Maja Bosnić (b. 1985) is a composer of contemporary exeprimental music from Belgrade. She is attracted to absurd solutions, limited possibilities, unexpected developments, audience participation, treating instruments as “ready-made” objects, and treating everyday objects as musical instruments. She received her doctorate in composition in the class of Professor Roger Redgate at Goldsmiths University in London (Great Britain) and is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Composition at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. She writes music for various ensembles, orchestras, electronics, and multimedia art projects and her compositions have been performed at art and music festivals in Europe, Asia, South and North America, including Warsaw Autumn, Heroines of Sound, musikprotokoll, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, impulse, Bang On A Can, Tzlil Meudcan, Distat Terra, Spaziomusica and many others. As the winner of the Progetto Positano scholarship and residency in 2023, the Berlin Ensemble Mosaik performed an author’s concert with her compositions in the Kesselhaus im Kulturbrauerei in Berlin. The two-disc album Portrait of a Composer: Maja Bosnić was released by the center CK13 from Novi Sad. In 2010, she founded the contemporary music association Zabuna, where she organizes workshops and concerts.

About the piece

/otkriće se/ [/will be revealed/] (2023) for piccolo flute, bass clarinet, cello, and electronics was commissioned by the ensemble mosaik from Berlin and in co-production with the Electronic Studio of Radio Belgrade. It was premiered at the UpToThree festival in June 2023 in Berlin by Kristijana Helgadottir (piccolo), Christian Vogel (clarinet, bass clarinet) and Niklas Seidl (cello). The electronic sounds were created and recorded on the EMS Synthi 100 instrument of the Electronic Studio of Radio Belgrade and represent the primary layer of the composition that conditions the musical material of the acoustic instruments. In this way, instruments and electronics realize an interdependent, complementary, and layering relationship, with a special focus on existing and stopping at moments of transition between different textures. The title /will be revealed/ was inspired by the moments of the work in which the electronics completely cover the instruments with loud sound, causing the anticipation of their gradual resurfacing in front of us, again. The title emphasizes the importance of lingering in the moment somewhere inside the transition and before the final discovery.