Manja Ristic & Mark Vernon – Volim Beograd
Thursday, 17 September⋅7:00 – 8:00pm
At 7pm this evening – Manja Ristić and Mark Vernon bring us a haunting electroacoustic journey built from Belgrade’s forgotten sonic debris in ‘Volim Beograd’.
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.
This is a radio version of the USB / book release on Kamizdat earlier this year:
https://manjaristic.bandcamp.com/album/volim-beograd
https://manjaristic.blogspot.com
