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]

About the human destruction of rivers, the Earth, other species and the exploitation of natural resources.

Toxic Lands aims to start critical discussions and analyse human destruction in a broad sense, exploring the effects of the Anthropocene (the current geological age where humans have been the dominant influence on the environment), military conflicts and traces, ecology, cosmology, climate change, Western colonial practices, extractive industries and vulnerable urban futures.

Toxic Lands takes as a source of exploration the toxic narratives and destructive practices of the landscape system of the Neretva River and the city of Mostar.

Author and curator of the program Toxic Lands is Armina Pilav; the programme is produced in collaboration with Damir Ugljen, Un-war Space Lab collective, Association for Culture and Art Crvena from Sarajevo and Abraš Radio from Mostar.

Whirls of Neretva I

On October 15th Art Radionica Lazareti Dubrovnik hosted the first improv encounter of Manja Ristić and Mark Vernon. 

Found sounds & tape loops, field recordings & objects, electromagnetic mics & hydrophones, cardboard box & wheelchair wheel, violin & balloon, toy drum & feedback - are only some of the means which they used for sculpting phantasmic sonic narratives in their attentive and dynamic musical exchange.

Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon Live At ARL Dubrovnik

I was wondering the other day
where do we stand with the return of Medea?
that controversial gender-bending nightmare mother
a mythical force that keeps craving for itself
locked in human consciousness
for two thousand years
a brisk tool of repression
of fear
of anger
that escalates into violence
naturally
like a well-cultivated garden gone horrid
deeply inhumed in toxic lands

corrupted Corinth multiplies
with each child drowned in the Mediterranean
but where did we put the anger?
retell yourself Medea
don’t stop
do not abandon your sorcery
reveal the truth
again and again and again
keep the gates open for the return
of the unheard
of the invisible
of the erased
unearth their bodies
their wrath and fears
our wrath and fears
their agony
our agony
us

listen to your shivering self
that be the only way to hear the other
we are inseparably linked
in your perpetual returns Medea
listen
listen again
and again and again and again
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Sonic diary of The Return Of Medea

breathing rock
PERPETUAL INHALING
muddy river
LUNAR SNOW WALK
frantic ants
WINTER SEA
abandoned letters
EARS & WINDOWS
indolent spaces
DOORS OPENED THEN CLOSED
broken instrument
TRAIN HOME
Coffee?
FIRE
cold
YOU
&
me 


released January 27, 2022

mastering LaPlant Studio
laplantstudio.com

Bandcamp

Morning in our backyard

22—hour—long sound journey made for Radio Art Zone was premiered on RADIOKUNST — KUNSTRADIO on August 7th, 2022((( http://www.kunstradio.at/2022B/07_08_22.html ))) as a super compressed 28—min—long radio adaptation!
Find out more about the original work here >>> https://radioart.zone/sunday-19-june

Thanks to Knut Aufferman, Sarah Washington, Elisabeth Zimmermann

Radio Astral — The Atomic Compression

Dobra voda is a small bay on the island of Silba. A remote beach is situated an hours walking distance from the only village on the island.

This mystical and completely secluded place was once a summer commune, gathering creative minds from Yugoslavia but also from all over Europe. A versatile art scene emerged, the one that preceded Ljubljana's alternative theatre scene, Rijeka's new wave and some of the most influential ex-Yu alternative bands; "[...] The music was coming from every single bush: violins, cellos, saxophones, trumpets, and, of course, mostly guitars [...]."

One of my dearest friends, Natasha Kadin, curator and cultural manager of SEA Silba Environment Art organised a wonderful exhibition in 2018 with found archive photos made by Marijan Blažina, one of the artists from the commune. Croatian multi-disciplinary artist and author Boris Greiner wrote more about this exhibition: www.silba-environment-art.hr/en/blog/boris-greiner-slikovne-poruke-s-dobre-vode/

I visited Dobre vode on a few occasions, but this particular time I wanted to record a sonic palimpsest, built from water memories and other environmental simulacra of this magical little bay. I recorded with hydrophones from various angles, listened to the interplay between water and salt and different geological formations. The movement of the pebbles from the sea bed, water sliding down the rocks and crevices, burying my "ears" under the sea bed but also inside the enormous piles of dry Posidonia oceanica, commonly known as Neptune grass or Mediterranean tapeweed, a seagrass species that is endemic to the Mediterranean Sea. It forms large underwater meadows that are an important part of the ecosystem. The Posidonia has a very high carbon absorption capacity, being able to soak up 15 times more carbon dioxide every year than a similar-sized piece of the Amazon rainforest.

Dobra voda bay is positioned to accumulate dry Posidonia once it is washed ashore. It is absolutely impossible to be still in those clouds of dry seaweed and be completely silent. Even so, I tried.

The sound piece is a mix of 16 chosen recordings placed in a dronesque metaphor of passing time. 

released August 25, 2022

All sounds recorded, edited and composed by Manja Ristić
Recorded during SEA Silba Environment Art Residence 2021
www.silba-environment-art.hr
Hydrophone built by Jez riley French
jezrileyfrench.co.uk
Mastering La Plant Studio Belgrade
laplantstudio.com

Dobra voda

August 25th, 2022

'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

glasovi / voices

would you be so kind and abandon for a glimpse an unbending definition of the world to the living and the non–living? look at all the objects around you, and observe how they are embedded in space, by gravity and density. unravel them from their meaning, speculate about their consistency. think about their history and other spaces they were once part of. then, give them a voice. and I don’t mean just a sound that they would produce if they fell or were dismantled. remember the moment they became a part of your life. induce them with memory. define them with everything which is non–obvious about them. feed them with time, and moments and interactions piling up in fractal eddies. is there a glimpse of spirit in those objects? can they be spiritualised? is anything artificially made truly dead? is there anything living truly infinite? listen through the solids, and allow the boundaries to disappear.

dedicated to Mark Vernon for his 50th birthday.

all sounds recorded and edited by Manja Ristić
hydrophone by JrF
mastering La Plant Studio

duša damena / soul of stone

long-form audio installation
artistic research
booklet in English – containing aural photography, theoretical discourse on the culture of listening, and more...

sound, text, images: Manja Ristić
editor: Sonja Leboš
sound mastering: La Plant Studio, Belgrade
design: Nevena Vasiljević
proofreading: Mark Vernon
production, publishing, distribution: ELL Studio 2023
artistic research in collaboration with the Association for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Research, Zagreb

water memory is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia

read more about the project >>> 
https://manjaristic.bandcamp.com/album/water-memory-mnemosonic-topographies-of-the-adriatic

water memory

water memory – mnemosonic topographies of the Adriatic

Kuda plovi ovaj brod? Where is this ship sailing? is a sound work built from hydrophone recordings of underwater sound pollution. The recordings were taken over the span of 2 years in the historical town of Korčula and its immediate surroundings.

This 40–minute long radio adaptation / sound installation is an unsettling journey revealing the dystopian realm of Adriatic noise contamination, due to increased water traffic and the insatiable urge for the expansion of industry and tourism. The work consciously exposes a disturbing marine reality in which an inexhaustible amount of mechanical sources are literally grinding the underwater soundscape.

full essay at >>> independent.academia.edu/ManjaRistic

All sounds recorded, edited & composed by Manja Ristić
Text by Manja Ristić
Mastering by La Plant Studio
Archive images — courtesy of a private archive
Special thanks to Vinka Damjanović, Mark Vernon, Goran Simonoski

ELL Studio 2023 – All Rights Reserved

Kuda plovi ovaj brod? Where is this ship sailing?

series "Stories Untold" is my latest collection of poetry.

each poem is a starting point for the sound works that emerge from the narratives dealing with love and loss – offering insights into the wisdom of tragedy but also its deterministic weight.

this collection is embodied by the poem: tailless tarantella lifted its head, and it is followed by the collection of black & white photographs taken on the island of Korčula.

sound works are tales about life beaming through the body & textures of belonging, about the memories folded, twirled & woven onto a fabric of space. within them, water whispers about the places hidden & machines spirited, with electric current spilling over the brim of noise, unbearable, unstoppable noise of life beaming through the body & textures of belonging...

