Marjan Šijanec was born on April 2nd 1950 in Maribor, Slovenia. He graduated Composition in 1978 at University in Ljubljana, Academy for Music, Department of Composition. Later he followed a specialist course in electronic music in electronic studio at Radio Belgrade and computer programming (C - language and UNIX system at the Institute for Nuclear Physics in Vinča). Šijanec's compositions could be described as post-modern, belonging to the »information era«. Composer among the beginners of the computer music on the territory of former Yugoslavia. He developed special algorhytmical music and is an author of the unique technique in composition which is based on integral serialism of magic squares. Šijanec realises his projects both in Slovenia and abroad (International Festival of Contemporary Music - MBZ, Zagreb; Bemus, Belgrade; Annual Review of Yugoslav Music, Opatija (1984 - 1990); Festival of Experimental Music, Bourges, France; Slovene Days of Music, Ljubljana; Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria ...). He has received numerous accolades for his work.
Major works are VENUS ORCHESTRA, MIRAGE SIMPHONY, CHAMBER MUSIC FOR STRINGS, PICTURE (for mixed choir and percussion), LEAVES FALLING MAKE TREES INVISIBLE (electroacoustic), THE DANCE OF GLASS BALLERINAS (for 7 x 7 glasses and computer), OSTINATO III, RANDOM TOCCATA, FLAUTIADA (for flute and computer), WATER DANCE, PARALLEL WORLDS (for piano and computer), MUSIC OF COSMIC MODELS (SATURNALIAS, KHESED, FIRE MUSIC, SOLE, VENUS ORCHESTRA, URIEL, LUMINA). Šijanec's works were published by Editions DSS (Composer's Fellowship of Slovenia - Ljubljana) and UKS (Composers Fellowship of Serbia - Belgrade).
Venus orchestra (for digital samples of symphonic orchestra and computer)
It's rain (for eight performers)
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To write about what music means to me is a rather difficult and thankless task. Why? Firstly, because a composer creates music that is part of his innermost being, such as he is: incomplete, changing, allert or absent-minded, sometimes avant-garde, then traditional again, wishing to please or uncommucative narcisistic or far too modest ... in short, music is an integral part of personal character. Secondly, because the image of music is ever-changing, is unique at a certain point in time, quotidian in the willful organization of sound, imperceptible within the immensity of sound that surrounds us in space and time, and a the same time unrepeatable or so close to silence. Thridly, because music and sound can represent an integral part of the overall contents of spirituality, which gains – within the given equations of apparently differing contents – an absolute postulate of the Divine.
Composers' Traces from 1900 Onwards
author: Črt Sojar Voglar
Publish by Society of Slovenian Composers, 2005
ISBN 961-91080-2-7