DAVOR BRANIMIR

VINCZE Artistic Director Lecturer Conductor

275 Hawthorne Avenue COLLABORATIONS Palo Alto, CA 94301, USA EDUCATION (selection) +1 (650) 441 6701 03.2019 – 12.2019 Ivy Plus Research fellow at [email protected] University of Chicago (USA) Antiphonus (CRO) Dal Niente (USA) Doctorate in Composition Decoder Ensemble (DE) ABOUT ME 09.2016 – 05.2021 Stanford University (USA) Divertimento Ensemble (IT) with Brian Ferneyhough & Ensemble Intercontemporain (FR) I am a composer, researcher & Patricia Alessandrini Ensemble Modern (DE) conductor of contemporary Ensemble Recherche (DE) classical , founder and ar- Residency at Cité des Arts Hrvoje Hiršl (CRO) tistic director of Novalis festival. 01.2014 – 07.2014 Passionate, creative and coope- (FR) and lessons with Ictus Ensemble (BEL) rative personality, invested in Stefano Gervasoni Jack Quartet (USA) transdisciplinary collaboration. Klangforum Wien (AUT) 09.2012 – 05.2013 Cursus I - IRCAM, Paris (FR) Mocrep (USA) I view music as a set of data that Neue Vokalsolisten (DE) lives in a multidimensional space 04.2010 – 07.2012 Master in Composition No Border Orchestra (DE/SRB) that is there for us to explore. State University of Music and Proton Ensemble (CH) In recent years, with help of Performing Arts Stuttgart (DE) Secession Orchestra (FR) AI/ML models I am searching for with Marco Stroppa Slovene Philharmonic Orchestra (SLO) new ways of navigating that Soundinitiative & Shao-Wei Chou (FR/TW) space, using old recordings and 10.2006 – 01.2010 Bachelor in Composition and Talea (USA) archives for generation of new Music Theory - University of material. Music and Performing Arts Graz (AUT) with Clemens FESTIVALS+CONFERENCES Gadenstätter (selected recent and upcoming events)

10.2001 – 06.2007 Medical Degree Ars Eletronica (2015, AUT) School of Medicine Arts in Society (2019, PT) (CRO) B. Matiné (2019, various countries) LANGUAGE SKILLS Impuls (2015, AUT) Croatian OTHER ACTIVITIES Internationale Ferienkurse Darmstadt (DE) English Manifeste (2014, FR) German 2021 Artist in Resicence at the MATA festival (2015, USA) French IEM, Graz, Austria Musikprotokoll 2010, AUT) Spanish Muzičko Biennale Zagreb (2019, 2017 & 2015, CRO) 2017 – present Lessons Présences (2017, FR) with Paul Phillips Rarescale (2015, UK) COMPUTER SKILLS Stanford University, CA, USA Sommer in Stuttgart (2016, DE) Sound & Music Computing (2020, IT) Music Audioguide 2014 – present NOVALIS music+art festival Voix Nouvelles (2011, FR) AudioSculpt founder and artistic director DAW Finale/Sibelius WORKSHOPS Open Music 2017 Guest Jury Member (selected recent and upcoming events) Max/Msp/Jitter Pre-art Competition for , Zurich, Switzerland 2020 CCCM - Collaborative Composition of Chamber Music (Graz, AUT) MS Office Excel LIPS interdisciplinary artistic residency at PowerPoint AWARDS+DISTINCTIONS 2020 (selected) GRAME (Lyon, FR) Word 2020 „Boris Papandopulo“ Best Contemporary 2019 Master Course for Conductors and Adobe Composer of the Year, Croatia Composers (Budapest, HU) Illustrator 2020 Taukay Edizioni Musicali 2019 Conductors Guild Conductor Training Others Best Audiovisual work, Udine, IT Workshop (Stanford, USA) Arduino FontLab 2016 Le Prix Alain Louvier Internationale Ferienkurse Darmstadt Lisp 2018 Boulogne-Billancourt, France (Darmstadt, DE) Matlab Python 2013 Pre-art Competition for Composers Composition and Sound Experimentation Wekinator 2018 shared 2nd prize, Zurich, Switzerland Workshop (Barcelona, ES) www.db-vincze.com

SELECTED WORKS AND PUBLICATIONS († denotes a premiere)

