Five brief slices of time. Like walking through a gallery, room to room, each space’s contents a sudden, chaotic-yet-coherent blurt, a demanding but untranslated message, waiting for a key… The brevity works. Short, intense, not a moment wasted – carving your attention into new shapes. Each momentary fraction leaves you grasping for more… even if…
The uncompromising Alen Ilijić has featured on a Jazz Noise before (see the series of video clips from his performance at Munich’s Noise Mobility festival in May of this year.) Here he gives us a particularly direct, honest, outspoken (in the best way) and highly intriguing 7 Questions interview… 1. What are your non-musical influences?…
I first stumbled across Alen Ilijić’s work on YouTube (the installation/performance piece, “NOISYGENES”). I have no idea what search term I was using at the time and I’m a little afraid to speculate. Let’s say that as far as artistic vision goes, there’s wasn’t a lot of compromise in evidence! Wikipedia describes Alen Ilijić as…
