The title 'Ashes' and its themes were inspired by David Bowie's song 'Ashes to Ashes', which Vincze first heard at age five.
Composer Biography
Davor Vincze, the composer, grew up in Zagreb, Croatia, during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, an experience that profoundly shaped his artistic identity.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Vincze's music explores the opposition and conflict of organized chaos, from which he extracts gestures and motives that transform and eventually decay into 'ashes and nothingness'.
Composition History
The album's title piece, 'Ashes', was conceived in Hong Kong during a Chinese New Year ceremony at a Taoist temple, where the dense smoke evoked memories of the Yugoslav Wars.
Davor Vincze is inspired by technology, science fiction, and popular culture, which allows him to create complex sound layers that blend new and old, past and present, human and artificial.
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