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Vasja Progar was born in 1986 in Ljubljana (Slovenia), and has been living there ever since. His musical path began in high school, as a self-taught guitar player, and continued by attending a private music school. In 2005 he finished the high school and went on to study Biotechnology at Biotechnical Faculty (Ljubljana). In 2007 he began, in parallel, the study of Composition and Musical Theory on Academy of Music (Ljubljana, Slovenia) in the class of Uros Rojko.

Recently his main focus is on communicating the information that cannot be mediated solely by the means of the logical language neither only by the artistic language. Therefore his performances can take many different forms, usually ranging from the sounds provided by the spectra of acoustical means to electronic and digital transformation and generation of sounds, often including some non-musical elements, since he 'lets the means of serving the information be dictated by the message itself'.

  
 

 
EDUCATION




2010 • Study of interdisciplinary program on Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
2010 • Participation on festival 'matrix10 – Perspectives of Live Electronics', by Experimentalstudio – Academy Freiburg (Germany)
2009 • Erasmus Summer School of New Music, Castelfranco Veneto (Italy)
2007-2010 • Study at the Academy of Music (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
2005-2010 • Study at the Biotechnical Faculty (Ljubljana, Slovenia)








GRANTS, AWARDS




2010-2011 • Grant from Slovenian Ministry of Culture for study abroad




2010 • Grant from SWR (Suedwestrundfunk; Germany) for participation at Matrix '10 festival

• Grant from City of Ljubljana for realization of an interactive installation project

• Grant from Slovenian Ministry of Culture for realization of an intermedial work

• Grant from Slovenian Ministry of Culture for realization of a performance




2008 • Third award at the international competition by APZ Tone Tomšič for arrangement of a folksong (Slovenia)




2001-2010 • Zois' grant for talented students from Republic of Slovenia



 



 
PERFORMANCES (AUTHOR, PERFORMER)
 

 
2010
 • Interactive installation and projection of two audio-visual pieces on festival 'Dobimo se pred Škucem' (Ljubljana, Slovenia)  
  • Original live sound accompaniment of old silent Eureopean avantgarde films at the 'KinoLab' event in Slovenska Kinoteka (Ljubljana, Slovenia)  

• A live audio-visual performance and two original audio-visual projections on the 'Živa književnost 2010' literature festival with Chinese poet Bei Dao, Japanese poet Kazuko Shiraishi in Lebanese poet Youssef Bazzi (Ljubljana, Slovenia)  

• Experimental sound performance and co-author and co-performer of intermedia performance at '25th Slovenian Musical Days' (Ljubljana, Slovenia)  



 
2009 • Co-author of installation 'Who are the Artists?' in MediaNox gallery (Maribor, Slovenia)  

• Experimental sound performance at the 'Arzenal Depo / 2k9' (Ljubljana, Slovenia)  

• Composition performed at the 'Slowind 2009' festival (Ljubljana, Slovenia)  

• Experimental sound performance at the 'XIV Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean - BJCEM 2009' (Skopje, Macedonia)  

• Co-author and co-performer of intermedia performance (Castelfranco Veneto, Italy)  

• Interactive sound performance at the festival 'Živa knjizevnost' with a Spanish poet Ana Merino (Ljubljana, Slovenia)  

• Composition performed at Slovenska filharmonija (Ljubljana, Slovenia)  



 



 
LECTURES, OTHER



 
2010 • Lecture and workshop on an open-source tool for real-time interactive multimedia synthesis (Ljubljana, Slovenia)  

• Lecture and workshop (for children) on electronic music in Škuc gallery (Ljubljana, Slovenia)  

• Technical support and design for an installation by author Špela Petrič in Kapelica gallery (Ljubljana, Slovenia)  



 
2009 • Co-organizer of the festival of sound arts 'Earzoom 2009' (Ljubljana, Slovenia)  

• Founded and led an musical improvisation group, in order to research the principles of different kinds of improvised music (Ljubljana, Slovenia)  

