Vuk Uskokovic

Salutes friend!Take a glimpse into the style and nature of my musical works from the beginning of this century. You may perceive an entwinement of preconceived, rhythmical streams of harmonies and unrepeatable, improvisational threads of notes. Such a structure of these compositions reflects a broader philosophy of life, related to the cultivation of the balance between logic, discipline and rigorous analytic approaches on one side and irrevocable, spontaneous and improvisational on the other. By learning how to achieve and maintain this balance, we may have the chance to overcome both the whirlpools of absurdness and meaninglessness that distinguish a large part of today's artistic world-views and the rigidness and inertness of the attitudes based on pure intellectual discipline, preconceptions and experiential tightness. Maybe the future days would bring forth a rise in the propagation of these balances and their musical reflections, so that what today sounds as 'experimental' would be one day accepted as 'mainstream'.It was also not the superficial dressing of the prime sounds, but the generation of an inspiring flow of harmonies that constituted the basic creative impulse that underlies the creation of this music, which presents another reflection of the ideal of balancing precise and ordered on one side and natural on the other. This is why instead of being permeated and guided by perfectly clear sounds, computerized metronomes and inhuman beats, certain dustiness and hum present an inherent aspect of the whole artwork. This is simply another reflection of a belief that angelic sounds that intertwine heavenly sadness and shining joy appear beautiful through the cultivated harmony between clarity, purity and grace on one side, and the sense of uncertainty, unsteadiness and wondering on the other.Apart from this short introduction, let the music - as the most comprehensive form of art in general - speak herein for itself, and offer you its subtle charms, waves of inspiration and traces of beauty. May you enjoy!