Written, composed, produced and arranged by Arkanna
Mastered by Steve Young (Hedflux)

Mederi

Fixing The Sun

The Morning Hours

Dauen

'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

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Elsewhere

This track was inspired by the Xian, the eight immortals of Taoism.

From Wikipedia:
Xian (Chinese: 仙/仚/僊; pinyin: xiān; Wade–Giles: hsien) refers to a person or similar entity having a long life or being immortal. The concept of xian has different implications dependent upon the specific context: philosophical, religious, mythological, or other symbolic or cultural occurrence. The Chinese word xian is translatable into English as:

(in Daoist philosophy and cosmology) spiritually immortal; transcendent human; celestial being
(in Daoist religion and pantheon) physically immortal; immortal person; an immortal; saint
(in Chinese alchemy) alchemist; one who seeks the elixir of life; one who practices longevity techniques
(or by extension) alchemical, dietary, or qigong methods for attaining immortality
(in Chinese mythology) wizard; magician; shaman; sorcerer
(in popular Chinese literature) genie; elf, fairy; nymph; 仙境 (xian jing is fairyland, faery)
(based on the folk etymology for the character 仙, a compound of the characters for person and mountain) sage living high in the mountains; mountain-man; hermit; recluse
(as a metaphorical modifier) immortal [talent]; accomplished person; celestial [beauty]; marvelous; extraordinary
(In new-age conception) seeker who takes refuge in immortality (longevity for the realization of divinity); transcended person [self] recoded by the "higher self"; divine soul; fully established being

Xian

Piece For Piano, Synthetic Textures And Glitch

The Cold and Perfect Fury (The Return)

Live-recording of the premiere of "Mirror Box Reflections" for dynamically amplified ensemble & live-electronics, by Ensemble Mosaik, cond. Enno Poppe. Kesselhaus, Kulturbrauerei, Berlin, 23/5/2019.
"Mirror Box Reflections" is an augmentation for 9 musicians with dynamic amplifications & live-electronics, of "Mirror Box", for saxophone, piano, percussion and live-electronics (2014-2015).

Mirror Box Reflections (Stefan Prins, 2015/2019)

Stefan Prins