SOLO WORKS AND DUOS ORCHESTRA

Take your time…hurry-up! (2015-2019) 15' darkroom (2019) 10‘ for bass flute and electronics (written for Carla Rees) for percussion, string orchestra and electronics 30.09.2015 The Forge, Londres, UK† (written for No Borders Orchestra) 06.11.2015 Glazbena tribina, Opatija (CRO) 28.07.2019 Pomorski Muzej, (MNE) † 13.04.2016 Espace des Arts sans Frontières, Paris (FR) 30.07.2019 Kulturni Centar, Prizren (RKS) 19.04.2019 Villa Aurora, Los Angeles (USA) 01.08.2019 Sloga, (BiH) 16.10.2019 La Friche, Marseille (FR) 19.09.2019 Meribor Festival, Maribor (SLO) 20.09.2019 Lauba, Zagreb (CRO) Pushmi-Pullyu (2015) 12‘ 22.09.2019 Drugstore, Beograd (SRB) for 2 electric guitars and electronics (written for AAA --- AAA) 22.09.2019 Berghain, (DE) 04.12.2015 Lachenmann Symposium, Stuttgart (DE) † Laibach Concerto (2017) 20' Copy/Paste (2015) 9' for marimba, percussion, string orchestra and electronics (to my mother) for 2 accordions (written for Krasimir Sterev) 30.05.2017 Narodna Galerija, (SLO) † 25.06.2015 École Alsacienne, Paris (FR) † 10.11.2018 Hotel Kvarner, Opatija (CRO) 08.08.2015 Musique Del Monts, Villelongue-del-Monts (FR) Beasts (2016) 10‘ Atargatis (2012) 8' for chamber orchestra (written for Secession Orchestra) for violin and viola (written for Ensemble Recherche) 14.02.2017 Radio France, Paris (FR) † 10.09.2012 Voic Nouvelles, Royaumont (FR) † 13.05.2016 Hombroich Inselfestival, Düsseldorf (DE) Plagiat (2015) 20' for mixed ensemble (written for Klangforum Wien) Bêtes de sexe (2013) 8‘ 13.02.2015 Helmut List Halle, Graz (AUT) for tuba and electronics (written for Tancrède Cymermann) 13.04.2013 IRCAM, Paris (FR) † 30.06.2014 Cité des Arts, Paris (FR) 06.11.2015 Glazbena tribina, Opatija (CRO) INSTALLATIONS

6 miniatures pour femmes au foyer désespérées (2016) 10‘ Strune (2018) for piano and tape (written for Maria Skender) Audio-visual installation inspired by the string theory 30.06.2016 Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, (DE) † 01.2018 Studenski Centar Zagreb (CRO) † 02.05.2017 Reital Hall, Séoul (KOR) 08.2018 MKC, Split (CRO) 29.05.2017 Budo Tomović, Podgorica (MNE) 19.05.2019 Center for New Music, San Francisco (USA) Strune dissected (2019) Public presentation of artistic research based on the installation "Strune“ 07.2018 Internationale Ferienkurse Darmstadt (DE)

SMALL ENSEMBLE

Inflection point (2011/2012) 12' PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS for mixed ensemble and electronics (dedicated to of Fukushima incident) 26.02.2012 Music University, Stuttgart, (DE) † 2020 Vincze, D. B., Hiršl, H., & Abel, J. Strune: An interactive audio-vi 15.12.2012 Ensemble Modern composition studio, Frankfurt (DE) sual installation inspired by the String Theory. Paper presentation 18.04.2015 The Kitchen, New York, USA at 17th Sound and Music Computing Conference, Torino (IT) 03.09.2015 Ars Electronica, Linz (AUT) 2019 Strune Break-up/Make up/Break-up (2013) 5' EUREKA! Musical Minds of California 3rd biennial conference for flute, oboe, piano, violoncello and contrabass (written for Pre-Art) CSU East Bay, CA (USA) 23.10.2013 Gare du Nord, Basel, (CH) † Public presentation of artistic research based on the "Strune“ 27.04.2017 Hrvatski Glazbeni Zavod, Zagreb (CRO) 2018 Strune Dissected Fanfare (2019) 10' for brass sextet and tape 13.04.2019 Lauba, Zagreb (CRO) † MEDIA (selection) Tomorrow is the past of some distant future (2018) 13‘ for mixed ensemble, narrator and electronics (written for Proton Bern) 2021 Portrait CD on label KAIROS (in progress) 10.03.2018 EPC, Stanford (USA) † 2020 ‚Music & Vice Versa‘ a Portrait cycle at Croatian National Radio 3 E (2015) 8‘ 6. 13. & 20. of March 2020 for 3 voices and harpsichord (dedicated to victimes of Charlie Hebdo) „Copy/Paste“ published on CD „ON-OFF“ on label INITIALE by 20.04.2015 Mimara, Zagreb (CRO) † Duo Xamp 21.04.2018 Akademir der Künste, Berlin (DE) 2019 Composer OverTime. Interview by Andrew Watts and Nick Virzi for KZSU 90.1 FM (USA), 02.01.2019 & 01.25.2019

2017 Izlog Sadašnjice & Putovi hrvatske glazbe - interviews with SCORES PUBLISHED BY MAISON ONA Croatian National Radio 3 on 10.06. - 12.06. & 29.11.

