June 12, 2025 | 8:30 PM
06/25
Ansambl Synchronos
Co-funded by the City of Zagreb and the Croatian Composers’ Society (HDS)
In the new edition of the concert series Architecture and Music, produced in collaboration with the Synchronos ensemble, as part of the Creative Hour program, we explore the historical, technical, and aesthetic parallels between these two media. The focus is on the music of the 20th and 21st centuries and its ability to redefine acoustics and spatial perception, with the architecture of Urania becoming an active participant in the performance.
Structure, proportion, dynamics, and rhythm are just some of the shared languages of architectural and musical creation. As Daniel Libeskind once wrote, architecture and music are “historical partners and occasional rivals.” This evening, through the performance of contemporary compositions, poses a concrete question: Can space become a score, and can sound be spatially articulated?
The repertoire includes works that conceptually and technically embody this connection:
Performers from the Synchronos Ensemble:
Through the deconstruction of formal constraints of the traditional concert experience, Synchronos challenges the act of listening, placing the audience in the role of acoustic witnesses to the architectural space. The project also opens questions about the relationship between performance, sound, and the context of the space in which the event takes place. The acoustics of Urania become an instrument in the hands of the performers, while the architectural organization of the space reflects and complements the dynamic shifts of the musical performance.
Let us recall that the conceptual connections between music and architecture date back to Pythagorean theories of harmony, Renaissance treatises on proportion, and modern digital design strategies that integrate algorithmic and modular methods. Composers such as Iannis Xenakis, both architect and composer, radically fused the two media through structural and mathematical approaches – a practice that ensembles like Synchronos continue through performance.
In his introductory remarks, composer Marko Slaviček will reflect on the historical and contemporary relationships between these two art forms and introduce the audience to the specifics of creating music inspired by architectural principles.
This event brings together architects, composers, spatial theorists, and lovers of experimental music in a discursive-musical experience that blurs the boundaries between sound and space.
Seats are limited, so please reserve your place here. Admission by donation: €10.
This program is co-financed by the City of Zagreb, Croatian Composers' Society (HDS), and the Maksimir Cultural Centre.
ZvUQ (Zagreb Unlimited Quintet)
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Teresa Fankhänel
Jana Čulek
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Andrea Šarić
Dora Bilandžić
Ema Božek
Dina Milovčić
Franka Tretinjak
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ZvUQ (Zagreb Unlimited Quintet)
Renata Penezić
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Sven Sorić
Maša Poljanec
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Dubravka Vranić, PhD
Andrija Mutnjaković, Member of the Academy
Prof. Branko Kincl, Member of the Academy
Prof. Krešimir Ivaniš
Ivona Jerković
Prof. Valentina Gulin Zrnić, PhD
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Marin Mikelić
Tomislav Vreš
Anđela Karabašević
Vladislav Sudžum
Marina Lazović
Predrag Ignjatović
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Damir Mance
Tomislav Stašić
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Katarina Ivanišin
Iva Ivas
Ivan Mostahinić
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Nikola Radeljković
Krešimir Borošak
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Ansambl Synchronos
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ZvUQ (Zagreb Unlimited Quintet)
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Urikač
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Milan Stefanović
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ZvUQ (Zagreb Unlimited Quintet)
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Ana Šverko, PhD
Damir Gamulin
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Anita Krmek
Jelena Babić
Marja Mia Kolendić
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Mate Picukarić - Maali
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Nenad Vukušić
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Joanna Swiderska
Renata Zorić
Jeffrey Huyghe
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