Svetlana Maraš: Firekeepers

für Trio und Ensemble

(2023/2024)

The more I work with sound and get fascinated with its flexibility and vastness of forms and structures, the least interest I have in recorded sound and fixed sound in general. For many years, I have been playing many concerts of live electronic music without recording any of the materials. I have built musical instruments and installations that within certain set of possibilities, always sound differently. This freedom of sound to take one of the shapes in a live performance, I find exciting, as it shows me how versatile and elastic the sound is. In this piece, I have implemented a lot that I have learned playing myself with digital technology, and in a way it is translation of my own process of working on a live set, to an ensemble-situation. To enable playability with instruments and with sound for every musician, extremely detailed structuring was needed, although the final form is not fixed on a timeline. For me, sound is an amalgamate of countless little gestures and transformations on multiple simultaneous planes, and as such, it reflects diversity and requires common effort by many agents. Therefore the idea of fire-keepers resonated well–it also emphasised fragility of musicians’ work and perspective that music is in essence, an act of togetherness, that’s at its final stage a shared listening experience.

Svetlana Maraš

Svetlana Maraš
© Cate Schappert

Svetlana Maraš (*1985 in Belgrad) is composer and sound artist active in the field of experimental music. Her work encompasses variety of formats such as live performance, electro-acoustic composition, sound installations and works for the radio.

Maraš is Professor of Creative Music Technology and Co-head of Electronic Studio at Hochschule für Musik FHNW, Basel. She is the winner of the most prestigious Serbian composition prize »Mokranjac«, awarded by the Serbian Composers’ Association.

From 2016–2021, she was composer in residence and artistic director at Radio Belgrade’s Electronic studio, where she established numerous programs such as artistic residencies, educational courses and most notably, restoration of EMS Synthi 100. During the time at Radio Belgrade, she developed works such as Jezik (shortlisted for Prix Italia award in 2017), Radio Concert No.1 and Radio Concert No.2 – live performances with the use of Synthi 100, as well as Post-excavation activities, the work which has brought her »Mokranjac« prize in 2021.

Svetlana Maraš was SHAPE artist for 2020, and co-curator of 4fakultät concert series in Hamburg. Since 2022, she is part of the Zürich Stadt–Music Commission.

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