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With his unique way of composing, Borut Krzisnik integrates live playing and music software on computer platform, and breaks free from confines of specific methodologies. Intensity, diversity and exciting changes are the main characteristics of his music. The key moment in his musical stories is not only emphasising contrasts but rather building bridges between them. Confronting the differences till they dance or burn together. Avant-garde or popular, tonality or atonality, genre or non-genre, underground or academic - these are the extremes between which he moves easily. Using a polyglot musical language the composer weaves a thread through all these contrasts and introduces them to us with inspiring optimism.

 
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UTOPIA (Claudio Records, 2024)

Utopia is impossible - but it is necessary. We have to challenge reality with an abstract vision, because that's the only way we can truly understand it and change it accordingly. However, these abstractions are not just fantasy ideas about an ideal society where abundance and harmony reign – they are also our human values, desires and ambitions, which cannot be fully fulfilled as well. In real world, there is no such thing as an ideal human, absolute ethics or definitive desires. Yet, it is precisely these new values that outgrow the state of affairs and try to change it, these projections of abstract concepts into the chaotic real world, that are an indicator of our human condition and our capacity to manage the development of society with the power of our own will.

 
             
 

  Dancing Machine  

DANCING MACHINE (Claudio Records, 2020)

Once the cold code has established universal order and all questions have disappeared, we may break away and step out of line. We may take a deep breath. What we will see are the ever-changing contours of freedom. Our precious illusions. Our appealing flaws. Our ignorance that creates wonders. Wherever one looks, there are new territories. The wild landscape where everything is possible and where is no day or night.

 

 

 
             
 

Breakthrough

Rules of Disorder

Unrest

Memory Prism pt#3

Crack in the Sky

  Lighntning  

LIGHTNING (Claudio Records, 2013)

LIGHTNING is not just a natural phenomena - it is a social one as well. It shows us most clearly how things work, and that is by principle of force. Not by consensus but by mere power. We see sparks everywhere: from atoms, microscopic sparks in synapses in our brain to social unrests and revolution. Is lightning a fight between the opposites, or rather a bridge between the two? Forces derived from differences drive a perpetual cycle of building and destruction, destruction and building. Are we just its fertilizer or can we controll our destructiveness? Can we command the lightning? How far can we go with our will?

 
             
 

  Valse Brutal  

VALSE BRUTAL (KUD France Preseren, 2009)

When a journalist, who had spent most of his career reporting from war time zones, was asked what his major experience from these places was, he answered it was getting rid of a big illusion. He has always travelled to his destinations with an indistinct notion that the situation would soon improve, that it was only a matter of time before the belligerent parties would realize the nonsensicality of their actions, or that everything must have been a consequence of a terrible misunderstanding... On the contrary. What he found out was that people simply don't want to stop the violence. Indeed - violence and wars were nothing but the everyday matters, like going to the grocery store or paying electricity bills.

 
             
  Love Song No2   Sacre_du_Temps  

Album SACRE DU TEMPS (Claudio Records, 2013) contains music for the dance performance choreographed by Edward Clug. Album has been originally released by Station Zuid in 2007. This is probably the most daring, energetic and sparkling performance by Clug so far. It's impossible to think of a phenomena more all-embracing then time itself, and at the same time so incomprehensible and uncatchable. Along the same line, dance and music are covering the same broad and slippery field, where time appears different with regard to who experiences it and what are all other events and circumstances that accompany it.

 
             
 

  A Life in Suitcases  

This is music for the film A LIFE IN SUITCASES directed by Peter Greenaway (Claudio Records, 2013, originally released by First Name Soundtracks, 2005). The album also covers the music for three other films which constitute The Tulse Luper Suitcases trilogy: The Moab Story (2003), Vaux to the See (2004) and From Sark to Finish (2005). They were screened at film festivals in Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Toronto, Montreal, Tribeca, Hong Kong etc.

 

 
             
 

  Stories_from_Magatrea  

STORIES FROM MAGATREA (Claudio Records, 2014, originally released by Falcata-Galia Recordings, US, in 1997). This work, like his former records, once again surprises us with its evocative pictures, ludistic power and erudite humour. The stories do not relate to any particular event, but refer to the work of Douglas Adams and his description of the most prosperous industry in the history of the mankind - production of whole planets to order. This giant industry has its headquarters on the planet Magatrea and it is run by engineers od human wishes. The stories, of course, take place wherever and whenever. They tell us about the interconnectedness of everyday events and illusiions, of God's mysterious ways, of different beliefs and similar wishes.

 
             
  Transformer   La_Dolce_Vita  

The second album, LA DOLCE VITA (FV, Ljubljana / Discordia, Willich, 1995), further radicalized the original objective. He concieved it and recorded it with DATA DIRECT, a group that unites Slovene, Italian and Yugoslav musicians, some of which already appeared on the album "Currents of Time". The musicians of DATA DIRECT stem from various musical areas: symphonic orchestra, ethereal folk music of the Balkans, techno, improvised muisic, "avant-garde rock"... Such surprising mixture of different approaches produces new meanings, fusing alternating musical relationships into intriguing and amply structured compositions.