• Author and the chief organizer of 'The Evenings of Contemporary Music' - monthly events for promotion of contemporary music (workshops, concerts, lectures, etc; Ljubljana, Slovenia)  



 



 
SELECTED WORKS



 
2010 • __threshold
(interactive audio-visual installation, dealing with problems of sensory threshold and human inclination toward explaining her or his environment)		  



 
2009
 • sub/Consciousness
(experimental audio-visual interactive performance for a solo performer, dealing with interaction between conscious and subconscious manipulation of sound and video)		  

• Next to Nought
(compostion for woodwind quintet, dealing with different perceptions of silence and its contexts)		  

• Futurismo hurra?..
(intermedia performance for a chamber ensemble, a singer/actor, live electronics and video; co-authors Matej Bonin in Petra Strahovnik)		  



 
2008 • Aj, zelena je vsa gora
(compositon for choir, arrangement of Slovene folk-song)		  



 



 
MEDIA APPEARANCES



 
2010 • Beja B.: Prag.
SiOL.net (net media), 24. july 2010. 		 

• Kultura ob 22h.
TV Slovenija 1 (television), 19. july 2010. 5'		  

• Mladi pred zaprtimi vrati?
Pogledi (part of Delo newspaper), 16. june 2010.		  
  • Cvar N., Tomažin A.: Po filmsko mozaična temna zvezda.
Radio Študent (radio), 14. june 2010. 		 
  • Na Živi književnosti tudi glbt-vsebine.
Narobe - revija, kjer je vse prav (journal), 2. june 2010.		  
  • Opus – 25. Slovenski glasbeni dnevi.
TV Slovenija 1 (television), 26. april 2010. 30'		  

• Pirš G., Turel B.: Arsov Art Atelje – Futurismo hurra.
Radio Slovenija – tretji program 'Ars' (radio), 14. april 2010. 120'		  

• Rojko, U.: Glasbeni dnevnik.
Glasna (journal), april 2010.		  

• Trdan P.: Programska tehtnost razširjenega sporeda.
Dnevnik (newspaper), 24. march 2010.		  

• Krajnc, T.: Slabo stanje sodobne glasbe.
Šouvizija (net-television), 23. march 2010. 4'		  

• Mager I.: Demonskost in božanskost glasbe.
Dnevnik (newspaper), 5. march 2010.		  



 
2009 • STA: Who are the artists? - postavitev petih umetnikov.
SiOL Kultura (net media), 22. december 2009		  

• Arzenal Depo - Octex live @ Studio Viba Film.
Adrenalin (net media), 28. november 2009		  

• Trdan P.: Ionizacija, četrti večer Festivala Slowind.
UHO 535B (blog), 16. october 2009		  

• Rojc A.: 11. Festival Slowind 2009: Varese prej in potem!!!
Radio Študent (radio), 15. october 2009		  

• Cvjetičanin D.: Zdi se, kot da bi prišel od nikoder.
Dnevnik (newspaper), 8. october 2009		  

• Istenič V.: Mladi virtuozi: Vasja Progar.
Radio Slovenija – tretji program 'Ars' (radio), october 2009. 30'		  

• Skopje po ohridski tragediji spet zaživelo.
24ur.com (net media), 7. september 2009		  

• Mrevlje N.: Bienale mladih ustvarjalcev v makedonski prestolnici.
Dobro jutro (newspaper), 4. september 2009		  

• Revolver – Mladi bienalci.
Mladina 34/2009 (newspaper), Mladina 34/2009		  

• A. J.: Skopje bo deset dni vrelišče mlade umetnosti.
MMC RTV SLO (net media), 3. september 2009		  

• STA: Introvertirana dela mladih slovenskih umetnikov na bienalu Evrope in Sredozemlja v Skopju.
STA (press agency), 28. august 2009		  

• pim: Prepletanje besede in glasbe.
Dnevnik (newspaper), 12. june 2009		  

• Slovenska ljudska pesem v zborovski izvedbi.
MMC RTV SLO (net media), 13. january 2009