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Sons of Valentine, a literary-musical nocturne
07.02.2015 19:00

Show up naked and barefoot for this Bosnian-Herzegovinian-Slovenian poetry-and-music nocturne for the inspired.

Poetry:
Admiral Mahić (Sarajevo, BiH)
Born in Banja Luka. After finishing technical school, he studied at the Faculty of Arts in Sarajevo, but interrupted his study before the war. He worked as a sailor, fisherman, waiter, postman, radio host, journalist… Apart from poetry, he also publishes prose and travelogues, including a series of children’s texts that appeared on Radio Sarajevo. Lives and works as a freelance artist in Sarajevo.

Željko Perović (SI)
Completed the School of Transport and Traffic Sciences in Maribor, worked as a train dispatcher in Šoštanj, Rogatec, Rogaška Slatina, Podvelka, and currently Pesnica. His interest in literature began in 1980. His first poems were published in a bulletin of the meeting of poets and writers from other nations, and later appeared in publications such as Hotenja, Locutio on-line, Rogaške novice, Naš čas (Šoštanj), and Mentor. He is also a translator with a variety of published translations of works by authors from the ex-Yugoslavian countries, and organizes cultural events in the former Yugoslavian territory.

Bojan Sedmak (SI)
Among musicians and intellectuals, especially the older generation, Bojan Sedmak is a synonym for the original and independent singer-songwriter. His songs and lyrics were performed even by the recently deceased Tomaž Pengov. Unfortunately, the wider public is not as familiar with his songwriting heritage as they are with his columns and poetry, but for the local inhabitants of Maribor, Sedmak is regarded as an indispensable part of the local cultural scene, and is known among the younger generation as a very popular professor of the Slovenian language.

Performance
Byzantine Cadillac (USA, SI)
The Byzantine Cadillac is constantly trying to integrate appropriately the basic eastern and western musical elements into contemporary popular music, but not in the sense of pastiche or comics, but rather by using the proper character of sound, as well as ancient ideas that existed long before the world was divided into the “East” and the “West”. By synthesizing and recording all sounds, and taking into account the tuning, it is possible to use chromatism and other modern techniques in a very elegant way – in other words, the color, melody and rhythm of a particular tone have been related to the aliquots of instruments from the very beginning. By using a melodic approach to rhythm (for example, a person can sing all rhythms) the effect is such that only an experienced musician can notice that this “popular sounding” music is built entirely on foreign elements, which are unknown to pop music.

The event is organized in collaboration with Code Blue Production.

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