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Resava Cave

by Arsenije Jovanovic

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Composed in 1977
The cave of Resava represents a space whose therapeutical silence has enabled me to hear some sounds again, with the ears of a child. Such regeneration is not possible in the studio where the walls are artificial, where the air is artificial, where silence is artificial too. There, it is the synthetic sound that rules ... sound pollution ...
And then, childhood ... the roots of everything are there ... as a child I used to play in the caves of my native Gornja Resava, round the walls of the monastery Manasija ... a miracle settled in me and it is death only that will drive it out of me ...
Everybody has his own cave ...
The Cave was my first rather serious attempt to build a sound, dramatic, musical construction in natural acoustical conditions, with liberated human voice and authentic sounds produced by stalactites and stalagmites.
The Cave represents an experience which should reassert the conviction that musical professionalism does not mean an exclusive privilege to deal with the sound, not to say musical research. If we accept as a fact that every sensitive human being hides in himself a riddle, a biological one, which means an indestructible crave for music and sound, why not get more involved with this precious and unexploited energy ? In our search for energy let us turn towards the energies of human spirit.
The majority of performers in The Cave does not belong to the professional world of music. On the contrary, it is the professionalism of the professionals that jeopardized a free game with the sound. This means that they were faced with an additional problem : to reject the knowledge of music as a superflous burden in order to be able to walk easier along the paths of unknown and hidden reservation of the spontaneous and sub-conscious, in the direction where lies the source of all streams of spiritual creation.
( excerpt from "Sound Anthology II, radio drama, Lauréats du Prix Italia", Interview released by Neda Depolo, Milano, September 1978 )
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