Manja Ristić and Mark Vernon present their new release on the Kamizdat label, an obsessive electroacoustic journey built from the forgotten sonic debris of Belgrade, guiding listeners into a temporally layered archaeology of sound, history, and human presence.
Ljubljana–Scottish artist robrrr_ brings timeless, abstract compositions, a mixture of analogue and digital media, found sounds and field recordings, acoustic instruments, and semi‑modular synthesis.
Performers:
Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon
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Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon: Volim te Beograd
Manja Ristić and Mark Vernon bring an exhilarating electroacoustic journey to Kino Šiška, built from the forgotten sonic remnants of Belgrade. At the centre of this sonic exploration are cassette tapes found at flea markets, carefully interwoven with recordings made between 2004 and 2024 and processed on the legendary EMS Synthi 100 at the Electronic Studio of Radio Belgrade. From this unexpected combination emerge dark compositional structures. Abandoned sonic relics transform into living memory, while fragments of lives on the edge of oblivion become an intimate portrait of a city marked by upheaval, resilience, and tenderness.
Voices retrieved from telephone answering machines, dictaphones, and reel‑to‑reel tapes appear as remnants of the past, echoing the chaos of life in its unstoppable flow. Together they lead listeners into an archaeology of sound, history, and human presence that resists temporal boundaries – in contrast to the post‑war vacuum of a society deeply immersed in exhausted and corrupted values.
Manja Ristić and Mark Vernon are internationally active sound artists whose work intersects electroacoustic composition, improvisation, field recording, and media archaeology. Ristić, a Belgrade‑born violinist, sound artist, poet, curator, and researcher, works across classical music, experimental sound art, acoustic ecology, and radio art. Her work combines intuitive composition with extensive field‑recording research. She currently lives on the island of Korčula, Croatia.
Mark Vernon, based in Glasgow, is a sound artist whose work engages with audio archaeology, magnetic memory, and the poetics of obsolete media. His practice focuses on the intimacy of the radio voice, environmental sound, and the creative reuse of found recordings.
Together, Ristić and Vernon have developed a distinctive collaborative language rooted in the culture of memory, the revival of lost voices, and experimental approaches to constructing sonic landscapes. Their joint projects often emerge from site‑specific research, including work on the islands of Korčula and Mljet, as well as in Belgrade, where they merge their complementary sensitivities into richly textured sonic portraits.
Robbie Hopper is a musician, biologist, sound technician, curator, and sound artist living in Ljubljana, originally from Scotland. She works with a mixture of analogue and digital media, found sounds and field recordings, acoustic instruments, and semi‑modular synthesis to create timeless, abstract compositions. Her work is often personal, drawing themes and sonic material from her own life and the lives of others – from home, conversations with friends, and the voices of nature. As a sound researcher and collaborator in the performing arts, she has completed artistic residencies at PIF Camp (2023), Kinematograf Šiška (2024), and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (dieAngewandte, 2025). She is a member of the experimental electronic collective Clockwork Voltage and the ensemble Astērie, as well as a production technician at Radio Študent and co‑curator of the open radio research platform RADAR. She performs regularly in underground clubs in Ljubljana and beyond and has released work on ŠOP Records, Debila Records, and …tiuš men govoru kvaj pank?!…
“Kamizdat Rentgen” is a look beneath the skin, a view into the fleshy interweaving of bones, muscles, and nerves that form the diversity of sonic bodies. It is a series of evenings through which the Kamizdat label seeks to establish a stronger presence for adventurous music‑makers who walk terrains where paths are often not yet carved. The evenings are frequently closely tied to new music releases.
Production: Emanat
Co‑organization: Kino Šiška
Financial support: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, City of Ljubljana