amplified guitars and percussion in contemporary classical and computer music....more
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