On 18 December, there will be another online meetup for artists in technology. This time the host, Misha Cvijović, will be joined by Zeynep Toraman and Milana Zarić.

Meeting ID: 928 9244 5350
Link: https://zoom.us/j/92892445350

Zeynep Toraman is a composer and scholar from Istanbul, Turkey, living and working in Berlin, Germany. Her practice-based research explores the ways in which texts (in the broadest sense of this word) can interact with one another within the larger framework of musical compositions, by way of thinking of her own library as an archive, and enfolding autobiography, poetry, fiction and history within her works.

Past and recent collaborators include Contrechamps, Ensemble Proton, ELISION Ensemble, Ensemble Linea, Quatuor Diotima, Distractfold Ensemble, Noam Bierstone, and the Wet Ink Ensemble. Her music has been performed at festivals such as Darmstadt Ferienkurse (Darmstadt, Germany), Summer Academy Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart, Germany), IRCAM ManiFeste (Paris, France) and Wet Ink Large Ensemble Readings (New York, NY). Her research has been supported by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

Zeynep taught at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and she completed her PhD in Music Composition at Harvard University in 2023, where she studied with Chaya Czernowin, Hans Tutschku and John Hamilton.

Milana Zarić is a creative musician. As both composer and performer, Milana has premiered over 40 solo and ensemble works with harp, combining her original instrument with voice, zither, percussion, electric harp and electronics.

Former principal harpist of the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra, she is specialising in contemporary composition, free improvisation and experimental music practices. As the artistic director of Ensemble Studio 6 she has been increasingly involved in transdisciplinary projects involving video, architecture, cultural heritage, light design etc. She has been the initiator of many international projects, establishing new bridges in collaborative creation.

Milana has worked with leading figures from across the musical spectrum - from Zubin Mehta, to Katalin Ladik, Isidora Žebeljan, Evan Parker, Heiner Goebbels and Frances Marie Uitti. She regularly collaborates with her partner Richard Barrett on original music for harp, electronics and ensemble. She is an advocate for gender balance and diversity in music creation and performance and is based in The Hague, where she teaches Collaborative music creation at the Royal Conservatoire.

linktr.ee/milana.zaric
http://milanazaric.com

Photo: Özge Ertürk

Photo: Nikola Zavišić