Your 2021 Playback

installations

The work Patient Love is a live-set recording conceptualized for To Be Continued 2021 Music Marathon, an original concert lasting 24 hours, during which Stazione di Topolo is broadcasting live sets from many countries worldwide. The event, which covers World TB Day in its entirety was coordinated by Antonio Della Marina and Moreno Miorelli. The initiative is under the aegis of the Global Health Incubator, established in July 2009 in Topolò by Dr. Mario Raviglione, today professor in Global Health at the University of Milan, to create links between the world of creativity and that of science.

As I needed to lift this work further, I invited multi-talented artist Aleksandar Lazar to contemplate ambient visuals for the sonic scaffolding of the Patient Love, as we already did together several times in the past through concert performances, employing intuitive composing, improvisation, live cinema, and inexhaustible source of audio-visual magic — a cymatic plate.

In 2023, the work won The Golden Award for Extended Media by The Association of Fine Artists of Serbia.

Patient Love contains decomposed sequence by Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin's piano sonata no. 8, performed by Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Patient Love

Depression for Bass Clarinet is a graphic & object score made for the exhibition The Flickerings [org. in Serbian, Treperenja] presented in 2018. Graphic is an appropriation of a series of miniatures/drawings made with black marker on small pieces of crepe paper. The context is driven by my efforts to objectivize depression and challenge the rational boundaries of The Body by inhabiting it with an abstract but fully self-defined object - a body of its own. Which is deeply interwoven with all intrinsic functions of The Body, and behaves as a nexus-point between psychological and physical, further conditioning The Body's overall well-being. The work reflects my research on the energy traits of sound and its formative effects on the extended body-mind.
Interpretation of the score was made in 2018 by Serbian clarinetist Vasa Vučković [http://vasavuckovic.com/]

Depression For Bass Clarinet [graph. score Manja Ristić; interpretation Vasa Vučković]

Anne-F Jacques/Takamitsu Ohta, Oto to Secchi

section of a sound work constructed from sound recordings made with\in a WWII bunker

2020-21

Les Horribles Travailleurs

Photo made during a recording session

WWII bunker - Sound work 1

This year London has experienced several weekends of the hottest summer and that moved the Australian sound artist Kate Carr, whose practice is centred on articulating the relationship between people and place through sound, to point her microphone at the city. This volume is based on her recordings during a particularly hot long weekend in a corner of very busy intersection in London, where she resides now. In Heatwave, Carr is interested in both the serious and also the more prosaic aspects of soundscapes related to climate change. She investigated the throbbing summer music from her neighborhood, people’s efforts to keep cool, and the uneasiness which accompanies these everyday activities in this moment of environmental crisis. The way these pieces construct and compensate, with all the tangible sounds that fold into larger moods via multiple instruments, exemplifies her acumen in creating sonic stories that reflect our multi-layered experience of reality.

Humidity - from Heatwave out now via Hasana Editions

excerpt from an installation following an exhibition by Simonida Raječević, Belgrade Cultural Centre, August 6th, 2020.

Lažni bol - exhibition of paintings & objects by Simonida Rajčević

Audio work for an exhibition of paintings & objects by Simonida Rajčević, Belgrade Cultural Center, August 2020.

DOB Gallery Belgrade October 13th >>> sound installation for the exhibition of drawings and paintings by Simonida Rajčević
http://simonidasimonida.com/

Strelice >>> Arrows >>> exhibition by Simonida Rajčević

Manja Ristić: Sonic Ontology of Negligence
7 Nov 2021–8 Jan 2021
FM exhibition, exhibition of 8-channel sound installation

7 Nov 2020 at 12.00 (noon) on FM 88.8 MHz – in-situ FM walk (at Park Tivoli)
10 Nov 2020 at 18.00 p.m. on FM 88.8 MHz – in-situ FM walk (at Park Tivoli)
18 Nov 2020 at 20.00 p.m. on programme Ars – radio exhibition opening

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Sonic Ontology of negligence is a continuous research evolving from listening to abandoned places and landscapes reshaped by extensive intervention of human presence and exploitation, and eventually “given over“ to Nature to reclaim the space. In the process of conceptualizing Sonic Ontology of negligence, Manja Ristić resided in places that were heavily exploited and forever changed by the human urge to build, comprising thousand years-old quarries as well as present-day mega-structures, abandoned as a result of corruption and consumerist socio-political turmoil. The nucleus of the compositional structure is devoted to abandoned construction building site of the Stožice mega-structure, while layers of mnemopoetic sonic imprints are derived from an old lime-stone quarries from the island of Korčula in South Dalmatia, such are Glogovac, Lenga, Defora and Vrnik, but also abandoned mineral mines and lime pits from Fruška gora in Vojvodina, North Serbia, and other sites such is the military compound placed in the middle of the Avala forest in the suburbs of Belgrade. The poetical accent is given to the dynamics and textures of waters and aquatic micro spaces, which are building the formative/reproductive environments in the process of re-establishing bio diversities.

Manja Ristić graduated from the Belgrade Academy of Music and later also completed her post-graduate diploma in Solo-Ensemble Recital at the Royal College of Music, London. Besides performing in the field of instrumental electroacoustic music, her sound-related research is focused on an interdisciplinary approach to sound art, field recordings and experimental radio art.

Credits:
Artist: Manja Ristić
Curated by: Irena Pivka, Brane Zorman
Organisation: Irena Pivka, Katarina Radaljac
Translation and editing: Katja Kosi, Melita Silič
Public relations: Katarina Radaljac
Production: Cona, Institute for Contemporary Arts Processing, 2020
Venue: Steklenik gallery for sound bioacoustics and art, FM 88.8MHz, 3rd programme of Radio Slovenia – programme Ars

Exhibition is being part of the Acoustic Commons project support from the European Union’s Creative Europe program.

Lažni bol - exhibition of paintings & objects by Simonida Rajčević

Manja Ristic