shut up and listen! 2025
PAST_20 → NEXT_∞
Friday, October 17, 2025 @ echoraum, 9:30 PM
metacounterpoint
Performance
with Damjan Jovičin (concept, piano, percussion) | Damjan Marković (electric guitar, percussion) | Aleksandar Jakovljević (bass guitar, percussion)
metacounterpoint – Performance
Metacounterpoint is a performance result of studying various music sequences. In this trio format artists played bass, piano, guitar, gamelan, kolintang and other percussion instruments and studied different sequences in music, deconstructing their rhythm, melody and basic elements in order to master and develop structure in a more personal way. The urge to understand the encoded counterpoint in the Indonesian, African and funk music made this ensemble learn through repetition and deconstruction, so that the complex counterpointal action starts to reflect in the corporeal and body automatisms.
Damjan Jovičin
Damjan Jovičin is a composer from Belgrade who works with a wide range of genres and peculiar art combinations from rudimentary traditional Balkan polyphonic singing, Javanese gamelan and kolintang from Sulawesi, through alternative rock and jazz, over free improvisation, all the way to classical symphony orchestra. He also creates music for movies and theatre, art happenings and multimedia artwork. Damjan holds a doctorate in music composition from Faculty of music in Belgrade. One of his missions is to complement the depths of traditional music with erudition of contemporary classical music and reverse: to bring the concept of freedom he perceives in traditional music to other genres. In any way different backgrounds can impact the new music he is making, he lets them do so, and observe the alchemy that emerges. Damjan has the strong urge to have an experience for himself and the audience, to make everyone immersed in music.
Damjan Marković
Damjan Marković is a multimedia artist specialising in music, digital photography, poetry and video. Under various pseudonyms (most commonly Damien Marksson) and as a member of various groups, he has digitally self-released a barrage of albums as part of the online label GWB ©orpo®ation Nation. Of particular note is the album “Arcanum Amarna Late at Night” released in 2021 by Italian label Pampsychia. Additionally, he has performed in Reggae, Kolintang, Gamelan and Classical music ensembles. His visual work can be seen on his personally curated instagram account @cccydenizen. Additionally, Damjan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. His current work up to this point reflects this at a subtle level. In the near future he aspires to integrate his knowledge of technology even further into his oeuvre.
Aleksandar Jakovljević
Aleksandar Jakovljević is a composer and performer whose work is characterized by a distinctly idiosyncratic musical language. His recent performances have focused on Indonesian musical traditions, particularly as a member of Gamelan and Kolintang ensembles. His diverse artistic background encompasses extensive work as a bassist in the Belgrade and Pančevo music scenes, as well as a tenure as DJ at Radio Pančevo. Jakovljević has also contributed to the visual arts sector through video and animation editing for Serbian national television’s sports programming and sound design for numerous art exhibitions. Beyond his musical and media work, he has distinguished himself as an accomplished wildlife photographer, with a particular focus on ornithological subjects.