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Manja Ristić - Dew
Stepping onto the familiar ground, I had a flashback to my first arrival, my mother’s hug, and the sense of freedom that awaited me.
Manja Ristić crafts two long-form compositions that evoke dusty memories of formative days, filled with promise and trepidation.
These glacial arrangements on EMS Synthi 100 and processed violin are punctuated with field and hydrophone recordings from places on the threshold of mnemotopia, deeply personal, yet so universal. The strength of a mother’s hug, her velvety voice echoing among the quiet new reality; rain falling gently over the gravel between the train tracks; a soothing hum of distant landscapes; the secret life of ants, or the mysterious underwater sounds, in unison – an atomic structure of memory, dense and unique, slowly emerging through the veils of one’s psyche.
Manja has prepared a lovely story delving deeper into the origins of the album, the memories unearthed and stirred after laying dormant for years. You can read it here: tiny.cc/Dew-Story
Tracklist
A1. The Witching Hour 16:00
A2. Dew 16:00
Like morning dew, after the witching hour.
About the Artist
Born in Belgrade in 1979, a violinist, sound artist, published poet, curator, and researcher. Ristić’s sound-related research besides contemporary performance in the field of instrumental electro–acoustics, is focused on interdisciplinary approaches to sound and field recording as well as experimental radio arts. She co-curated sonoAdriatic Tales at Ars Electronica 2020, and in the last 20 years curated and developed a distinctive number of cultural events, international projects, cultural conferences, and educational platforms in the fields of inter-media, experimental sound-related arts, scene, and multimedia arts. Works and lives on the island of Korčula, Croatia.
Find her here: manjaristic.blogspot.com
As of 2024, her discography consists of:
Silence Fest [2015, Silence Fest]
Secret Conversations (with Jasna Veličković) [2016, self-released]
15 Minutes // Violin Revealed (with Ivana Grahovac) [2016, self-released]
Tale Of The Mirzana (with Maja Radovanlija, Katarina Vukadinović, Ivana Grahovac) [2016, self-released]
Sonic Anatomy [2016, self-released]
The Nightfall [2018, Naviar Records]
The Black Isle [2019, Flag Day Recordings]
Kairos & The Dwellers [2021, forms of minutiae]
Desiderium Animae [2021, self-released]
Rings Of Water [2022, Flag Day Recordings]
Him, Fast Sleeping, Soon He Found In Labyrinth Of Many A Round, Self-Rolled [2022, mappa]
Alinea (with Giovanni Di Domenico) [2023, Inexhaustible Editions]
Awakenings [2023, Line]
The Scaffold (with Murmer) [2024, Unfathomless]
Slani pejzaži (with Joana Guerra, Verónica Cerrotta) [2024, tsss tapes]
Dew [2024, okla records]
