Dragan Latinčić (1982, Serbia) obtained his PhD at the Department of composition of the Faculty of Music in Begrade, supervised by professor, academician Vlastimir Trajković. His works were performed in Serbia and abroad. He won a Special Award of the Summer Academy Prague-Vienna-Budapest and The April award of the City of Belgrade for the youth’s creative work. He wrote the books: Microintervalls in Spectral Geometry and Spectral Trigonometry (Establishing Universal Music-Mathematic Studies), published by Zadužbina Andrejević, as well as scientific articles: “Microintervals in spectral geometry”, and “The application of the Pythagorean Theorem to the temporality of rhythmical projections of individual spectrum harmonics” published in the journal Srpska nauka danas (Serbian Science Today). He also wrote scientific articles published in the journals New Sound (“Possible Principles of Mathematical Music Analysis”) and Muzikologija-Musicology (“Centralna rotacija pravilnih i nepravilnih muzičkih poligona”). He has been an assistant professor at the Composition Department of the Faculty of Music, since 2015. He is a guest lecturer at the Mathematical Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts as part of the Mathematics and Music seminar.

O delu

String Quartet was written in 2020. The control of the metro-rhythmic system was established by applying the technique of horizontal hemiols and by applying the technique of crossed-over rhythmic sequences, which are characteristic of the music of West African and Central African folklore provenance. The quartet is also characterized by micro-tonal relations. These relations are occasionally spectro-distortive, and are occasionally established by classical harmonic connections with a common chord tone. The common chord tone is mainly a harmonic expressed by a natural (index) number from the spectrum.