O događaju
(English below)
Muzički producent Mirza Rahmanović Indigo i audio-vizuelni umjetnik Ben Bending, povodom treće godišnjice Galerije Manifesto, predstavljaju jedinstveni događaj pod nazivom "Photon", koji će biti realiziran u subotu, 13. decembra u 20:30.
"Photon" je nastao spajanjem dvije umjetnosti - umjetnosti zvuka i umjetnosti svjetla, a sa željom autora da publici pruže imerzivno iskustvo i na jedinstven način predstave svoje autorske prakse. Baš poput fotona, koji je istovremeno i čestica i talas, ovaj događaj ima dvostruki karakter – performativni i instalativni.
U prvom samostalnom live act nastupu, Indigo donosi svojevrsnu retrospektivu svoje producentske karijere. I ne, nije riječ o DJ kompilaciji zvučnih zapisa koji su vam od ranije poznati, već o dekonstrukciji i rekonstrukciji fragmenata koji su njegovu autorsku poetiku učinili prepoznatljivom. Koristeći segmente kompozicija nastalih za film i pozorište, onih koje su se našle na studijskom albumu Victoria, ali i onih koje još uvijek nisu objavljane, Indigo predstavlja jedinstven muzički narativ – autorski zreliji i samosvjesniji, stilski radikalniji, izvedbeno eksperimentalniji.
Indigov muzički narativ kroz suradnju s Ben Bendigom dobija i prostornu materijalizaciju. Svjetlosna instalacija, inspirirana Indigovom bliskošću sa muzičkim spektrom cyberpunka, publiku iskustveno uranja u nesvakidašnji prostor u kojem muzika i svjetlo komuniciraju u realnom vremenu. Dok djeluje poput unutrašnjosti servera koji operira cijelim univerzumom, instalacija asocira na distopijski prizor, koji se upravo zahvaljujući muzičkom narativu radije doživljava kao utopijski. Muzičku uvertiru za Indigov live act, donosi upravo Ben Bending.
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O autorima:
Mirza Rahmanović Indigo (Tuzla, 1992.) je muzički producent i DJ. Njegova DJ karijera započela je 2011. godine, a prvi EP “Wan”, u kojem učestvuju Frenkie i popularni srbijanski reper Juice, objavljuje 2015. godine pod etiketom FmJam. Sa reperima Frenkijem i Kontrom producirao je tri zajednička albuma koji su nastali u suradnji s RedBull Studios, a objavljeni pod oznakom Universal Music – „Putanja“ (Berlin, 2016.), “Egzil” (Tokyo, 2017.), te ''20/20'' (Los Angeles, 2019.).
Komponovao je muziku za umjetnički performans njemačkog režisera Branka Šimića pod nazivom „Husinski rudar“ (2020.) Svoj prvi studijski album “Victoria” objavljuje 2021. godine pod etiketom FmJam. Album je fokusiran na kinematografske, elektronske i ambijentalne zvukove, a predstavljen je zajedno sa simfonijskim orkestrom ''Victoria String Orchestra'', te Sarajevskom Filharmonijom kao dio projekta ''Red Bull Symphonic''.
Indigo je sarađivao i sa srbijanskim muzičarom Marčelom na pjesmi "JBG" koja je osvojila nagradu za regionalni singl 2021. godine organizacije "RUNDA" . Kompozitor je muzike za predstave "Kuća", "Umjetnik u gladovanju", "Istina ili Izazov" i “Promjena vremena” u režiji Alena Šimića, te predstave "Podroom" u režiji Ajle Bešić. Indigo je komponovao i muziku za filmove "Svjedok" u režiji Alena Šimića i "Sarajevo Overdrive" u režiji Adnana Hrustemovića, te seriju Jasmile Žbanić "Znam Kako Dišeš”.
Ben Bending (Sarajevo, 1999.) je audio-vizuelni umjetnik čiji rad nastaje na sjecištu zvuka, svjetla i digitalnih tehnologija. U svom interdisciplinarnom pristupu spaja programiranje, 3D vizualizaciju, muzičku produkciju i DJ-ing, čime gradi jedinstven kreativni workflow koji primjenjuje u dizajnu svjetla i audio-vizuelnih performansa.
U potrazi za potpunom kreativnom slobodom, Ben je razvio personalizirani algoritam za procesiranje zvuka, koji u realnom vremenu prepoznaje različite faze muzičke kompozicije. Zahvaljujući ovom algoritmu, te mogućnosti direktne kontrole svjetlosnih i vizualnih efekata posredstvom zvuka, Ben Bending svoje DJ nastup pretvara u imerzivne audio-vizuelne događaje.
