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'Stožice Walk’ represents the conclusion of the ‘Sonic Ontology of Negligence’ trilogy, initiated in 2020 by Steklenik – Gallery for sound, bioacoustics and art, from Ljubljana.

The first part of the trilogy was a sound work titled ‘Sonic Ontology of Negligence' produced as a publication and a series of in-situ FM radio sound walks.
See archive: www.steklenik.si/en/manja-ristic-sonic-ontology-of-negligence/

The second piece, composed of the material gathered in the performative walk through abandoned mega-structure Stožice, is ‘Nothing Has To Happen, Fortress Europe’, commissioned by Radiophrenia 2022.
See archive: radiophrenia.scot/artist/manja-ristic/
The work was published by Elan Vital Recordings, as a start of the series Dystopian 001, a split release with Toni Dimitrov.
elanvital.bandcamp.com/album/dystopian-001

‘Stožice Walk’, the third and most complete recording of the walk was presented in September 2022 at the TO)pot Sound Walks Festival, in Ljubljana, as a live electro-acoustic set at the Cukrarna Gallery.
www.steklenik.si/en/to-pot-sound-walks-festival/

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"Sonic Ontology of Negligence is continuous research evolving from listening to abandoned places and landscapes reshaped by the extensive intervention of human presence and exploitation, and eventually “given over” to Nature to reclaim the space."

My intention with the trilogy was to tackle the sphere of the politics of sound and to put a soundscape in a wider socio-cultural framework.

With this work I tried to build a synthesis that included geoanthropology - an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the interaction between Earth processes and humanity, then, I searched for common denominators of the phenomenology of listening and the culture of memory as well as systems ecology which focuses on interactions and transactions within and between biological and ecological systems and is especially concerned with the way the functioning of ecosystems can be influenced by human interventions.

Cover art by Luka Bilbija

Mastering by La Plant Studio, Belgrade
https://laplantstudio.com/

Special thanks to Cona Zavod, Radiophrenia Glasgow, Elan Vital Recordings.

Stožice Walk

Stožica Walk

Bandcamp

https://2022.radiophrenia.scot/artist/manja-ristic/

In January 2020 I found myself in Ljubljana exploring abandoned spaces as a continuation of my obsession with listening to the Third Landscape – Gilles Clément’s concept which considers, among other things, abandoned urban landscapes or those which suffered an explicit human intervention as places good for thriving bio-diversities which are building the genetic reservoirs that an overall Ecosystem is dependant on. I instantly got hooked by the largest city project – The Sport Park Stožice. It was supposed to include sport facilities and a vast commercial area but only the public part was built, the arena and the stadium. Eighty thousand square meters of the shopping centre remained unfinished.

As often, politics and economics are inseparable, and as corruptive mechanisms become more obvious, both reveal deep submergence into necropolitics. A capital cumulation on the detriment of basic social rights leading to a radical devaluation of a human life. To cut the story short, most of the “modern” societies “background” economics can be reduced to arms sales, drugs, and human trafficking routes. Beneath them are stock value of oil and lithium, gold and diamonds. 

“Please be careful, you’ll be trespassing”, said a dear friend.

The private partner in the public-private largest investment in Slovenia since the 1970s went bankrupt in 2012. 

There were irregularities in the expenditure of EU funds, the then-Mayor pleads not guilty in the latest lawsuit investigating the case. 

“There used to be a wonderful pond, and a hilly landscape… now it’s just concrete, wherever you look, there’s concrete.”

It was a crispy January morning, I wore my army boots. The site was enormous. Several concrete terraces were covered in various surfaces, reaching as far as the eye can see. I decided to just walk.

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Every time you think “That is somewhere over there. Nothing has to happen”, a child that dreamed of freedom disappears.

The composition is made around an excerpt from my Stožice abandoned construction site field recording archive. Recorded in January 2020 during the reZone residency in Ljubljana.
Poetry excerpts from the collection Stories Untold.
Mastering by La Plant Studio Belgrade.

http://manjaristic.blogspot.com/

https://manjaristic.bandcamp.com/

https://sonicmatter.bandcamp.com/
photo: Nina Pernat

‘Nothing Has To Happen, Fortress Europe’ is a co-commission between Radiophrenia and Kunstradio Radiokunst for Ö1, Austria.

Manja Ristic - Nothing Has To Happen, Fortress Europe

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Land of Waves

BÉRANGÈRE MAXIMIN - Day 41

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track made for Low Company 'Businesslunch!' compilation
https://www.lowcompany.co.uk/products/businesslunch

"...flushing Darkthrone down the shitter..."
- Kenny White

mastered by Amir Shoat
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HEAT commissioned by Deutschlandfunk Kultur. Premiered 11.12.2019
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https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/klangkunst-trifft-kochkunst-heat.3685.de.html?dram:article_id=461278
(available until December 2020)

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Mastered by Renato Grieco
Release notes by Ben Ellul-Knight

Releases 9th November 2020

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