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radioart106: #181 "Stellar Refugee" by Alen Ilijić
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Produced and presented by Meira Asher.
Alen Ilijić is a new media avant-garde composer, performer and visual artist.
He has studied film music with Amit Sen at City of Westminster College in London, and composition, orchestration, electronic music and sound engineering at the Faculty of Music in Belgrade with Srdjan Hofman.
Ilijić uses art to address urgent questions about racism, discrimination, anti-Semitism and destroyed individualism. The importance of creativity as a phenomenon in his works is emphasized by a passion for detail, hidden codes, multiple layers of visibility, and controlled chaos in an aleatory form.
He writes: My art comes from a selection of carefully defined, fragmented material. Once blended and a form is created, I destroy it all. It is like building an object and then ruining it. I repeat this process many times before I actually get something that I like.
Ilijić held concerts worldwide and is also a guest lecturer at Universities among which he held a lecture about contemporary ways of composing at The University of New Hampshire and at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. He has exhibited artworks in solo, group and online and juried exhibitions worldwide, such as ''Breathing While Black'' at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Augusta Savage Gallery, in 2020. Ilijic was awarded Styria Artist in residency, Graz, Austria in 2016.
“lijić’s music is guided by an unerring intuition, revealing unexpected connections among the wide variety of utterances that mark the extraordinary richness of the total musical world available today. But, like Arnold Schoenberg, Ilijic has forged from the materials around him a new and consistent world entirely his own.” Rob Haskins
@stellar_refugee
Playlist:
1. PW503683d
2. I Have No CoordiNATION
3. r v safe-
4. through the marvellous opposites
5. disturbing a circle
6. v never met
7. Classified
8. Improvisation for Piano, Violin and Amplifier
9. Music for NASA
10. My Suspicious Look
11. echoed in the homeless vision
12. she could have been a dancer
13. my yiddishe heart
14. Semlin - pavilion of death (premiere)
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Playlist:
- R V Safe? / Alen Ilijic
- Through the Marvellous Opposites / Alen Ilijic
- V Never Met / Alen Ilijic
- Classified / Alen Ilijic
- Echoed in the Homeless Vision / Alen Ilijic
- Running in Circles / Lara Hope and the Ark-Tones

