KRAK Center for contemporary culture (Hamze Hume Street bb, Bihać)
Concert: Friday, 27 December 2024 at 8 pm

Edi Dupanović is a musician exploring the possibilities of sound expression, navigating through genres and styles in search of the ultimate artistic experience. He works with electro-acoustic music based on digital technological possibilities, enriched with conventional instruments such as guitars, drums, percussion, etc. His latest musical projects have emerged on the wave of experimental nu jazz noise.

Edi Dupanović uses protocols of digital and analog hardware that encompass a wide range of performance and recording of traditional Indian, Turkish, African, and other similar acoustic elements, as well as sampling and remixing digital instruments. The process continues with coloring through effects and the creation of a sort of second dimension. His compositions are voluminous and saturated with carefully selected sounds and melodies, yet they are marked by broken rhythms and metric discontinuity. They sound like the soundtrack of some distant yet well-imagined adventures. Dupanović likes to describe his work as an "organic version of electronic music".

After several years of activity within the band Nude Save the Nature and three released albums (Live concert Klub Močvara, Zagreb 2017; Još jedan experimentalni film, 2020; and the track Laž with the guest guitarist Amir Husak, 2021), Dupanović would say that he works with music that seeks constant exploration of the sounds themselves; their values and textures. As an artist, he searches for ways to adapt to distorted rhythms, which do not have to be based strictly on drumming elements. Dupanović views his process as creating a cinematic atmosphere created through images of his own or others' lives.

Nearly four decades of performing on the scene with various style experience have made Edi Dupanović a complete artistic personality. Performing in nightclubs in the late 1980s and early 1990s, opening the iconic Bihać place Jazz Club Bihać in the late 1990s and his interest in the work of Eivind Aarset, Bugge Wesseltoft, Erik Truffaz, and others, have defined him as a musician-explorer with a broad genre field.

Edi Dupanović's performance at KRAK is supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation.