Manja Ristić

On the brim of the galactic void, embedded in a gravitational pull and sheltered by a strong magnetic field, lies the rock: spirited, effervescent, spinning like a tiny misplaced whirligig.

While suffering from everlasting oblivion, its mischievous inhabitants are struggling to live in harmony. The memory of this restless world is so dense that it becomes tangible – folded, cramped in tiny particles, well-distributed and coated in divine refracting light, flickering, often eldritch, but solidly tightened. It holds in its viscera everything that has ever happened, like an insatiable body in permanent expansion, multiplying its limbs into infinity.

The journey starts from above, with the sound of the Earth ripping out space into a magnetic lotus, leaving a luminous trail of radioactivity behind.

Today’s programme consists of fragments from the omnipresent memory field and its slippery corners, savagely abstracted but gently placed on attentive bodies. With occasional attuning to the planetary "pipe" and its spinning neighbours, this transmission "source" is hosted by no one else but humpback whales, and it tackles the epic storytelling of their somewhat phantasmagoric dreamland.

Awake or asleep. Radio Astral is always listening.

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Radio Astral is a flow of imaginative narratives derived from drone and ambient experiments, personal field recording archives, self-generative soundscapes, improvisational gestures and sequences on both conventional and unconventional instruments, as well as decompositions of random media archives.

The sound material aims to deliver carefully sculpted psycho-navigations, suggesting that the memory of the world is an energy compound containing us all—a multi-layered resonant field in constant interaction with the space-time continuum, which we eventually experience as a reality.

This sonic journey consists of 108 tracks.