ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC IN VOJVODINA: FROM EXPERIMENT TO ACADEMIC SUBJECT (1960-2000)
ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC IN VOJVODINA: FROM EXPERIMENT TO ACADEMIC SUBJECT (1960-2000)

Summary/Abstract: In this text, I will try to provide a general overview of the development of electroacoustic music creation in Vojvodina, autonomous province of Serbia, from the first compositions of Ernő Király at the beginning of the 1960s to the beginning of the new century, when the position of this kind of music in the local context changed, under the influence of a global change in technological paradigm, but also because most of the “protagonists” were no longer active in Serbia. Тhe text follows the development thread, through the poetics of several authors who were active in this area during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, such as Slavko Šuklar, Mitar Subotić, Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer, Miroslav Štatkić and others. The process of gathering relevant materials yielded a collection of about 50 artefacts (recordings, scores, complete and incomplete information about works), and this paper represents an attempt at a systematization of the collected data, based on the already–existing historizations of Serbian electroacoustic music, which is a necessary step that precedes the writing of individual case studies dedicated to particular works and composers.

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