MBZ 33 Conference: Broken Relationships
MUSIC BIENNALE ZAGREB CONFERENCE: BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS
April 7–9, 2025
University of Zagreb Academy of Music
Trg Republike Hrvatske 12
Zagreb, Croatia
Keynote Speakers
Andrea F. Bohlman (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Dalibor Davidović (University of Zagreb Academy of Music, Croatia)
Peter J. Schmelz (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Tickets for the conference are available at: https://www.ulaznice.hr/web/event/77/321
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MONDAY, APRIL 7, 2025
8:00–8:45 Registration (Faculty Lounge, 1st floor)
8:45–9:00 Welcome address (location)
Session 1a (parallel): Avant-Garde, Choreography, and Moving in Space
Location:
Chair: Ingrid Pustijanac (University of Pavia, Italy)
9:00–9:30 Marjana Krajač (The Ohio State University, USA)
Unfolding Spaces: Avant-Garde Engagements, Experimental Choreography, and
Politics of Space in Milana Broš and Dubravko Detoni's La voix du silence at the
1973 Music Biennale Zagreb
9:30–10:00 Sofia Weck (Milan, Italy; independent researcher)
Sylvano Bussotti: Musical Interpretation and Scenic Gesture
Session 1b (parallel): Interrupting the Tradition
Location:
Chair: Marija Maglov (Institute of Musicology, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia)
9:00–9:30 Marijana Dujović (Belgrade, Serbia; independent researcher)
2000s: The Time of Established and Interrupted Musical Connections between
Zagreb and Belgrade
9:30–10:00 Marija Pavlović (Union––Nikola Tesla University and Cultural Center Parobrod, Belgrade, Serbia)
Yugoslav Pavilions as a Part of Collective Artistic Memory: The Case of The
Venetian Biennale
10:00–10:30 Coffee break (Faculty Lounge, 1st floor)
Session 2a (parallel): Musical Bridges and East-West Exchanges
Location:
Chair: Peter J. Schmelz (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
10:30–11:00 Kevin C. Karnes (Emory University, USA)
Between Unbridgeable Difference and Breathtaking Possibility: Hardijs Lediņš on
the Transit Riga––(West) Berlin, 1988/1992
11:00–11:30 Darina Slavova (National Academy of Music “Prof. Pancho Vladigerov,” Sofia, Bulgaria)
Music Festivals and Their Role in Shaping the Aesthetic Criteria of Bulgarian
Folklore Performers
11:30–12:00 Gvansta Ghvinjilia (The Vano Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Tbilisi, Georgia)
Tsinandali Classical Music Festival: Bridging Georgia’s Cultural Past and European Connections
Session 2b (parallel): Avant-Garde and Cold War Politics
Location:
Chair: Miloš Marinković Institute of Musicology, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia)
10:30–11:00 Pato Nuño (Rijeka, Croatia; independent researcher) and Javier Paredes Figueroa (Santiago, Chile; independent researcher)
“Congreso” and Their Shift in Compositional Style during the Chilean
Dictatorship in the 1980s
11:00–11:30 Grace Pechianu (Indiana University, USA)
Radio Free Europe and the Romanian Church in Exile: Sacred Strains in the Ether
11:30–12:00 Ivana Miladinović Prica (Emory University, USA / University of Arts in
Belgrade, Serbia)
American Experimentalism at the Music Biennale Zagreb during the Cold War
Years
12:00–2:00 Lunch break
Session 3: Ecocentrism in Music
Location:
Chair: Jelena Janković-Beguš (Belgrade Festivals Center––CEBEF)
2:00–2:30 Eka Chabashvili (Vano Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Georgia)
Ego-(Anthropo) centric and Ecocentric Approaches Reflected in Music
2:30–3:00 Maya (Maka) Virsaladze (Vano Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire,
Georgia)
Sound Oasis: Applying Nature as a Musical Instrument
3:00–3:30 Alexander Chokhonelidze (Vano Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire,
Georgia)
Spectrogram Analysis for Eco-Landscape Noise Pollution: Assessment and