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for Mark

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it was the day when the balloon disappeared into the wall
it was the day when the dog bit you while you were helpless
tailless tarantella lifted its head
toward the crackling chorus
of pine cones blooming

tags, tags, hundreds of tags
and desire to observe cracks
it was the day when the wisdom leaked
it was the day when witches fell sick
again, when wonders went pale
lingering away
in aimless whiteness

I didn’t become anyone great 

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part of the series Stories Untold
sound, text & images by Manja Ristić
cover art by Manja Ristić
mastering by La Plant Studio
produced by ELL Studio 2023
manjaristic.bandcamp.com

All rights reserved

Mostar

Zemun

Dubrovnik

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

for what they saw would hit them like a bolt

"Škvar" is a sound installation composed by Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon, as a part of the site-specific installation "Invoking shipbuilding in Korčula" created and realized by the visual artist Matea Šabić Sabljić aka @_argo_nauta_

The installation will be presented on the 6th and 7th of December, next to the Antifascist memorial by architect Bernardo Bernardi which was built at the exact place of an old shipyard.

Sound work is an extension of an art action: "Taking the tool in your hands is an act of honesty", which took place in September and engaged wider community. The participatory action involved people bringing hammers and nailing the names of old Korčula's shipbuilders into the planks of abandoned boats. Doing so produced the noise — sound of an old shipyard that was gone decades ago.

This public action became a silver lining of the sound work "Škvar".

Matea continued to collect hammers in Korčula, Dubrovnik, Split, Betina and Zagreb. Collected hammers will be installed as a site-specific installation accompanied by the sound work. Collecting hammers is continuing as a work in progress for the sake of "Invoking shipbuilding in Korčula" hoping to initiate a Museum which will protect both history and the future of local shipbuilding.

Exhibition is curated by Sonja Leboš ( @uiii.aiir ) and co-organised by @kap_korcula

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Zaziv muzeju i korčulanskoj brodogradnji

Korčulanski škveri i majstorske radionice svjedoče slavnu korčulansku brodograditeljsku prošlost. Glas o kvaliteti njihovog rada je bio nadaleko poznat. Korčulanske obitelji brodograditelja sagradile su na tisuće brodova. 
Međutim, rad, znanje i vještina koji su bili dio svakodnevice otoka kroz stoljeća, pa sve do kraja prošlog tisućljeća, izgubili su se. Nestale su radionice, pa škverovi. Pa i majstori.
Zazivamo sve te davne meštre i meštrice,
Zazivamo sve buduće meštre i meštrice,
Da uzmu alat u ruke i krenu graditi!
Želimo “uškvariti” značaj korčulanskih škvarova. Kolektivna memorija izgradnje tisuća brodova je zapisana u rukama. Treba se prisjetiti. Zakucati brokvu po brokvu. Dasku po dasku. Brod po brod.
Značaj korčulanske brodogradnje uokviriti, “uškvariti” muzejom, oko kojeg će se stvarati novi brodovi i novi meštri.
Meštar po meštar.
Meštrica po meštrica.

Škvar by Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon

Our initial dialog with Synthia was an adventurous creative endeavour that made us question whether machines could have a soul. This one definitely spoke her mind, and left a fascinating mark on both of us as a wondrous machine––––––woman, a marvelous piece of engineering, an entity trapped in a modular eternity.

Considering that neither of us had any previous contact with such a complex modular system such as EMS Synthi 100, we took a somewhat intuitive approach. This is a fairly raw glimpse of the first days spent in the studio.

