Three Sisters is a tape conceptualized for a performance in the Maginje: Zvučna zbivanja series, held in Zagreb in November 2025 and organized by Croatian artists Tin Dožić, Andro Giunio, and Niko Mihaljević. The intimate live set unfolded in the communal space of Zagreb’s Local Council of Old Thorns.
Three Sisters presents a sonic performance that weaves together three of the artist’s recent works, created as part of an ongoing investigation into the relationship between sound, landscape, and affective memory. Across these works, the artist develops a poetics of attention that positions listening as a form of mnemosonic topography — a way of sensing the world as a living, unfolding score. Additional instruments used in this performance were: hydrophones exposed to various chemical compounds, electromagnetic mics, contact mics, a survival blanket, Atlantic shells, Adriatic shells, pine cones, various wooden and clay objects, various debris salvaged from the sea, a radio receiver tuned to AM frequencies, limestone rocks, amethyst crystals, and a cardboard box.
The performative concept is rooted in reflections on post‑industrial landscape trauma, speculative listening, and dystopian ecological imaginaries, in which sound becomes a tool for probing the porous boundaries between the personal and the collective, the real and the imagined.
These works share an impulse to shape a practice that moves beyond documentation and into the sensorial, the reflective, and the political. Three Sisters is not merely a retrospective — it is an invitation: to collective listening as an act of attention and presence, and to imagining possible sonic landscapes of the future as a mode of ethical futurity, in an effort of co-composing with the rogue energies of the holofractal memory fields.
Released February 25, 2026
All sounds recorded, edited, and composed by Manja Ristić
Cover image by Zoe Šarlija
This tape includes excerpts from three collections: Purpurna vresišta, a cassette release published by the French label wabi‑sabi tapes; Sargassum Aeterna, a vinyl release on the Greek label Rekem Records; and Into Your Eyes, a digital release premiered at this concert and published by Los Angeles-based label LINE.