Manja Ristić and Mark Vernon bring us a haunting electroacoustic journey built from Belgrade’s forgotten sonic debris. At the heart of this soniferous exploration are found tapes salvaged from flea markets, carefully interwoven with field recordings made between 2004 and 2024 and processed on the legendary EMS Synthi 100 at the Electronic Studio of Radio Belgrade. From this unlikely conjunction, sombre compositional structures emerge. Abandoned sonic relics are transformed into living memory, and fragments of lives on the brink of oblivion become an intimate portrait of a city shaped by upheaval, resilience, and tenderness.
Voices recovered from answering machines, dictaphones, and reel-to-reels surface as pockets of the past, echoing the chaos of lives in their unstoppable flow. Together, they draw listeners into a time-bending archaeology of sound, history, and human presence—set against the post-war vacuum of a society deeply submerged in depleted and corrupted values.
Manja Ristić and Mark Vernon are internationally active sound artists whose practices intersect in the realms of electroacoustic composition, improvisation, field recording, and media archaeology. Ristić, a Belgrade-born violinist, sound artist, poet, curator, and researcher, works across classical performance, experimental sound art, acoustic ecology, and radio art. Her work blends intuitive composition with extensive field recording research, and she is currently based on the island of Korčula, Croatia.
Mark Vernon, based in Glasgow, is a sound artist whose work explores audio archaeology, magnetic memory, and the poetics of obsolete media. His practice centres on the intimacy of the radio voice, environmental sound, and the creative reuse of found recordings.
Together, Ristić and Vernon have developed a distinctive collaborative language rooted in the culture of memory, the reanimation of lost voices, and experimental approaches to soundscape composition. Their joint projects often emerge from site-specific research, including their work on the island of Korčula, the island of Mljet, and the city of Belgrade, where they combine their complementary sensibilities into richly textured sonic portraits.
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Availability
Digital album (with “Name Your Price”) is available from 4 May 2026 through our Bandcamp shop at kamizdat.bandcamp.com.
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Collaborators
Composed by Manja Ristić and Mark Vernon using found tapes, sessions on the EMS Synthi 100, and field recordings made in Belgrade between 2004 and 2024.
Josipa Tadić, Lana Grahek · graphic design
Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon · liner notes
Luka Prinčič · mastering
Maruša Hren · binding & print
Luka T. Zagoričnik, Luka Prinčič · executive production & promotion
Support
Financial support: City of Ljubljana, Ministry of Culture
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