Goran Vejvoda

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Goran Vejvoda
Горан Вејвода
Born1956 (age 67–68)

Goran Vejvoda (Serbian Cyrillic: Горан Вејвода; born in 1956 ) is an English-born Serbian composer,[1] sound and visual artist, performance artist, photographer, writer and actor based in France.

Early life

Son of the Yugoslav diplomat

FPR Yugoslavia's ambassador to the United Kingdom
.

The family relocated to Rome in 1960 when his father was reassigned to be the ambassador in Italy.

In 1967, the family was on the move again, this time to Paris where his father was named as the Yugoslav ambassador to France.

Finally, in 1971 his father took an advisory job at the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry, which meant that 15-year-old Goran came to Belgrade.[2]

Activity

In the early 1980s Vejvoda briefly fronted Annoda Rouge band/project with then-girlfriend

Bebi Dol on vocals, Slobodan Trbojevic on bass and Vd
on drums. The band never released any official material for commercial exploitation.

Later, Vejvoda collaborated on Bebi Dol's solo hit-singles "Mustafa" and "Rudi" as well as her Ruze i krv album.

Vejvoda also worked on the studio recordings of

.

Simultaneously, he wrote for

Električni orgazam
's self-titled debut album.

With Slobodan Cicmil, Vejvoda co-wrote a book about Brian Eno called Zaobilazne strategije (Oblique strategies) published in 1986. Around the same time, Vejvoda ventured into acting - playing the role of Russian painter El Lissitzky in a TV movie Ruski umetnički eksperiment directed by Boris Miljković and Branimir Dimitrijević.

In 1985 Vejvoda moved to Paris where he continued his visual art, musical studio work, composing music for ballet, theatre, film. television, performing etc.

In 1996 he composed the music for

Immortel.[3]

Discography

  • In The Mooncage with
    Suba
    (1986)
  • Oko 3 (Barclay 1992)
  • La Peau du Monde (Fairplay 1993)
  • The Dreambird with
    Suba
    (Comep - Brazil - 1994)
  • Mikroorganizmi with
    Komuna
    1996)
  • Tykho Moon (Makhno 1997)
  • Le sommeil du monstre (Versailles - Sony 1998)
  • Fruit Cloud (Galerie de Pop Co., Ltd - Japan - 1999)
  • Harmonie (Galerie de Pop Co., Ltd - Japan - 2000)
  • Zerone - What (Maat 2003)
  • Immortel (Une musique de film - 2004)
  • Vibrö - The Broken Tales Issue (2004)
  • La chute implique d'autres sens with Claudia Huidobro (Limited edition 2007)
  • A square of silence a circle of sound (Gala Ghenmar - 2007)

References

  1. ^ Kisselgoff, Anna (20 February 2001). "DANCE REVIEW; With Wit and Some Surprises, A Beast Emerges From Within". The New York Times. p. 1. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
  2. ^ "'Angel's Breath': Album kojim je Milan Mladenović želio potvrditi svoj antiratni angažman". NACIONAL.HR (in Croatian). Retrieved 2020-07-02.
  3. ^ O'Shea, Stephen (1997-04-27). "Tykho Moon". Variety. Retrieved 2020-07-02.

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