Mladen Milicevic

Mladen Milicevic (Milićević)(born 1958) is a composer of experimental music, sound installations, and film music. He is a Professor and the Chair of the Recording Arts Department at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.

Mladen Milicevic at work

Born into a family of film-makers (his father was D.P. and his mother was film editor) Milicevic started playing piano when he was 6. He received a B.A. in music composition (1982) and an M.A. (1986) in music composition and multimedia arts from The Music Academy of Sarajevo, in his native Bosnia-Herzegovina where he studied with Josip Magdic. Milicevic came to the United States in 1986 to study with Alvin Lucier at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, where he received his masters degree in experimental music composition (1988). After Wesleyan, he went to study with Dennis Kam at the University of Miami in Florida, where he received his doctorate degree in computer and experimental music composition in 1991.^[1] For several summers he studied with Michael Czajkowski at the Aspen Music School. In the nineties Milicevic has concentrated on live interactive electronic music composition utilizing hyper instruments. He was awarded several music prizes for his compositions in the former Yugoslavia as well as in Europe.^[2] Milicevic worked in Yugoslavia as a freelance composer for 10 years, where he composed for theater, films, radio and television, also receiving several prizes for this body of work. Since he moved to the United States in 1986, Milicevic has performed his live electronic music, composed for modern dances, made several experimental animated films and videos, set up installations and video sculptures, had exhibitions of his paintings, and scored for films.^[3][4]

Commercial work

In former Yugoslavia, Milicevic produced in 1985 the second album of the pop band VALENTINO that sold platinum.

In 2009 he also produced an album entitled “Imam pjesmu za tebe” (I’ve got a song for you) by Rade Šerbedžija and Miroslav Tadić. For this work he was nominated for the PORIN award in Croatia as the best-produced album.

Notes

1. ^ http://www.last.fm/music/Mladen+Milicevic
2. ^ http://www.todaysplanet.com/pg/beta/victims/page4.htm
3. ^ http://public.carnet.hr/MBZ/mbz95/107110e.html
4. ^ http://movies.nytimes.com/person/1019784/Mladen-Milicevic

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