Sound Workshop with Manja Ristić
Mnemosonic Topographies: Listening as Sensory Epistemology
Exploring the interrelations of sound, space, and memory through embodied, ethical listening
Topos: Zagreb Fair
Mnemosonic Topographies: Listening as Sensory Epistemology is a workshop that explores how sound, space, and memory mutually shape our experience of place. Through listening exercises, fieldwork, and creative mapping of the Zagreb Fair, participants will discover how micro‑environments become co‑authors of sonic experience and how memories are inscribed into the acoustic traces of space. The workshop encourages conceptual listening, attentiveness, and an ethical relationship with the environment. It concludes with the creation of a short sound piece or a “sound map” of one’s personal experience of the Zagreb Fair.
The workshop will take place in Zagreb, organised by the Centre for Culture Novi Zagreb and the Association for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Research, as part of the project Spaces of New Zagreb 1: Zagreb Fair, from 10th to 14th of July 2026.
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Open Call
The workshop is intended for sound artists, composers, improvisers, multimedia artists, field recordists, musicians, and interdisciplinary researchers with a strong interest in the field of sound.
Due to the limited number of participants, please send a short biography to udrugaiii@gmail.com by 1st, July 2026. Each participant should have their own recording device (ideally a sound recorder), headphones, a notebook or digital journal, and the Reaper software (free to download) installed on their laptop.
The workshop consists of five working sessions, two fieldwork days, and three “studio” days, which will take place at the Centre for Culture Novi Zagreb between 11:00 and 14:00. The schedule for the fieldwork days will be determined later, depending on weather conditions.
More information about the workshop and methodology can be found at the UIII / AIIR web page.