'HOW I BECAME A COMPOSER': AN INTERVIEW WITH VINKO GLOBOKAR. (3rd January 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Goldman, Jonathan
• Is Part Of: Tempo. Volume 68:Number 267(2014)
• Page Start: 22
• Page End: 28
• Publication Date: 2014-01-03
• Subjects: Music -- Periodicals; Music -- 20th century -- Periodicals; Music -- 21st century -- Periodicals; 780.78
• DOI: 10.1017/S0040298213001307
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0040-2982

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="normal"> <title>Abstract</title> <p>This article is an interview with the Franco-Slovenian composer, conductor and trombonist Vinko Globokar, translated, edited and introduced by the author. It offers an overview of Globokar's musical development and a consideration of his artistic position, which straddles the worlds of composition and improvisation. Globokar's music combines complex organisation with an interest in non-hierarchical and improvisatory elements. He has always refused to pit the avant-garde claims of contemporary music against those of free jazz, his music embracing aspects of both, as well as of traditional Balkan musics. His genre-defying approach remains better known in continental Europe than in the UK or North America, and the present text is a contribution to the limited bibliography on Globokar in English.</p> </abstract>