Music as an aggregate of colours: A conversation with Marko Nikodijević

It was spring 2001 and we were sitting in the concert hall of the Kolarac Endowment in Belgrade. I was attending a concert of contemporary music in my capacity as a music critic. I was listening and, as usual, making notes in my notebook. Among other works, the programme included Exortus, a work by Marko Nikodijević, an aspiring young composer and classmate of mine from the Faculty of Music in Belgrade. Both of us had balcony seats, not far from one another. The audience around us comprised mostly young and lively people, those who came late, those who managed to sneak in without a ticket, students, etc. During the interval, we were chatting with some other