Mitigation
3:30–4:00 Joni Asitashvili (Vano Sarajishvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire, Georgia)
Soundscape and Film Ambient Sounds
4:00–4:15 Coffee break (Faculty Lounge, 1st floor)
4:15–5:15 Keynote
Location: Stančić Hall, 4th floor
Chair: Ivana Medić (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of
Musicology, Belgrade, Serbia)
Peter J. Schmelz (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Broken Relations: An Intimate History of the Kyiv Avant-Garde
TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2025
8:00–9:00 Registration (Faculty Lounge, 1st floor)
Session 4: Music and Improvisation
Location:
Chair: Ivana Ilić (Emory University, USA / University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia)
9:00–9:30 Paul Safar (The Musical Garden Piano Studio, Eugene, USA; independent
researcher)
Breaking with the Past to Forge the Future in Music Improvisation
9:30–10:00 Irena Paulus (Art School Franjo Lučić, Velika Gorica, Croatia)
Re-connection or Imagination? Improvised Music and Nature
10:00–10:30 Marija Maglov (Institute of Musicology, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia)
Island of the Dying Donkeys: Broken Relationship between a Man and an Animal
10:30–11:00 Coffee break (Faculty Lounge, 1st floor)
Session 5a (parallel): Memoryscapes and the Environment
Location:
Chair: Irena Paulus (Art School Franjo Lučić, Velika Gorica, Croatia)
11:00–11:30 Diana Grgurić (University of Rijeka, Croatia)
Music and Collective Memory: The Legacy of Croatian Singer Oliver Dragojević
11:30–12:00 Jacob Skiles (University of Georgia, USA)
Ornithological Music of Eastern North America in the Age of Climate Change
Session 5b (parallel): In Search of New Compositional Approaches
Location:
Chair: Iwona Lindstedt (Institute of Musicology, University of Warsaw, Poland)
11:00–11:30 Márton Gábor Szives (Doctoral School of Arts of the University of Pécs,
Hungary)
Birth of a New Melody: Summarizing Effect in the Works of László Dubrovay
11:30–12:00 Netanel Pollak (Jerusalem, Israel; independent researcher)
Internal and External Conflicts in Three Ricercars for Solo Viola by Sándor
Kallós
12:00–2:00 Lunch break
Session 6: Music Festivals as a Catalyst for Change
Location:
Chair: Diana Grgurić (University of Rijeka, Croatia)
2:00–2:30 Jelena Janković-Beguš (Belgrade Festivals Center––CEBEF; independent
researcher)
To Fix What Was Broken: Croatian Musicians and Works at the Belgrade Music
Festival (BEMUS) in the New Millennium
2:30–3:00 Snježana Đukić-Čamur (University of Sarajevo, Academy of Music, Bosnia
and Herzegovina)
Music Biennale Zagreb as a Catalyst for Change in the Creative Work of Vojin
Komadina
3:00–3:30 Coffee break (Faculty Lounge, 1st floor)
3:30–4:30 Keynote
Location: Stančić Hall, 4th floor
Chair: Kevin Karnes (Emory University, USA)
Andrea F. Bohlman (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Far Side of Quiet: Tape’s Intimate Relationships and Eastern Europe
4:30–5:15 Book launch
Location:
Chair: John Pymm (Sheffield Hallam University, UK)
Minimalist Intersections: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Music and Minimalism, ed. Pwyll ap Siôn and Ivana Medić (Belgrade: Institute of Musicology SASA, 2024)
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2025
8:00–9:00 Registration (Faculty Lounge, 1st floor)
Session 7: Breaking with the Tradition
Location:
Chair: Andrea F. Bohlman (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
9:00–9:30 Ivana Ilić (Emory University, USA / University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia)
Identity, Place, and Space in Post-Yugoslav Electronic Music: Three Case Studies
9:30-10:00 Brett Boutwell (Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA)
