Temporality of the Impossible | Huddersfield Contemporary Records HCR26CD

Temporality of the Impossible

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Label: Huddersfield Contemporary Records

Cat No: HCR26CD

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Instrumental

Release Date: 11th February 2022

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About

Temporality of the Impossible is the first publication emerging from a larger, ongoing project of the same name by the Serbian-born, Brussels-based violinist Dejana Sekulić. The project revolves around recent music that explores the extremity and ambiguity that emerges at the limits of possibility in contemporary violin performance, focusing in particular on repertoire in which the relationship between notation and sound is unconventional, challenging, uncertain, or even confounding, as well as works employing unusual string preparations and tunings. These are works that propose – and at times demand – a reimagining of the role of the interpreter.

The seven works presented on this recording exemplify the probing, investigative nature of Sekulić’s project. These pieces by Clara Iannotta, Rebecca Saunders, Liza Lim, Evan Johnson, Cathy Milliken, Aaron Cassidy, and a newly commissioned work for the project by the iconoclastic Italian composer Dario Buccino, bring the raw, quintessential, fragile, and fleeting matter of the violin to the fore, often through novel approaches to the interface between performer, instrument, notation, movement, and sound. With their protean nature, in which the pieces might sound very different from one performance to the next, the function of a recording – which captures only one fixed instantiation – is itself also problematised. Each recording here is a snapshot of only one possible iteration, communicating a particular reading, understanding, and energy of a single moment in time.These recordings are openings.

Dejana Sekulić is a PhD researcher at the Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM) and the Research Centre for Performance Practices (ReCePP) at the University of Huddersfield. She obtained her bachelor’s degree at the Faculty of Art University of Niš (Serbia), followed by Masters studies and Post Master specialisation in music at the Royal Conservatory Brussels, and an advanced programme for contemporary music lead by ICTUS (Brussels) and Spectra (Gent) ensembles at the School of Arts Gent. She performs widely as a soloist, as the violinist of LAPS Ensemble, in the violin and piano duo Momitani-Sekulić, and in a violin and live electronics duo with Gilles Doneux. Sekulić is part of the art and education research collective People Coming from NowHere. She also works in the fields of interactive sound installation and multimedia.

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