Realma
Realma is an intimate musical alter-ego of an independent Serbian/Chinese polymodal artist. Her music has been featured in Rolling Stone India, Calvert Journal, Music Crowns, Zile si Nopti, Vreme, B92, TV Pink and numerous other media outlets across the world, as well as Femikseta 9, 10 & 11 - yearly compilations of best original music by Serbian female artists. While her eye-catching live session videos feature notable locations, including the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Felix Romuliana and Botanical Garden “Jevremovac”, Realma’s animated music videos, in collaboration with the award-winning animator and artist Mihajlo Dragaš, have been a part of multiple international film festivals, including Lift-Off Global Sessions, Flipbook Film Festival and Animest. Most recently, her performances at Femix and BeFem festivals have been described by Headliner.rs as “Eclectic, distinct and multidisciplinary” and her single has entered the Top 3 semifinals in the MArte Live European art & music competition. By finding unlikely intersections that border the traditional and the experimental, the mystical and the quotidian, Realma is foremost a neo-symbolist at her core. Using otherworldly sonorities and narratives to confront the everyday in all its light and dark hues, the artist wields the medium of songwriting as a transformative force of reverie and escape. Like disparate realms reflected in the crystals of a sorceress, her songs manifest divergent themes through influences of different musical genres. Fused together by the omnipresent witchy quality, Realma's music is both atavistic and postmodern, gloomy and empowering, filmic and life-like. Within such a multi-genre brew, each song and its animated accompaniment represent a distinct adventure in her unique audiovisual universe. Based upon Realma’s art songs, Realmaverse is her multi-genre audiovisual universe infused with engaging characters and their gripping stories. Realma and her team are currently working on the exciting possibilities of shaping this musical universe into a powerful and successful brand and franchise, with plans to extend the storyworlds into the comic, tabletop RPG and video game mediums.
