Milica Djordjevic (1984-)
"The Death of the Star-Knower", petrified echoes of an epitaph in a kicked crystal of time I et II pour quatuor à cordes
"Phosphorescence", pour cor, trompette et trombone
"… würde man denken:Sterne", pour accordéon seul
"How to evade?", pour hautbois et violon
"Do you kno how to bark?!", non communication pour contrebasse seule, 2.1.1.
"Manje te u majke groze", pour soprano, clarinette basse, accordéon, violon, alto et violoncelle

Truike van der Poel, mezzo-soprano
Teodoro Anzelloti, accordéon
Peter Veale, hautbois
Christine Chapman, cor
Marco Blaauw, trompette
Ensemble Musikfabrik

Bruce Collings, trombone
Hannah Weirich, violon
Florentin Ginot, contrebasse
Carl Rosman, clarinette basse
Axel Porath, alto
Dirk Wietheger, violoncelle

Quatuor Arditti

Irvine arditti, violon
Ashot Sarkissjan, violon
Ralf Ehlers, alto
Lucas Fels, violoncelle

Milica Djordjevic’s compositions are musical explorations, meticulous observations and dissections. Seven such investigations of sound are presented by the Serbian composer on her portrait CD in the series EDITION ZEITGENÖSSISCHE MUSIK. Primarily, Djordjevic focuses on an extreme and exhaustive exploration of the musical material. In the booklet Barbara Eckle points out Djordjevic’s specific approach: ‘She develops a material component further and further in an increasingly large, loud and dense wave, distorting it, perverting it, multiplying it, squeezing out of it everything it has to give – until it implodes. The rupture is sudden and abrupt, as if the plug of an electronic appliance were ripped from a wall socket.’ Also essential for Djordjevic’s work is an interdisciplinary perspective, which is based on a diversified aesthetic socialisation, influencing her music in different ways. Each compositional process finally creates musical figures, which, at the same time, affect psyche and ratio. All pieces have been especially recorded at Deutschlandfunk in Cologne by internationally well-known interpreters such as Arditti Quartet, Ensemble Musikfabrik and Teodoro Anzellotti