KIBLIX 2025 | MIGAV Music Cycle: Blaž Božič
MIGAV Music Cycle
Blaž Božič
Thursday, 11 December 2025, at 6 p.m.
MMC KIBLA
You are cordially invited to the final event of this season’s MIGAV series, featuring author and musician Blaž Božič, also known as SsmKOSK. The event will take place on Thursday, 11 December 2025, at 6 p.m. at MMC KIBLA. The program will also feature Božič’s literary work, with the discussion led by Tonja Jelen.
Blaž Božič’s poetry fuses the world, linguistic play, and a circuit of reflections and wanderings. It centers the margins, bringing them back to life. This is not poetry of pretense but of unveiling, expressed through language in all its juicy richness and with a distinctive sensibility.
Blaž Božič was born in 1991 in Ljubljana and has published several poetry collections, including Potem smo si vranice odprli na nežno valujoči livadi (KUD France Prešeren, 2013) and K območnim poročilom (Center for Slovenian Literature, 2016). For his most recent book, mleček, žbunje: grobovi v njem (2022), he received Slovenia's top literary prize, the Jenko Award for the best poetry collection of the previous two years. He is currently a doctoral student in the Department of Classical Philology at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, where he is preparing a dissertation on the last epic of antiquity, Nonnus of Panopolis’ Dionysiaca. He is also active as a translator from Ancient Greek.
The literary part of the event will be followed by music, as Blaž Božič is also the guitarist for the band nevemnevem and the man behind the experimental breakcore–glitchcore–noise–spoken-word solo project SsmKOSK. Deeply engaged in music and sound, he released the outstanding album 610a: notranji petki in 2023 with the label Zvočni prepihi, following a three-year hiatus. This highly anticipated full-length became one of the best albums of that year and a standout in contemporary electronic music. On it, he crafts a Mediterranean glitch patina, Spanish romanticism intense enough to break ankles, and a flamenco guitar fragmented in a sampler to capture the emotions of “closed” Fridays, which now linger only as distant memories.
In addition to this release, two other albums have been issued on the same label: Ptičji mozak (2018) and Pajser in mleko (2019). Previously, he released the album Pičko’n’troll in 2014 on the OFF TIR label, followed by the self-released album Merak in 2015, and in 2016, a triple split with Serbian noise artists Segregator X and Geneza Kinezev. He has performed concerts both in his home country and internationally, including in Serbia, Denmark, Germany, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Italy, Austria, Slovenia, and Croatia.
< photo: Domen Slovinič
___
Production: ACE KIBLA
Support: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Maribor
|
