🏴 'Dystopian 001' is split release between the sound artists Manja Ristić and Toni Dimitrov, and it is part of the new 'Dystopian series', showcasing a more abstract, darker, obscure and politically infused side of the sound of élan vital artist roster. Inspired by everyday life in the last several years living in realized dystopian visions and darkest predictions, the sound on this series will be the soundtrack for our daily dystopian reality. We are all aware that the future of our civilization is not bright, but that doesn't mean we are not living in an exciting epoch.
🏳️ Part one brings two longer pieces, presenting the dark side of the mystical long form experimentations by the Serbian violin and field recordings diva Manja Ristić and the latest field recordings experiments of the sound art naturalist Toni Dimitrov. Through this joint release the artists are trying to explore the potential for change of the society, resulting in a mature, expressive and complex album.
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“Distorted futures, regressing toward the hurtling destruction, stripped of progress, for the relations between agencies have been rooted in anomalies, charged with the counter-flow for long enough to build up into an eruption.
It is very hard to know war, to have it shimmering in your bones and subtle fibers. To pass it on to your children and their children. It is hard to teach them the principles of its precognition and face the fear of them experiencing that same fear, the pain, the noise of crumbling, the smell of human flesh, and other smells. Ignorance should be preserved at all cost.
Human life – a bargain, another perpetuation of devaluation, sacrifice bending the iron pendulum and carving the Earth with blood trails. Feeding the wounds with poison, inviting death to take over and reset. Evil is the decay of the world's soul.
Putrefaction of humanity is caught in the opulence of forms, and one such form-in-reverse is making a difference between a white child and a brown child. Between European death and other deaths.
The Dystopian series, conscious movements of the collective mind which stand against any form of fascism, political ignorance, or basic lack of empathy, are records of the time and scaffolds of the space, in which we are forced to build cognizant reality, openly inconsonant with these distorted futures.” - Manja Ristić
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Manja Ristić is a 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. Manja is focusing on contemporary performance in the field of instrumental electro-acoustics, sound art, field recording, interdisciplinary sound-related research (mnemotopia, mnemopoetics and site-specific intervention), experimental radio arts. Works and lives in Belgrade, Serbia, and Korčula Island, Croatia.
Toni Dimitrov is a multimedia artist, cultural producer, politician, communicologist, radio host, organizer, curator, label owner, mountain climber and nature lover, living in Macedonia. Working in the field of sound art and experimenting with electronic music for more than 20 years, and have even longer experience in the radio. Have been curving his way into the new experimental music/sound art scene with his various solo engagement, collaborations, bands, radio art and art installations, having countless releases on diverse labels, performed on many events around the world and participated at numerous radio art festivals and residencies. Exploring the dynamics of minimum vs. maximum, in terms of noise vs. drone, he is searching his own way of merging certain styles of music, such as ambient, soundscape, long-form drone explorations with field recordings.
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released March 27, 2022
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2022 élan vital recordings
Composed and arranged by Manja Ristić & Toni Dimitrov
Mastering LaPlant Studio Belgrade
Cover drawings by Dorian Dimitrov
Design by Toni Dimitrov
The work 'Nothing Has To Happen, Fortress Europe' was originally commissioned by Radiophrenia 2022.
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