Zlatko Tanodi
Zlatko Tanodi (Zagreb, 1953) studied theory of music at the Zagreb Academy of Music and continued with his composition studies, and later organ. Having graduated in composition in 1978, he worked as a music editor and producer in the Music Production of the former Zagreb Radio and Television. Since 1996 he has worked at the Zagreb Academy of Music, where he conducts the Electronic Studio and teaches electronic music and theory of music. He is the chairman of Composition and Theory of Music Department. Tanodi is both a composer and a performer. His compositions range from orchestral to chamber works, pop and jazz to avant-garde music.
Anima - Animus
for soprano voice and Kyma

First performance: Zagreb Music Biennale 2001.
Soprano voice is performed by Lidija Horvat – Dunjko.
Recorded at the home studio of Zlatko Tanodi.
Anima and animus (soul, spirit) are Carl G. Jung's archetypes, which represent the inner duality of a man. A female performer and an electronic appliance symbolize this male-female principle on the stage. During the composition different primal images are exchanged with their opposites: good - evil, life - death and similar. Old Latin texts are used and a quotation from Goethe’s Faust. Kyma (software) and Capybara (hardware) perform the electronic part of the composition, and it is mostly controlled by human voice. All sorts of techniques are used to create and modify sound: spectral analysis, additive and granular synthesis, etc. The composition techniques encompass algorithmic and symmetrical, alongside the classical. Anima - Animus are two opposites which make a whole: through their interaction a new work starts living.
mo - RE
for string quartet and Kyma

First performance: Zagreb Music Biennale 2003.
Rucner String Quartet (J. Haluza, J. Novosel, D. Rucner, S. Rucner) and Kyma (Z. Tanodi)
Recorded at Electronic Studio of Zagreb Academy of Music.
Even though parents don’t have the obligation to explain the names of their children, but since nomen est omen, I offer some reasons:
-       mo and RE are two syllables that are uttered by the performers during the composition and then serve as a material for electronic transformations;
-       mo represents the modulation, and RE resonator-excitation synthesis;
-       mo is the mirror image of the sacred incatational syllable OM, and RE is a solmization tone that characterises the second part of composition. There are few more meanings of the word more in Croatian, as well in the other languages.