Dino Rešidbegović (born 14 December 1975 in

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) is a Bosnian

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and

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Education

Dr. Dino Rešidbegović was born in

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(today

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) on 14 December 1975 and received his musical training on

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at the elementary and secondary music school there. After moving to

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in 1994, he studied

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(gradual and master programme), at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Wien (

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) and at the Konservatorium Wien (Privat Univarsität der Stadt Wien) -

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, with professors

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, Wolfgang Liebhart and

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. He graduated (

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). He studied piano with professor Kim Oak Hyun at Konservatorium Wien and also graduated in 2003. He continued postgraduate (

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) study of composition at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Wien with professor

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and graduated with the highest score in 2005. At the same institution, he also studied

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with professor

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. He completed his

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degree in

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(

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) with the highest score at

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with professors Dr. Igor Karača (

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and Dr. Ivan Čavlović (

), dissertation. He was also taking classes with Claus Ganter and workshops with Luca Lombardi and Stefan Fricke.

Awards

He is a recipient of numerous awards in the field of music composition: * Alban Berg Stiftung (Alban Berg Society) (2001) *Alban Berg Stiftung (Alban Berg Society) (2002) *

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(2003) *

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AG Österreich award (2004) *

AG Österreich award (2005) *"Avdo Smailović" award given by AMUS (2018/19)

Cooperation and performances

He is also active in composition and performance of his music, and has developed new movements in music education programmes, with the assistance of his team of musicians such as Omer Blentić, Dragan Opančić, Ivan Šarić,

Hanan Hadžajlić Hanan Hadžajlić (born 16 August 1991) is a Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnian composer, flutist, and researcher. She co-founded the INSAM Institute for Contemporary Artistic Music and serves as its director. Since 2018, Hadžajlić has worked as ...

, Davor Maraus, Gilles Grimaître, Katharina Bleier, Elena Gabbrielli and others. Composer and pianist Jürg Wyttenbach, conducted Residbegovic's composition "The impact of analog synthesizer" for ensemble in Sarajevo, in 2015. His works were performed with conductors such as: Obrad Nedeljković, Dario Vučić, Josip Nalis, Jaime Wolfson, Emir Mejremić and Samra Gulamović. Residbegovic's "Three orchestral miniatures" are part of the regular repertoire of Azis Sadikovic. His works were also performed by orchestras/ensembles such as

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). He is a permanent member of the Austrian Composers Society (ÖKB). He is a co-founder and active member of the INSAM Institute for Contemporary Artistic Music.

Film score

The Third movement from his "Piano Concerto" (No.1) was used as a soundtrack in the feature film ''

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'' (2016) by

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Academic career

Rešidbegović is

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at Department of

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and

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and is currently teaching

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and

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of the

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Style

Reductional music complexity RMC

Rešidbegović formed a new wave of

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, known as Reductional music complexity, a term dating from 2003, based on a new order of parameters and their categorization by the composer. Another description of his style is "rhythmical music" which came from his categorizations of rhythm, or corpse of the music. Inspired by musicians such as

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and his professors Rainer Bischof and Detlev Müller-Siemens, he started to write music without tone pitches and established many compositional techniques of "reductional complexity". Musical parameters such as rhythm, dynamics, his own expression marks and description, extended techniques of many instruments are the base of his music, usually written with graphic notation.

Piano extended techniques

Rešidbegović developed a number of instrumental techniques, such as his piano extended techniques and treatment of piano strings and resonator of the instrument such as the use of synthesizers in contemporary classical music.

Approximate Reductionist Graphical Notation ARGN

Rešidbegović determined his notation for electronic and acoustic instruments in his dissertation, "Subtractive synthesis in composition" as "Approximate Reductionist Graphical Notation".

Selective compositions

Experimental, music painting, aleatoric, music theater

*"X O" Free choice: Any Instrument. *"Chelovek" for bass, Computer generated sound by

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. Composition "Recitativo Chelovek" is the first music composition which includes Google Translate as a musical instrument. *"3X" for two piano players and deconstructed drum-set.

Electronic and electroacoustic music

*"Subtractive study for sound synthesizers and ensemble" for amplified flute, amplified alto saxophone, amplified violin, amplified cello, electric guitar, synthesizers ( DSI Prophet 12, DSI Pro 2, Moog Sub 37 and Make Noise CV Bus Shared System with Tempi, Erbe-Verb and MMG) and amplified piano. *"X O part II" for amplified flute, amplified cello, analog modular sound synthesizers ( Make Noise CV Bus Shared System with Tempi, Erbe-Verb and MMG, Moog Sub 37 and Analog Rytm - rhythm computer). *"WreeskyIII" for solo flute with processors. (Boss VE-20 and MF-108M Cluster Flux).

Visiting speech therapist (cycle of 4 etudes for amplified piano)

*"Pedal étude" *"Percussion étude" *"Tapping étude" *"Vocal etude"

Chamber

*"For Sonemus" for flute, clarinet, violin and piano. *"Mechanicus (Heron from Alexandria)" for flute, violin and piano. *"The impact of the analog synthesizer" for mezzo-soprano, flute, cello, accordion and piano. *"R N" for flute, clarinet and French horn.

Vocal

The Wilderness (cycle of three songs for bass and piano)

*"Underwaterfall" *"New York Maidens" *"Fear"

Homo Sapiens (cycle of three songs for soprano and piano)

*"Flee for your lives" *"Ethnic cleansing" *"Refugees"

Big band

*"Mad Haus" for

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orchestra.

Orchestra

*"Piano concerto No.1" for piano and orchestra. *"Bak study for piano and orchestra" for amplified piano and orchestra.

References

External links

*Samson, Jim. ''Music in the Balkans'', Boston, BRILL, 2013. p. 564. *Čavlović, Ivan. ''Historija muzike u Bosni i Hercegovini'', Sarajevo, Muzička akademija, 2011. *Rešidbegović, Dino ''Subtractive Study for Sound Synthesizers and Ensemble'', Saarbrücken, LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2017 *Hadžajlić, Hanan. ''Od Zvuka (Intervju s kompozitorom: Dino Rešidbegović)'', Sarajevo, Hanan Hadžajlić / Kreuzlingen, Musica Neo, 2016. ID: SM-000263341 *Hadžajlić, Hanan. ''Komparacija interpretacijskih analiza kompozicije 'X O pt. II' Dine Rešidbegovića, za flautu/bas flautu i procesore, ozvučeno violončelo, ozvučeni klavir, analogne sintetizatore zvuka i ritam mašinu'', Sarajevo, INSAM / Kreuzlingen, Musica Neo, 2017. ID: SM-000291837 {{DEFAULTSORT:Residbegovic, Dino 1975 births Living people Bosnia and Herzegovina composers 21st-century classical composers University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna alumni Musicians from Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina film score composers Bosnia and Herzegovina electronic musicians Experimental musicians Experimental composers 21st-century classical musicians Contemporary classical composers Bosniaks of Bosnia and Herzegovina Theodor Körner Prize recipients Academic staff of the University of Sarajevo Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna alumni