RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

disturbed mind as in a maze. Striking use was made of rhythmical signs to indicate the underground world into which the cruelties of life had cast him. The splitting up of associative units, sonically distincdy characterised and linked by a thread of ironic satire, was present in the work Tabula Traiana by Berislav Kosijer. In the last few years many interesting creations in the experimental domain have enriched the new drama repertoire of Radio Belgrade. One particularly successful experiment was the interpretation of poetry using new means of expression. The Ritual za prostor i vreme (A Ritual for Space and Time) by Dušan Matić marks an important moment in this field. The dramatist Neda Depolo and the producer Arsa Jovanović restricted themselves this time to Matić’s Knjiga rituala (Book of Rites). »Ву the free use of a!eatory choir and solo passages, sudden or gradual synthesis of previously scattered rhymes, clear betrayal of the poet's words, we attempted to open up new paths of understanding and communication with the deeper and more complex poetic levels« said the authors. The work of the producer, Arsa Jovanović, certainly includes other creations based on the same credo which is so crucial to the discussion in point. Burdened with a heritage of medieval cryptics, and a desire to run off and bury valuable symbols of national identity underground (as, for example, in the church of the Holy Ascension in Skoplje) in the face of the Ottoman threat, and spurred on by his own obsessive hobby of being near and investigatmg water, he recorded a programme with sound engineer, Zoran Jerković, called Ponorne vode (Waters of the Abyss). This experiment too started out from the assumption that radio art is the art of sound space - very close to thought space. »What radiance shines in the dark, internal spaces of the world of sounds!« - said Jean Tardier, founder of the Paris school »Atelier de la creation du son«. In similar style Jovanović created his impression of Nebojša's Tower, that symbol of struggle and freedom on the banks of the Danube below Kalemegdan Park, The poetry of Miodrag Pavlović has also been interpreted in Radio Belgrade using modern sound radio techniques. His drama Nekoliko vrsti mesa (Several Kinds of Meat), adapted and produced by Boia Marković, is a convincing poem of universal symbols. In showing war like a human slaughterhouse, Pavlović then portrays freedom as the act of getting hold of that meat with one’s own hands - in other words, by slaughter. In order to feed his authority - freedom - man takes up the ахе in his own hands, but this act is essentially tragic. Using the possibilities afforded by the stereo technique the producer developed a polyphonic interweaving of voices which almost