(Show 859: manja_Ristik_the desire of my heart_(RadioZero

Where does it come from?

The impulse, plucking my neural plexus, leaving behind open doors for the algorithm of consciousness to inscribe the new path. Memories compressed in cells’ membranes, wriggle, dissolve, combust and ripen. Nothing remains in your name* until paths are cleared and psyche’s sediment is purged.

The Desire of My Heart is a collection of intimate interventions extracted from my daily life and observations of my immediate environment from the perspective of transcendental attuning. On the trace of early 20th century esoteric practices of automatic painting and writing, I build a meta narrative in three stages, using field recordings, sonification and improvisation on amplified objects, exploring and manipulating basic frequencies from electrical fields.

Instruments used –

thick jar with the ice cubes

broken radio receiver inside the thick jar with the ice cubes

home fan

radio receiver tuning to a FM scale (excerpts from HRT3 programme about WWII)

wheelchair wheel salvaged from shallow waters in the Adriatic, played with wooden sea debris, electrical coffee mixer, soft xylophone stick and a pine cone

radio receiver placed on the wheelchair wheel

cardboard tube rubbed against a window

refrigerator

kitchen sink

stones rubbed with the soft xylophone stick

baby megaphone toy

field recordings –

Porec marina, ventilation behind the restaurant in the park (June 2021)

hydrophone and field recorder buried in the stranded sediments of a dry Posidonia oceanica algae, Dobre vode bay, Silba island (July 2021)

St. Marco’s Cathedral church bells, Korcula town (December 2020)

instrumental excerpt from the Depression for the Bass Clarinet graphic score, interpretation Vasa Vuckovic (April 2018)

All sounds gathered, played and edited by Manja Ristic contact mic & hydrophone built by Jez riley French Mastering La Plant Studio Belgrade

August 2021

*from the poem by Liu Xiaobo – You Wait For Me With Dust

Show 0697: Assisi Machine by Kerry Priest (Soundart Radio)

If we could hear the voice of nature, what would it say? And could humans use technology to strengthen their connection with nature?

Starting with the music and letting this guide the story, the Assisi Machine is a thrilling murder mystery which puts electronic sound technology at the heart of the action.

The show features three drone music sound collages which help move the plot along.

Parts of the play are written in dramatic verse, a favourite form of Shakespeare and Goethe, which is almost unknown in recent times.

Script and poetry by Kerry Priest

Sound design by Tin Moth

Actors:

Dr Farley – Antonia Eastwood

2nd Academic & Dr Hamilton – Tom Eastwood

Seagull & Raven– Tom Eastwood

Reporter – Linsey Fryatt

Blackbird – Linsey Fryatt

Contact:

kerrypriest.com