The deeper I am investigating field recording as both artistic and listening practice, the more I become aware that each recording session is an intrusion into the landscape and that the landscape, whatever historical, biotic, or environmental system defines it – is sentient to my presence.

No matter how considerate my “intrusions” are, an abstract form of communication always takes place, and it largely depends on my ability to maintain this connection, which goes beyond the soundscape and sonic properties of the place. In this sense, my capacity to employ deep intuition and activate a specific neural architecture developed through a compound of skills also defines the recording process and its future aesthetic transformation. Thus, making a field recording fully personalized practice and soundscape composition a discipline of open interpretation, as well as a vast field for misuse and false representation. Regardless of an evaluation system, whether we contemplate an act of listening through scientific observation of one’s cognition event boundaries or through the capacity to comprehend the existential phenomenology of Zulu spiritualism, the possibility that two or more listeners can have the same listening experience is minuscule.

We are all deeply rooted in a diversity of psychological constructs; neural and sensory imprints, memory compounds, cognitive abilities, and many body-mind pathways determining our current psycho-physical state. Therefore, if the field recording practice is based on any form of active listening – it is a discipline based on interpretation.
With that in mind, I am asking: How do we approach the landscape of severe devastation and a dense history of warfare? Knowing that serious ethical and moral consequences are involved in the effort to interpret a particular soundscape.

In the work “ghosts” I am using obsolete instruments – a modular synthesizer built in 1970, a discarded wheelchair wheel salvaged from the Adriatic Sea, and the piano fallen in disuse which belonged to the Austrian conceptualist, filmmaker, improviser, photographer, environmentalist, and writer – Karl Katzinger aka John Tylo (October 1953 – April 2021). Next to these elements of the past and their voices rediscovered, I am incorporating hydrophone and field recordings from several locations appropriating them through the discourse of critical tourism and a culture of memory – more specifically through listening to the inherent memories of environmental devastation due to exploitation of natural resources as well as warfare – in the South Adriatic (Old town Dubrovnik and island of Vrnik), and the Czech-Austrian borderlands nearby of Mauthausen–Gusen concentration camps. 

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Instruments:
EMS Synthi 100
Wheelchair wheel salvaged from the sea
John Tylo’s old piano

Field recordings:
Dubrovnik – Stradun air conditioning units and collection of rubbish containers
Vrnik Island South Adriatic – crickets in an ancient limestone quarry
Adriatic dolphins *hydrophone recording by Robertina Šebjanič
Harrachstal village on Czech-Austrian borderlands – crickets in the abandoned granite quarry
Hydrophone recordings of the river Schwarze Aist
Train coming into Freistadt train station in Austria

All sounds performed, recorded, composed & edited by Manja Ristić
Some sounds gathered at the SHAPE + musikprotocoll residency, July 2023

Hydrophone used for an underwater recordings made by Jez riley French
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Mastering by La Plant Studio
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Release date : 02/24/2024

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Breakling Friday's: Sofía PC invites ENEMIGO - 23/03/2024

VISTA MARE
Documentary, 80 min
AT/IT 2023
Directed by: Julia Gutweniger and Florian Kofler (Villa Mondeo)
Premiere @ 76. Locarno Filmfestival, Semaine de la Critique 2023
Produced by Eutopiafilm (AT) & Albolina Film (IT)

https://9abriela.bandcamp.com/album/vista-mare-soundtrack

Variations on Symbiotic Love (Vista Mare, soundtrack)

AGF is a powerful poemproducer. She first described herself in these terms on a track of that title from Westernization Completed, her Ars Electronica winning breakthrough album. Poemproducer became her “internet name,” and has come to stand in for her idiosyncratic approach to vocal-based electronic music. Last November, AGF quietly released Poemproducer, almost exactly 20 years after Westernization Completed. Channeling her internet name into her first proper solo studio album since SOLIDCITY (2017), Poemproducer is built around mutating bass, freeplayed rhythms, and subtle field recordings. We discuss the evolution of her musical practice, her interest in pedagogy, feminism, collective politics and much more. 

TRACKLIST
ARTIST – “TITLE” (ALBUM, LABEL, YEAR)

