Manos Cangaris, president of the Berlin Academy of Arts, composer, poet and drummer

29.April 2026 Ivan Milenković, Jovana Đurđić

Vitamins of the future

If, for example, I decide to write a stupid, small, hermetic poem that no one understands, it is necessary and had to be written. That song won't kill anyone. It is the opposite of what is happening in the world. But artists, as members of human societies, are responsible like everyone else. Everyone must have a relationship both to the concrete political situation and to the underlying political situation, but that relationship must not be a prison for the artist.

Inner voice

21.May 2025. Aleksandar Dimitrijevic

May = Mozart

Imagine that you wrote 41 symphonies, 27 piano concertos, 22 operas, countless works of chamber and church music, concertos for violin, horn, clarinet, trumpet, flute, flute and harp, oboe, bassoon... And all this takes place in poverty, between tours, teaching, fights with censors and a stormy private life, of which marriage and parenthood are only one part. And it all happened in only thirty-five years

Interview: Gavin Bryers, Composer

25.September 2024. Zorica Kojić and Dragan Ambrozić

Don't try to define pataphysics

"John Cage was probably the biggest influence on me back in the day and I have to say that I still feel his influence - although not in the way that my music sounds. Cage's greatness lies precisely in the fact that none of those who studied with him ever wrote music that sounded like his."

In memoriam: Zoran Erić (1950 -2024)

21.January 2024. Nebojsa Bradić

Zoran Eric, the biggest

Zoran Erić, a composer, professor of the Faculty of Music, selector of Bemus, author of music for numerous films and theater plays, passed away today. We publish the memory of Nebojša Bradić, theater director, on the occasion of the latest of their 15 collaborations