Negation and Ambivalence in the Music of Morton Feldman
10:00-10:30 Beata Bolesławska (Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw,
Poland)
“Broken Relationships”: The Music of Andrzej Panufnik and Roman Palester in
the Context of Their Emigration from Cold War Poland
10:30-11:00 Coffee break (Faculty Lounge, 1st floor)
Session 8a (parallel): Modified Sounds and Sound Objects
Location:
Chair: Davor Vincze (Hong Kong Baptist University)
11:00–11:30 Angus Lee (The University of Hong Kong)
Nostalgia Contra Prolepsis: Preliminary Considerations on the Temporality of
Vaporwave
11:30–12:00 Camilo Mendez (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Sculpting Sound: Theoretical and Practical Considerations for Designing and
Building the Sound Objects Used in Aira/Sonora
Session 8b (parallel): Musical Events as a Social Reaction
Location:
Chair: Ivan Ćurković (University of Zagreb Academy of Music)
11:00–11:30 Gregor Schima (University of Vienna, Austria)
“Skandal im Festbezirk” or: Biting the Hand that Feeds? Opera Staging as Ironic
Mirror of its Framing Institution
11:30–12:00 Miloš Marinković (Institute of Musicology, Serbian Academy of Sciences and
Arts, Belgrade, Serbia)
The Symposium New Music and Musical Interpretation (1962) in the Social
and Artistic Context of Yugoslavia
12:00–2:00 Lunch break
Session 9a: Breaking the “Code” of the Archival Bonds
Location:
Chair: Tomislav Bužić (University of Zagreb Academy of Music)
2:00–2:30 Elena Fiedeldey (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
The Importance of Cataloguing and Archival Research in Restoring Disrupted
Relationships Inside and Outside the Archive: The Case Study of the Greek
Contemporary Composer and Conductor Dimitris Agrafiotis
2:30–3:00 Vasiliki Apostolou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Restoring Broken Relationships Between Natural and Digital Archives: The Case
of Dionysios Visvardis’ Archives
3:00–3:30 Magdalini Kalopana (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
The Catalog of Works: Readjusting a Basic Research Tool through Individual and
Collaborative Reflection
Session 9b: Musical Reconciliations
Location:
Chair: Sanja Kiš Žuvela (University of Zagreb Academy of Music)
2:00–2:30 Claudio Cardani (University of Pavia, Italy)
Competition Rehearsals for Aspiring Organists of the Duomo di Milano and
Singers of the Cappella Musicale between 17th and 18th Century
2:30–3:00 Ivana Medić (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Musicology, Belgrade, Serbia)
The Trauma of Freedom
3:00–3:30 Chieh Huang (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Echoes of Resilience: The Interplay of Indigenous Culture, Music, and
Technology (online)
3:30–4:00 Coffee break (Faculty Lounge, 1st floor)
4:00–5:00 Keynote
Location: Stančić Hall, 4th floor
Chair: Ivana Miladinović Prica (Emory University, USA/University of Arts,
Belgrade, Serbia)
Dalibor Davidović (University of Zagreb Academy of Music, Croatia)
John Cage and Nikša Gligo: Chronicle of a Friendship
Programming Committee
Laura Emmery, Chair (Emory University, USA)
Lisa Cooper Vest (University of Southern California, USA)
Sabine Feisst (Arizona State University, USA)
Lisa Jakelski (Rochester, USA)
Kevin Karnes (Emory University, USA)
Sanja Kiš Žuvela (University of Zagreb Academy of Music, Croatia)
Benjamin Levy (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Iwona Lindstedt (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Miloš Marinković (Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Musicology, Serbia)
Ivana Miladinović Prica (University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Music, Serbia)
Keith Potter (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK)
Ingrid Pustijanac, (University of Pavia, Italy)
Danijela Spiric-Beard (Cardiff University, Wales, UK)