boris kovaČ

Catalogue of Memories / the brand new album - not published yet (just looking for a publisher)
7 compositions
performed by the NEW RITUAL ENSEMBLE:
Aleksandra Krčmar Ćulibrk – first violin
Slobodanka Stević – piano
Boris Kovač – soprano & alto sax
Siniša Mazalica – double bass
Jelena Filipović – viola
Sasa Panić – bassoon
Lav Kovač – percussion, drums
Svetlana Spajić – alto
Vukašin Mišković – classical guitar
Timea Kalmar – cello
Ivana Pavlović – harp
Jovanka Mazalica – second violin
Goran Penić – accordion
and the guests – Milan Nenin – guitar
Nikola Milanov – trombone
Ištvan Čik - percussion

In my opinion, all the music is revealed in the space between contemplation and dance… and their permeation.. in the space beyond the narrative.. Music is a perfect form of memory... Catalogue of Memories. 
B K    

Catalogue of Memories - part one

Flying, flying dance

The Second Promenade 

Catalogue of Memories – part two

Chamber Music / double CD album, published in 2010 by LONG ARMS, Russia, B92, Serbia (for Serbia) and Ad HOC Records, USA (electronic edition) 

CD1 Anamnesis, Ecumenical Mysteries (second version, 1992/2005)
for chamber orchestra / in 4 parts
performed by the Sunny Orchestra:
Svetlana Spajić - alto
Milica Šuica – mezzosoprano
Aleksnadra Krčmar – violin
Timea Kalmar – cello
Saša Panić – bassoon
Boris Kovač – alto & soprano sax
Slobodanka Stević – piano
Ivana Pavlović – harp
Lav Kovač – percussion
Anamnesis, according to Plato, is the act of remembering the true world, the world illuminated by the sun. I wrote this music in 1991/92 during the war in former Yugoslavia. It was my "response" to the challenge created by the situation: a fictitious ecumenical liturgy vis-à-vis the bloody conflict amongst the Catholic, Orthodox and Muslim populations. This was the voice of personal resistance against the oppression of nationalistic hysteria.
B K   

II part – The Travel

IV part – The Singing

 

CD2 Dances and Ballads from the Highland
for string quartet + / 7 pieces
performed by the string quartet TAJJ
Vlada Puškaš - oboe
Ištvan Čik – percussion
It is an anthology of music I composed for a string quartet over the last 15 years. Some of the pieces were commissioned by dance and ballet companies. The red thread linking these various different pieces has a fictitious name: a highland. A paradox, a piece and a turbulence, bright and cold sunshine, loneliness and yearning, dance over an abyss, an angel’s remembrance.
B K

Winter Song

Quasi Beguine

 Angel’s Remembrance (fragment) 

Quasi Waltz (fragment)

Adagio  

Damari, You…within and out of Time (1999)
published by Kachara Home Manufactory, Bukovac, Pannonia, 2001.
for the Ritual Nova Ensemble / in five parts and five confessions with an epilogue
Performed by Ritual Nova Ensemble:
Florijan Balaž – violin
Bogdan Ranković – clarinet, bass clarinet
Vanja Češnjevar – piano
Miloš Matić – double bass
Boris Kovač – alto, sloprano sax
 
"The pair I-YOU is an essential word. Another essential word is the I-IT pair.
The essential word I-YOU can be told only with the whole of the being.
The essential word I-IT can never be told with the whole of the being.
Man becomes I only in touch with YOU.
The relationship with YOU is immediate. Between I and YOU there is no purpose.
Spirit is not situated within I, but in between I and YOU. Man lives in
his spirit when he is capable of responding to his YOU.
The man who cannot pronounce the essential word is unhappy, but the one
who addresses you with a notion or a slogan as if it was your name is miserable.
Feelings are what you have, whereas love is what happens. Feelings
reside in man, whereas man resides in his love . Love is between I and
YOU.
The sublime melancholy of your destiny lies in the fact that every YOU
in our world has to become IT.”
Martin Buber, I and YOU

*DAMARI - heart beats (inner pulls) in Serbo

II Part

III Part

Final Part (fragment)

East OFF Europe (1997)
Published by Les Disques VICTO, Canada, 1998.
for the Ritual Nova Ensemble / in 3 parts: Visible Side,  Invisible Side, Finale
performed by Ritual Nova Ensemble:
Nenad Vrbaški – violin
Bogdan Ranković – clarinet / bass clarinet
Ivica Marušević – double bass
Saša Svijić – piano
Jaroslava Benka – soprano
Boris Kovač – soprano  & alto sax, gran cassa                                                            

This music came as the top point of my life and artistic paradox.
BK

 

Visible side – fragment

Invisible side – fragment one

Invisible side – fragment two

Play on String, music for the last dinner (1994-95)
Published by More Music, Italy, 1995.
music composed for the dance theatre performance Sting and String produced by En Knap dance company
choreographed by Iztok Kovač
performed by Enzo Fabiani string quartet                                                          
An effort to freeze the flight. A dance over an abyss. With a tender thought. Wind is quite strong up there... BK                                                                                                          

Quasi Tango

Polymetre Dance

Anamnesis, Ecumenical Mysteries (first version, 1992)- see above
published by Victo, Canada, 1996
performed by Ritual Nova Ensemble:
Jaroslava Benka – soprano
Mihal Budimski – violin
Nebojša Pandurović – cello
Srdjan Dalagija – piano
Ljubomir Živković – persussion
Boris Kovač - reeds                                                                                                     

I part (fragment)

Profana Liturgija, phenomenology of the soul (1990/91)
suite for the Ritual Nova Ensemble
published by ADN, Milano, 1991
performed by Ritual Nova Ensemble:
Nenad Vrbaški – violin
Nebojša Pandurović – cello
Veljko Nikolić Nik – sampler/percussion/accordion
Bora Janić – drums
Boris Kovač –reeds/sampler/accordion
Music is the last consolation between earth and sky. Deus sive natura. Petrol is more expensive today. I live in a country called Yugoslavia and sometimes remember my father. Children are singing in the street...The neighbour is drunk...BK (Bukovac-Roma 1991) 
                                                                                                 

Introduction: profound

Autumn Room: delighted

2nd Interlude: Nostalgia

Ritual Nova I&II (1985-1988)
published by ReR, London, 1993
tape music performed by the author on reeds, folk instruments and sampler and the guests:
Nenad Vrbaški – violin
Jaroslava Benka – soprano
Katalin Ladik – vocal
Djordje Delibašić – drums
Myth is the inner, symbolic substance of Truth. Except for the cognitive,  Myth possesses the aesthetic, ethic and sacral dimension. It is the Truth made by man himself. As Kolakowsky says, myth creation is the only human power that succeeds  in vanquishing the indifference of the world. Music and Myth correspond to each other in several respects. The mythic time is universal: what happened once  is  valid forever.  Music as a temporal art par excellence also aspires toi  hold and to change the linear time sequence, that is to create its own time, inner and endless. BK (from the book Mirror of the Voice - poetical CV, find more at the Poetical CV )

in two sides:
a/ Dream of the Origine                                                                                 
All under the Celestial Cup (fragment)

Room Movement

b/ Origine of the Dream
Caravan Orient (fragment)

Mandala