The title of the composition, Approaching, is meant to symbolize the fact that it was played during the Advent season... Arsenije Jovanovič is one of those few contemporary artists who quite radically refuse to talk about their work in any way other than through the sounds themselves. In reading his texts and words, we wind our way through a maze of images, seeing things differently, things we hadn't heard before... listening to Jovanovič's compositions for a second, third, tenth time makes us think of abstract paintings on oversized canvases - the kind of paintings that cannot be taken in by a single gaze, but offer several ways of seeing them, always from a slightly different angle.
Audio image - this is a term I often hear from the lips of Arsenije Jovanovič. When listening to Approaching, we find ourselves in a strange audio landscape, one that is vaguely familiar but nevertheless difficult to identify with certainty... is it an imprint of an abstract image onto an audio matrix? Is it a kind of "audio calling card" left by an artist for whom sound is the most natural form of communication?
Approaching is a quiet composition, soothing, encouraging us to relax and to collect our thoughts... I am glad that this composition could be played as part of Radioateliér's PremEdice during the Advent season, and I am glad that Arsenije Jovanovič has found a place within the growing Czech radio art community...
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