NEW MUSIC FORUM 2025 - NEW MEDIA AND INTERACTIONS
Program
Urška Rihtaršič harp
Slowind
New Forum Music Ensemble
Michel Pozmanter conductor
The concert New Media and Interactions highlights compositional practices that transcend the boundaries of the traditional musical medium, introducing conceptual, technological, and intermedial dimensions. Works of the historical avant-garde (Cage, Feldman, Brown, Cardew) – grounded in open structures, experiments with notation, and transitions between sonic material and conceptual design – provide a framework and context for the new composition Blood is Water (commissioned by the New Music Forum, world premiere) by Bojana Šaljić Podešva, as well as for the work of Johannes Kreidler, both offering a contemporary reflection on the role of new media in today’s music.
Šaljić Podešva employs technological and intermedial means to expand the sonic language and to engage in dialogue with present-day modes of perception and information processing, while Kreidler constructs his characteristic conceptual poetics through the interplay of sound, video, and a critical stance towards social structures.
In these works, music no longer functions merely as an autonomous form of expression; rather, through its dialogue with other media, it establishes a broader context for artistic communication.
Admission free. Seat reservations: https://forms.gle/BapNhTx7nFabiskf8.