Marko Nikodijević : music box/selbstportrait mit ligeti und strawinsky (und messiaen ist auch dabei)

Marko Nikodijević(*1980) : music box/selbstportrait mit ligeti und strawinsky (und messiaen ist auch dabei), for ensemble (2003 / rev.2006)

Ensemble intercontemporain
Matthias Pintscher, conductor

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The composition was conceived and realized using digital technology. The computer served as an instrument with which possible compositional scenarios were developed, explored, and tested for their suitability.

A fractal, self-replicating model generates the musical material, another algorithm the structural models that further process the infinite flow of information into familiar syntactical models. Like distant memories, echoes of Ligeti, Stravinsky, and Messiaen shimmer through, yet these 'musics' are an illusion created by the computer.

What we 'hear' is not truly 'present,' but merely a random combination of data, a butterfly effect that plays with our perception. The title 'music box / self-portrait with Ligeti and Stravinsky (and Messiaen is also there)' refers to the mechanical nature characteristic of this compositional process: the composition as a kind of cookbook or a music box equipped with 20th-century compositional techniques. At the same time, this was my attempt to somehow free myself from the Ligeti/Stravinsky inferiority complex.

(Marko Nikodijevic)