No. 3 (2019): Retro Tendencies in Music, Art and Theory
From the initial “rough” idea to the concrete theoretical output of our authors, it is an immense pleasure to observe the process of a magazine issue coming into being. I would compare this process to the so-called organic machines that were envisioned in the 70s by Paul Pignon in the Electronic Studio at Radio Belgrade Third programme, where in front of the eyes and ears of the composers, a very simple trigger impulse on Synthi 100 grew into an entire sound sculpture, whose details revealed traces of the event that initiated them. It can be said that this is the case with this issue of INSAM Journal, in which authors took ideas from the call for papers and made them very concrete. Papers touched on up-to-date theories which focus on different uses of the past, as well as on a wide range of creative practices, from the experimental academic sphere, and mainstream creations and reviews of artistic artifacts of the past, to the “underground” phenomenon known as internet art.
Sadly, during the preparation of this issue, we lost professor Vesna Mikić, who is greatly responsible for the existence and development of the written word about electronic and popular music in this part of Europe, and whose absence we will never be able to compensate.
Main theme Guest Editor: Milan Milojković
On the cover: Milan Milojković, Kim-1 klon
Cover design: Milan Šuput
