An Innovative and Authentic Artist: Vladan Radovanović

Разговор с поводом. Иновативан и аутентичан стваралац: Владан Радовановић

Abstract

The celebration of an important jubilee: the 85th anniversary of the birth of Vladan Radovanović – the creator of a precious and unique, remarkably innovative and authentic oeuvre – was a direct motivating force to (re)consider certain issues crucial for understanding the poetics of this exceptional author, primarily in the domain of his musical creativity. The text published here presents the final version of the numerous encounters and conversations with Radovanović that we have conducted over the past years. The main themes (re)actualize the issues of the origin and maturation of Radovanović’s compositional language, his paths towards the most recognizable, authentic principles in composing that shaped his key opuses, as well as to their positioning in the context of global avant-garde currents. Simultaneously, Radovanović here illuminates the essential motives of his artistic work continuously defined in the coordinates of listening to the real sound and achieving something that never existed before. Radovanović also provides convincing answers to the questions of relations between his electronic and nonelectronic music; he considers the problem of polymediality of music, his personal style, and he provides the answer to the provocative question on the future of art music.