Martin Davorin Jagodic

Martin Davorin Jagodić (16 December 1935 – 8 March 2020) was a Croatian contemporary music composer and educator born in Pag in 1935. His work includes theatre music, graphic scores, instructions for performances, multimedia installation art, radio art, electroacoustic music on tape as well as experimental film soundtracks.

Jagodić studied music in Zagreb (Croatia) and Ljubljana (Slovenia), under Croatian composer Milko Kelemen, among others. He relocated to France in 1960 to study under Olivier Messiaen at Conservatoire de Paris and work at Pierre Schaeffer's Groupe de Recherches Musicales from 1967 to 1969. His career as an educator started in 1969 as assistant and then lecturer at the music department of Université de Vincennes Paris 8, later also teaching stage design and scenography at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs from 1974 to 1988. In the 1990s, he taught musicology at Université de Saint-Denis, after the Université de Vincennes Paris 8 had relocated there in 1980.

From the mid-1970s and throughout the 1980s, Jagodić collaborated with composer Costin Miereanu on several projects and with the Groupe d'Etude et Réalisation Musicales (GERM), founded by Pierre Mariétan in 1966, alongside Mariétan, Miereanu, Horacio Vaggione, Mihai Mitrea-Celarianu, Giuseppe G. Englert, Pierre Barbaud, and others.

Despite a very long series of performances during the years, only one single LP has officially been released under his name, named Tempo Furioso (Tolles Wetter), a collage of electronic and ‘found sounds’ divided in two long movements (one for each side of the LP), originally released on the Italian Cramps Records label as the 8th volume of the Nova Musicha series dedicated to contemporary avant-garde composers.

He died on 8 March 2020 in Auxerre, France.