AGF  - “Oops for understanding iii” (Words Are Missing, AGF Producktion, 2008)
SP Intro
AGF - “SKINgame”  (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
AGF - “POEMproducer” (Westernization Completed, Orthlorng Musork, 2003)
AG.F3 & SUE.C - “Lazy” (MINI MOVIES, Asphodel, 2006)
AGF - “Thoughts On Rojava feat. Zeynep Kurban, Dilar Dirik, Zaher Baher, Havin Guneser, Memed Aksoi” (Music, Awareness & Solidarity w/ Rojava Revolution, female:pressure, 2016)
AGF - “background & processes ⇻ explained by AGF” (rec-on : feminist sonic technologies, 2023)
AGF - “recon - rec-on.org ƒollow @reconsonic” (Soundcloud, 2021)
Laub -  “Wortspur” (Filesharing, Kitty-Yo, 2002)
AGF - “fieldWORK” (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
Sonic Wilderness - “Medley” (DOCUMENTATION: #SONICWILDERNESS #NUSASONIC Yogyakarta, Indonesia 2018)
Antye Greie-Ripatti - “mycelium sonicification video clip” (Vimeo, 2017)
Audience Participation - “Collective Mycelium Hum” (SonicEX10sion, AGF Producktion, 2018)
AGF - “sideNESS” (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
AGF - “Live excerpt” (Presented by Non-Event and the Goethe-Institut Boston, November 18, 2023)
AGF - “FIREmushroom” (DISoriented MINDsets, 2017)
KING VISION ULTRA feat. Dreamcrusher - “UNTRAPPINGS” (SHOOK WORLD, PTP, 2023)
Moor Mother - “Deadbeat Protest” (Fetish Bones, Don Giovanni, 2016)
AGF - “MIGration” (SOLIDICITY, 2017)
AGF - “Chorizon” (Westernization Completed, Orthlorng Musork, 2003)
AGF - “Source Voice” (Beatnadel, AGF Producktion, 2011)
AGF - “words are useless” (Words Are Missing, AGF Producktion, 2008)
RyJ - “RyJ [excerpt]” (Studio Mix, 2014)
RyJ / Nicki Minaj (Pickle Juice Mix, 2012)
J Dilla - “Bounce” (Beat Tape #3, 2002)
AGF - bassPOETess (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
Vladislav Delay - “Ele” (Ele, Sigma Editions, 1999)
Craig Armstrong x AGF - “Remix of Memory Takes My Hand” (Memory Takes My Hand - Exhibition Music, Chester Music Ltd., 2006)
AGF - xenakISS (Poemproducer, AGF Producktion, 2023)
The Lappetites - “Avoiding Shopping” (Before The Libretto, Quecksilber, 2005)
Dadub - “Life (Rrose Remix)” (Preternity, Stroboscopic Artefacts, 2013)
AGF - “BONUS_ Westernization Continued 2013 [excerpt]” (Westernization Completed, 2003/2013)
AGF - “şamaran [kurdish]” (uttu EP, 2023)
PINKCOURTESYPHONE + KID CONGO POWERS - “Inflame (Sludge Dub)” (Move To Trash, 3particles, 2015)
Kevin Richard Martin /  KMRU - “If (Dub)” (RESIST COLONIAL POWER BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, PTP 2024)
Ka Baird - “Gate VI” (Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos, RVNG, Intl., 2024)
AGF - “Regional Distinctions” (Futurism Ain't Shit To Me, Kyo, 2004)
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Sound Propositions is written, recorded, mixed, and produced by Joseph Sannicandro.

Sound Propositions S04e05

SP* Episode 35: DIS/CONTENT - with AGF [podcast]

LYL Radio - April 2024

Producer, composer, costume designer, and performance artist, Bristol’s Sarahsson fuses hedonistic club with guttural noise, euphoric trance, and neoclassical composition. Dealing in extremes, she draws inspiration as much from the natural world as from gore and harsh noise: themes of bodies being contorted, ripped apart, and combined anew create beautiful and painful scenarios. Rather than using pre-made samples, she creates her own transforming field recordings of marsh reeds and whispers into percussion; she also built her own daxophone, a bowed instrument which under her ritual conjures monstrous blasts and wails.

Krzystof Penderecki - Part I: Et surgeons omnis (St. Luke)
Scott Walker - It's Raining Today
Depeche Mode - Halo (Goldfrapp Remix)
Laura Allan/Paul Horn - Nicasio
William Newell & Solem Quartet - And Dream of Sheep 
Guy Sigsworth & Imogen Heap - Shurayo
Dorencore - here with you
d'Eon - The Birds Eat Out Corpses
Diego Navarro - Teethie's Theme
Björk - Ambergris March
Final Heal - Faerie Song
Bob Hickman - Blood seeping out of a christians mouth from demonic attack.
Dean Hurley - Angel Choir Reveal
Skrillex - With You, Friends (Long Drive)
MICHAELBRAILEY - -  (shawn ⇢ bod [包家巷] ⇢ kenji → n brennan ⌁⌁ jb ⌦ emptyset ⚣ me)
A Touch of Class - Ayla 3 (Epic Trance Mix)
Malice & Luminite - Death Destruction (Malice Live Edit)
Salvatore Ganacci; Tommy Cash - Heartbass 
Adventure Time - Der Holle Rache Kicht in Meinem Herzen (feat. Jeremy Jeremy Shada & Hynden Walch)
Life Sim - IDL (aamourocean ◖ᵔᴥᵔ◗ ♪ ♫ Remix)
Caroline Polachek - Pretty In Possible
Valentin Clastrier - Au fond des temps, pt. 1
Matthew Welch - Lad: I. —
Petra Hermanova - Two Deaths

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