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15 Mar 2024
Ma
8 Mar 2024
the scaffold
Releases March 18th, 2024
Recording, composing, and editing by Manja Ristić and Patrick Tubin McGinley from March 2020 to November 2022.
Mastering by Flavien Gillié.
Cover & card design + treatments by Daniel Crokaert.
17 Feb 2024
Sélection Musiques Expérimentales 2024
With great honor and gratitude, I announce that my album water memory —— mnemosonic topographies of the Adriatic is a laureate at the Sélection Musiques Expérimentales 2024 of the prestigious Academie Charles Cros.
Among the incredible works of Chœur tac-til, Lionel Marchetti, Marja Ahti, Oren Ambarchi & Eric Thielemans, Paula Matthusen & Olivia Valentine, Natalia Beylys, Crys Cole, Cloning, Pali Meursault & Thomas Tilly, the Grand Prix went to the album Melt by Pali Meursault et Thomas Tilly. My sincere admiration and congratulations to the winners!
For me, this selection indicates that experimental music, being for a long time deeply embedded in the processes of European socio-cultural transformation, is finally reaching a wider cultural audience and gaining deserved attention from influential cultural institutions such as the Academie Charles Cros.
Not to mention the effort and focus of the Commission, which in my case was to select a small self-released artistic research dealing with abstract notions such as the phenomenology of listening, the mnemosonic and mnemopoetic properties of the Third Landscape, and the historical sites on the brim of the European heritage —— geographically, culturally, and ecologically.
Once again, thank you for this incredible opportunity to be heard and presented among some of the most incredible experimental music creators of our time!
Here you can read the presentation of water memory —— mnemosonic topographies of the Adriatic written by Guillaume Kosmicki for the Academie Charles Cros Sélection Musiques Expérimentales 2024.
"C’est un fait, la puissance évocatrice, sensitive et émotionnelle des sons aquatiques saisit presque à coup sûr l’auditeur ou l’auditrice sensibles. Manja Ristić propose avec ce Water memory une symphonie de l’eau, parée de toutes ses couleurs sonores, depuis les gouttelettes cristallines jusqu’aux sons d’orage, en passant par les textures sous-marines, les clapotis de vagues et une infinité d’autres états. Au travers de captations de pollutions sonores diverses, de sons enregistrés dans des carrières en ruine ou dans des bases militaires abandonnées, son projet a pour ambition d’évoquer « les négligences humaines transformées par l’intelligence de la nature ». Fait remarquable, l’artiste enregistre près de 60 ans plus tard sur l’île de Korčula, qui fut le lieu de captation d’une œuvre pionnière en 1967, le Presque rien n°1 de Luc Ferrari. La filiation semble évidente, notamment lorsque surgit le chant des cigales. Une réflexion poétique et écologique sur le temps et sur la mémoire."
13 Feb 2024
ghosts
23 Jan 2024
basne
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...
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.
13 Jan 2024
Rituals in Transfigured Time
The premiere of "Rituals in Transfigured Time" — a collaborative radio work with Serbian artist and tape loop wizard Marko Paunović, commissioned by Radio Belgrade for ART’S BIRTHDAY 2024 /// Euroradio Ars Acustica Special Evening
17 January 2024 (20:10 – 20:30 UTC)
Output LISZT
Marko will present the piece LIVE from Radio Belgrade, Studio 6
The work “Rituals in Transfigured Time" is made of field recordings from across Yugoslavia, from pristine nature to intoxicated lands and waters, memorial sites, abandoned military compounds, factories and mines; analogue instruments, found sounds, radio appropriations; the cylinder archive of the National Library of Serbia, and voices long gone and forgotten.
11 Jan 2024
8. Izvedbena konferencija — PODRHTAVANJE
MANJA RISTIĆ: Kronologija straha
18 Dec 2023
Interview for SHAPE +
I had an honour and great pleasure to have correspondence with the amazing Lucia Udvardyova, here you can read the interview we delivered together for the SHAPE platform 23/24.
4 Dec 2023
Škvar by Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon
The installation was 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 Association KaP Korčula.
1 Dec 2023
Seasonal Diary IV: Shadowed Embrace
Artwork by Letterlik
Words (compilation) by Allie Hatch
29 Nov 2023
Framework afield
23 Nov 2023
From island to island
15 Nov 2023
Beyond Listening Symposium
Location > MOME —— Moholy-Nagy Művészeti Egyetem, Budapest
November 22—25, 2023.
Participating with "Dobra voda", an audio—visual work produced in collaboration with Aleksandar Lazar.
Detailed program
3 Nov 2023
Hidden Adriatic
Tina Ivezić · graphic design
Maruša Hren · USB booklet, printing, bookmaking
Katja Kosi · proofreading
Luka Prinčič, Luka T. Zagoričnik · executive production
Financially supported by City of Ljubljana
Media support: Radio Študent
produced by EMANAT emanat.si
released by KAMIZDAT kamizdat.si
24 Oct 2023
Voyages
Limited Edition
Cassette + Digital Album
listen & pre-order cassette
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.
