Hanan Hadžajlić: Requiem Ex Machina

for six amplified voices

(2022/2023)

Composition »Requiem Ex Machina« for six amplified voices consists of four parts (movements) that are performed without a break: I–Kyrie Eleison: Death, II–Lux Aeterna: Children of Abraham, III–Dies Irae: When All Creation Rises Again, IV–Lux Perteptua Luceat Eis: Life.

The composition uses predominantly excerpts of the text from the Requiem (Introitus, Kyrie, Sequentia, Communio). I also used excerpts of Orthodox prayer, the melody of the Islamic call to prayer (without reciting the text), silent dhikr and significant numbers from gematria in establishing macro-phrases. In II–Lux Aeterna: Children of Abraham there is a quote by Niccolò Machiavelli from the book The Prince.

The natural tendency of the voice is linear flow. I built compact linear and vertical constructions and also used gestures that can be linked to any sound source, not just voice. In one part (movement), each performer sings two different but structurally connected layers. One layer is a metric game based on a drill beat. Extremely demanding. The performers should be as precise as if they were singing a piece by Mozart.

(Hanan Hadžajlić)

Hanan Hadžajlić (1991, Bosnia and Herzegovina) graduated with BA and MA degrees in flute and in composition from the Music Academy of the University of Sarajevo. She is currently a PhD student in flute (class of Ljubiša Jovanović) at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. She is also pursuing a PhD in transdisciplinary studies of contemporary art and media with Andrija Filipović and Miodrag Šuvaković at the Faculty of Media and Communication in Belgrade. Hanan Hadžajlić has participated in composition seminars by Heiner Goebbels, Philippe Manoury, Peter Ablinger, Vinko Globokar, Wolfgang Rihm, Dieter Ammann and Michel van der Aa. In 2016 she was a fellow at the Science Underground Academy and in 2017 at the Lucerne Festival Composer Seminar. Works by Hanan Hadžajlić have been performed in many countries in Europe, Israel and the USA. She is a member of SONEMUS (Society of New Music Sarajevo) and director of INSAM (Institute of Contemporary Art Music, Sarajevo).

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