Oh, Synthia, we only just met...

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Happy birthday Mark!!!

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Composing, editing, patching & live mixing: Manja Ristić
Live mixing & patching: Mark Vernon
Cover art: Manja Ristić –– segment of the sculpture by Angelina Gatalica made in memory of Serbian painter Nadežda Petrović, erected in 1989 in the Pioneer’s Park, on the occasion of the IX Summit of Non-Aligned Countries.

basne——side B

basne——side A

Released on DASA tapes
@dasa_tapes ❤️🔥

Limited Edition
Cassette + Digital Album

The release is followed by one of the dearest poems that followed me throughout my life –– Places Stay, by Birgitte Lyregaard.

All sounds recorded, edited & composed by Manja Ristić
Mastering La Plant Studio
Graphic Design by Marilia Kalantzi

Special thanks to Savvas Metaxas 

For Mark.

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Places stay

...I move from place to place
frame to frame
collector of views through windows
of cars, boats, planes, trains and houses
collector of corners
Beeklaan – Weimarstraat
Dagmarsgade – Baldersgade
Avenue Henri Barbusse – Avenue Jean Jaurès
of people 
also moving from place to place
like plasma through the veins
of the solar traveling system
an eternal embracing body
containing us all.
Like tiny black specks in motion
on the giant map of rails and roads
to meet, part, come and go
discover, escape, return and stay
sometimes frozen through one quiet second
halfway down a deserted hall
then move on...

(But if this body contains me
then is it also not so
that as I travel through places
places travel through me
and that sometimes, though I go,
places stay?)


Poem by Birgitte Lyregaard

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released October 19, 2023

Voyages

“More Tuge / The Sea of Sorrow” elaborates on the fragility of ecosystems at the cost of human destruction, while capturing a paradox of desolate peace. Manja Ristić went to the Port of Gruž on the Adriatic Sea and recorded the underwater sound pollution of anchored boats with a hydrophone. Silver strands of notes are braided in the air with water burbling below, a pure midnight tranquility, before the grind of mechanical elements slowly enter the fold. We’re confronted with the effects personal leisure—yachts, boats, catamarans, and cruises—has on our environs, a tension capturing the fabric of joy and despair.

Published by objects & sounds, on compilation Seasonal Diary IV: Shadowed Embrace, among wonderful artists Haron Aumaj, Adriaan de Roover, Dania Paralaxe, and Mich Leemans.

Released December 1, 2023

Mastering by Mathieu Savenay
Artwork by Letterlik
Words by Allie Hatch

link > https://objectsandsounds.bandcamp.com/album/seasonal-diary-iv-shadowed-embrace

@objectsandsounds

Seasonal Diary IV: Shadowed Embrace

More Tuge / The Sea Of Sorrow

The fifth edition of the Naviar Haiku Fest took place on the 7th of December 2022 at the iconic Cafe Oto in London. 

The event featured performances by members and friends of Naviar, working in the fields of ambient, electronic and contemporary classical music. Each performance was introduced by haiku poems written and recited by members of the British Haiku Society.

Watch video at https://youtu.be/iNsqWvwGzKk

All sounds recorded and performed by Manja Ristić
Mastering Marco Sebastiano Alessi

Live at Cafe OTO 2022

Radio Art Zone was a 100-day radio art station as part of the European Capital of Culture Esch2022. Conceived by Mobile Radio and jointly produced with Radio ARA, it broadcast in the south of Luxembourg. Additionally it was live-streamed, and transmitted to a worldwide audience by a network of international partner stations – reaching upwards of a quarter of a million listeners.

Radio Astral is a flow of imaginative narratives derived from drone and ambient experiments, personal field recording archives, self-generative soundscapes, improvisational gestures and sequences on both conventional and unconventional instruments, as well as decomposition of random media archives.

The sound material aims to deliver carefully sculpted psycho-navigation, suggesting that the memory of the world is an energy compound containing us all—a multi-layered resonant field in constant interaction with the space-time continuum, which we eventually experience as a reality.

