Mild tea, made of air for flute, violoncello, and piano by Svetlana Savić

Mild Tea, Made of Air, a piece for flute, violoncello, and piano (2024) by Svetlana Savić, explores possible ways of working with the text as a basic means of construction in shaping a work of instrumental music. A vocal part set to a poem by Saša Radojčić, Tea Made of Air, composed in the first phase of work on the piece but then omitted from its final version, constitutes an imaginative procedure on the author's part, especially in the context of the role of text and voice in her creative poetics. That is why the purpose of this paper is precisely to demonstrate the peculiar strategy of that poetic reduction, whereby the work's textual template is sublimated into a sound devoid of linguistic articulation, but - with multiple poetic layers! - woven into the very compositional logic of the work.