Ben Bending je i aktivni član domaće elektronske scene, te rezidentni DJ kolektiva BiH Techno Pokret. Kroz projekat BiH Techno Podcast nastoji kreirati platformu za afirmaciju lokalnih umjetnika elektronske muzike. Tokom prve sezone podkasta predstavio je niz domaćih izvođača u virtualnom okruženju, po prvi put spajajući svoja znanja iz različitih oblasti kako bi kreirao prepoznatljivo audio-vizuelno iskustvo koje je skrenulo pažnju publike i šire zajednice.
Kroz svoj umjetnički i promotivni rad, Ben Bending dosljedno radi na popularizaciji elektronske muzike u Bosni i Hercegovini te doprinosi razvoju i vidljivosti lokalne scene.
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About the Event
Music producer Mirza Rahmanović Indigo and audio-visual artist Ben Bending, marking the third anniversary of Gallery Manifesto, present a unique event titled "Photon", which will take place on Saturday, December 13 at 20:30.
"Photon" emerges from the fusion of two artistic forms — the art of sound and the art of light — driven by the authors’ intention to offer the audience an immersive experience and to present their artistic practices in a singular way. Much like the photon, which is simultaneously a particle and a wave, this event carries a dual nature — both performative and installational.
In his first solo live act performance, Indigo delivers a kind of retrospective of his career as a music producer. And no, this is not a DJ compilation of sound recordings you may already know, but a deconstruction and reconstruction of fragments that have shaped his distinctive artistic poetics. Using segments of compositions created for film and theatre, works featured on his studio album Victoria, as well as pieces that remain unpublished, Indigo presents a unique musical narrative — more mature and self-aware, stylistically more radical, and performatively more experimental.
Indigo’s musical narrative gains spatial materialization through his collaboration with Ben Bending. The light installation, inspired by Indigo’s affinity for the sonic spectrum of cyberpunk, immerses the audience in an extraordinary environment where music and light communicate in real time. Resembling the interior of a server operating an entire universe, the installation evokes a dystopian scene — one that, thanks to the musical narrative, is instead experienced as utopian. The musical overture to Indigo’s live act is performed by none other than Ben Bending.
Tickets are available via the Fiesta Lama platform.
About the artists:
Mirza Rahmanović Indigo (Tuzla, 1992) is a music producer and DJ. His DJ career began in 2011, and his first EP, Wan, featuring Frenkie and the well-known Serbian rapper Juice, was released in 2015 under the FmJam label. Together with rappers Frenkie and Kontra, he produced three joint albums created in collaboration with Red Bull Studios and released by Universal Music: Putanja (Berlin, 2016), Egzil (Tokyo, 2017), and 20/20 (Los Angeles, 2019).
He composed the music for the artistic performance Husinski rudar (2020) by German director Branko Šimić. His first studio album, Victoria, was released in 2021 under FmJam. The album focuses on cinematic, electronic, and ambient sounds, and was presented together with the symphonic ensemble “Victoria String Orchestra” and the Sarajevo Philharmonic as part of the Red Bull Symphonic project.
Indigo also collaborated with Serbian musician Marčelo on the track JBG, which won the 2021 award for Best Regional Single from the organization RUNDA. He composed music for the theatre plays House, A Hunger Artist, Truth or Dare, and Weather Change, all directed by Alen Šimić, as well as the play Podroom, directed by Ajla Bešić. Indigo also composed the music for the films Witness (dir. Alen Šimić) and Sarajevo Overdrive (dir. Adnan Hrustemović), as well as for Jasmila Žbanić’s series I Know Your Soul.
Ben Bending (Sarajevo, 1999) is an audio-visual artist whose work emerges at the intersection of sound, light, and digital technologies. His interdisciplinary approach combines programming, 3D visualization, music production, and DJing, forming a unique creative workflow that he applies in light design and audio-visual performance.
In pursuit of complete creative freedom, Ben developed a personalized algorithm for sound processing, which recognizes different phases of a musical composition in real time. Thanks to this algorithm, and the ability to directly control light and visual effects through sound, Ben Bending transforms his DJ sets into immersive audio-visual events.
Ben is also an active member of the local electronic music scene and a resident DJ of the BiH Techno Movement collective. Through the BiH Techno Podcast project, he aims to create a platform for the affirmation of local electronic music artists. In the podcast’s first season, he presented a series of local performers in a virtual environment, combining his expertise from different fields to create a distinctive audio-visual experience that captured the attention of audiences and the wider community.
Through his artistic and promotional work, Ben Bending consistently contributes to the popularization of electronic music in Bosnia and Herzegovina and to strengthening the development and visibility of the local scene.