2014 „Break-up/Make up/Break-up“ published on CD „Processions“ by pre-Art Soloists

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TEACHING AND INSTRUCTIONS Summer 2020 Instructor with Andrea Agostini, programer of 09.2017 – 12.2017 Teaching Assistant to Erika Arul BACH plugin for Max/MSP at CCRMA (Stanford University, USA) (Stanford University, USA) „MUSIC 24A: Ear Training I“ „BACH for Max/MSP“, curriculum invented by the Andrea Agostini and Davor Vincze Basic and intermediate level of understanding music notation, reading and singing from the score, BACH is a very useful tool within Max/MSP for knowledge about scales, chords, harmonic function creative work with algorithms such as Markov and primary building blocks of western tonal music. chains, fractal structures, iterative processes, etc. In charge of grading, teaching one out of three This course is intended for intermediate to weekly sessions as well as consultations. professional level composers who want to formalize and expand their work flow by incorporating algorithms into their daily compositional praxis. 10.2014 – 06.2012 Teacher Ecole Alsacienne, Paris, France „Chamber Music“ Instructor for free online course on Max for electronics music that I created for a communicty of composers from former . 05.2010 – 08.2012 Instructor Modern Music Center, Vahingen, Winter 2020 & Teaching Assistant to Erik Ulman „Piano and Keyboard“ Autumn2018 (Stanford University, US) „MUSIC 122B: Analysis of Tonal Music“ 2009 – 2015 Private Teaching Lessons Analysis of and theoretical approaches to works of Music: solfeggio, harmony, piano the 18th and 19th centuries. Languages: English, German, Croatian and Latin In charge of grading and teaching one out of three in Graz (AUT), Stuttgart (DE), Paris (FR) weekly sessions.

01.2019 – 03.2019 Teaching Assistant to Giancarlo Aquilanti (Stanford University, USA) LECTURES „MUSIC 22: Elements of Music II“ 11. 2019 Guest Lectures Introduction to chromatic harmony focusing on Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (USA) secondary functions, modulations, harmonic sequences, mode mixture, and the Neapolitan, and augmented sixth chords. Analysis of musical forms 04.2019 Guest Lectures and harmonizations complemented by harmonic University of Chicago, IL, USA and melodic dictation, sight singing, and other Cal Poly University, Pomona, CA (USA) practical skills. In charge of grading and consultations. 11.2017 Guest Lectures University of California, San Diego, CA (USA) University of California, Berkeley, CA (USA) 09.2018 – 12.2018 Teaching Assistant to Erik Ulman (Stanford University, USA) „MUSIC 122C: Introduction to 20th-Century Composition“ 08.2017 Guest Lecture Media Mediterranea Festival, Pula (CRO) Contemporary works, with emphasis on music since 1945. Projects in free composition based on 20th-century models. 08.2017 Guest Instructor In charge of grading. Novalis Festival, Zadar (CRO)

04.2018 – 07.2018 Teaching Assistant to Jonathan Berger 05.2015 Guest Lectures University of Music, Zagreb (CRO) (Stanford University, USA) „MUSIC 251: Psychophysics and Music Cognition“ University of Music, Osijek (CRO)

Lecture, lab and experiment-based course in perception, psy-choacoustics, cognition, and 2011 – 2012 Guest Lecturer neuroscience of music. University of Architecture, Zagreb (CRO) In charge of afterhour assistence and consultations. Held a series of lectures, teaching about compositi on, structure, score vs. ground plan, timbre vs. color, sound in space, pointing out analogies Summers 2017-20 Instructor with Andrew Watts CCRMA (Stanford University, USA) between composition and architecture „Algorithmic Composition with Max/MSP and Open Music“, curriculum invented by Davor Vincze and Andrew Watts

Teaching in smaller groups of students focused on understanding the principles of computer assisted composition, with a short electro-acoustical etude as a final goal of this course.

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