This sonic journey consists of 108 tracks. I am sharing with you the first 6 hours, the original 22 hour long broadcast is archived on the Radio Art Zone page, along with other 99 amazing sound artists.

> https://radioart.zone/sunday-19-june

Manja Ristić — Radio Astral pt. 1

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
jezrileyfrench.co.uk

Mastering by La Plant Studio
laplantstudio.com

ghosts

Selection of my musical activities in 2016, the year of the Monkey.
Next to solo work, this selection consists of collaborative compositions produced with Marko Paunović, Rune Kaagaard, Igor Stangliczky; and a contribution by Muqata'a — processed filed recording of Ramallah.

Year of the Monkey

My name is Manja Ristić, and you are listening to the Framework radio International Women’s Day special.

> https://frameworkradio.net/2024/03/880-2024-03-10/

In this edition you will hear sounds and creators from South Africa, Marocco, Ethiopia, Lebanon, Iran, China, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, and Columbia; Spain, Greece, Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia, and Slovenia; from UK, Australia, USA, Germany, Italy, and Ireland; with aporee sounds of morning prayer in Ramallah, and bird’s song from Jerusalem – I am taking you for a journey around the Globe presenting the real sonic history of the world, the one told by girls and women. From place to place and from heart to heart, these voices hold the space together, storytelling from the shadows of oppression and discrimination, with wounds inflicted by systematic neglect, poverty, and wars – these authors speak the truth and nothing but the truth.

I am deeply humbled to present works by fierce creators, researchers, mothers, activists, freedom fighters, tribal elders, and one famous nun, life-long expats, and former sex workers; extraordinary versatility, and contemporaneity of their sound, being their common denominator, is what will mark this International Women’s Day Framework mix.

[ artist – release – track ]

Zayaan Khan – Ephesus at Fajr
Li Yilei – Pillow, Mantra and Trance
aporee.maps – Birds of Jerusalem, April 7th 2012
Kei Watanabe – Whisperings – 03 A whole in my heart
Elyse Tabet – seaside – 06 Sequel – live to tell (with Nadine Makarem)
Maria Papadomanolaki aka Dalot – Departures – 11 Unknown Parks, Unknown Cities
Concepción Huerta – The Earth Has Memory – 02 The Crack is Illuminated
Ana María Romano G. – A mundanear que el mundo se va a acabar
Chantelle Gray – On the lower frequencies, I dream
Eruption Duo – Eruption 20 Years – 07 Worms
Hara Alonso – Notions of Hope – 02 Notion 2
Maryam Sirvan and Hadi Bastani – trans.placed – 01 trans.placed
Assoc. Lalla Rkia Ali o Hmad (Timgharin N’Tiznit) – Salamou Alaykoum ⵚⴰⵍⴰⵎoⵓ ⵄⵍⴰⵢⴽoⵓⵎ
Ester Kärkkäinen aka Himukalt – the gun in her mouth
Robertina Šebjanič – Aqua Atmo Adriatic, 10 meters deep
Cynthia Zaven – Untuned 
Gail Priest – elbejée – aötebe 
Manja Ristić – tailless tarantella lifted its head – Vrnik 
Marija Balubdžić Umbra – Derealized – 05 B1 Sreda
Belinda Blignaut and Jacques van Zyl – Mud Rites
aporee.maps – morning prayer in Ramallah
Katharina Schmidt – Another Year – 02 september. the first sweater of the fall
Beatriz Ferreyra – UFO Forest + – 04 Vivencias def
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru – Jerusalem – 01 Famine Disaster 1974
Manja Ristić – Bunur Bridge, Neretva River – hydrophone
Florconvenas – Donde hundimos nuestros nombres – 01 Para detonar
Stella Veloce – Saturday 
Natalia Beylis & Eimear Reidy – She Came Through the Window to Stand by the Door – 03 Encircled in Moss
Meghan Judge – heterodyne relations – gaia intrudes
Talulah Lotus – Horrorphone 
Manja Ristić – rain from the bag in the big forest
Youmna Saba – Ritha’
Pheobe riley Law – cove – 01 cove
Verónica Cerrotta – Camadas verticales – 01 Camadas verticals
Jasna Veličković – Shadow Study #4A
Ava Rasti – Apranik Records – Eight Night
aporee.maps / Birds of Jerusalem – April 7th 2012

