Water, an Audiovisual Work by Vladimir Korać: Nomen est omen

The composer Vladimir Korać (b. 1986) creates works for solo instruments, various chamber ensembles, symphony orchestras, electronics, and electro-acoustic works, which constitute the main part of his oeuvre thus far. In this area, his works are recognizable in terms of his preferred tools, which include reduced textures, stemming from spectral sound analysis; using prepared electronic structures and controlled "live" processing, as well as working with the temporal dimension of the piece. The high point of Korać's oeuvre so far is the audiovisual composition Water, which won the 2023 Stevan Mokranjac award for best work of Serbian art music. This paper addresses the main analytic aspects of the work and attempts to sketch an initial possible reading of the metaphor of water as it figures in the piece.