About this artist
Maja Bosnic makes contemporary conceptual experimental acoustic noise music. She re-questions and examines accustomed phenomena in the process of music making, exposes them to concepts of every day life (habits of the society, modern trends, pop culture, etc.) then resets them in compositions that often include audience action in the performance. She is interested in creative power of non-musicians and music amateurs and likes leading workshops that engage community into gathered sound making experience. She is drawn to impossible missions, absurd solutions, limited material, playfulness, uncertain outcomes, treating instruments as ready-made objects of expression and treating real life objects as music instruments.
She has a PhD in Music Composition (Goldsmiths University of London, UK) and her projects were performed throughout Europe with the support of Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia and European Cultural Foundation. Maja is a founder of Association Zabuna - organization that works towards stimulating production and development of contemporary experimental music. She is a member of Composers Society of Serbia, as well as Royal Philharmonic Society in UK. Her achievements were awarded with the scholarship given by the Ministry of Youth of the Republic of Serbia five years in a row.
Maja began her composition studies with prof. Milan Mihajlović at the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad (Serbia), and proceeded postgraduate studies with prof. Roger Redgate at Goldsmiths University of London (UK). Her research PhD thesis and portfolio of works were evaluated by prof. Peter Wiegold (Brunel University, London, UK) and prof. James Saunders (Bath Spa University, Bath, UK). She was selected and participated in a number of workshops and master classes held by composers, such as: Simon Steen-Andersen, Chaya Czernowin, James Clarke, Wolfgang Rhim, Kevin O’Connell, Nicola LeFanu and Ian Wilson.
Maja’s pieces have been performed in festivals such as: Darmstädter Ferienkurse 2018, Festival junger Künstler Bayreuth (Germany), KOMA, April Meetings, Music - Here and Now in Belgrade (Serbia), IYAF and Composers Forum in London (UK), Sites + Subjects in Plovdiv (Bulgaria) and Re-new in Copenhagen (Denmark). She has written music for various ensembles, orchestras, electronic and multimedia projects, while her most significant works are “Zabuna on Stage.01/Bring Your Noise!” and “Zabuna on Stage.02/Whatever You Say!.”