Framework IWD 2024 —— Manja Ristić

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Serbian sound artist, poet, curator, and researcher, Manja Ristić returns for her second release for LINE after 2023's 'Awakenings' (LINE_138). Her new album 'Ma' recalls the incredibly subtle, detailed works of Steve Roden, Francisco López, or Bernhard Günter fused with the adept field recordings of Jana Winderen and the delicate resonances of Toshiya Tsunoda. Two entrancing long form works incorporating field recordings, acoustic instruments, and unexpected found sounds.

> https://lineimprint.bandcamp.com/album/ma 

Ma — depth of the space, of the environment, of relations and mystical interrelatedness. The hidden or obvious void that defines the form and liberates from it at the same time. Ma and the sound? The weight of emptiness and quietness is revealed by unexpected density—the space chants, the chants spread in waves, pulsations, a pellucid spectrum of timbre.

“I hear the water dreaming” echoes in my mind.

Patterns of the forest chorus build pandiatonic clouds, on the brim of sonic hallucinations, we hear the space breathing, vellum of light expanding, beyond our hearing range.

Sounds of Ma deep in the ground, on the surface, underwater, on the surface of the water, in the air, between gravity and the air; Ma between air and objects, tubes and thermal bodies, between the Moon and its reflection; bottom of the silent lake and the stratosphere far beyond our world next to the frozen planet with the hidden ocean.

Ma of the soul caught on the tape.

Nothing is necessary.

Nothing holds everything together.

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List of field recordings and samples:

• Giant anthill in the abandoned forest quarry
• Cricket chorus next to Pohořský rybník lake
• Hydrophone recording of the “silent lake” Stierhüblteich
• Hydrophone recording of the river Schwarze Aist and its various tributaries
• Bowing cymbal under the full moon next to the Schwarze Aist (recorded by Abby Lee Tee)
• Museum of Contemporary Art Ljubljana—ventilation in the man’s toilet (recorded by Mark Vernon)
• Cassini passing between Saturn and Enceladus Moon (NASA sounds)
• Dad’s boiler
• Breath and broken tape recorder hum extracted from Toru Takemitsu’s tape “Ki Sora Tori” (1956)
• Bowing glass vase
• Two wine glasses gently trembling in front of the fan
• Electro-magnetic field around the broken socket
• Violin

Sounds, composition, images, text by Manja Ristić
Mastering La Plant Studio

MANJA RISTIĆ - Ma - 02 Full Moon Trembles On The Surface Of The Creek

MANJA RISTIĆ - Ma - 01 The Ant & The Cricket

Tagus River Barge

The Tape —— a 45-minute-long mix of a few recent releases, as well as snippets of new ones that will be released this year. This tape served as a framework for an improvisational set, including objects, Atlantic shells, an electromagnetic microphone, a hydrophone submerged in different chemical compounds, a wheelchair wheel, a violin, and an open upright piano.

All sounds recorded & composed by Manja R  
Cover art by Manja R 
Master by Goran Simonoski / La Plant Studio

Tape for Ring Ring

Piano Trio no. 2 in e - minor Op.67 by Dimitry Shostakovich; Performing: Irina Dečermić, piano;
Manja Ristić, violin; Ivana Grahovac, violincello; Piano trio op.67 was written in memory of the musicologist Ivan Sollertinsky who died on February 11th 1944 in Novosibirsk...

Piano trio ARION / Shostakovich trio no 2 / 3rd movement

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

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

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