ghosts remixed by Manja Ristić

"ghosts, coming out of the hell of the past to sublimate it. A therapeutic work." Salima Bouaraour, PAN M 360

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One year after the premiere of the work "ghosts," I am delighted to share a remixed version, which served as the context for my performance at Akousma — International Festival of Immersive Digital Music in Montreal, in October 2024. https://akousma.ca/

The work is enriched with recordings that captivated my imagination over the past year and will mutate through different compositional settings in some of my forthcoming releases.

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ghosts (2024) 20’

How do we approach a landscape of severe devastation and dense history of warfare?

In the performance "ghosts," I use obsolete instruments: a modular synthesizer EMS Synthi 100, a discarded wheelchair wheel salvaged from the Adriatic Sea, and a piano fallen into disuse that belonged to the Austrian conceptualist, filmmaker, improviser, photographer, environmentalist, and writer Karl Katzinger, aka John Tylo (October 1953 – April 2021).

Alongside these elements of the past and their rediscovered voices, I incorporate processed hydrophone and field recordings, the treatment of found objects, electromagnetic fields, crystals, limestone pebbles, Atlantic shells, Aleppo pine cones, different chemical compounds, and extended techniques improvisation on a 200-year-old violin. I appropriate these elements through the discourse of critical tourism, environmental issues, and a culture of memory. Specifically, I focus on listening to the inherent memories of places with a dense historical imprint of ecological devastation and warfare—in the South Adriatic, on the Atlantic coast, and in the Czech-Austrian borderlands, formerly part of the Iron Curtain belt.

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Review of the Montreal performance https://panm360.com/gig_review/akousma-cime-rumeurs-et-ghosts-a-lusine-c/

Born in Belgrade 1979. Violinist, sound artist, curator and researcher mostly active in the field of electro-acoustics, instrumental improvisation & experimental sound related arts. Graduated at the Belgrade Music Academy, then gained PGDip at the Royal College of Music, London.

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