Biography

Mladen Milicevic was born into a family of filmmakers, his mother was a film editor and his father was a director of photography. Mladen Milicevic received a B.A. and an M.A. in music composition and multimedia arts at The Music Academy of Sarajevo, in his native Bosnia-Herzegovina. He also holds M.A. in experimental music composition from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and D.M.A. in computer music composition from the University of Miami in Florida. He has scored his first documentary film when he was 18, and by the age of 27, Milicevic had a full-blown career in film scoring. Working in for ten years as a freelance composer, music producer, and audio engineer, he composed music for theater, films, radio and television - receiving several prizes for this body of work. He moved to Los Angeles in 1998 and restarted his film scoring career. Mladen Milicevic is Emeritus Professor of Recording Arts at the Loyola Marymount University School of Film and Television in Los Angeles. Mladen Milicevic has performed his live electronic music, composed for modern dances, made several experimental animated films and videos, set up installations and video sculptures, had exhibitions of his paintings, and scored for films. His academic interests are interdisciplinary, and he has made many presentations at various international conferences on a wide range of topics such as music, film, aesthetics, semiology, sociology, education, AI, religion, and cultural studies.
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