Gagi Petrovic
Ring Ring 1996
1997 release (seal cut - light storage wear) ** Special cardboard sleeve. Featuring: Pierre Bastien, Erno Kiraly - Stevan Tickmayer - Chris Cutler, Boris Kovacs, Fastilio, Ferus Mustavof, Floridis - Petrovic - Papa Nik.
Music For Dance And Theatre 2011-2024
This is a compilation of highlights from commissioned music for dance and theatre.
Relatum
Relatum features two compositions revolving around the relationship and interplay between the human and the algorithmic, bringing together musicians and artificial performers.
Unfold Yourself
Fourth release by Petrovic on the label, distancing himself from the GEST instrument to re-explore conventional means. Seven pieces narrate an emotional arc - Disrupt, Obstruct, Shatter, Rejuvenate, Illuminate, Erupt, Arise - through which a Petrovic-figure works back out of an extended depression. The vocabulary moves from Moog-like dark tones and metallic percussion through bowed-guitar ambient writing to almost danceable beats in the closing pieces. A study of recovery in compositional form.
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dp[a] + hsh
Petrovic's debut album bringing together two previously separate projects. dp[a] takes dysprosody - a rare speech disorder marked by unconventional shifts of pitch, volume and rhythm - as a model for an alternative grammar of expression. hsh, commissioned for a Dansmakers Amsterdam dance duet, takes its title from the Moroccan haschoema and addresses social control and the silencing of women. Glitch-inflected computer music as ethical and linguistic inquiry.
Choosing Freedom
Second solo album by Gagi Petrovic, mastered by Jos Smolders. The pieces are performed on GEST, an instrument Petrovic designed himself with STEIM: a light-sensor interface that translates hand gestures breaking light beams into commands for a granular-synthesis environment built on audio recordings. The album frames itself as an exit from arbitrary expectations of what music should be, foregrounding intuitive performance and indeterminate structure within a precise compositional architecture.
Recalcitrance
Philosopher of science Isabelle Stengers has studied the operations of states and their mobilization of technical practices to serve a presupposed general interest, which involves the production of rules and norms. Such rules and norms are blind to forms of knowledge that are denigrated as ‘local’ and ‘traditional’, and feature the correlative elimination of what does not conform and cannot be standardized – in other words, what is recalcitrant to objective evaluation. Anything that resists subs…