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Marko Ivic is an artist driven by the deep intricacies of sound and the experiences he can create with music. A Venezuelan artist with Croatian and Italian roots, the pianist and composer uses his empowered instrumentals to explore ineffable emotions, inspired by the likes of Glass, Reich, and Eno.
The sound designer’s latest unveiling arrives as ‘Mudita’, beautifully composed from a piano foundation to create vast portraits of the human experience. Creating a flowing story from dainty, meditative beginnings into a powerful, roaring climax, Marko walks the line between raw musicianship and electronic enhancement, lacing his piano with processing and synth design. It’s a journey of performance, embracing the listener is a captivating idyll across its six-minute run time.
Marko dives into the story behind the track, “Mudita is one of the most intuitive songs of the album. In terms of composition, it came to life very fast. I was improvising one day when I “discovered” the melody, and within 2 days the song was finished, and remained in that shape all the way till the recording days. Other songs in the album, for example, experienced changes and corrections over a longer period of time.
The title came later, when I was trying to find a suitable name for it. Since the beginning, the song had a mystical feeling for me, like alluding to something ancient, eternal, like the earth.
But one day, while I was on a plane, I was reading a book with the conversations between the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, when I heard the term Mudita for the first time. The Dalai Lama explained that in Buddhism, Mudita is a word used to describe a feeling of well-being because of someone else’s fortune, like the opposite for feelings of envy, or something like that.
The meaning captivated me, and I immediately felt I had found a title for the song. The song has a cyclical harmonic structure, and this makes me think of interconnectedness and how joy is something we can experience even if it is in someone else’s experience. For me, to be kind to someone else is the most powerful act we have in our hands.”
