MANJA RISTIĆ
Into Your Eyes

OUT NOVEMBER 7, 2025 ON ALL DIGITAL LISTENING PLATFORMS

Serbian sound artist, poet, curator, and researcher, Manja Ristić returns for her third album for LINE. Ristić’s new album Into Your Eyes is a triptych of her unique micro focus works recalling the subtle, detailed worlds of Steve Roden or France Jobin, fused with the adept field recordings of Jana Winderen, Francisco López, and the delicate resonances of Toshiya Tsunoda.

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Every wave, every grain of sand, every rock, every millimeter of current, every hum, every drop of rain, every gust of wind, every grain of salt, every molecule of air, every electric pulse, every Pascal of pressure, every creature in lake, sea, or river, every insect, bird, mammal, arthropod, crustacean, every leaf, branch, root, every inch of soil, every fungal culture, every crystal, every forest, moss, cloud, or heavenly object, every atom of every square millimeter—is sentient.

This triptych of works listens into that sentience. It moves through a world saturated with voices—an intricate weave of physics, chemistry, biology—where nothing is silenced, nothing excluded. Every ripple vibrates with sound, dissolving boundaries and erasing hierarchies. Here, music is not an art form imposed upon the world, but the condition of its being.

Innocence Overturned is a meditation on unfinished creation—a pact made in the gaze of death to let the pen rest, to leave the book unwritten. It carries the weight of youthful visions realized and relinquished, of characters conjured and then set free.

A Seagull Speaks into the Chimney on the Shore of Lake Geneva is a lament and a witness. In a poisoned ocean, the bird’s cry into the hollow throat of a chimney becomes an act of faith: “Perhaps someone listens.” It is a work of elemental conversations— tide to rock, river to cloud, cloud to sun—and of the human ear straining to hear them.

Prophecy of the World Without Anguish imagines a future where such conversations are uninterrupted, where the tide’s love song in Scotland, the whisper of the Adriatic seabed in rain, the hollow resonance of a barrel at the Tagus estuary, and the singularity of each lightning strike are all part of a continuous, unbroken chorus.

Threaded through these works are moments of encounter: a Guardian Angel sculpted by Adrian Arleo on the banks of Rattlesnake Creek; the deep sediments of seashells underfoot; the knowledge that love can grieve into eternity; the recognition that every single body is a battlefield.

Collectively, they form a cartography of listening—a poetics of attention that treats the world not as backdrop, but as a living score.

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All sounds recorded, edited, and composed by Manja Ristić

Except for the field recordings of Lake Geneva by Mark Vernon

Hydrophones built by Jez riley French

Mastering by Goran Simonoski, Studio La Plant

Cover image by David Fulford, Black Hill Creative

Text by Manja Ristić