Manja Ristić and Mark Vernon present their new release on Kamizdat, a haunting electroacoustic journey built from Belgrade’s forgotten sonic debris, that draw listeners into a time-bending archaeology of sound, history, and human presence.
Ljubljana based Scottish artist robrrr brings atemporal, abstract compositions, a mixture of analogue and digital media, found sounds and field recordings, acoustic instruments and semimodular synthesis.
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Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon
robrrr_
Manja Ristić & Mark Vernon: Volim te Beograd
Manja Ristić and Mark Vernon bring to Kino Šiška 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 (RS) & MARK VERNON (IR)
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.
https://manjaristic.blogspot.com/-
https://markvernon.bandcamp.com/
https://manjaristic.bandcamp.com/
robrrr_ (UK)
robrrr_ is robbie hopper – a musician, biologist, sound technician, curator and sound artist who lives in Ljubljana but hails from Scotland. They use a mixture of analogue and digital media, found sounds and field recordings, acoustic instruments and semimodular synthesis to create atemporal, abstract compositions. Their work is often personal, with themes and sonic material drawn from their life and the lives of others – from the home, from conversations with friends, and voices from nature. As a sound researcher and collaborator in the performing arts, they have completed artistic residencies at PIF Camp (2023), Kino Šiška (2024), and the University of Applied Arts Vienna (dieAngewandte, 2025). They are a member of experimental electronic collective Clockwork Voltage and Astērie ensemble, as well as of Radio Študent as a production technician and co-curator of the open radio investigative platform RADAR. They perform regularly in underground venues in Ljubljana and elsewhere and have released works on ŠOP Records, Debila Records, …tiuš men govoru kvaj pank?! and independently.
▂ KAMIZDAT RENTGEN ▂
”Kamizdat Rentgen” is a glance under the surface of the skin, a look into the fleshy entwinement of bones, muscles and nerves that shape the heterogeneity of the sound bodies. It is a series of music events organized by Kamizdat to increase the visibility of adventurous music makers who dare to venture into the territories where no one had been before. The events are often closely connected with the label’s new releases.
https://kamizdat.si
Support
Produced by Emanat
Co-organisation: Kino Šiška
Financial support: Ministry of Culture RS, City of Ljubljana
