Paola BučAn

Born in Zadar, former Yugoslavia, in 1947, Paola Bučan began studying the cello at an early age under the guidance of her father, a student of Antonio Janigro. She later continued her musical education in Pesaro and went on to pursue a professional career, serving as principal cellist in several Italian orchestras, most notably the Orchestra della Toscana.

A pivotal moment in her artistic development was her encounter with the composer Boris Porena. Their collaboration proved exceptionally fruitful, as they inspired one another in a shared exploration of the fundamental elements of composition through an approach that Porena would later define as *metacultural*. It was within this framework that Bučan developed a profound interest in graphic composition, which would become a central focus of her artistic research. This marked the beginning of a compositional practice based on thematic cycles employing the same underlying elements (series).

In the mid-1970s, together with Porena, she founded the *Centro di Ricerca e Sperimentazione Metaculturale* (Centre for Metacultural Research and Experimentation). Within this context, she investigated the relationship between compositional practice and semantics, initially in music and gradual...

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