Institute group is a musical and art idea which was created and founded by S.A. Fraparega and N.V. Papa Nik in 1974 in Belgrade (Former Yugoslavia).
Music and art of Institute is a synthesis of all musical experiences, all kinds of music and it’s numbered sorces. Main influences in this concept are: jazz, blues and funck (first and most important is Miles Davis and his radiation and sorrounding) , ethno (all music of the World, especially African, Asian, Australasian and Polynesian) and finaly all Europian, modern and present music (classic, avangarde, rock, pop, electronic…).
Aside of playing their’s main standard instruments, memebers of Institute also make and play their own original instruments of different kinds, mixing these instruments with usual ones, making new and unexpected combinations, sounds and quite an unordinary music. In this process Institute is travelling across unbelieveble musical spaces, touching continually or ocasionally always a different musical continent, country, people, time and culture, confronting and mixing them at will with an imagination of group member’s, that all finishes in a strange and refreashing results.
In the sense of investigation, mamebers of Institute use mask and costume as a method to enter some uninvestigated or, better to say, rarely percepted regions. Visuality of these help methods are artistical value of it’s own.
Institute exists now almost 37 years. It’s founders always respected Reneisance effort that was their’s ideal, but they also had eternal love and respect to cultures of so called “Third World” (or to say those parts of it that still didn’t entered horible machine of “progress”), and especially Africa which they recognise as root and mother of humankind. Institute doesn’t forget animals, planet and whole nature, and gives most respect to it’s vast rechness of sounds, colors and formes.
In all these years of its existance Institute playd so much and in such places, when and where it’s members wanted and agreed to, not streaming to a tipical carier of groups and popular persons from the world of “show business”,”adored by all”, etc, etc.
This is an art group. There is no Institute in supermarkets, and take care: we don’t like coca cola!
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