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Within the given timeframe, I would like to outline the conceptual background and aesthetic focus of my compositions using selected audiovisual excerpts. Drawing an analogy from botany, I view my various works as “offshoots” of the same fundamental principles—they resemble the branches of a houseleek, serving as a metaphor for content-related networks.
My work explores multidimensional, otherworldly transcendental spaces, which I strive to recreate repeatedly in my music-theatrical concepts. Each piece is built around a specific narrative to bring life to different realities, emotions, and contexts. These ideas act as bridges, transferring the immaterial into the perceptible, and as refuges where the longed-for becomes reality.
Space, time, sound, images, light, and silence—in my view, these are equally important components within a higher conceptual system. It is only through the meticulously calculated temporal and spatial interweaving of these elements within the compositional framework that, I hope, the deeper meaning of my music is revealed. The goal is to create a breathing, organic sound entity that exists in its own time and remains self-contained.
The underlying thematic focus relates to my personal experiences of war and migration, along with a longing for a world founded on equality and solidarity.
I have been magically fascinated since time immemorial by the fact that all our knowledge, emotions, and desires are rooted in experiences originating exclusively from the one world we have been granted. This is likely also the reason for my enthusiasm for space exploration. I attempt to imagine other worlds and to sonify the feelings and thoughts they evoke in me.
The infinite diversity of being, tomorrow, the unpredictable, the unhappened—and the search for answers to questions that may or may not have answers—are the defining principles of my compositional journey.
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Belma Bešlić-Gál / Vienna, September 21, 2023