11 days by Manja Ristić

Invisible chambers of the microenvironments that I am revealing in the filed recording collection 11 days are a creative imprint of infrapsychic symbolism which emerges from subtle morphologies hidden in the palimpsests of memory of the places once heavily exploited in the name of urbanization and industrial progress, but now recovered and taken over by nature. Those are the places that suffered environmental devastation, such as abandoned quarries, open large-scale stone cutting sites, stone trade docking sites, which were for many centuries locale for the trade reaching as far as the American continent. Next to the inconceivable scale of home building, the raw material of those is also engraved in numerous historical constructions such as cathedrals, churches, town halls, and public squares, all around Europe and further.

By opening my sensory compounds in finding morphological particularities of those places and listening from within them, I am identifying with the trauma of the landscape, further transposing it into mnemopoetic construct using aesthetics of music and sound design as an appropriative outcome that both reveals and transforms hidden memory fields.

Retrieved micro-cultures and biodiverse content of the places, in present times, is further exposed to pollutants of various sources – from obvious such as littering and underwater sound pollution to less obvious such is the chemical release from dense water traffic, bio-chemical waste of enlarged population in the touristic season as well as rapidly building micro-plastic alluvions. The sea holds the secrets, but if we listen everything can be heard.

Korčula island, August 9th, 2020.

Born in Belgrade 1979. Violinist, sound artist, curator and researcher mostly active in the field of electro-acoustics, instrumental improvisation & experimental sound related arts.

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