Or as it says on the album cover: "The most thrilling thing is to discover and rediscover the shape and structure of chaos." 

 
             
      Currents_of_Time  

Album CURRENTS OF TIME (Recommended Records, London, 1991; re-release: Tone Casualties, Hollywood, 1998, Claudio Records, 2012), set the foundation of his characteristic style. It features many musicians who found the common ground in exploration of uncharted territories of contemporary eclectic music and surpassing any precise definition of genre. Liberated from the narrow confines of a specific methodology, and using a great variety of instruments and sensibilities, he is able to stress the diverse aspects of music and take us to strong, almost visual expierences. 

 
 
                MUSIC FOR DANCE, FILM AND THEATRE (selected works):
 
 
Catch
 

- Sacre du Temps – music for contemporary dance, choreography: Edward Clug, Station Zuid, 2007

 
Catch

- Catch – music for contemporary dance, choreography: Ana Lujan Sanchez, Phoenix Dance Theatre, Leeds, 2012

 
 
Catch
 

- Camillo – music for theatre performance, directed by Emil Hrvatin, Picollo Teatro, 1998

 
Songs for

- Songs for the mating season (Hommage a Stravinsky) – music for contemporary dance, choreography: Edward Clug, SNG Maribor, 2012

 
 
Catch
 

- Drive in Camillo – music for theatre performance, directed by Emil Hrvatin, Maska, 2000

 
Merry Metronomes

- Take Your Pleassure Seriously – music for contemporary dance, choreography: Katarzyna Kosielska, Stuttgart Ballet, 2018

 
 
Divine Comedy
 

- Divine Comedy – music for contemporary dance, choreography: Edward Clug, Bitef teatar in Budva grad teatar, 2011

 
Merry Metronomes

- The Merry Metronomes – music for contemporary dance, choreography: Gyula Berger, Zero Balet, Budimpešta, 2010

 
 
Korona
 

- Korona – music for contemporary dance, choreography: Virpi Pahkinen, Finish National Opera and Ballet, Helsinki, 2011

 
Skitzen

- Skizen –music for contemporary dance, choreography: Edward Clug, Opera Ballet Graz, 2010

 
 
Glitch
 

- Glitch – music for contemporary dance, choreography: Thomas Noone, Thomas Noone Dance, Barcelona, 2010

 
Woman Who Speaks Inceassantly

- Fill in the Blanks – music for dance performance, choreography: Maya Orchin, Stefanie Nelson Gropup, 2023

 
 
Nietzsche Contra Wagner
 

- Metamorphosis – music for dance/theater performance, directed by Isabelle Kralj and Mark Anderson, Theatre Gigante, Milwaukee, 2018

 
Woman Who Speaks Inceassantly

- Woman Who Speaks Inceassantly – music for theatre performance, directed by Emil Hrvatin, Inart, 1993

 
 
Nietzsche Contra Wagner
 

- Lightning – music for dance performance, choreography: Felice Lesser Dance Company, New York, 2017

 
Anchorpectoris

- Anchorpectoris – music for theatre performance, directed by Gerald Thomas, LaMaMa, 2004

 
 
Nietzsche Contra Wagner
 

- Nietzsche Contra Wagner – music for theatre performance, directed by Gerald Thomas, SESC, 2000

 
Les Oiseaux

- Les Oiseaux– music for contemporary dance, choreography: Josh Beamish, Universitiy of Missouri, Kansas City, 2010

 
 
A_Life_in_Suitcases
 

- A Life in Suitcases – music for feature film, directed by Peter Greenaway, Kasanderfilm, 2005

 
Map to Paradise

- Map to Paradise – music for instalation, directed by Peter Greenaway, Museum, 2000

 
 
Glitch
 

- Tulse Luper SuitcasesThe Moab Story - music for feature film, directed by Peter Greenaway, Kasanderfilm, 2003

 
Glitch

- Tulse Luper SuitcasesVaux to the Sea - music for feature film, directed by Peter Greenaway, Kasanderfilm, 2004

 
 
Catch
 

- Greenaway Alphabet –- music for feature film, directed by Saskia Bodekke, BEELD/NTR, 2017

 
Catch

- Trap Ist – music for dance performance, choreography: Felice Lesser, Felice Lesser Dance Company, New York, 2023

 
 
Glitch
 

- Impressions of the Big City – music for documentary film, directed by Amir Muratovic, RTS, 2009

 
Glitch

- Reitdiep Journeys – music for documentary film, directed by Peter Greenaway, Dutch TV, 2001

 
 
Glitch
 

- Family Album – music for documentary film, directed by Nishtha Jain, Raintree films, 2011

 
Glitch

- Landscape No2 – music for feature film, directed by Vinko Moderndorfer, Forum Ljubljana, 2008

 
 
Catch
 

-Fabiani Plecnik – music for documentary film, directed by Amir Muratovic, RTS, 2008

 
Catch

- Paper Prinz – music for feature film, directed by Marko Kostic, Luksfilm, 2008

 

 

 

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