A one-off recording made while preparing the covers for the special edition 
CD "Zombi Traditions (37 Years)", in August of 2021.

Enjoy Your Beverage

Eaux mêlées (2021) 40’

Commande du Logelloù, centre d’exploration et de création à Penvénan situé dans les Côtes-d'Armor. Création en septembre 2021 sur le site remarquable du Yaudet au bord de l’estuaire du Léguer. 

 Un voyage acousmatique imprégné de l’odeur de l’estuaire et de ses eaux mêlées, celle de la vase, de la matière primordiale.
L’union intime de la terre et de la mer caractérise l’ambiance des côtes d’Armor. Il est impossible de distinguer avec netteté́ la limite entre la terre et la mer, entre les éléments solides et fluides. Les rochers, la mer, la rivière, l’estran, les herbues... s’articulent entre eux, la mer entre dans les terres par les estuaires. 
Avec des sons de Noëlle Deffontaines (sable, vase), Benjamin Dousteyssier (saxophone), Christine Groult, Marc Namblard (audionaturaliste), Lê Quan Ninh (grosse caisse), Ana Speyart(boue).

1 - Extrait - Eaux.mêlées - Becasseau - Sanderling 6'12

Maps and Diagrams - Occupying Space

Abby Lee Tee/Philip Sulidae, Troca Iônica

Variations. Strockes. Speak. Sound.

Well. P.A.M.G.

sound art series based on the poetry collection "Stories Untold"

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people were falling in the streets
shivering in agony, for what they saw would hit them
like a bolt, scalding them from within,
the Great War was now inside them

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I am buried
with you, and the others
in the trenches of shame, all piled up
& covered with sickening laughter.
Our eyeballs are rubbed with injustices,
ears deafen by rumble of terror,
hearts numbed with trepidation,
limbs soaked in repugnant lies,
minds bleached by virtual ordure.
They murder, they rape, they rob.
They bury. Me, you,
and the others.
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this 21-minute long sound work is a forest tale about war, re-imagined from the perspective of the land that witnessed centuries of socio-cultural turmoil. tamed nature versus wilderness, contaminated versus protected land, the Iron Curtain belt saw some significant changes – from being a brutal barrier between East and West strewn with mine fields, to becoming a highly protected European natural heritage.

the somewhat tense, suffocating and dark-sounding atmosphere of this piece reflects my feelings on possible relations between former and present conflicts, and alludes to the harsh consequences necro-politics of the past are imposing on contemporary society.

the stunning forest microbiome researched in this work is now part of the European Green Belt, formerly the Iron Curtain borderlands between Austria and Czech Republic. 

released September 14, 2023

sounds gathered during SHAPE+ musikprotokoll residency, July 2023, kindly hosted by Kulturzentrum – Garage Druzba, Harrachstal.

all sounds recorded, edited & composed by Manja Ristić
hydrophone built by Jez riley French
mastering La Plant Studio

Bandcamp

for what they saw would hit them like a bolt

birds, crickets, and black squirrels chirp
amongst the trees shaped as legs and torsos 
twined amongst the rocks
sheep bleat and low in the valley
chainsaws echo on the mountainsides
as the evening falls in autumn
the shepherds beat their sticks and call their flocks
below the cursed spring where 
they used to say, no unwed girl should pass

Dusk Falling By The Edge Of The Forest

Entends-tu ces cris, qui sous la vague vacillent ? 
Où suis-je donc, 
Qui suis-je donc, 
Que suis-je donc, 
Une mutation vibrante et permanente... 
Un flux... 
Une succession d'impacts à l'ultrason 

Réalisation : Anne Lepère 
Durée : 5'05 
Avril 2015 
Inspiré par "Walvis Blues", un texte de Luvan, performé entre autre par un collectif de conteuses et conteurs appelé Front de l'Est et également par la clique des Moniek, lors d'une émission sur Radio Campus Bruxelles - 27 avril 2015

Avec spécial merci à Sylvie et Franck, pour le jeu de bols tibétains ;)’

Balaena Morphosis

Have you ever heard the song of Aurora Borealis? 

Northern Lights in Hailuoto and all the Island is singing ... 
Vegetals, Waves, 
Wind and Graves .

From silence to inside purring, 
Just go inside the Aurora... and the Aurora will sing inside you ... 


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Realization : Anne Lepère 
Production : September 2015, 8'38 
Hai Art Residency  - Soccos
(Hailuoto - Finland)

Special thanks to : Antye Greie, Hai Art and Mushroom teams.
Photo credit  : Marine Drouan 



The Song Of Aurora

Part of the piece - 2 Kinetic studies, made during the residency at the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest in 2016: https://soundcloud.com/svetlanamaras/sets/2-kinetic-studies

Study no.1 is guided by the principle of symmetry. The central spot of the composition is in the middle of the room - half the way on both horizontal X- and Z-axis. Each object always moves through both halves of at least one of the X- or Z-planes. The element which is being doubled, is followed by the same-pace movement of the element on the opposite side of the axis, but the movement is being reversed: element no.6 positioned on Z-4 goes from X-5 to X+5 while at the same time in the same speed element no.7 at Z+4 goes from X+5 to X-5. 
There are three elements which are the musical nucleus of the composition (1, 2, 3). These sounds are airy (noisy) but they have a recognisable pitch and form a minor triad. All other elements are tuned to these three elements which define the tonal center of the piece. This kind of interpretation of the harmonic aspect of the composition, parallels the interpretation of ‘symmetrical’ in spatial domain. 

This is a stereo mixdown of the piece.

VIDEO: https://vimeo.com/210260544

Study No.1

Revised version of "Traces: for Electric Organ, i-Phone Videos, Objects and Electronics". (The first iteration was presented at KM28 in Berlin on April 24, 2019, as part of "Very Organized"  a concert of works for electric organ by a group of Berlin-based composers. ) Variation 2 is part of an immersive multi-channel work that is currently in progress.

Balaena Morphosis

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