18 Oct 2023
water whispers
7 Oct 2023
forest floodlights
musikprotocoll 2023 performance in Dom im Berg on 48 speakers Ambisonics system, Graz with Abby Lee Tee & Franziska Thurner,
comissioned by ORF and SHAPE +
Radio Episode 1 curated by Susanna Niedermayr
Radio Episode 2 curated by Susanna Niedermayr
19 Sept 2023
for what they saw would hit them like a bolt
hydrophone built by Jez riley French
mastering La Plant Studio
Solidarity Fund · Hydro
1 Aug 2023
Framework afield
23 Jul 2023
Dobra voda – Manja Ristić & Aleksandar Lazar
26. jul – 06. avgust, 2023. godine
Galerija ULUS, Knez Mihajlova 37, Beograd
Radno vreme Galerije:
Ponedeljak – petak, od 12 do 19 časova
subota. od 10 do 14 časova
nedelja je neradna
20 Jul 2023
Dobra voda, act two
this work is deeply inspired by the constant movement of the sea.
released July 20, 2023
all sounds recorded, edited, and composed by Manja Ristić
hydrophone made by Jez riley French
mastering by La Plant Studio
supported by SEA Silba Environment Art
11 Jul 2023
15 Queastions interview Part II
> Kuda plovi ovaj brod? Where is this ship sailing?
> Štrada od Sigurate
1 Jul 2023
SHAPE + 23/24
𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐄+ 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐒 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑/𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑
The European Union-funded SHAPE+ platform for innovative music and audiovisual art is announcing its 2023/2024 list of artists!
The artist selection places a number of audiovisual projects and sound artists alongside musical acts that range from club music and forward-thinking media art to experiments with traditional music, free improvisation, and spatial music. The second year of SHAPE+ will continue its focus on collaborative residencies and one-off performances simultaneously.
20 Jun 2023
Štrada od Sigurate
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Štrada od Sigurate
PLEASE KEEP SILENT.
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released June 18, 2023
all rights reserved
9 Jun 2023
two mixtapes
1. Premiered at Trans Balkan Express Radio Festival, curated by Žarko Komar aka Feloneezy, as a part of the Mediterranean Futures series on @movement_athens
Field recording gestures and in-situ interventions are gently placed into immersive ambient & drone explorations, while the musical narrative develops around extensive hydrophone recording of the terrigenous sediments and various aquascapes of the Adriatic’s littoral zones. Some of the locations where recordings were taken are the island of Korčula and its surrounding archipelago (islands of Badija & Vrnik), the island of Silba, Neretva River, Dubrovnik old town, and the island of Vis.
2. Premiered at ZEZ Festival 2023
The mixtape includes excerpts from the releases:
water memory – mnemosonic topographies of the Adriatic
Kuda plovi ovaj brod? Where is this ship sailing?
Awakenings LINE_138
and more...
All sounds recorded, edited, and composed by Manja Ristić
Contributing artist Mark Vernon
Artwork by Manja Ristić – a tactile score for found instrument Experiment IV-II, Remixed excerpt from the gravure print no. 3 / 5
Mastering La Plant Studio
license
7 Jun 2023
15 Questions
Read the interview here
16 May 2023
tailless tarantella lifted its head
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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
released May 15, 2023
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
12 May 2023
9 Apr 2023
Awakenings
'Awakenings' is the first album on LINE by violinist, sound artist, poet, curator, and researcher, Manja Ristić. Her work incorporates extensive field recordings, acoustic instruments, and unexpected found objects.
RIYL: Chris Watson, Félicia Atkinson, Norman W. Long, Simon Whetham and Tomoko Hojo & Rahel Kraft.
awakenings are my ears underwater.
awakenings are sand, pebbles, and rocks pushed by the waves in constant motion.
awakenings emerge from the dissipating whirls.
awakenings are language so mellifluous it out-voices the sizzling currents.
awakenings listen to the space through other spaces.
awakenings are reversed feedbacks of coiled thoughts.
awakenings are worlds of ruthless and bewitched nature.
awakenings are endless topographies surrounded by a body of water in constant motion.
awakenings are where you will find me, talking to the sniffing rocks, growling waves, sleeping vineyard crickets, and plucking trapped air from broken and abandoned instruments.
awakenings are infinity squeezed between atoms.
awakenings are the mind’s nocturnal quirks.
awakenings are silent intrusions into the landscape.
the spherical geometry of the awakenings moves awkwardly, like a transparent velum woven of thin and uneven fabric, coating the fidelity of the bluff recollections.
awakenings are the legacy of withstanding.
1. soft shell (03:05)
2. on the outskirts of time (03:50)
3. dissipating whirls (05:12)
4. within the cave, dreams (04:14)
5. I’m plucking trapped air (07:41)
6. thin and uneven (04:50)
7. in bluff recollections (04:50)
8. coiled thoughts (02:40)
recording locations: Korčula town, abandoned ex-Yugoslav military compound on the island of Korčula, ancient quarry on the island of Vrnik, the village of Račišće, Lumbarda ancient aquatorium, sound pollution of the water traffic in the Pelješac-peninsula channel, Ražnjić lighthouse; a musical playground in front of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Belgrade. instruments used: JrF hydrophone & contact mic; violin, various abandoned pianos, toy synth found in the garbage, various objects.
all sounds recorded, edited, and composed by Manja Ristić
contributing artists on track 8: Mark Vernon, Ivana Grahovac
cover art: Manja Ristić / Richard Chartier
mastering: La Plant Studio, Belgrade