Temporality of the Impossible isthe rst publication emerging from a larger, ongoing project of the same name by theSerbian-born, Brussels-based violinist Dejana Sekuli .The project revolvesaround recent music that exploresthe extremity and ambiguity that emergesat the limits of possibility in contemporary violin performance, focusing in particular on repertoire in which the relationship between notation and sound isuncon- ventional, challenging, uncertain, or even confounding, aswell asworksemploying unusual string preparationsand tunings. These are worksthat propose—and at timesdemand—areimagining of the role of the interpreter.
The seven workspresented on thisrecording exemplify the probing, investigative nature of Sekuli ’sproject.These piecesby Clara Iannotta, Rebecca Saunders, Liza Lim, Evan Johnson, Cathy Milliken, Aaron Cassidy, and anewly commissioned work for the project by the iconoclastic Italian composer Dario Buccino, bring the raw, quintessential, fragile, and eeting matter of the violin to the fore, often through novel approachesto the interface between performer, instrument, notation, movement, and sound.With their protean nature, in which the piecesmight sound very di erent from one performance to the next, the function of arecording—which capturesonly one xed instantiation—isitself also problematised.Each recording here isasnapshot of only one possible iteration, communicating aparticular reading, understanding, and energy of asingle moment in time.These recordingsare openings.
Dejana Sekuli isaPhD researcher at the Centre for Research in New Music (CeReNeM) and the Research Centre for Perfor- mancePractices(ReCePP) at the University of Hudders eld.She obtained her bachelor’sdegree at the Faculty of Art University of Niš(Serbia), followed by Mastersstudiesand Post Master specialisation in music at the Royal Conservatory Brussels, and an advanced program for contemporary music lead by ICTUS(Brussels) and Spectra(Gent) ensemblesat theSchool of ArtsGent. She performswidely asasoloist, asthe violinist of LAPSEnsemble, in the violin and piano duo Momitani-Sekulic, and in a violin and live electronicsduo with GillesDoneux.Sekuli ispart of the art and education research collectivePeople Coming from NowHere.She also worksin the eldsof interactive sound installation and multimedia.
